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Wordie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 04:19 PM Original message |
Silencing dissent a growing trend (Knight Ridder) |
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Angry Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
1. Welcome to Amerika - Fascism in Democracy's clothing |
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Nomen Tuum (396 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 06:33 PM Response to Reply #1 |
22. Welcome to the CCCP |
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Faygo Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
2. Need a ticket to see "our" president speak. |
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roseBudd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
3. Let me guess, swiftboating is not an issuead because it's not about issues |
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Wordie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 04:28 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. You know, I wondered about that...seems to me there were issue ads |
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AndyTiedye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 12:46 AM Response to Reply #8 |
35. They Are Only "Issue Ads" If They Are Run By Democrats |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 04:26 PM Response to Original message |
4. Self censorship? In their wildest dreams, only |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 04:26 PM Response to Original message |
5. It's a crime...to "disrupt" an event guarded by the Secret Service |
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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 05:09 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. I never hear anything about this one in the news--it is always about |
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Wordie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 09:05 PM Response to Reply #12 |
28. I read someplace that Specter proposed that as a NEW provision of the PA. |
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Hope springs eternal (213 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 09:40 PM Response to Reply #5 |
32. Hmmm |
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Lefty48197 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 04:26 PM Response to Original message |
6. Thank you Knight-Ridder for your very existence |
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bullimiami (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 04:53 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. no thank you to knight ridder for easing the argument by blaming both |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
7. A dictatorship is all fine and good, |
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ClayZ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 04:29 PM Response to Original message |
9. hmm.... |
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Crunchy Frog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 05:06 PM Response to Original message |
11. They write as if this stifling of dissent was occuring on both sides. |
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Lindacooks (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 09:10 PM Response to Reply #11 |
30. You're absolutely right. |
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 10:38 AM Response to Reply #11 |
48. My thought exactly |
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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 05:15 PM Response to Original message |
13. ".Nor is it limited to one political party," |
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Wordie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 05:27 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. ...but the article points out this is a "Growing Trend"... |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 05:51 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. THEY NEVER print the WHOLE truth! |
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lordwhorfin (319 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 07:50 PM Response to Reply #13 |
25. God D-mn |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 09:34 PM Response to Reply #13 |
31. We are still straightening out that Casey myth 13 years later |
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high density (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 10:34 PM Response to Reply #13 |
34. Knight Ridder goes for that wonderful faux "balance" |
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leQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
14. is it just me, or am i right when i think that only republicans silence |
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mikehiggins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 08:42 PM Response to Reply #14 |
27. Chicago? Mayor Daley? How soon they forget. NT |
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Voltaire99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 06:10 AM Response to Reply #27 |
38. Another: Southern Dems v. Civil Rights movement. (nt) |
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Prisoner_Number_Six (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
15. I want a t-shirt that sez simply |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 05:52 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. How about one with the red circle and a "Not Allowed" red line |
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Mnemosyne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 06:24 PM Response to Reply #15 |
21. My email address is dissenter@, screw them all. |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 05:19 PM Response to Original message |
16. Silencing dissent AGAINST REPUBLICANS a growing trend. |
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LynnTheDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 06:13 PM Response to Original message |
20. "other vaguely defined national events..." such as when bush declares |
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Wordie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 07:27 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. Apparently that is a NEW Patriot Act provision, now being considered! nt |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 09:07 PM Response to Reply #24 |
29. It's a new provision. |
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Wordie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 09:52 PM Response to Reply #29 |
33. The ACLU mentions that argument, but says checks and balances insufficient |
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BeyondGeography (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 06:48 PM Response to Original message |
23. Seems like the cartoon aversion of our Muslim friends |
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democrank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-04-06 08:28 PM Response to Original message |
26. The Bush administration can not silence |
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AbbyR (734 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 09:50 AM Response to Reply #26 |
46. Just what I was thinking... |
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stickdog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 01:03 AM Response to Original message |
36. War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Dissent is Un-American. |
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iconoclastNYC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 04:14 AM Response to Original message |
37. Democrats must make protecting Dissent a major campaign promise |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 06:21 AM Response to Original message |
39. Just think of where we would be if our president was not a |
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pinniped (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 06:28 AM Response to Original message |
40. This article should really mention the new detention centers... |
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eomer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 08:04 AM Response to Original message |
41. Broadcast of issue ads w/in 60 days of elections is prohibited? |
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Wordie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 10:24 AM Response to Reply #41 |
47. You know, that does favor the incumbent, doesn't it? Good point, eomer. |
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greiner3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 08:27 AM Response to Original message |
42. I'm in; |
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leftchick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 09:29 AM Response to Original message |
43. Silencing dissent a growing trend |
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Cobalt Violet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 09:29 AM Response to Reply #43 |
44. Isn't this something only republicans have done: |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-05-06 09:29 AM Response to Reply #43 |
45. Well, gee, why didn't this guy get hauled out for HIS tee shirt, then? |
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