The great T-shirt brigade From The National Catholic Reporter

[acmavm]

(Just got this from my friend Karyl)

By Joan Chittister, OSB

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One thing we know today: the United States is free from offensive T-shirts. One thing we do not know is whether or to what degree the United States is still free.

Two women, neither of them resisting, were put out of the House Chamber of the U.S. Congress for wearing T-shirts during the president's Tuesday night State of the Union address. One T-shirt clearly questioned the war in Iraq; the other T-shirt called on U.S. citizens to support the troops. One woman was the guest of a congresswoman. The other woman was the wife of a congressman. One woman they arrested before the event even started; the other one they simply put out of the chamber during the talk.

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But now, at least, the world will know that we are really good at catching mothers of the war dead who want to spend money on peace academies as well as on bombs, and wives of congressmen who support the war but wear ambiguous T-shirts. They will know, too, that we are good at evicting the wives of Republican congressmen but arresting peace activists who are guests of Democratic congresswomen.

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From where I stand, this situation manages to demonstrate both the ridiculous and the dangerous at the same time. The whole situation may seem funny to some now but it was dead serious to the Capital police when it happened. And there are bruises to prove it.

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http://nationalcatholicreporter.org/fwis/

[greiner3]

1. The world is insane;

And my doctors tell me I'm crazy!

[flordehinojos]

2. why can't those bush shills not see what Joan Chttister, OSB can see so

plainly?

WHY
DO THEY
PRETEND
NOT TO SEE
WHAT IS
SO OBVIOUS
TO SO MANY?

WHY DO THEY TAKE
TRUTH
BY ITS HEAD
AND TURN OUT ITS LIGHT?

WHY CAN'T I BREATHE
OR SCREAM
OR DO
WHATEVER IT TAKES
TO BRING HIM DOWN?

WHY
CAN'T PEOPLE SEE
THAT AMERICA'S ENEMY NO. 1
IS
NOT
AN EVIL, UNKNOWN MAN, HIDING IN A SOIL
FAR AWAY FROM
THE STARS AND STRIPES?

WHY CAN'T WE STOP
THE EVIL ENEMY WITHIN?
THE ONE WHOSE NAME IS
GEORGE W. BUSH?