{"id":870,"date":"2003-11-20T13:10:04","date_gmt":"2003-11-20T18:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/870.html"},"modified":"2003-11-20T13:10:04","modified_gmt":"2003-11-20T18:10:04","slug":"free-speech-for-me-but-not-for-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/free-speech-for-me-but-not-for-thee\/","title":{"rendered":"Free speech for me, but not for thee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(as mentioned by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tompaine.com\/blog.cfm?startRow=1&#038;blogrow=1#blog9422\">TomPaine.com<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforamericanprogress.org\/site\/pp.asp?cid={E9245FE4-9A2B-43C7-A521-5D6FF2E06E03}&#038;bin_id={3FA7CD19-F000-4265-B67F-9B13138E98E4}\">Center for American Progress<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2003\/11\/20031119-1.html\">George W. Bush, speaking in London yesterday<\/a>: &#8220;I&#8217;ve been here only a short time, but I&#8217;ve noticed that the tradition of free speech &#8212; exercised with enthusiasm &#8212; is alive and well here in London. We have that at home, too. They now have that right in Baghdad, as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.co.uk\/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&#038;storyID=401926&#038;section=news\">Reuters news service, eight days ago<\/a>: American soldiers handcuffed and firmly wrapped masking tape around an Iraqi man&#8217;s mouth after they arrested him for speaking out against occupation troops. Asked why the man had been arrested and put into the back of a Humvee vehicle on Tahrir Square, the commanding officer told Reuters at the scene on Tuesday: &#8220;This man has been detained for making anti-coalition statements.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(as mentioned by TomPaine.com and the Center for American Progress) George W. Bush, speaking in London yesterday: &#8220;I&#8217;ve been here only a short time, but I&#8217;ve noticed that the tradition of free speech &#8212; exercised with enthusiasm &#8212; is alive and well here in London. We have that at home, too. They now have that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}