What do Kalamazoo, Evansville, Albuquerque, Stockton, Trenton, Phoenix, Columbia, St. Louis, Knoxville, and Charleston have in common?
All are among the cities where the secret service or police have jailed people for displaying anti-Bush signs during public appearances by his eminence, King George the W. Is this America, the land of the free?
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They had proper tickets to the event, they proudly sang the national anthem with everyone else, they were in no way disorderly – but they were not politically correct, so they were summarily arrested, taken to jail, finger-printed ... and charged with "trespassing." Others who were there wearing pro-Bush T-shirts and Bush campaign paraphernalia at this public event on public property were not arrested. It seems that the Bushites define "trespassers" by their political beliefs.
Nicole, who worked for the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Charleston, was promptly told that her services were no longer required. Technically, she wasn't fired, but she was "released" from her job and not reassigned – meaning she no longer gets paid.
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2004-08-06/pols_hightower.html