If war protestors are arrested and often made to do time in federal detention camps, what happened to freedom of speech?
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You have freedom of speech as long as you speak within the guidelines deemed appropriate by the government and authorities.
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Usually if protesters are arrested, it is not for what they said, but for how they protested. In many areas you need a permit for that type of gathering. Also, protests often turn risky... arrests are sometimes for inciting a riot or endangering the public in some other way.
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It's a gross breach of it (if they weren't actually arrested for something illegal, as people pointed out above), but do you think this has happened recently? I remember thousands were rounded up and held for a while in RFK stadium in Washington DC during the Vietnam war, but they were exonerated after the case went to, I believe, the Supreme Court.
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Freedom of speech would be lost and we would be living in a system not unlike the old soviet system.Freedom of speech is important and stopping the Iraq war is equally important.
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This has happened?!?
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I think you have to undertand the first ammendment deeper than just freedom of speech. Freedom of dissenting views are fine, but anything that can create harm or is a direct seditious act or even worse treasonous is not protected by a simple "freedom of speech." There are limits, and sedition is basically described as committing an act that either hinders the countries war effort, or aids the enemy with their efforts. While the sedition act was enacted for WWI idiots who were basically attempting to stop production of war vehicles, etc., the principle of hurting the war effort still applies and especially in an aiding the enemy perspective. Free speech is not covered by someone yelling "fire" in a theatre either due to the harm element. Basically, if you are going to go out and protest your own country, make sure you know what the limits of your speech are or you are just a fool.
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