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Diary 9/16/2009 at 3:41 PM EDT

Free Speech and Other Incredible Free Stuff

By Rafe Pilgrim No comments

With all his genius and prescience, not even George Orwell imagined "Free Speech Zones."

Hey, how about "Free Constitutionality Zones," "Free Truth Zones," "Free Human Decency Zones" ???

Oh, and what with all this fuss about Abu Ghraib, Gitmo, Bagram, renditions and the like, it occurs to me that our forward-looking President could have spared himself a lot of griefand perhaps regained some respect for the world's oldest ex-democracy had he but conceived of "Torture-Free Zones."

Or hey, maybe they shouldn't be free -- we could sell tickets!

Don't you just love it when Free-Market Capitalism comes together!

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