"Congrats" to the 2004 Jefferson Muzzle Award recipients for outstanding acheivement in censorship.

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The Jefferson Muzzle Awards

Since 1992, the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression has celebrated the birth and ideals of its namesake by calling attention to those who in the past year forgot or disregarded Mr. Jefferson's admonition that freedom of speech "cannot be limited without being lost."

Announced on or near April 13 -- the anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson -- the Jefferson Muzzles are awarded as a means to draw national attention to abridgments of free speech and press and, at the same time, foster an appreciation for those tenets of the First Amendment. Because the importance and value of free expression extend far beyond the First Amendment's limit on government censorship, acts of private censorship are not spared consideration for the dubious honor of receiving a Muzzle.

2004 Winners


[*]Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum

[*]The U.S. Department of Defense

[*]The United States Secret Service

[*]The Albemarle County (VA) School Board

[*]Baseball Hall of Fame President Dale Petroskey

[*]CBS Television

[*]The University of New Orleans Administration

[*]The Administration of Dearborn High School (Michigan)

[*]The South Carolina House of Representatives

[*]The Parks and Recreation Division of Broward County (Florida)

[*]Jeff Webster of Soldotna, Alaska, and the Unnamed Arsonist of Harrisonburg, Virginia

[*]The Arizona State License Commission

[*]The Pilot Point (Texas) Police Department