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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (763621)	7/19/2007 7:28:18 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) of 769670

Finally, HUD will continue to investigate individuals and organizations that protest housing decisions if "the facts available to the department do not reasonably indicate the precise applicability of the First Amendment." In other words, if an advocacy group writes a muddy enough complaint about a neighborhood organization, it can continue to draw down the government's vast coercive power until the "precise applicability of the First Amendment" is established. HUD's assurance that it will "carefully tailor" such investigations so as not to "unduly chill the exercise of free speech" is ludicrous: the very existence of such investigations, no matter how "tailored," can scare citizens into silence. Under the new rules, HUD has dismissed only 11 of its 34 pending investigations against individuals and community groups. If President Clinton takes the First Amendment seriously, he should order Secretary Henry Cisneros to close all loopholes in the guidelines and declare that all neighborhood political activity is safe from government penalty.

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