[freepatriot32]

Sgt. Schneider says she was wearing a T-shirt with a slogan on it and was asked to cover it up. Sheehan did not cover it up and she was arrested

Sorry but that is just wrong.Wearing a t shirt is protected by the first amendment and its just as wrong to arrest her for that as it was for clinton to have freepers arrested for holding signs up as clintons motorcade passed by and for having those two protesters arrested for saying you suck.

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[ndt]

"Sorry but that is just wrong."

Tell you what, I'll split the flame fest with you.

As a legitimately invited guest (with admittedly bad taste in formal wear) this is not disruptive behavior and she should have just been ignored.

Whats next, arresting guest that don't applaud?

[Albion Wilde]

orry but that is just wrong.Wearing a t shirt is protected by the first amendment and its just as wrong to arrest her for that as it was for clinton to have freepers arrested for holding signs up as clintons motorcade passed by and for having those two protesters arrested for saying you suck.

We have laws prohibiting the distribution of partisan literature within so many hundred feet of a polling place, and that's not a free speech issue. First Amendment religion can be as fanatic as the Taliban.

[LibertarianInExile]

I think there is a degree of difference.

There is a time and place for the exercise of the First Amendment. The federal government doesn't have the power to restrict it at all, however:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

NONE.

So you are correct as to Sheehan (even though she's a buffoon at best). As to the other protestors, I don't know. Were they arrested by state or city police? Then perhaps the police had a state law behind them, which would be permissible under the Constitution.