[News]Couple arrested for anti Bush T-shirts.

GILTRIC

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http://www.wvgazette.com/webtools/print/News/2004070734

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FEMA worker ordered home

Woman, husband wore T-shirts with anti-Bush logo at July Fourth rally


By Paul J. Nyden
Staff Writer

A worker with the Federal Emergency Management Agency who wore an anti-Bush T-shirt at the president’s July Fourth rally in Charleston has been sent home to Texas.

Nicole Rank, who was working for FEMA in West Virginia, and her husband, Jeff, were removed from the Capitol grounds in handcuffs shortly before Bush’s speech. The pair wore T-shirts with the message “Love America, Hate Bush.”

The Ranks were ticketed for trespassing and released. They have been given summonses to appear in court, Charleston Police Lt. C.A. Vincent said Wednesday.


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Maybe they should have stood in the "free speech zone" :rolleyes:
 

fairbanksb

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Pretty dumb of these two, IMHO. However, they shouldn't have been handcuffed, just immediately fired by the boss. In this case GW.
 

Atossa

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The next time Dubya throws a big 4th of July bash...
he will only invite illegal aliens :lol:

Yeah, I know :sb:
 

bobaloo

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Yeah really, I mean those idiots thought they actually had a right to express a political opinion critical of those in power!
 

fairbanksb

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bobaloo said:
Yeah really, I mean those idiots thought they actually had a right to express a political opinion critical of those in power!

You are being sarcastic, right? Think about it. They work for the government and are attending a government rally. Next time you go to your company picnic, where your T[shirt that says I love my company but the boss sucks. See where it gets you.
 

milkydoo

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fairbanksb said:
Pretty dumb of these two, IMHO. However, they shouldn't have been handcuffed, just immediately fired by the boss. In this case GW.
Did they do something wrong?

How do T-Shirts with political statements equate to tresspassing?

Giltric: I think I remember a fuss over a rally several months back where there were in fact free speech zones away from the cameras. Is that what this was about as well?
 

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bobaloo

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Sorry, but it doesn't work that way, at least it's not supposed to under the US constitution. As a private employer you can fire an employee for any reason you want to pick, but the government is NOT a private employer and operates under different rules.

Let's try a little different scenario, OK? Go back 4 years in time and two government employees attend a function wearing t-shirts critical of Clinton. They are drug off, handcuffed and fired from their government jobs. How would you have felt about that?
 

Blinker

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It brings to mind the old pre-World War 2 newsreel, which showed how the Bund run its big Madison Square Garden rally.
 

fairbanksb

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I hated Clinton but I would have felt the same way. I do not agree with them being handcuffed and led away. They probably can't be fired because of the union. Maybe transfer them to border control. The husband to the Mexican border and the wife to the Canadian border. I was in the military under Clinton but I wouldn't have been seen at an anti-Clinton rally without expecting repercussions.
 

bobaloo

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fairbanksb, I can assure you that I loathe Bush at least as much as you hate Clinton, but what was written on the shirts makes absolutely no difference to me. One thing I do believe in, and which I have also taken an oath to defend, is the Constitution of the United States. I hate to see it trampled, no matter what the cause.

Free speech means the right to say things that are unpopular or with which you disagree. If you don't support the right of those to protest the current president, how will you feel when the situation is reversed?
 
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