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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 10 2007 | art, boing boing, Cory Doctorow, freedom of speech, thepugetnews
    Boing Boing: Bikes Against Bush arrest was part of counter-RNC protestor "intelligence" op

    Scary stuff. A guy creates a bike with a dot matrix chalk printer he uses to print freedom of speech messages at the RNC. He gets arrested and later finds out that he was not randomly picked up but the target of pre-RNC intelligence gathering.

    Quoted: A directory of wonderful things.

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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 28 2006 | news, George W Bush, politics, New York Times, freedom of speech, freedom of press, press
    AlterNet: MediaCulture: Bush v. New York Times

    The Republicans are going to introduce a resolution condemning the New York Times for its reporting.

    Quoted: What is truly a disgrace, though, is an administration that has consistently deceived the public about its intentions and which continues to shamefully exploit post-Sept. 11 fears to ensure its grip on the body politic.

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    5 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 29 2006 | Iraq, Karl Rove, George W Bush, freedom of speech, freedom of press, media, Molly Ivins, politics, news
    AlterNet: Pardoning the Pentagon

    I read Molly Ivins pretty frequently but I think today's post is among her best...

    Quoted: But as we can all attest, if you ignore reality, sooner or later it will bite you in the ass. I suspect the "tough- minded" (they pride themselves on being tough-minded) members of the Bush administration think they are not ignoring reality, but just persuading other people to ignore it long enough to allow them to change it. This is not an original thought. Many of the great thumb-suckers of D.C. have come to the same conclusion and pondered deeply on the "fatal hubris" of this administration. Fatal jackasses are what we have.

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    5 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 14 2006 | Denmark, political, cartoon, censorship, freedom of speech, news
    AlterNet: The Slippery Slope of Self-Censorship

    Quoted: As the violence of the cartoons expands, we are no closer to defining the boundaries of free speech in an age of growing religious fundamentalism.

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