Comments | taraisagoddess: I am disgusted.

taraisagoddess

I am disgusted.

Feb 01, 2006 16:28

Thanks to Altruism Suffers
Date: Feb 1, 2006 5:00 AM
and The Revolution

Date: Feb 1, 2006 2:08 AM

I never ask for reposts, but I urge everyone who reads this to do so. Repost, blog about it, e-mail it to friends, coworkers, family, etc. YOUR country, OUR country, is being stolen from us, WE THE PEOPLE, and we need to we must TAKE IT BACK!

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holytoastr February 1 2006, 21:49:46 UTC

Tara being political? *impressed*

Interesting to see how "protesting" is now an arrestable offense.

Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

New Patriot Act Provision Creates Tighter Barrier to Officials at Public Events
Secret Service Not Coddling Hecklers

sublimeade February 1 2006, 23:34:29 UTC

The First Amendment isn't the final word in free speech. It can be overruled by the Imminent Lawless Action test, formerly known as the "clear and present danger" test. And Sheehan undoubtedly fulfills both of those requirements to the President and the American institutions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action

holytoastr February 2 2006, 01:21:35 UTC

I'm so glad we live in a country where anyone who protests the government is a terrorist. I feel safer already.

Under the imminent lawless action test, speech is not protected by the First Amendment if it is likely to cause violation of the law more quickly than an officer of the law can be reasonably summoned.

How would wearing that t-shirt cause a violation of the law? Does it have a call to action on it to riot in the street? Kill the president? Bomb buildings? No, it provided a statistic and asked how much more.

You may not personally like Sheehan, but that does not mean she should be denied her rights as an American citizen.

sublimeade February 2 2006, 04:22:12 UTC

there could have been an uprising of catastrophic proportions. I seem to recall an incident a few years ago when an individual managed to kill two capitol policemen. all I know is Sheehan was denied from enacting a similar terrorist calamity.

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sublimeade February 1 2006, 23:43:07 UTC

You know, sometimes around some high school cheerleaders I get to feeling pretty warm too. Lo and behold, I'm usually not wearing anything underneath. Can you believe there's people OUT THERE would want to arrest me for being "warm"? (child molestors should start using the "warm" alibi). Or expressing my personal FREEDOMS? OR USING BOLD LETTERS AND SAPPY, SYMPATHETIC LANGUAGE IN AN EFFORT TO APPEAL TO EMOTIONS!!!!

Cindy Sheehan is an idiot, her son is rolling over in his grave. I applauded the efforts of the policemen who were doing their duty, she could have incited a riot. She should be arrested with these little misdemeanors until they add up into felony charges. Or shot. She's a disgrace to this country.

Casey Sheehan (I assume that's his last name) died with honor, so that others might live. Like the millions of men and women before him, and the millions to come.

taraisagoddess February 2 2006, 01:27:27 UTC

She never says she wore the shirt because she was "warm."
She also makes the point that nobody asked/told her to put her jacket back on. Nobody asked her to take off that shirt (she's wearing another underneath-you can see it in one of the other pictures). Nobody TALKED anything out. The police immediately took an unnecessary and uncalled for action, and was far above and beyond what the situation called for.

She says it best herself:
I did not wear it to be disruptive, or I would have unzipped my jacket during George's speech. (emphasis mine)

Besides, the way they screen those things, she would have been the only non-Bush-supporter there, so who would have rioted with her?

zorikin February 2 2006, 02:00:35 UTC

Clearly, everyone would have trampled each other in their rage to get over to that crafty she-devil!

taraisagoddess February 2 2006, 01:28:57 UTC

PS-I have NOTHING
I repeat
NOTHING
against our fighting soldiers.

I just thought I should say that-since you brought them up.

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lafemmeluna February 2 2006, 03:15:22 UTC

Ummm, that person up there is upsetting me. They made a comment that could very well start an lj riot. It's a disgrace. Shoot them.

If that reasoning sounds ridiculous, that's because it is. And I think that that person should be shot. Sure, it's fucked up but, according to them, fucked up is a-ok. :(

taraisagoddess February 2 2006, 14:49:43 UTC

Nobody should be shot-it's all just words. ;)

Words=talking things out=a-ok in MY book.

Thank THE FOUNDING FATHERS for Free Speech.

relena_wolf February 2 2006, 13:44:35 UTC

It seems the Capitol police were taking extra doses of stupid drugs that night. They also ejected, though didn't arrest, a congressman's wife who was wearing a shirt that said "Support Our Troops- Defending our Freedom". btw, he husband is a Republican from Florida, a state where Bush needs Republican support. They also threw out the non-US citizen guest of a democratic congresswoman from Florida.

The chief of the capitol police has now issued an apology to each woman and dropped the charges against Sheehan. There's no word on why they removed the foreign national. http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/11120353/

taraisagoddess February 2 2006, 14:50:52 UTC

I read about this this morning! Unbelievable! So now they're considering revising that "law" and also training their people better-apparently wearing that t-shirt AND doing something to call attention to it is unlawful conduct. Neither woman was doing so.

tsk, tsk.

Ladies, Dress to Impress sublimeade February 2 2006, 18:23:25 UTC

doesnt anyone have a problem with the fact that at the SOTU, people are allowed to wear T-shirts?? isn't there some kind of dress code enforcement, regardless of what's on the shirt? I think that's appalling. you dont go see the President and Congress, barefoot in overalls. If she was too poor to afford a nicer outfit, the bouncers should've taken issue at the door. We can't let riff raff like that in our capitol.

Taking the bait holytoastr February 2 2006, 19:16:42 UTC

And since when has wearing a t-shirt grounds for arrest?

I think the issue here is the President's unnatural fear of t-shirts. Perhaps a bad cotton incident as a youth.

* In August 2004, John Prather, a math professor at Ohio University, was removed by security from a presidential event on public property because he wore a shirt that promoted John Kerry.

* On July 4, 2004, Nicole and Jeff Rank were arrested at a Bush event in West Virginia for wearing T-shirts that criticized the president.

* In August 2004, campaign workers removed a family from a presidential event in Michigan because one woman, a 50-year-old chemist, carried in a rolled-up T-shirt emblazoned with a pro-choice slogan.

* In July 2004, Jayson Nelson, a county supervisor in Appleton, Wis., was thrown out of a presidential event because of a pro-Kerry T-shirt.

* In October 2004, three Oregon schoolteachers were removed from a Bush event and threatened with arrest for wearing t-shirts that said "Protect Our Civil Liberties."And now two women were ejected from the ( ... )