Bruce:

I must apologize, not having been aware of this practice prior to Bush's escapades.

In any case, he had no right to bring it forward, anymore than one might have to renew witchhunting or necktie parties. It strikes me as much in keeping with the tenor of many of his other practices in restraint of open communication.

It is antithetical to the whole principal of civilized expression. In fact it is meant not as a remedy to free communication, but against disruptive dramatization, which is a bane to any party trying to conduct business, and I can appreciate that need and the impulse. But it is thickheaded to pretend that this address to the problem is consistent with our highest laws.


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