I was ordered to remove my Kerry button [View All]

[11 Bravo]

before entering the polling place. Some 30-something repub poll watcher told me that campaign buttons, literature, etc., were not allowed within 50 feet of a polling place. I politely informed him that I was not affiliated with any campaign and that I was a private citizen exercizing both my first amendment right to free speech, and also my right to vote. He insisted that I was wrong and demanded the button. I not so politely informed him that there was only one way that my button was coming off , and that would be for him to remove it himself. I then strongly advised him not to even think about it. At that point he decided that he had better things to do. At 53 years of age, 6' tall and about 165 pounds, I'm not a particularly imposing physical specimen; but these fuckers are cowards! (I'm also an ex-combat infantryman who remembers enough hand-to-hand techniques to have jerked a knot in his ass, but the chickenshit bastard didn't know that.)