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"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it."-- Francois Marie Arouet VOLTAIRE
"Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom." -- Benjamin Nathan CARDOZO
"Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter ones thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power...To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker." -- Frederick DOUGLASS
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What happened to Andrew Meyer is reprehensible. Efforts to impeach his character by saying this was a Punk'd type joke are irrelevant. We DO NOT live in a police state. We should never as Citizens of the United States of America be viciously attacked and manhandled by police in this fashion.
I am disgusted by Senator Kerry as well. How could a purported scion of civil liberties allow this to go on? He could have easily commanded the officers to release the student but instead meekly watched the events unfold and later issued a weak press release.
While Kent State was much worse, the anger is still palpable in his voice. Voting irregularities and this unwinnable war should enrage all of us.
A voice should never be silenced... especially not with 50,000 volts of taser by 5 police officers.
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it."-- Francois Marie Arouet VOLTAIRE
"Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom." -- Benjamin Nathan CARDOZO
"Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter ones thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power...To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker." -- Frederick DOUGLASS
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What happened to Andrew Meyer is reprehensible. Efforts to impeach his character by saying this was a Punk'd type joke are irrelevant. We DO NOT live in a police state. We should never as Citizens of the United States of America be viciously attacked and manhandled by police in this fashion.
I am disgusted by Senator Kerry as well. How could a purported scion of civil liberties allow this to go on? He could have easily commanded the officers to release the student but instead meekly watched the events unfold and later issued a weak press release.
While Kent State was much worse, the anger is still palpable in his voice. Voting irregularities and this unwinnable war should enrage all of us.
A voice should never be silenced... especially not with 50,000 volts of taser by 5 police officers.
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