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To: Ron who wrote (4448)	11/11/2003 8:41:50 PM
From: Sultan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

I find this piece, just unbelievable.. Too pathetic.. THE GUY ARRESTED (IN AMERICA!) FOR HOLDING UP A PROTEST SIGN True or False (I asked back in June): A lone 54-year-old man in a crowd of people waiting for the President to arrive can be arrested and prosecuted for holding up a protest sign. (My favorite line: “The prosecutors say that Mr Bursey was not in a special ‘free-speech zone’ . . . Mr Bursey told the cops, defiantly, that he was under the impression that the whole of America was a free-speech zone.”) The State of South Carolina decided to drop the charge, but the Ashcroft Justice Department, in the person of of US Attorney Strom Thurmond, Jr., instituted A criminal proceeding. andrewtobias.com economist.com thestate.com