Thursday, August 16, 2007

Couple Arrested for Anti-Bush Shirts Get $80K

Awwwright! Chalk one up for the good guys! After all of the "free speech zones," and Cindy Sheehan being hauled out of the Capitol for the message on her shirt, and all the countless other similar incidents, finally, it comes down to this.

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Feds pay $80,000 over anti-Bush T-shirts

CHARLESTON, W.Va. --A couple arrested at a rally after refusing to cover T-shirts that bore anti-President Bush slogans settled their lawsuit against the federal government for $80,000, the American Civil Liberties Union announced Thursday.

Nicole and Jeffery Rank of Corpus Christi, Texas, were handcuffed and removed from the July 4, 2004, rally at the state Capitol, where Bush gave a speech. A judge dismissed trespassing charges against them, and an order closing the case was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Charleston.

Read more at: Boston.com

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