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To: Ilaine who wrote (132074)	8/13/2005 8:24:33 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793843

The right to free speech may be regulated as to time, place and manner, but cannot be abridged. "Blocking", per se, isn't "free speech". Standing around yelling and holding signs is, and, as such, may not be abridged. Having done at least my fair share of the latter in the 60s in civil rights demonstrations, I know whereof you speak. It looks to me as if we are in substantial agreement. To be a bit more specific about abortion clinics. The clinic was in Englewood, NJ and was the focus of protests. As I recall, the city has alloted a space, across the street from the clinic, right in front of the community library, for marchers, signs, and the like. The demonstrators would cross the street and then try to block women walking into the clinic. I thought the "blocking" was beyond the pale.