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November 1st, 2007 9:19 PMThe time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.
[August Spies, moments before his execution in 1887]
Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq, which severely inhibits citizens' rights to speak out about the U.S. occupancy of Iraq, has now been temporarily affixed to the bronze Haymarket Memorial in Chicago.
Consider taking the time to familiarize yourself with this Executive Order, and to the history of Freedom of Speech as related to the Haymarket Riot, 1886.
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posted by Charlie Fish on November 2nd, 2007 2:58 AM
OK, at the risk of sounding stupid (never a risk that I hesitate to take), as far as I understand it, the Executive Order prohibits acts of violence that might undermine the Iraqi economy or government, and it also prohibits speaking out in support of people who have breached the Order by committing such acts themselves.
So how often is this Order being invoked? In other words, how many people are out there for whom it is now an offense to see their side of the story?
perhaps one can find some reason for living out there, in the windiest of hill-less cities, so far from the epicenter of 1968...
oftentimes we forget our roots.
p.s. these men you speak of, they did a slight bit more than just speak at a rally.