Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Libertà civili? Per Bush sono "oscene"

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1015-06.htm
Published on Friday, October 15, 2004 by the KGW - NewsChannel 8 (Portland,
Oregon)
Teachers' T-Shirts Bring Bush Speech Ouster
by 
kgw.com
 and AP Staff
CENTRAL POINT, Ore. -- Three Medford school teachers were threatened with
arrest and thrown out of the President Bush rally at the Jackson County
Fairgrounds Thursday night, after they showed up wearing T-shirts with the
slogan "Protect our civil liberties."
Three Medford school teachers who were thrown out of a Bush rally because of
their t-shirts.
Three Medford school teachers who were thrown out of a Bush rally because of
their t-shirts.
All three women said they were carrying valid tickets for the event that
they had received from Republican Party headquarters in Medford, which had
been distributing event tickets to Bush supporters.
Teacher Janet Voorhies said she simply wanted to bring a message to
President Bush, but did not intend to protest.
"I wanted to see if I would be able to make a statement that I feel is
important, but not offensive, in a rally for my president," said Voorhies,
48.
The women said they were angered by reports of peaceful protesters being
thrown out of previous Bush-Cheney events. They said they chose the phrase,
"Protect Our Civil Liberties," because it was unconfrontational.
"We chose this phrase specifically because we didn't think it would be
offensive or degrading or obscene," said Tania Tong, 34, a special education
teacher.
The women got past the first and second checkpoints and were allowed into
the Jackson County fairgrounds, but were asked to leave and then escorted
out of the event by campaign officials who allegedly told them their
T-shirts were "obscene."
Democrats were quick to pounce on the incident and claimed the GOP has
routinely sought to disclude anyone from public appearances by President
Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney who might question the administration.
There was no immediate comment from Republican officials.
"Thursday's actions in Oregon set a new standard even for Bush/Cheney -
removing and threatening with arrest citizens who in no way disrupt an event
and wear clothing that expresses non-disruptive party-neutral viewpoints
such as "Protect Our Civil Liberties," said Adam Green, a spokesman for the
Oregon Democratic Party.
When Cheney visited Eugene last month, the Register-Guard newspaper reported
that Perry Patterson, 54, was cited for criminal trespassing for blurting
out the word "No" after Cheney claimed that the Bush administration had made
the world safer.
In a separate and unrelated case Thursday, two protesters were arrested in
nearby Jacksonville, outside the historic inn where President Bush was
spending the night.
A few hundred people were demonstrating peacefully there, but police moved
to disperse the crowd after a few protesters allegedly put their hands on
police officers. City officials said police fired projectiles known as
"pepper balls" -- similar to paint balls, but filled with cayenne pepper to
break up the demonstrators.

 
I soliti titoli del ca**o di Namib che non c'entrano una fava con
l'articolo e che mostrano solo il suo antiamericanismo :)
-Stefano