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| Form&Funktion |
Perhaps this article is best in the political forum, yet I am most interested in the local perceptions of this report. Take what you want from this article but this sets a dark tone on the Bush campaign and for me, casts a forboding picture on the next 4 years if he is re-elected.
Taken from: The Bend Bugle of Oregon
Teachers' T-shirts bring Bush speech ouster
From Bend.com news sources
Posted: Thursday, October 14, 2004 10:24 PM
Reference Code: PR-18712
October 14 - MEDFORD – President Bush taught three Oregon schoolteachers a new lesson in irony – or tragedy – Thursday night when his campaign removed them from a Bush speech and threatened them with arrest simply for wearing t-shirts that said “Protect Our Civil Liberties,” the Democratic Party of Oregon reported.
The women were ticketed to the event, admitted into the event, and were then approached by event officials before the president’s speech. They were asked to leave and to turn over their tickets – two of the three tickets were seized, but the third was saved when one of the teachers put it underneath an article of clothing.
"The U.S. Constitution was not available on site for comment, but expressed in a written statement support for “the freedom of speech” and “of the press” among other civil liberties," a Democratic news release said.
The Associated Press and local CBS affiliate KTVL captured Bush’s principled stand against civil liberties in news accounts published immediately after the event.
The AP reported:
Three Medford school teachers were threatened with arrest and escorted from the event after they showed up wearing T-shirts with the slogan "Protect our civil liberties." All three said they applied for and received valid tickets from Republican headquarters in Medford.
The women said they 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 Janet Voorhies, 48, a teacher in training.
“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.
Thursday’s event in Oregon sets a new bar for a Bush/Cheney campaign that has taken extraordinary measures to screen the opinions of those who attend Bush and Cheney speeches. For months, the Bush/Cheney campaign has limited event access to those willing to volunteer in Bush/Cheney campaign offices. In recent weeks, the Bush/Cheney campaign has gone so far as to have those who voice dissenting viewpoints at their events arrested and charged as criminals.
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.”
When Vice President Dick Cheney visited Eugene, Oregon on Sept. 17, a 54-Year old woman named Perry Patterson was charged with criminal trespass for blurting the word "No" when Cheney said that George W. Bush has made the world safer.
One day before, Sue Niederer, 55, the mother of a slain American soldier in Iraq was cuffed and arrested for criminal trespass when she interrupted a Laura Bush speech in New Jersey. Both women had tickets to the event. |
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| Jayx1 |
and yet they are about to vote this moron back in...
i dont understand the USA and never will |
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| Form&Funktion |
| I've attempted to keep an open mind regarding their term legacy, campaign platform and debate assertions, yet I find it harder each day to justify Bush's support or validity in office. If I was an American reading that article, I would be outraged and fearful. |
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| Brindor |
| Becareful Thought-crime is the most dangerous offense of all |
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| Jayx1 |
there are quite a few thought police on this message board.
So it will be interesting who gets offended by this article. |
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| che |
Yet people here in the midwest love this guy. I don't understand it. It really doesn't matter to them what Bush has to say or what he does. What matters most to them is that Kerry is an idiot or whatever he has to say is a lie.
I sit there at home with my Bush=supporting roommates and i am shocked at the stupidity. |
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| Form&Funktion |
People SHOULD be offended by this article. Regardless of political leanings.......this is a powerful and concerning practice being used more and more freely by a supposedly freedom-loving Government.
I say be weary, very weary. |
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| Jayx1 |
^^^^ this is the root of every single anti-government control rant i ever start here. People dont realize that by setting precendents for minor annoyances that they dont happen to like the government can use the same precendents to impliment measures such as this one above. You cant just selectively pick and choose which rights to take away because eventually it all breaks down together. You take the rights of one group of people away, who is to say that another group wont take the same type of precidented action to take your rights away in the future?
This is why as a non-smoker i am against the measures that are being taken to end smoking. I am in full support of ending the practice of smoking but i am 100% against the way it is being undertaken because who knows who will use the same type of laws in the future.
Bush's patriot act is already being abused in other types of investigations that are non-terrorist related for example.
People are not aware just how many of their rights are being taken away every single day. |
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| che |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
Bush's patriot act is already being abused in other types of investigations that are non-terrorist related for example.
People are not aware just how many of their rights are being taken away every single day. |
Many Bush supporters don't want to be aware of this. They still think thats its for the good of their country and no matter what you say to them they won't buy into it. This isn't a new trend. This is all caused by years and years of brainwash. States like Indiana ARE republican. They vote for republicans, no matter who it is and what is being done to them.
On the other hand there are multiple states that are pure Democratic. Hardly to you see states that change their views every 4 years. This of course does not apply to all the individuals but the overall trend is that republican states will vote republican no matter what is being done by the government and democratic states will vote democrat no matter what |
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| Orko |
obviously all of this is very unfair.
I just wonder how they can actually get away with it? I understand he is the prez and has connections, but in the end, these people do have to break rules to be charged, and if they had tickets, how are they tresspassing or breaking any other rules?
Is this article missing something? I can understand the ladies being asked to leave, but actually being able to charge them? fishy |
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| Fir3start3r |
Odd that they would be charged...:wtf:
I wonder what the small print on the ticket said?
But then, why test and bring lighter to a room full of dynomite unless they got the answer they knew they would get?
Democratic martyrdom? :confused: |
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| malek |
this is insane:wtf:
and jayx don't use this article to prove that you're somewhat right on some other unrelated subjects:rolleyes: |
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