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Fashion Police Suffer Setback
Couple arrested at Bush rally settles lawsuit for $80,000
by Andrew Clevenger
The Charleston Gazette
August 17, 2007
The federal government has agreed to pay $80,000 to a Texas couple arrested for wearing anti-President Bush T-shirts at a 2004 event with the president in Charleston.
Jeff and Nicole Rank went to Bush”s Fourth of July speech at the state Capitol wearing homemade T-shirts with a red circle with a bar through it over the word “Bush.”
On the back, hers read “Love America, Hate Bush” and his read “Regime Change Starts At Home.”
When the couple refused to cover up their shirts, they were arrested and charged with trespassing. Those charges were later dropped by the city of Charleston, and city officials later apologized.
The American Civil Liberties Union subsequently filed a lawsuit on the Ranks” behalf in federal court in Charleston, alleging that the Ranks” First Amendment right to free political speech had been violated. Continue reading “Fashion Police Suffer Setback”
Calling All Billboard Liberators!
Submitted by R. Ryan Anderson, a cyber activist living in the city of Tacoma, Washington, who writes that Tacoma’s billboards are being used as part of a massive spam attack. As of August 1, 2007, the deadline for all city billboards to comply with a law passed ten years ago requiring the removal of billboards deemed too large, too ugly or too disruptive, hundreds of billboards in Tacoma have sprouted a scary blue and red message reading: “CONSTITUTIONS MATTER.”
Joey Skaggs Tests New York City Security
More people are behind bars in the United States than any other country. In 2006 a record 7 million people were in prison, 2.2 million, on probation, or on parole. The People’s Republic of China ranks second with 1.5 million. The United States has 5% of the world’s population and 25% of the world’s incarcerated population. [from Wikipedia]
June, 2007: New York City Police do not care for artist, activist Joey Skaggs’ attire:
The Whitehouse Coup
Here is a link to a thirty minute BBC radio program by Mike Thomson, plus articles written by Scott Horton and David Swanson about a little known coup attempt on the U.S. government in 1934 by prominent American businessmen, one of whom is the grandfather of the current president of the United States.
The Whitehouse Coup
by Mike Thompson
BBC
July 23, 2007
Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right-wing American businessmen. The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush”s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.
Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat to American democracy. Listen to the BBC program here.