Bush, last week:
“I think whoever is the president must guard your liberties, must not erode your rights in America.”
Bush event, yesterday:
President Bush taught three Oregon schoolteachers a new lesson in irony — or tragedy — Thursday night when his campaign removed them from a Bush speech and threatened them with arrest simply for wearing t-shirts that said “Protect Our Civil Liberties,” the Democratic Party of Oregon reported.
The women were ticketed to the event, admitted into the event, and were then approached by event officials before the president’s speech. They were asked to leave and to turn over their tickets — two of the three tickets were seized, but the third was saved when one of the teachers put it underneath an article of clothing.
“The U.S. Constitution was not available on site for comment, but expressed in a written statement support for ‘the freedom of speech’ and ‘of the press’ among other civil liberties,” a Democratic news release said.