:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 2.24.2003 ::
:: Bashing the Bush Basher ::
Anti-Bush T-Shirt Banned at Mich. School
White House (AP), Wed Feb 19,11:52 AM ET
DEARBORN, Mich. - "School officials ordered a 16-year-old student to either take off a T-shirt emblazoned with the words "International Terrorist" and a picture of President Bush or go home, saying they worried it would inflame passions at the school where a majority of students are Arab-American."
"The student, Bretton Barber, chose to go home. He said he wore the shirt Monday to express his anti-war position and for a class assignment in which he wrote a compare-contrast essay on Bush and Iraq President Saddam Hussein."
"Schools spokesman Dave Mustonen said students have the right to freedom of expression, but educators are sensitive to tensions caused by the conflict with Iraq."
"'It was felt that emotions are running very high,' Mustonen said."
"Dearborn is the center of an Arab-American community of about 300,000 in southeastern Michigan. About 55 percent of the district's 17,600 students are Arab-American."
HERE'S a more extensive piece from The Detroit News:
Student gets sent home over his anti-Bush T-shirt
RELATED archive story from The Freedom Forum, 9.1.01:
Man's anti-Bush bumper stickers prompt visit by Secret Service
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