(2005-01-28) — The U.S. occupation force in Iraq is placing unconstitutional restrictions on the free speech rights of Al Qaeda and former members of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath party, according to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-MA, who today introduced a resolution expressing “solidarity with our repressed brethren in the Iraq insurgency.”
“Just as in our country, flag burning and pornography distribution are the most sacred of forms of protected speech, so in Iraq legitimate car-bombings and beheadings must be protected as political expression,” said Mr. Kennedy. “The Bush administration is clearly trying to deny these Iraqis, and their foreign guests, their basic civil rights. This is the most insidious brand of cultural and religious discrimination.”
The Senator said he’s hopeful that “after the Iraqi people exercise civil disobedience by boycotting this week’s national election sham, U.S. forces will immediately pull out so that this sovereign nation can restore the free marketplace of ideas in political discourse — no matter how incendiary the ideas, no matter how sharp the discourse.”
In a direct address to Iraqi insurgents, the Massachusetts Senator added, “Speak truth to power, my brothers.”
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