{"id":587,"date":"2002-06-16T18:02:57","date_gmt":"2002-06-17T02:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/06\/16\/freedom-of-speech\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T09:04:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T17:04:27","slug":"freedom-of-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/06\/16\/freedom-of-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of speech?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16076,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/clinton6.nara.gov\\\/1996\\\/10\\\/1996-10-29-president-remarks-to-the-people-of-columbus-oh.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20170218070118\\\/https:\\\/\\\/clinton6.nara.gov\\\/1996\\\/10\\\/1996-10-29-president-remarks-to-the-people-of-columbus-oh.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 03:54:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 03:54:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9147,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.turnyourbackonbush.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260107235128\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.turnyourbackonbush.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 17:10:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 17:10:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16077,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.democraticunderground.com\\\/cgi-bin\\\/duforum\\\/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&amp;om=27823&amp;forum=DCForumID35&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16078,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.wilwheaton.net\\\/mt\\\/archives\\\/001063.php#001063&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/wilwheaton.net\\\/mt\\\/archives\\\/001063.php&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16079,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/comments.mefi\\\/17832&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260314035644\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/comments.mefi\\\/17832&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/comments.mefi\\\/17832&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Back in 1996, President Clinton was <a href=\"http:\/\/clinton6.nara.gov\/1996\/10\/1996-10-29-president-remarks-to-the-people-of-columbus-oh.html\" title=\"Transcript of Clinton's speech\">giving a speech at OSU<\/a> (Ohio State University). Some Dole-Kemp supporters in the audience started heckling him, and he not only responded to them, but supported their right to voice their opinions:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Wait, wait. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Just listen to them. Wait a minute. Why are they screaming like that? We heard you. Now, how about the First Amendment. We heard your message, now you listen to ours&#8230;. I welcome anyone to these rallies, and I welcome you to theirs. I hope you will never go to theirs and stop them from speaking. I believe in free speech at every university in  america.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fast-forward to 2002. President Bush is speaking at OSU. A peaceful protest &#8212; one not even involving any heckling &#8212; was being planned, consisting of nothing more than those who wished to protest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turnyourbackonbush.com\/\" title=\"Turn Your Back on Bush\">turning their back on Bush<\/a> during his speech. However, upon entering the stadium, students were threatened with expulsion and arrest on charges of disturbing the peace if they participated in the protest. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/cgi-bin\/duforum\/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&amp;om=27823&amp;forum=DCForumID35\" title=\"Democratic Underground: Ohio State fascism -- What happened  today\">One online eyewitness account<\/a> describes one protestor being removed from the arena after turning their back.<\/p>\n<p>So much for the first amendment, eh?<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilwheaton.net\/mt\/archives\/001063.php#001063\" title=\"WWDN: McCarthey would be so proud\">Wil<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/comments.mefi\/17832\" title=\"MeFi comments\">MeFi<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I welcome anyone to these rallies, and I welcome you to theirs. I hope you will never go to theirs and stop them from speaking. I believe in free speech at every university in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}