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Clothes Call? Woman Kicked Out For Lesbian T-Shirt

Aug 28 2008 - 12:00am by CitizenSugar
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Clothes Call? Woman Kicked Out For Lesbian T-Shirt Normally a woman entering a federal building to pick up a social security card for her son wouldn't end up in controversy. Unfortunately for Lapriss Gilbert, she was in the wrong place at the wrong time, wearing the wrong t-shirt. When she arrived at the government complex sporting a t-shirt with the words “lesbian.com” on the front, a private security officer hired by the Homeland Security Department stopped her and demanded she leave the premises. The guard, an employee of Paragon Security, cited The Rules and Regulations Governing Conduct on Federal Property to support his claim that he is able to decide which articles of clothing are acceptable and which are not.
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Iran Considers Death Penalty for Bloggers, Russia Jails One

Jul 8 2008 - 9:00am by CitizenSugar
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Iran Considers Death Penalty for Bloggers, Russia Jails One The beauty of the Internet is getting to say exactly what you want in a public forum, right?(Well that and stalking ex-boyfriends and shopping at work, but I digress.) The ability to speak one's mind in bytes and blips has landed one blogger with a jail sentence for extremism. A Russian man who called the local police “scum” and calling for the clean-up of the force he blogged that the police should be burned in the town square twice a day. For this posting, was convicted of “inciting hatred or enmity” and given a one-year suspended sentence.
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