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In reply to the discussion: what chicago learned from '68 [View all]HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)protests...
During the 1988 Democratic National Convention, the city of Atlanta set up a "designated protest zone"... A pro-choice demonstrator opposing an Operation Rescue group said Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young "put us in a free-speech cage."...."Protest zones" were used during the 1992 and 1996 United States presidential nominating conventions...
"The [National Lawyers] Guild, which has a 35-year history of monitoring First Amendment activity, has witnessed a notable change in police treatment of political protesters since the November 1999 World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle. At subsequent gatherings in Washington, D.C., Detroit, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, and Portland a pattern of behavior that stifles First Amendment rights has emerged..."
The most prominent examples were those created by the United States Secret Service for President George W. Bush and other members of his administration.[3] Free speech zones existed in limited forms prior to the Presidency of George W. Bush; it was during Bush's presidency that their scope has been greatly expanded...
(reference for that claim = aclu)
http://www.aclu.org/FilesPDFs/dissent_report.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone