The Limits of Free Speech

[Admiral Yi]

John Stewart made an interesting "freedom of expression"point last night. At a recent AZ speech Obama made on death panels(sic) etc... there were several dudes with loaded automatic weapons there protesting. Nothing happened to these guys. no big deal apparently.

Yet when Bush was stumping Iraq invasions etc and people wore crappily made anti-Bush t-shirts, they were arrested. t-shirts are more dangerous than assault rifles? America is so diverse. :p

Sounds like bullshit.  John Stewart is a nebbish.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

John Stewart made an interesting "freedom of expression"point last night. At a recent AZ speech Obama made on death panels(sic) etc... there were several dudes with loaded automatic weapons there protesting. Nothing happened to these guys. no big deal apparently.

Yet when Bush was stumping Iraq invasions etc and people wore crappily made anti-Bush t-shirts, they were arrested. t-shirts are more dangerous than assault rifles? America is so diverse. :p

Sounds like bullshit.  John Stewart is a nebbish.

um no there was CNN footage of both incidents. The anti Bush thing was in NH. Back when people got arrested for wearing protest tees in malls. late Kapland/early migration to Languish from KAPland era.

[Admiral Yi]

um no there was CNN footage of both incidents. The anti Bush thing was in NH. Back when people got arrested for wearing protest tees in malls. late Kapland/early migration to Languish from KAPland era.

They were arrested by law enforcement and charged with the crime of wearing protest tees?

[BuddhaRhubarb]

um no there was CNN footage of both incidents. The anti Bush thing was in NH. Back when people got arrested for wearing protest tees in malls. late Kapland/early migration to Languish from KAPland era.

They were arrested by law enforcement and charged with the crime of wearing protest tees?

they were detained by police then let go iirc... but simply for wearing protest t-shirts... back in the hardcore with us or against us days. there were a lot of those stories on the news then.


fuck i hate this new quoting system.

[Admiral Yi]

I don't remember a single one of them.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

I don't remember a single one of them.

I recall several.

[Admiral Yi]

I recall several.

I recall a few instances of people being escorted from Bush public appearances.  I don't recall any cases of people being arrested for wearing t-shirts in public.

[Razgovory]

I don't remember a single one of them.

You have this problem alot I've noticed.

[Admiral Yi]

You have this problem alot I've noticed.

I noticed you ran away from the discussion on death panels crying like a school girl.

[Ed Anger]

I can't even remember what I ate for lunch last week.

[ulmont]

I recall several.

I recall a few instances of people being escorted from Bush public appearances.  I don't recall any cases of people being arrested for wearing t-shirts in public.

"The federal government has agreed to pay $80,000 to a Texas couple arrested and charged with trespassing in 2004 after they refused to cover up homemade T-shirts with anti-Bush slogans."
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=18932

[PDH]

The more I forget, the happier I am.

It is the best way to face a new semester of 18 year old freshmen.

[Razgovory]

You have this problem alot I've noticed.

I noticed you ran away from the discussion on death panels crying like a school girl.

I was a little disgusted with you but other people made my point so I didn't need to follow up on it.

[Malthus]

The more I forget, the happier I am.

It is the best way to face a new semester of 18 year old freshmen.

As in 'forgetting that professional ethics forbids extrorting sex from sweet young students in exchange for good grades'? 

[saskganesh]

a cursory search of headlines reveals that people have been arrested for

anti-Bush shirts
anti-Obama shirts
McCain shirts
Niggers with Attitude shirts
Naked Posh Spice shirts
Hemp shirts
US Flag shirts
Blasphemy shirts
Police shirts
toy robot shirts
Peace logo shirts

and so on.

my conclusion: some people really hate t-shirts