{"id":43730,"date":"2014-07-21T23:02:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T05:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/21\/buffering-free-speech.html"},"modified":"2014-07-22T14:03:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T20:03:03","slug":"buffering-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/21\/buffering-free-speech.html","title":{"rendered":"Buffering Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"
My instincts are to support freedom of speech in all its glories and conveniences. That said …<\/p>\n

… it's not a good world where anti-abortion protesters can chant their litanies to the very doorways of clinics while those women who feel that's what they need to do have to run the gauntlet against them …<\/p>\n

… but politicians and political conventions can designate "free speech zones" down the block and around the corner for all inconvenient protesters.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Massachusetts To SCOTUS – In Your Face<\/a>
\n Massachusetts has lost no time in passing new legislation to replace the women’s clinic “buffer zone” law that was struck down by the Supreme Court just weeks ago. \n <\/p>\n

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My instincts are to support freedom of speech in all its glories and conveniences. That said … … it's not a good world where anti-abortion protesters can chant their litanies to the very doorways of clinics while those women who feel that's what they need to do have to run the gauntlet against them … … Continue reading “Buffering Free Speech”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,350,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-civil-liberties","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5763,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/21\/peaceable_assem.html","url_meta":{"origin":43730,"position":0},"title":"Peaceable Assembly","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-Jul-04 9:59am","format":false,"excerpt":"The pendulum swings ... 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