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Regardless, this is America and we don’t put people in jail for wearing t-shirts.  Even dumb ones.
By Rob on August 17, 2007 at 04:32 am

Looks to me that under this regime we handcuff them,remove them and propably put them in jail. Just like any other country.

They weren’t put in jail for wearing t-shirts.  They were arrested for refusing to leave a ticketed event when ordered to do so by security.  They became trespassers the moment security revoked their privilege of being there.  I don’t necessarily agree with the decision to remove them because of the t-shirts but it’s understandable given that wearing such t-shirts identified them as having a higher probability of disrupting the event and threatening the safety of other attendees and of the President. 

This is hardly a free speech issue.  They are free to wear those t-shirts and express whatever opinion they’d like on their own property.  They are free to set up web sites expressing their political views.  They are free to organize their own events to protest on public lands.  At this particular event, they were free to protest in areas specifically designated by event organizers for such purposes.  And finally they were free to file a lawsuit in our legal system to seek redress for what they viewed as a violation of their rights.  I’d like to see them try any of these in those other countries that we’re “Just like”.

I think the right should keep their hands off the t-shirts of the left. Just the same way the left should kjeep thier hands off of the radio shows of the right.

That whole free speech thing is a bitch, ain’t it?

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