Shame On You President Bush
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/31/sheehan.arrest/index.html
Freedom of expression, either through speech, writing or symbolic gestures, is the single most important distinction between a free county and one run by despots. To be unable or afraid to publicly express our views without risk of arrest begins a very big first step away from the very core this great nation was founded on.
On January 31st, during a Presidential speech in our nation’s capitol, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq was arrested for wearing a t-shirt protesting the war! This woman threatened no one. This mother who lost her soldier son neither shouted obscenities nor displayed a threatening manner; yet she was handcuffed and escorted away from the capitol of the most democratic nation in the world.
The U.S.A. is trying to send a world-wide message of the benefits of democracy, yet we arrest a citizen for wearing a t-shirt that opposes our Present’s positions. As an American citizen that terrifies me.
What is your position regarding this incident? What amends can possibly be made to the American citizens and to foreign nationalists when the image of the arrest…For a t-shirt…is transmitted abroad?
Freedom of expression, either through speech, writing or symbolic gestures, is the single most important distinction between a free county and one run by despots. To be unable or afraid to publicly express our views without risk of arrest begins a very big first step away from the very core this great nation was founded on.
On January 31st, during a Presidential speech in our nation’s capitol, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq was arrested for wearing a t-shirt protesting the war! This woman threatened no one. This mother who lost her soldier son neither shouted obscenities nor displayed a threatening manner; yet she was handcuffed and escorted away from the capitol of the most democratic nation in the world.
The U.S.A. is trying to send a world-wide message of the benefits of democracy, yet we arrest a citizen for wearing a t-shirt that opposes our Present’s positions. As an American citizen that terrifies me.
What is your position regarding this incident? What amends can possibly be made to the American citizens and to foreign nationalists when the image of the arrest…For a t-shirt…is transmitted abroad?
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