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Friday, November 18, 2011

Why Do Cigarette Boxes Have More Free Speech Rights Than Protesters?

A hard lesson was learned in NYC over who has speech rights in America.

New York City’s Occupy Wall Street protesters in Zuccotti Park were chanting, “Whose park? Our park,” as they were being evicted.

But according to the New York City judge who signed an order hours after the police raid saying the encampment had to go, the legal question came down to the question of whose speech rights were being taken away.

The answer was not what you might think.

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