[Cathar]

Originally Posted by ricecrispi

Like Cathar said, we have the right to freedom of speech but that shit is so limited over here. Cant threaten the president. Can't even hear a cuss word on the radio because people are so uptight, not even shit or ass.

Case in point. Land of free speech - yeah right!

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/...563036552.html

AN AMERICAN woman was thrown off a US plane for wearing a T-shirt deemed offensive by fellow passengers.

Lorrie Heasley, 32, boarded a Southwest Airlines flight in Los Angeles wearing a T-shirt bearing the images of President George Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice above an obscene variation on the title of the hit comedy film Meet the Fockers.

When the plane made a stop in Reno, Nevada, passengers joining the flight complained to cabin crew. Ms Heasley, who was accompanied by husband Ron, was asked to wear her top inside-out. She refused and was ejected.

"I just thought it was hilarious," said Ms Heasley. "I have cousins in Iraq and other relatives going to war. Here we are trying to free another country, and I have to get off an airplane — over a T-shirt. That's not freedom."

Ms Heasley, a timber trader from Washington state, said she wore the top as a joke for her Democrat-voting parents, who were waiting to collect her from the airport in Portland, Oregon. She said she planned to file a civil rights complaint against the airline.
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Spokeswoman Marilee McInnis of Southwest Airlines said rules allowed the airline to deny boarding to anyone whose clothing was "lewd, obscene or patently offensive".

But Ms Heasley said nobody had complained about her top when she boarded.

The American Civil Liberties Union in Las Vegas said that under the constitution, the T-shirt was protected political speech. Ms Heasley said she had been in touch with the union's lawyers and wants Southwest to reimburse her for the last leg of the trip.

U-S-A! U-S-A!