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Politics : Prime Minister Jean Chretien

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To: Graystone who wrote (260)	12/3/2002 6:18:51 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) of 443

Good try. No banana. Here's what you evaded: Perhaps you are unfamiliar with US history, law, and court decisions. What you are claiming here is almost unheard of. I cannot remember the last time it succeeded in a case involving politics or the military. The gov't did attempt to prevent publication of the Pentagon Papers; US courts told the administration it could prosecute newspapers and reporters AFTER publication if they had revealed military secrets- -but they would be allowed to publish. The material was published; as was suspected, it was highly embarrassing to the gov't but violated no laws. That was after you said I wasn't talking about dictatorships, I was talking about the vaunted American "Freedom of the Press", which doesn't even rate in the top five, at least that is what the press tell us. Maybe the press feel that this <<a motion by the gov't to exercise prior restraint on the press>> is a problem.

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