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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
Its exactly the point. Harper is playing 'Big Brother'. Can you point out examples where the press hasn't been civil at a Repatriation ceremony?
Maybe people shouldn't be allowed to drive bacause there might be an accident.
I can understand trying to shield families in their time of grief, but I believe there is an added political agenda behind this - an attempt to curtail pictures of fallen soldiers coming home.
Personally, I support our mission in Afghanistan.
But I do not want to see politics being played at the expense of the rights of the press. These are the types of rights I think that should be re-established in Afghanistan; as Tim Goddard says it is rights like these his daughter was trying to protect.
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I think Harper is trying to say that a family's grief is more important than the media and if the family decides that they want the nation to share in the grief, that's their right. Pardon him for protecting their rights first, and then the rights of the press.