Liberty suffocated - Freedom of Speech

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Powers declare protest must go
Leaflets banned from grounds of Heritage Day.
Monday, July 11, 2005
By JEFF SCHOGOL
The Express-Times

EASTON -- Police told anti-war protesters they could not hand out leaflets Sunday at Heritage Day denouncing the Iraq war, members of the Lehigh-Pocono Committee of Concern said.

"It's ironic and it's sad that this is organized to celebrate the Declaration of Independence and at the same time they want to suppress freedom of speech," said Mike Lawton, of Bethlehem.

The Declaration was read for the first time publicly on July 8, 1776, in Easton, Trenton and Philadelphia. Heritage Day celebrates the reading in Easton.

Lawton was one of about seven anti-war protesters who were told by police they could not pass out leaflets at Sunday's event.

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1. Obviously...

and it appears to be coming from all sides...even here...if you can't beat'em, delete'em...hypocrisy lives, as freedom of speech & ideas dies...

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