Feds pay $80,000 over anti-Bush T-shirts

[OzmO]

The ACLU fights for something other than removing religious icons from schools like free speech?

go figure.   

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070817/ap_on_re_us/bush_protesters_lawsuit_2

This is the kind of thing that would happen in a dictatorship, only those folks would have been put to death or imprisoned.

This is alarming that something like this would ever happen int his county.

[Hugo Chavez]

Exactly the same thing happened to Sheehan. Arrested for her shirt, they had to dismiss the charges.

[Eyeball Chambers]

 

[24KT]

It's happened to ALOT of people, ...those weren't the only 3.
We've been getting reports of that type of thing occuring regularly over the past 7 years.

[Al Doggity]

Yeah, stuff along these lines has happened quite a bit during this administration's tenure. I think  one of the most interesting things about that article is that the admin's spokesman still refuses to cop to any sort of wrongdoing. I recognize it may be a legal stance, but you'd think that they would at least want to maintain a veneer of support for personal liberties and just fob this off as one of the little guy's mistakes... you know, like they do when they prosecute military misconduct.

[Dos Equis]

It's happened to ALOT of people, ...those weren't the only 3.
We've been getting reports of that type of thing occuring regularly over the past 7 years.

 

[ieffinhatecardio]

This is the kind of thing that would happen in a dictatorship, only those folks would have been put to death or imprisoned.

This is alarming that something like this would ever happen int his county.

Exactly, except I'd say it's a bit more than alarming, it's horrifying. Getting arrested for wearing an anti-Bush t-shirt directly contradicts EVERYTHING this country stands for. The to add insult to injury the $80,000 comes out of our pockets.