Zizek on iraq

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com>
>
>War Means Rights May Be Scaled Back
>
>Tue Mar 18,10:46 PM ET
>
>UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio - The government has room to scale back individual 
>rights during wartime without violating the Constitution, Supreme Court 
>Justice Antonin Scalia said Tuesday.
>
>"The Constitution just sets minimums," Scalia said after a speech at John 
>Carroll University in suburban Cleveland. "Most of the rights that you 
>enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires."

[Jeez, hard to keep up with this guy!]

March 19, 2003

Justice Scalia Bans Media From Speech

Filed at 3:11 p.m. ET

CLEVELAND (AP) -- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia banned broadcast 
media from his speech Wednesday at an appearance where he received an award 
for supporting free speech.

Scalia did not mention the ban, which he insisted upon, and television 
reporters were allowed to see him accept the award before his remarks. The 
justice did not take any questions from reporters.

The City Club usually tapes speakers for later broadcast on public 
television, but Scalia insisted on banning television and radio coverage of 
his speech, the club said. Scalia was given the organization's Citadel of 
Free Speech Award.

"I might wish it were otherwise, but that was one of the criteria that he 
had for acceptance," said James Foster, the club's executive director.

The ban on broadcast media, "begs disbelief and seems to be in conflict with 
the award itself," C-SPAN vice president and executive producer Terry Murphy 
wrote in a letter last week to the City Club. "How free is speech if there 
are limits to its distribution?" ...

<http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Scalia-Media-Ban.html>

Carl

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