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To: Carolyn who wrote (370)3/27/2003 5:01:36 PM
From: Tech Master  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 495
 
A new addition:

Suit Filed Over Student's Anti-Iraq War T-Shirt

DETROIT (Reuters) - A Detroit-area school was hit with a lawsuit on Thursday for prohibiting a student anti-war protester from wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a picture of President Bush (news - web sites) and the words "International Terrorist."



The American Civil Liberties Union (news - web sites) said the suit, filed in federal court, alleged that the constitutional rights of Bretton Barber had been violated by Dearborn High School when it ordered him to either wear the T-shirt inside out or go home on Feb. 17.

Dearborn High School Superintendent John Artis declined to comment on the suit involving Barber, who is a junior at the school and chose to go home on the day of the reprimand.

"I have no information," Artis told Reuters, saying other school officials would also be unable to comment.

But Kary Moss, executive director of the ACLU's Michigan branch, said that instead of being open to debate and discussion Dearborn High School "chose to ban political speech."

In a statement Barber, who has refrained from wearing the anti-Bush T-shirt to school since Feb. 17, said he felt vindicated by publicity over his protest against the U.S.-led war in Iraq (news - web sites).

"The shirt was meant to emphasize the message 'no war' and I feel that I've been successful in getting that message out," he said. "I think it's especially important for students who may be asked to fight at some point, to have the right to say how we feel."

Michigan is home to one of the largest concentrations of Arabs outside the Middle East and Dearborn has a flourishing community of Iraqi exiles.



To: Carolyn who wrote (370)3/27/2003 6:26:14 PM
From: American Spirit  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 495
 
Carolyn, you're a woman? Name one thing Bush has done for women. Anything that doesn't involve cutting funding to womens programs. One of your right-wingers posted a Laura Bush breast cancer fundraiser article. Then I checked and saw Bushies want to cut breast cancer detection funding by 40%/ See? They say one thing then do another, always sticking it to women and kids. Why? Because they represent wealthy white men who have little or no compassion. Selfisf guys trying to keep women in their places except for a few big-haired blondes they wheel out to be their spokesmen, some of whom talk like robots, thus we cann them femmebots, from AUSTIN POWERS. All women should want Bush out in 2004 unless they just do what their husbands or daddy wants.