t-shirt protest/woman arrested at film

[barbara100]

You like that one, Otto, listen to this: two people in Virginia go to a Bush
rally/fundraising event. They purchase tickets and pass inspection at the
entrance gate. When they get to their seats, they take off a top layer of
clothing to reveal "Love America Hate Bush" t-shirts. They're eventually
spotted and the police are sent to move them to a designated "protest" area
(which is probably down the street a few kilometers). They refused to move
thinking they had two tickets and the Bill of Rights behind them. But
apparently not, because they were forcibly removed  and cited with
trespassing. And if that's not bad enough for you, it turns out the woman
worked for FEMA (US Federal Emergency something something) and was sent back
home to Texas and subsequently fired. Fired from a Federal job for wearing
an anti-Bush t-shirt.  It's a sad state of affairs over here. I won't bother
sending you a link because this story only made it to about six papers
nationwide.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>
To: "Pynchon-L" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: NP Michael Moore/woman arrested at film


> >
> > Police charged Frank with disorderly conduct,
> > a summary violation akin to a traffic citation.
> >
>
> I'm glad to hear that the danger for democracy is not so grave.
>
> But this is bullshit:
> >
> > "She continuously refused to leave the area and continued to cause a
> > disturbance and left the troopers no choice but to arrest her," Cpl.
> > Lawrence Wallick said.
> >
>
> As I read she's been doing it outside the cinema, not while the film was
> shown inside the cinema. So the only "disturbance" has been caused by the
> manager trying to stop her and calling the police I assume. At least this
is
> the way I would argue as her lawyer if she refuses to pay the fine.
>
> Let's face the situation: there's a crowd leaving a cinema, people are on
> their way to their cars. Then there's this woman trying to hand out
> registration to the ones who maybe haven't registered to vote yet. How can
> anybody call this democracy-serving action a "disturbance"? Does this
action
> deserve a fine?
>
> And furthermore, aren't we constantly exposed to unwanted advertising on
the
> street? When we get back to our cars we find ads from the newest
> pizza-service behind the wipers, don't we? And we don't sue the manager of
> the cinema for this spam. Everybody who doesn't want a registration card
or
> has already registered simply could go away. No disturbance.
>
> Maybe she's been naive insisting on her right to distribute the cards on
the
> private parking lot, but nobody can say that it wasn't honorable. And that
> shouldn't be punished.
>
> Otto
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "barbara100" <barbara100 at jps.net>
> To: "Pynchon-L" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 8:36 PM
> Subject: Re: NP Michael Moore/woman arrested at film
>
>
> > Woman arrested at '9/11' film
> >
> > By Jennifer Moroz
> >
> > Inquirer Staff Writer
> >
> >
>
>