http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1026-04.htm
Published on Sunday, October 26, 2003 by the Toronto Star
Free Speech Kept Off US Streets
Officials deny plot to herd dissenters into protest pens
But sign-carriers testify to being hustled out of sight
by David Lindorff
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When retired Pittsburgh steelworker Bill Neel learned that President George W. Bush was coming to town last year, he decided he would be on hand to protest the president's economic policies. Neel and his sister made a hand-lettered sign â The Bush family must surely love the poor! They have made so many of us! â and headed for a road where the motorcade would pass. But he never got to display his sign for Bush to see. As he stood among milling groups of Bush supporters, he was approached by a local police detective and told that he and his sister had to move to a "free-speech area" for protesters, on orders of the U.S. Secret Service. "He pointed out a relatively remote baseball diamond that was enclosed in a chain-link fence," Neel recalls....
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