Fema worker sent home to Texas for anti-bush tee shirt [View All]

[havocmom]

Was posted in LBN but not with headline: FEMA worker ordered home
# Woman, husband wore T-shirts with anti-Bush logo at July Fourth rally
so was locked before I could post a reply

http://www.wvgazette.com/section/News/2004070734?pt=0

<snip> Those who applied for tickets were required to supply their names, addresses, birth dates, birthplaces and Social Security numbers.* (* bold face mine)

<snip> A two-page document given to ticket holders said they were prohibited from bringing certain items to the event, including: weapons, video-recording equipment, food, beverages, umbrellas, signs and banners. T-shirts, political buttons and lapel pins were not on the list of prohibited items.

<snip> Robert Bastress, a West Virginia University law professor who specializes in civil liberties, questions whether people like the Ranks can be legally prohibited from wearing anti-Bush shirts or buttons.

<snip> “Obviously, you have a right to engage in nondisruptive protest,” he said. “If you were legally there, you cannot be asked to leave because of whatever message is on a button or a T-shirt or a hat.”

they must be reading DU if they are now prohibiting umbrellas! I have been suggesting for months that people paint protest messages on umbrellas and taking them in (folded) to get around those unlawful 'free speech zones' for carrying signs. heh heh heh. So they are now afraid of bumbershoots?!?!?! The chicken hawks truly are cowards!