heh ten years ago saying the exact same words was most definitely not parroting the party line it was even less so thirty years ago my story remains the same take it or leave it i ve said the same words to white supremacists as to suburban leftist punks as to homeys as to french irish etc etc i don t have to agree with anything you say i am obligated to defend to the death your right to say it i don t give a rat s ass where you say it even in france i don t care where the political pendulum has swung currently chuck on tuesday september NUMBER NUMBER at NUMBER NUMBER am owen byrne wrote on tue sep NUMBER NUMBER at NUMBER NUMBER NUMBERam NUMBER chuck murcko wrote probably because we have this pesky NUMBERst amendment thing here still lots of us in the states have developed a disturbing tendency to shout down or in recent years shackle in legal bs opinions thoughts and individual behaviors we don t agree with except that parroting the party line doesn t really require much freedom of speech now if you had posted something from a left of center source you would have been shouted down in flames buried in ad hominem attacks and probably get your name added to an fbi list besides the basic rule in the united states now is i ll defend your rights to say anything you want but if it isn t appropriately neoconish well don t expect to work hhs seeks science advice to match bush views by rick weiss washington post staff writer tuesday september NUMBER NUMBER page aNUMBER the bush administration has begun a broad restructuring of the scientific advisory committees that guide federal policy in areas such as patients rights and public health eliminating some committees that were coming to conclusions at odds with the president s views and in other cases replacing members with handpicked choices URL owen 