August 17, 2004
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Featherly has created a well-written, well-reasoned column cautioning Democrats from dismissing George Bush as an idiot.
Some political demonstrators have been targeted by the FBI in an effort aimed at keeping violent demonstrations away from NYC. Many activists feel that this aims at suppressing dissent and free speech. The FBI claims this is not the case, they are just trying to prevent domestic terrorism.The question I have is: If people left the fenced in, barbed-wired, “free-speech zones” at the Democratic convention and took their free speech where they wanted, were they violating the law? Would that make them the sort of terrorists the FBI was worried about?
The Iraqi government has closed the office of al-Jazeera and Iraqi police in Najaf have not only told journalists to leave or face arrest, but may be shooting at them as well. The telegraph carries the story.One thing about the story that doesn’t make sense to me is that the police “tried to arrest the journalists”. I would think that if armed police wanted to arrest a bunch of people in a hotel, they’d probably succeed.
