U.S. presidential election, 1920

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No hindsight.

The election of 1920 was a referendum on the Wilson administration and the League of Nations.

Warren Harding promised voters a "Return to Normalcy." The Republican platform called for a protective tariff, stricter immigration requirements, annual registration of aliens, and "equal pay for equal service" for women. It condemned the Wilson administration for unpreparedness in war and peace, and opposed U.S. entry into the League on Wilson's terms.

James Cox wholeheartedly supported U.S. entry into the League of Nations, and called for a federal effort to eradicate illiteracy in the United States. The Democratic platform supported maintenance of the tariff for revenue only, and advocated tax reform.

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As a supporter of Wilson

Do you support suppressing free speech?

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Then again, there have been problems like that in every war, i.e. Lincoln's military trials of civilians in the Civil War, FDR's Japanese internment camps, and the Kent State shootings in 1972.  Some would go so far as to classify the Patriot Act in there as well (though I'm not sure I would say that).

Lincoln I'll agree on. The rest have nothing to do with suppressing speech.

So, speaking of suppressing free speech, are you in favor of an anti-flag burning amendment?

No.

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Then again, there have been problems like that in every war, i.e. Lincoln's military trials of civilians in the Civil War, FDR's Japanese internment camps, and the Kent State shootings in 1972.  Some would go so far as to classify the Patriot Act in there as well (though I'm not sure I would say that).

Lincoln I'll agree on. The rest have nothing to do with suppressing speech.

You're taking the statement too literally.  When I gave those other examples, I meant examples of other violations of domestic human rights the U.S. has committed in wartime, not just free speech.  And Kent State did have to do with free speech, under the freedom to assemble and protest. 

Anyway, let's not hijack the thread.

We're talking about censorship, not some internment camps that lasted a few years. Both were bad, but the two are not comparable.

The federal government had nothing to do with the Kent State shootings, and clearly they did not have a constitutional right to strike there if the university didn't want them to. Was it public or private?

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Sorry, I should have been more clear. The equal pay plank was this: "The principle of equal pay for equal service should be applied throughout all branches of the Federal government in which women are employed."