t-shirt protest/woman arrested at film

[Otto]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "barbara100" <barbara100 at jps.net>
To: "Pynchon-L" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: t-shirt protest/woman arrested at film


> 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.
>
>

Don't bite the hand that feeds you! Texas is Bush-land, eh?

Reminds me of the time in my life when I've been a long-haired civil servant
at Hanover and the RAF was quite active killing the big guys (Ponto, Buback,
Schleyer -- der nächste ist ein Bayer!) in Western Germany. The day after
Ulrike Meinhof was found dead in her prison cell I publicly called rejoicing
civil servants fascists. Of course they weren't fascists, they were just
stupid white men, fat lazy parasites. It did cause me some trouble but they
couldn't find a way to fire me. I did finish that part of my apprenticeship,
got a bad grade which wasn't used for the final grade because I could
convince my main instructor that I had listened to so much right-winged
bullshit the months before that my burst was just a natural reaction. And
they did not want me to go to court to tell the judge where the bottles of
beer were kept in the desks.

That FEMA-woman shall sue her former employer. Hopefully she's a
union-member.

Otto