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Home Colorado Politics Exclusive Video: DNC Scrubs Free Speech from Pepsi Center Sidewalk

8/22/2008 By Ben 7 Comments

Exclusive Video: DNC Scrubs Free Speech from Pepsi Center Sidewalk

Bringing the Democratic National Convention to town means not only cleaning up the homeless off the streets but also cleaning up any vestiges of apparently offensive speech. One of the capable Peoples Press Collective video journalists caught it on video in front of the Pepsi Center today:

“Obama, stop abortion!” … “Stand for life” – All getting washed away. I doubt there will be any debate inside the Pepsi Center about the Democratic Party’s abortion platform. Free speech can be a matter of convenience sometimes.

Filed Under: Colorado Politics, Cultural Conservatism, General, National Politics Tagged With: abortion, Democratic National Convention, Free Speech, homeless, party platform, Peoples Press Collective, Pepsi Center, pro-life, YouTube

Comments

  1. Curious Stranger says

    8/22/2008 at 5:20 pm

    I hope the vandals were arrested as chalk artists were at the Republican Convention in 2004. Does your video journalist know?

  2. Ben says

    8/22/2008 at 10:10 pm

    Link please

  3. Curious Stranger says

    8/22/2008 at 10:18 pm

    Link to the arrests at the RNC 2004? Ok. Additionally, I hereby dub the coalition of DNC anti-abortion protestors “Recreate 1868“.

  4. Danielle says

    8/23/2008 at 7:02 am

    As one of the so-called “vandals”, both here in Denver and in Boston ’04, I can assure you court challenges to our freedom of speech in this medium rarely, if ever, stick. I was charged in Laguna Beach for this very “crime”, and the judge agreed with every other rational American that I have the same right to chalk the sidewalk as a child of four who draws flowers and hopscotch. Are you in favor of arresting millions of American kids for vandalism?

  5. Curious Stranger says

    8/23/2008 at 4:44 pm

    As far as I’m aware, they (you) haven’t been arrested in Denver. I’m just saying that if the DNC were to treat free speech issues like the RNC does, they (you) would have been. Will you be in Minneapolis to deface private property there as well? Do you pay for the cleanup crews?

  6. Curious Stranger says

    8/23/2008 at 8:42 pm

    While I have you here, Danielle, are you one of the ones that defaced the veterans memorial at City Park with a pretty-clear anti-abortion message? http://www.denverpost.com/politicswestnews/ci_10285986?source=bb

  7. Curious Stranger says

    8/23/2008 at 8:42 pm

    Civic Center park I mean.

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