Remember when everyone seemed to be shrieking about how they were "censored" by the facist Bushistas?

At events attended by President Bush and other senior federal officials around the country, the Secret Service has been discriminating against protesters in violation of their free speech rights, the American Civil Liberties Union charged today in the first nationwide lawsuit of its kind.

I wonder if quite so much of a fuss will be raised when its done by one of their own?

Protesters at this summer's Democratic National Convention in Boston may be confined to a cozy triangle of land off Haymarket Square, blocked off from the FleetCenter and convention delegates by a maze of Central Artery service roads, MBTA train tracks, and a temporary parking lot holding scores of buses and media trucks.

I find the turnabout positively dripping with irony. The silence from all the bloggers who talked about "fascist Bush policies silencing us"* will no doubt be deafening.