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Brutal regimes and others who seek to stifle liberty often do so by closing down private newspapers and radio and television stations. They kidnap, arbitrarily jail, and beat journalists...Some journalists have been taken from their families for years, and others have been killed for speaking out.
(My emphasis) From a speech delivered by President George W. Bush on May 1, 2008, the day before journalist Sami al Hajj was released to Sudan. Quoted by Al Jazeera English, on YouTube (at about minute 15 on the clip),
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuJsCi_BiM0
The video is an interesting backgrounder in case anyone still doesn't know who he is.
But that doesn't happen in America, we just kidnap, arbitrarily jail, and beat terrorists...and a few others, like Uighurs, Bosnians, journalists, taxi drivers, middle-aged Iraqi men,...
