No freedom of speech allowed in D.C.
US anti-war group ordered to take down Iraq demo posters
A US anti-war group has been warned it will be fined 10,000 dollars if it does not remove posters in Washington announcing a march in the capital next month against US involvement in Iraq, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.
“The ANSWER Coalition has received citations from the authorities in Washington threatening to fine us 10,000 dollars unless several hundred posters announcing the September 15 march on Washington DC are removed,” Sarah Sloan, the staff coordinator for the anti-war group, told AFP.
“We have until Thursday to take down the posters,” she said.
Several hundred yellow posters have been put up around Washington announcing the protest, which is timed to coincide with the release of a report by the US military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, on progress in the US “surge” strategy of raising troop levels. </em>
The forward brigade of the Emperors tailors hard at work, again. As I type this, the bard is in my ears:
And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They’d probably put my head in a guillotine
But it’s alright, Ma, it’s life, and life only.</em>
Tell ‘em Bob.
