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Lula and Free Speech

Dan's got it right.  I'll add a further description of the page Lula took from the Bush playbook.  

Fatherland Security has unearthed a moribund and obscure requirement that journalists must have visas to enter in circumstances where others don't need them. A dozen or so journalists have been arrested on arrival for not having the visa.  A Slate article by Dahlia Lithwick comments in it, http://slate.msn.com/id/2100403/.  An arrested journalist describes her own experience at http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la- oe-lappin11may11,1,375123.  

This screening of foreign journalists, with arrest and exclusion for those who don't volunteer for the screen, can only be for the purpose of dictating content.

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