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asherisSo now the Bush campaign is claiming that the phrase "Protect Our Civil Liberties" is obscene. What next?
Three teachers in Oregon were threatened with arrest and thrown out of a Bush rally Thursday night, after being told their T-shirts were "obscene".
Two of the women were wearing plain white T-shirts with the phrase "Protect Our Civil Liberties" written in red or blue using a plain typeface (a serif font, if it matters); the third had the same phrase, with a picture of the American flag behind the Statue of Liberty on hers.
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Three teachers in Oregon were threatened with arrest and thrown out of a Bush rally Thursday night, after being told their T-shirts were "obscene".
Two of the women were wearing plain white T-shirts with the phrase "Protect Our Civil Liberties" written in red or blue using a plain typeface (a serif font, if it matters); the third had the same phrase, with a picture of the American flag behind the Statue of Liberty on hers.
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Three Medford school teachers were threatened with arrest and thrown out of the President Bush rally at the Jackson County Fairgrounds Thursday night, after they showed up wearing T-shirts with the slogan "Protect our civil liberties."
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All three women said they were carrying valid tickets for the event that they had received from Republican Party headquarters in Medford, which had been distributing event tickets to Bush supporters.
Teacher Janet Voorhies said she simply wanted to bring a message to President Bush, but did not intend to protest.
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The women said they were angered by reports of peaceful protesters being thrown out of previous Bush-Cheney events. They said they chose the phrase, "Protect Our Civil Liberties," because it was unconfrontational.
"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.
The women got past the first and second checkpoints and were allowed into the Jackson County fairgrounds, but were asked to leave and then escorted out of the event by campaign officials who allegedly told them their T-shirts were "obscene."
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When Cheney visited Eugene last month, the Register-Guard newspaper reported that Perry Patterson, 54, was cited for criminal trespassing for blurting out the word "No" after Cheney claimed that the Bush administration had made the world safer.
(italics mine)
