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===Bill Neel=== "These [free speech] zones routinely succeed in keeping protesters out of presidential sight and outside the view of media covering the event. When Bush came to the Pittsburgh area on [[Labor Day]] 2002, 65-year-old retired steel worker Bill Neel was there to greet him with a sign proclaiming, 'The Bush family must surely love the poor, they made so many of us.' The local police, at the Secret Service's behest, set up a 'designated free-speech zone' on a [[baseball field]] surrounded by a chain-link fence a third of a mile from the location of Bush's speech. The police cleared the path of the [[motorcade]] of all critical signs, though folks with pro-Bush signs were permitted to line the president's path. Neel refused to go to the designated area and was arrested for disorderly conduct. Police detective John Ianachione testified that the Secret Service told local police to confine 'people that were there making a statement pretty much against the president and his views.'"<ref name="amconmag"/><ref>[http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jksonc/docs/neel-2002-10-31.html ''Pennsylvania v. Neel''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061211183830/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jksonc/docs/neel-2002-10-31.html |date=December 11, 2006 }} transcript. WarLaw archive.</ref> District judge Shirley Trkula threw out the charges, stating that "I believe this is America. Whatever happened to 'I don't agree with you, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it'?"<ref name="bushzones"/>
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