Here's hoping that picture is scary enough to get you out to vote. As if exported jobs isn't enough to do so. But if not, here's a couple stories about the Republicanazi Party and what it appears to feel about free speech.
First, here's what the Republicanazis feel about our civil liberties.
Janet Voorhies said she was curious to see how Republicans would react when she and two other women showed up at President Bush's Central Point rally wearing T-shirts stating "Protect Our Civil Liberties."Now that's in Oregon, and it must be pretty contentious up there, given that some officers treated some pretty peaceful protesters as if they were rioting. My excerpt is a bit longer:
She got her answer before the president even spoke. The three women were ejected from the rally and escorted from the Jackson County Fairgrounds by state police officers who warned them they would be arrested if they tried to return.
"We were here to protest Bush and show our support for Kerry," said Cerridewen Bunten, 24, a college student and retail clerk from Ashland. "Nobody was being violent. We were out of the streets so cars could go by. We were being loud, but I never knew that was against the law."We haven't seen tactics like this in a long, long time. I used the word "Republicanazis" very carefully, as this sort of action sends chills through me. A T-Shirt about civil liberties and you're kicked out? Dick Milhouse Cheney and George Herbert Hoover Bush should be ashamed, but we all know Cheney had a shamectomy while they took out his heart, and Dumbya can't spell "shame."
Bunten said she was pushed by police as she held her 6-year-old daughter.
Jeff Treadwell, 37, an auto mechanic from Medford who joined the protesters, estimated about 500 people were assembled, counting both Bush and Kerry supporters.
Jacksonville City Administrator Paul Wyntergreen said the protest was peaceful until a few people started pushing police. Police reacted by firing pepperballs, which he described as projectiles like a paintball filled with cayenne pepper. Two people were arrested for failing to disperse. There were no reports of injuries.
Richard Swaney, 65, of Central Point, said had joined in a peaceful protest outside the Jackson County fairgrounds where Bush spoke, and then went to Jacksonville to join the protest there.
He said he was walking with the crowd away from the inn when he was hit in the back with three separate bursts, one of which knocked him down. He felt a stinging sensation he thought was rubber bullets and smelled pepper.
"I don't think I moved fast enough," said Swaney. "I can't believe this happens in the United States. It was very peaceful. I think this is the way tyranny begins."
Wyntergreen said no rubber bullets were fired, only pepperballs.
