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'CHEER FOR YOUR PRESIDENT - OR BE PUNISHMED'
September 7, 2004
President Bush Rolled into a Kansas City High School Today, addressing the cheering students and townspeople who waved flags, cheered, with that glee in their eyes as if they were looking at the greatest man who has ever walked the earth.
The media, reported on this Campaign stop with their usual hype for the President also.
But, a daily reader of Hard Attack News sent an email in that paints a different picture of what really went on.
This Viewer Writes....
''I am from Lee's Summit Mo. where the President just came in. The reason why I wrote is because the Republican Party held a slated campaign speech on Lee's Summit High School Public Property, during school hours, and students were forced to go. If they did not want to attend the rally they couldn't leave but had to go to a study hall where they couldn't talk but work. Those that did attend the rally couldn't wear anything Kerry, or else they were given detention or sent home.
Added to this sad fact, the Republican Party handed out tickets all over the Kansas City Area to republicans only. Also the CIA was driving by taking pictures of the protestors! And many "civilians" were carrying professional cameras in their car to take pictures...what a coincidence. This is a story that I think needs to be made known to the people. ''
Name Held by Hard Attack for His Own Protection
Bush Fans and Foes, this should be an eye opener for all.
Now even School Children are being Threatened by the Bush Administration. Either 'Cheer' or you will 'Fear' the punishment that will be weighed against you if you dare wear a Button for the Opposition. Fear The Punishment if you dare Not Cheer the 'Great Leader'

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No source, just an anonymous email.
Just another "liberal" attack machine post.
The sky is not falling.
This came from the OSU Lantern the following year:
While attending a freshman orientation session last month as a parent, a new student asked the student affairs speaker if Ohio State has reformed its attitude toward free speech since the 2002 commencement when OSU administrators threatened to arrest anyone protesting President Bush at the commencement.
The student affairs speaker downplayed the administration's threats and said OSU was not going arrest anyone but, as he recalled, only warned students that inappropriate behavior, such as "throwing cabbage,"would have resulted in being escorted from the commencement ceremonies. He asserted OSU strongly supports freedom of speech.
However, it was the new student, not the student affairs flack, who had it exactly right. In the days leading up to and at the commencement when President Bush spoke, OSU administrators tried to intimidate legal, peaceful protest of the president. They threatened to arrest anyone who simply stood and turned their back on the president. The threat was hollow, of course.
Such protest is a basic First Amendment right and any arrest would have been illegal. But the intimidation itself was shameful. OSU administrators should seek to protect our fundamental American liberties rather than abuse them.
Scott Solsman
J.D. 1979, MPA 1980
Bush has been here about a kazillion times. Everytime he comes here only Republican supporters are allowed anywhere near where Bush. (I have to admit my family found it kind of amusing to see him on the news speaking at a prodominantly black community center but surrounded by white Republican supporters while the only black people present were a family he was using as an example of something or other.) This very tight security surrounding Bush was in place even when he was running for office in 2000. Dissent was not and is not an option. It's no wonder he's been compared to Hitler and the Nazis.
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