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Originally Posted by Willravel
People are showing up to the town hall meetings with words and phrases like "death panels", "abortion", "communism", "fascism", "nazism", etc. instead of actual relevant topics. These people are conservative, not liberal. They are getting their information from people like Palin, Hannity, Beck, ORly, and Rush, but they're not even bothering to check if the information is correct before going to these meetings to "protest" (it's not actually protesting, it's actually an attempt to end the debate). What these people are doing has nothing at all to do with free speech and everything to do with trying to end a debate by trolling. It's censorship. I'll say that again, IT'S CENSORSHIP. It's the exact opposite of free speech.
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Same exact thing people did with the Bush war protests only that got even more obnoxious. Google 'zombietime' for an example in pictures. Just because you don't agree with them on an ideological level doesn't mean it isnt free speech. That is being naive, and I know you're smarter than that. For better or for worse, these are the activities of a democracy. None of this would be happening in, say, Iran or Saudi Arabia.