There was a time (think back 8 years before the Bush-Cheney regime) when Americans were free to speak out in many ways, including comments on t-shirts. The Bush-Cheney regime have successfully quashed many of these rights.In the latest onslaught against our civil liberties, citizens wearing t-shirts displaying the Constitution's Article 11 section 3 were denied entry to view the U.S. Constitution at the National archives. It was viewed as "political" even though folks with Hillary Clinton t-shirts were granted entry to the National Archives.
This is the Bush-Cheney Fascist version of democracy....regularly, American citizens are being told how to dress and what to wear or they are barred entry to government buildings and even transportation on airplanes.
Story is her at the DC INDYMEDIA website
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I'm not buying it for a second. It was a breakaway from a larger protest group that had already been asked to move from the Archives (you can't just launch a protest rally anywhere you feel like it). The guards at the Archives don't give a shit what anyone is wearing. They do, however, care when someone is trying to hold an unpermitted rally inside the Archives.
MB of Blacknell.net (would you consider getting rid of the Blogger only comments? I think you have an option to set it for picking your own nick and url. Thanks.)
There was no rally planned for inside the archives...I've gone to anti-war rallies with anti-war t-shirts and was allowed inside the Smithsonian Institute buildings with my t-shirt on....however, sometimes they requested that we "cover up."
"cover up" = shut your mouth and only then will you be admitted...even if it's just a t shirt speaking....
Funny they never do anything to prevent a corporate logo from being displayed anywhere....
buzz...buzz....
I won't comment on the validity of the removal. I wasn't there, nor do I have knowledge of any rally....
But, I do know that over the past few years, protestors have gotten more abusive, ie., Code Pink, A.N.S.W.E.R. spray painting the Capital, etc. Rarely do people wearing corporate logos have an ulterior motive.....That said, let anyone in that is wearing clothes until they do commit a crime.
CODE PINK had nothing to do with spraypainting the Capital. They are simply trying to have their voices heard. If "our" voices were allowed as regularly on the corporate media-ocrity platform as the "let's kill them, let's go to war" voices" then there would be no need to demonstrate or participate in civil disobedience.
It's simply speaking truth to power.
And why does the corporate media-ocrity silence our voices? Because the majority of the people agree with us and it would render their greatest weapon useless....you know the weapon that spreads apathy....the propaganda..
Actually Code Pink may not have spray painted the Capitol, but they did get the Navy Memorial. Code Pink abuse has been demonstrated by charging public official and disrupting testimony.
And how can you say that "your" side gets no press when the NYT and the Wash. Post, and heck, Senator Reid all say the same things. Reid and the Congress keep trying to surrender.
If the majority of the people agreed with you, media outlets that trumpeted you outlook would gain readers. Newspapers that trumpet the "peace at any price" idea are losing readers. The corporate media will sell any news that makes a profit. All we get from the media is bad news. We know that things have improved in Iraq because the news is almost non-existent.
So wait...people were banned because of t-shirts displaying a specific passage of the constitution - from viewing the constitution, from which the shirt's passage came from?! Erm......what?
Cargosquid - if it could be proven that either ANSWER or code pink has destroyed any property, they would have been charged. We all know that our government has no qualms about rounding up and arresting protesters, even if they aren't breaking the law.
That said, has anyone bothered to ask why protest groups have become more vocal? Perhaps its because our government - those public servants whose duty it is to represent the people's interests - are ignoring them?
The longer they do (ignore their constituents), the worse it's going to get too. They work for us, and it's high time they remembered that.
I am wondering WHEN OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE GOING TO LISTEN...Both the Republicans and he Democrats are following Bush's example and playing the Decider.
Hopefully, the Democrat's big Decider--Nancy Pelosi--will be thrown out of office with the next election for refusing to listen to the majority of Americans and allowing Impeachment to be voted on in the House....
IN the meantime, all Americans may be tested to be heard...IF our government continues to betray us what are we willing to do to take our government back?
buzz...buzz...
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