Did President Clinton employ "free speech zones" against his protesters?

[rumguy]

Did he ever allow anything as brazen as using city buses to block off fellow Americans?

What the hell is going on with our country?

[scubadude]

1. I believe they were brought about under Clinton....

but I don't believe he used them as a shield like Bush does.

Ron

[Fescue4u]

2. Yes he did.

On numerous occasions, Clinton visited Stan Chesley in Indian Hill Ohio for fund raising dinners. Indian Hill is a very wealthy suburb just outside of Cincinnati Ohio, and Chesley is a high profile mega attorney.

Anyway I remember the Freepers complaining about it when they would protest his arrival. (I thought it was pretty funny then)

I don't think he did the bus thing though.

[kentuck]

3. "Free-speech" zones were created because of the abortion protestors..

Many women could not get into clinics for examinations because the protestors were in their faces, taunting them and calling names, etc. So the courts ruled that they had to be given space to get their medical services taken care of and created the "free speech" zones. But Bush has co-opted it and is now using it for political reasons, in order to keep all protest away from his traveling evangelistic medicine show.

[DUreader]

6. Keeping a distance has also changed to being penned in

[IHOP]

4. Shields

The shield around the President is the Secret Service and they protect without question or concern of party affiliation.

[DUreader]

5. Wrong, Chimpy Supporters Are Allowed , Dissenters Are Corralled

[PaDUer]

8. That's right...

his so-called supporters are allowed near him..but, how long before they take to the streets since they're still PO'd about the immigrants..freaksville isn't that happy lately..

[PaDUer]

7. Truth is...

the liar can't take hearing the people saying the truth, or he's going to throw a tantrum and the people are "going to pay big time"..How the hell can he look at his twin daughters, he's a friggin disgrace..He's got plenty to hide, and the lump in the bed who travels with him..Look how he stopped the WH tours..what's he afraid of..This guy is WANTED for the rest of his useless life, the PUPPET.

[beaconess]

10. Secret Service is non-partisan but White House advance staff often

orchestrates maneuvers that protect the president from political embarrassment. This White House has gone further than any other in this regard.

[djensen]

9. common long standing secret service crowd control technique

[mike1963]

11. Uh, that, sir, is

bullshit.

[Must_B_Free]

12. Bush Sr. used them at Penn State in '92

for his re-election campaign.

They used the a gated off off area with tickets required for entry. I guess the tickets came from the Young Republicans club. Only that was on camera. Protesters were penned up way off to the side of the stage. Signs against Bush were not allowed into the ticket area, they were confiscated.

They piped fake applause through the PA system to cover the protestors for the TV camera. The whole event on TV was un-representative of the majority of who showed up at the event and it seemed like the student body was effectively raped of an endorsement.

Also present was pre-emption - I recall one activist who was detained, not for doing something, but because it was suspected that he might do something.

[Pontus]

13. Gore people confiscated kid's buttons at rallies...

that supported anyone but him and Clinton. There was a big story about some kids wearing some small Perot buttons at a Gore speech in Oregon -- they were there because it was a school field trip. The kids had their buttons taken away and never returned by Gore people even though the speech was in a taxpayer financed university setting. I thought that this was really bad form and probably made all these kids and their friends lifelong Republicans.

[Bridget Burke]

15. That's really interesting---I'd like to know more.

Gotta link?

[tyme]

14. my favorite is the UN speach

My favorite bush moment in censoring his audience was not giving a speach to the UN unless they promised a standing ovation. Of course they declined, then there is the failed trip to england. no, nobody likes him and with much more we are going to be the most hated country in history.

me