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  • White House Blocks TEA Party at Treasury

    04/15/2009 6:40:58 AM PDT · by pabianice · 169 replies · 11,885+ views
    Fox News Live | 4/15/09
    Live now on Fox -- White House is blocking TEA Party set for the Treasury in DC,. despite the demonstration already having been granted a permit. Second TEA Party at Lafayette Park to proceed, but White House blocked the unloading of 1M tea bags. This comes upon the DHS report warning that such demonstrations are "hate groups" that must be monitored closely as such demonstrators are "prone to owning guns and being violent."
  • Commission: business OK to refuse to copy gay-rights video

    06/13/2006 5:28:24 AM PDT · by chambley1 · 14 replies · 649+ views
    Potomac News ^ | June 12, 2006 | MATTHEW BARAKAT
    McLEAN, Va. - An Arlington businessman who had been ordered by a local government commission to duplicate videos of gay-rights marches that he found offensive won a reprieve after the commission rescinded its initial order. Tim Bono, of Bono Film and Video, sued the Arlington County government last week after its Human Rights Commission found him in violation of the county's anti-discrimination laws. The commission said he denied services to a gay-rights activist based on her sexual orientation. The activist, Lilli Vincenz, had asked Bono to duplicate some archival footage of early gay-rights marches that she had on Betamax tapes....