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Having free speech zones implies the rest of the city is not, critics say.
When President Bush appears in public, the Secret Service now routinely forces demonstrators to move to far-off "free speech zones".
According to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, more than 70 universities have tried to corral protesters into "free speech zones" — designated places where rallies are permitted but are often removed from main events or in fenced-off areas.
On Wednesday, the city and the Secret Service announced the perimeters of the security zone, which covers about 60 percent of the city's Uptown commercial district and dips south to include the special areas known as free speech zones that the city has set aside for protesters.
It has become routine for police to require demonstrators to sign up for elaborate permits months beforehand, then to confine them inside fences, corral them in plastic, and seal them into "free speech zones" far removed from the people they want to influence or denounce.
IN an age when the police in some cities have set up "free speech zones" for dissenters, often well beyond their targets' hearing range, location is central to interpreting the First Amendment's guarantee of the people's right "peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances".
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We've set up several "free-speech zones" throughout the area.
Buried a mile and a half beneath that X is the first clue of a scavenger hunt that will lead to the free-speech zones.
They often set up "free-speech zones" to corral demonstrators far from the president, and they ask local police to arrest anyone who strays from the designated areas.
Judge Martin's ruling this week also challenged the county's recent designation of free-speech zones in its county parks, saying the zones were too restrictive.
In particular, Mr. Romero said, there is a growing practice of corralling protesters in "free-speech zones," which are often so far from the object of the protest as to be invisible.
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