Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Das Boot

If you, like many people around the world, saw the Truth right, Bush left sign hanging on NY's Plaza Hotel you might be interested to know that the people which unfurled it have been charged with felony assault, reckless endangerment, and criminal trespass. If convicted they face 25 year jail sentences. If not convicted they must fight off a costly legal battle.

It seems to me that this was simply an act of citizens creatively petitioning their government for redress. But to John Ashcroft's justice department it is a crime so foul, so heinous that they should be placed in the criminal class of murderers, rapists, and bank robbers.

People should not be charged with felony at the drop of a hat, or the drop of a sign. This is just another good reason to evict the Bush administration in November. We need a president that interprets the Constitution literally and the Bible loosely instead of the other way around.


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