UA Young Democrat Banned from Forum (Bush conversation)

[rodeodance]

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0322-09.htm

Published on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 by the Arizona Daily Wildcat
UA Young Democrat Banned from Forum
by Cassie Tomlin


A UA student was banned from attending President Bush's Social Security forum at the Tucson Convention Center yesterday.

UA Young Democrat Steven Gerner, a political science and pre-pharmacy sophomore, said he and three other Young Democrats had been waiting in line with their tickets for about 40 minutes when a staff member approached him and asked to read his T-shirt.



Gerner was the only one of the four wearing a UAYD T-shirt, which read, "Don't be a smart (image of a donkey, the Democratic Party symbol). UA Young Democrats."

Gerner said the staffer, who refused to provide his name, asked for Gerner's ticket and crumpled it up.

The staffer walked away, returned in 20 minutes, and told Gerner his name had been added to a list banning him from entering the convention center for the speech.

[NVMojo]

1. there is something really wrong with people who are so afraid of words...

what do they have to hide???

[librechik]

3. they hate the US for its freedoms

they'd like to abolish anything that's not the "strict" Constitution, i.e., the Bill of Rights. Liberals are the enemy to them--and the definition of liberal is "lover of freedom." Ergo...

We should take our freedoms back from these tyrants before they ar forever destroyed.

[PsN2Wind]

2. Have yet to find any mention

of the incident in the Arizona Daily Star, Tucson's new right-wing rag, having just been purchased by Gannett.