The Bush campaign's suppression of freedom at speeches is revolting. I can sympathize with the fact that they don't want to deal with hecklers, but that's part of the job. Not everyone is going to like what you do, and part of your job is to make your case -- not to ignore different views.
Denying Kerry supporters entrance to campaign-funded events is cowardly and un-American. Frankly, most of these Kerry supporters are probably mild-mannered people who are barely in favor of Kerry and just want to be able to see an American President in person. If you really believe in your message, these are exactly the people you want to speak to in order to bring them over to your side.
Denying people entrance to public, taxpayer-funded events because they happen to have a Kerry sticker on their wallet (not even publicly displayed!) is absolutely illegal. Threatening these people with arrest (or outright arresting them) and having the Secret Service put some real scare into them sounds like something another era's SS or the KGB would do. Even VIP guests who were attending events from both campaigns and happened to pick up some free stuff from the Kerry campaign were denied entrance. Ridiculous. I mean really. Who can resist free schwag?
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