LA officials are going to set up a Free Speech Zone!

No they can't bring tents, but there will be one corner where people can go and have some free speech around City Hall.

If we/Occupy cave into this free speech zone BS again, we are truly doomed.

They will pen people up in cages, where they can have free speech? What the hell is so free about that.

This is that Democratic Mayors solution. Fuck it, I say.


Here is what one looks like:

DNC's 'FREE SPEECH ZONE'
A caged- area designated for organized protests appears enclosed by mesh and chain link fencing near the site of the upcoming Democratic National Convention, in Boston, Wednesday, July 21, 2004.' (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

sorry, the image didn't include Alaska and Hawaii

great point

Not to put too fine a point on it, but fuck their "free" speech zone.

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But you don't have the right to crap and pee on the sidewalk.

And that's what they want.

The theory of free speech is one thing; the reality is another.

and we just can't tolerate THAT! or some nonsense like that there from Rep King.

The Orwellian tones of 'Free Speech Zones'
Should make everyone proud to be a Murikan.

and if we have to pen you up in a cage, well, that is just part of the price one has to pay for free speech.

WTF? I know we have always been sort of screwed up, but 911 and the fear people allowed themselves to feel, and the governments egging it on, has escalated screwed up-ness to a whole new level.

the end of the American Way. HSD's mission to make the Rodina secure is run by paranoids; they demand sacrificing the liberty because freedom is a precursor to terror. It seems that when The Wall came down, the Stasi came here and took up consultancies.

There's a lady that walks down a local street I go running on and she always carries a sign with her "The Stasi Wear Read". I have yet to ask her what it means, have thought to research and haven't gotten around to it yet. By chance, would you have any knowledge?

Stasi is the nickname for the E. German "State Security." German Staatssicherheit was shortened to "Staatsshi" by the Germans themselves, and in English that became Stasi.

George Bush built the framework of facism in the 8 years of his term. It is the real, but invisible "shadow government", the "tail wagging the dog". The remaining shell of our traditional government is a shadow of its former self, emasculatedd by Citizens United. It is pure kabuki.

managing our dissent this way. That's what has rattled them about the original occupations...the camps were completely out of their control and that scares the hell out of them.

I don't know how long all this will last, but I've been thinking that what we have been experiencing over the past few months can be summed up in what Prof. Douglas Brinkley told Rep. Young during a recent congressional hearing:

"You don't own me."

If you saw the clip from CSPAN, Brinkley's defiance shocked the woman sitting behind Young and it royally pissed the Representative off. That moment summed up what I think the Occupy movement has done in general: It's been a collective and defiant expression of "You don't own me" to the ruling political/economic establishment, an expression that has resonated with the larger population.

That has shocked the establishment, it's pissed them off, and it has scared them because they must, above all else, maintain their sense of control, they must know the game is rigged in their favor.

That's what will happen with these so-called "free speech zones": it will rig the game in their favor again, the ruling establishment will be able to manipulate and control the outcome of the movement, and they'll be able to re-assert that they do indeed own us.

How George Bush.

The Occupy L.A. park site is at this moment being closed off with K-rails (concrete barriers) that were seen arriving on flatbed trucks early this morning.

Both the mayor and LAPD said protests will be restricted to the normal "free speech area"--the West (Spring Street) steps of City Hall.

As a poster pointed out above, free speech is all over America. It shouldn't be restricted to an "area".

And we have seen free speech zones prior, haven't we?

are spinning dervish-like in their graves.

Face it, the game is pretty much over and the corporofascists hold all the cards. Not to mention most of the voting machines and all of the media.

Nay, I suggest that you ain't seen nothin' yet.

This cycle has 5 to 7 years left to run and this form of protest's strength is it's numbers and its ability to adapt.

and I am wrong. Truly, I do.

Make them pay the political price for destroying the will of the people, WHOM THEY SERVE.