George Phillies for President 2008    

AMERICA HAS ONLY ONE FREE SPEECH ZONE

 

 

Worcester, Mass, March 31:  Libertarian Presidential candidate George Phillies

today condemned the use of ‘free speech zones’ that hide demonstrators from the

press.  «The United States has only one free

zone, Phillies said.  «Our free speech zone is called America.  It starts at the Pacific,

crosses shining hills and amber waves of grain to the Atlantic, and extends to

wherever Old Glory flies or American citizens stand.  Those who say otherwise are

speaking against our country.

«In recent years, Presidential candidates have used Federal secret police

bodyguards to herd  demonstrators away from the press intoso-called ‘free speech

zones.’ Many of those zones have been cages surrounded by fencing or barbed

wire.  Once demonstrators are locked up, candidates can pretend no one disagrees

with them, because opponents are out of sight.

«A candidate who hides from his critics behind lines of barbed wire is a craven

coward.  He is unfit to sit in the Oval Office.  If your Presidential candidate is afraid

of a few teenagers in silk-screened tee-shirts, what will he do against a foreign

tyrant with an army?

«Our Constitution guarantees the right of Americans to assemble peaceably. Free

speech zones attack our Constitution and Bill of Rights, because they advocate the

claim that rights only exist where our

government says they do.

«These ‘Free Speech’ cages depend on our consent.  They exist because we stay

silent.  A few Americans can be herded like sheep into pens.  Ten thousand

Americans, peaceably assembled to protect by our peaceable presence the free

speech of our fellow Americans, will not herd.  The

choice is yours.

«If you want a President who is not afraid of his fellow Americans, please support

me.  This fall, vote Libertarian.  You can count on a Libertarian president to sit in the

Oval Office, not to cower under the Presidential desk.» 

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Carolyn Marbry, Press Director                                                                                   

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