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Offline fartwinkle

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« Reply #45 on: February 01, 2006, 03:41:07 PM »
Take away the publics right to protest and some kook will protest with a 175gn hollow point.

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« Reply #46 on: February 01, 2006, 07:47:04 PM »
I know of some Americans who pronounce it "Hoiybs"
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« Reply #47 on: February 01, 2006, 11:36:17 PM »
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If you have an event and somone wants to protest it by shouting and heckling you arent they in fact infringing on your right of free speech.  Public speaking would become a shouting match.

Free speech has NEVER meant unlimited write to say or do anything.


IMHO, a protest T-shirt isn't the same thing as heckling.
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« Reply #48 on: February 01, 2006, 11:54:11 PM »
Remember that song from the 80s Aussie band Men at Work?  "It's a Mistake"

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/01/sheehan.arrest/index.html

"On Wednesday afternoon, U.S. Capitol Police Chief Terrance Gainer said neither woman should have been removed from the chamber. "We made a mistake," he told CNN."
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« Reply #49 on: February 02, 2006, 02:23:23 AM »
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« Reply #50 on: February 02, 2006, 08:18:01 AM »
I knew two guys who were named Herb.  The H was not silent.  Hippie girls say "erb"  for weeds.

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« Reply #51 on: February 02, 2006, 08:19:09 AM »
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0201-01.htm
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I went through security once, then had to use the rest room and went through security again.

My ticket was in the 5th gallery, front row, fourth seat in. The person who in a few minutes was to arrest me, helped me to my seat.

I had just sat down and I was warm from climbing 3 flights of stairs back up from the bathroom so I unzipped my jacket. I turned to the right to take my left arm out, when the same officer saw my shirt and yelled; "Protester." He then ran over to me, hauled me out of my seat and roughly (with my hands behind my back) shoved me up the stairs. I said something like "I'm going, do you have to be so rough?" By the way, his name is Mike Weight.

The officer ran with me to the elevators yelling at everyone to move out of the way. When we got to the elevators, he cuffed me and took me outside to await a squad car. On the way out, someone behind me said, "That's Cindy Sheehan." At which point the officer who arrested me said: "Take these steps slowly." I said, "You didn't care about being careful when you were dragging me up the other steps." He said, "That's because you were protesting." Wow, I get hauled out of the People's House because I was, "Protesting."

I was never told that I couldn't wear that shirt into the Congress. I was never asked to take it off or zip my jacket back up. If I had been asked to do any of those things...I would have, and written about the suppression of my freedom of speech later. I was immediately, and roughly (I have the bruises and muscle spasms to prove it) hauled off and arrested for "unlawful conduct."


-Cindy Sheehan

Whatever your views of this woman doesn't this seem a little overboard?

I'll bet they would make what she did a Felony if they could..... For a shirt... a shirt she wasn't asked to change, turn inside out or simply re-zip her jacket.....

Next thing you know ... wearing the wrong shirt at the wrong time could put you in prision for years.

At least it seems so to me.

"Protester!"

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« Reply #52 on: February 02, 2006, 08:42:23 AM »
yep... she for sure seems a little overboard.  She is a nutcase and she is doing nutcase things.

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« Reply #53 on: February 02, 2006, 08:51:39 AM »
My point is .. would that be deserveing of a felony...

I don't care what you think of the woman.....

Should that be a Felony?
Should it even be a crime?  They've never heard of showing someone the door? They could have a dress code that doesn't allow t-shirts.
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« Reply #54 on: February 02, 2006, 09:12:08 AM »
not deserving of a felony, but she's still a lying sack of ****, opportunistic, media hog.

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« Reply #55 on: February 02, 2006, 09:28:39 AM »
So let me get this right, you're saying that the only people allowed constitutional rights are the ones you agree with?
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« Reply #56 on: February 02, 2006, 09:35:21 AM »
Lazs,
What if it was a shirt that said "I love the 2nd Ammendment", were the President was known to try to limit the 2nd Ammendment?

Is the message and the messenger the litmus test?

I do think she has stepped into nutcase land no doubt.

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« Reply #57 on: February 02, 2006, 09:36:19 AM »
CB, you takin to me?