Mike Ferner, a Vietnam-era veteran, says he was arrested at the Jesse Brown V.A. Medical Center in Chicago for wearing a Veterans for Peace T-Shirt.

... the V.A. cop came up to me, Officer Adkins, and said, “Okay, your 15 minutes is up. You gotta go.” And I was kind of startled and asked him what he was talking about. And he said, “Well, if you're wearing that shirt in here, you're protesting.” And I said, “Well, I’m sorry. I’m not protesting. I’m having a cup of coffee.” And as the conversation continued, I vainly tried explaining some Supreme Court decisions to him about, you know, people's right to wear what they want to wear on their shirt, and that this should be no problem. And he was adamant and said that, “Well, if you don't leave right now, you're going to get arrested.” So I just looked at him, and I said, “Well, arrest me.”

And he was glad to do that, and then cuffed me and took me over to the security room at the V.A. center there, and they booked me on disorderly conduct...

I could have had a shirt on that said, you know, “Nuke ‘em back to the stone age!” or any one of a number of things, and there would have been nothing said...


http://www.democracynow.org/article..../07/06/1349239

Well, serves him right, really. What did he think he was doing, wearing a peace T-shirt. Didn't he know that El Presidente and the Fatherland should be defended at all times?!

Oh, you're right. Damnit I wish I had thought of that before I put this thread up.

Fucking pig. It's a T-shirt, not one of America's many weapons of mass destruction.

I'm wondering now, is it legal to arrest and beat wowsers and dolts now?

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amazing.