Activist Post: "Free Speech Zones" Killing Free Speech Across Orwellian America

Activist Post: "Free Speech Zones" Killing Free Speech Across Orwellian America: "'Congress shall make no law... abridging... the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.' -- First Amendment to the Constitution of The United States of America."

The "free speech zone," despite being anathema to the U.S. Constitution, has been used intermittently since the Vietnam War protests. When their use was expanded to actually hide protesters during both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions in 2004, free speech zones were quickly written off by the mainstream media as either no big deal, or essential to protect participants from dangerous activists. Many in the alternative media warned that this was a dangerous precedent to set; after all, America itself is considered by the Constitution to be a free speech zone, with laws that were created to prosecute crimes when they are committed and not before.