Student May Wear Bush 'Terrorist' Shirt

[pruner]

The Associated Press
Wednesday, October 1, 2003; 11:06 PM

DETROIT - A high school student has the right to wear a T-shirt to school with the face of President Bush and the words "International Terrorist" on the front, a federal judge ruled.

"There is no evidence that the T-shirt created any disturbance or disruption," U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Duggan said in the ruling released Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, which sued the Dearborn school district on behalf of Bretton Barber.

An assistant principal had ordered Barber in February to conceal the anti-Bush message or go home. Dearborn High said it worried about inflaming passions at the suburban Detroit school, where a majority of students are Arab-American.
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But, the judge said, "The record does not reveal any basis for (the assistant principal's) fear aside from his belief that the T-shirt conveyed an unpopular political message."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A31632-2003Oct1?language=printer

[JohnKleeb]

1. Well tell that kid to call me I want that T-shirt

:) cool

[Doug Decker]

2. I want one, too...

very cool.

[JohnKleeb]

5. yep

I wanna get a Kucinich one too, lol now imagine what the kids would say if I wore something that said "WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE" from the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx :P

[Bushfire]

6. Here's the link

http://www.internationalterrorist.com/main.html from the DU Top Ten List (#3).

[Doug Decker]

13. THX (n/t)

[Cocoa]

8. I want one with "Fair and Balanced" on the back

Just to rub it in. :-)

[goforit]

3. Eat this Lynn Cheney!!!!!!..........Mrs. Anti Freedom of Speech!!!!

:bounce:

[BloodyWilliam]

4. Score one for the 1st amendment!

And while we're at it, shameless plug. (Sig line) :hippie:

[belab13]

7. nice to see that the youth of the country can still think for itself. I

don't hold out much hope for the adults.

[leesa]

9. The only ones it would inflame are the flag-waving fake patriots

Why would Arab-Americans be inflamed?? They would agree, I would imagine. What a racist way of thinking!

[ixion]

10. unpopular message?

Not amongst those of us who know what the neocons are up to. :evilgrin:

[Pale_Rider]

11. Join the ACLU ...

... I'm proud to see my membership dues being used to good purposes such as this!

[Myra]

16. "Join the ACLU ..."

Yes!
They're fighting the "Patriot Act" and
the "First Amendment Zones."

[Robin Hood]

12. Ladies and Gentelman. Please rise.

For the future President of the United States.

[davekriss]

15. A nice sentiment!

Yay to that brave student, may he beam with the pride of victory and justice when he walks the halls of his school -- and may he serve as a model for civil disobediance for other young men and women as a just generation rises up and replaces the dieing flame of selfishness, bigotry, murderous arrogance, and pillage. This violent cabal will pass; the evil underlying the GWB regime rotting it out from within.

[dArKeR]

14. Does anyone realize what the Bush Crime Family is doing to the appeals

judges?