Friday, August 17, 2007

Feds Pay $80,000 Over Anti-Bush T-shirts


CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A couple arrested at a rally after refusing to cover T-shirts that bore anti-President Bush slogans settled their lawsuit against the federal government for $80,000, the American Civil Liberties Union announced Thursday.

Nicole and Jeffery Rank of Corpus Christi, Texas, were handcuffed and removed from the July 4, 2004, rally at the state Capitol, where Bush gave a speech. A judge dismissed trespassing charges against them, and an order closing the case was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Charleston
This is PRICELESS!!! Maybe we still have a Constitution and the concept of Free Speech in this country? Its too bad the fine wasn't $800 million and Bush was personally liable for it.

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