http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/03/04...reut/index.html

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- A lawyer was arrested late Monday and charged with trespassing at a public mall in the state of New York after refusing to take off a T-shirt advocating peace that he had just purchased at the mall.

According to the criminal complaint filed Monday, Stephen Downs was wearing a T-shirt bearing the words "Give Peace A Chance" that he had just purchased from a vendor inside the Crossgates Mall in Guilderland, New York, near Albany.

"I was in the food court with my son when I was confronted by two security guards and ordered to either take off the T-shirt or leave the mall," said Downs.

When Downs refused the security officers' orders, police from the town of Guilderland were called and he was arrested and taken away in handcuffs, charged with trespassing "in that he knowingly enter(ed) or remain(ed) unlawfully upon premises," the complaint read.

Downs said police tried to convince him he was wrong in his actions by refusing to remove the T-shirt because the mall "was like a private house and that I was acting poorly.

"I told them the analogy was not good and I was then hauled off to night court where I was arraigned after pleading not guilty and released on my own recognizance," Downs told Reuters in a telephone interview.

Downs is the director of the Albany Office of the state Commission on Judicial Conduct, which investigates complaints of misconduct against judges and can admonish, censure or remove judges found to have engaged in misconduct.

Calls to the Guilderland police and district attorney, Anthony Cardona and to officials at the mall were not returned for comment.

Downs is due back in court for a hearing on March 17.

He could face up to a year in prison if convicted.

mais putain quoi

C'est vraiment effrayant.

/me sets mode USA +portenawak

Il faut traduire ou quoi?
Moi ca me scandalise qu'un mec se fasse arreter pour avoir un Tshirt du genre...
Des Tshirt "vive satan" ou "fuck you" ou "I love to be fat" ca passe mais "give peace a chance" ca ne passe pas.......
enfin bref

Non, on a pigé tu sais ...

Je sais que vous avez compris, je m'étonne juste du peu de réaction (comparé a par exemple cette superbe chanson sur la biere)

Ah ok! Je suis également de cet avis...

hallucinant

Bin non, c'est normal, c'est comme ça que ça se passe dans les régimes totalitaires non ?

Et ce n'est qu'un exemple parmis tant d'autre des atteintes aux valeures démocratiques aux USA. On peut vraiment le dire, le pouvoir a changé de main chez l'oncle Sam.

Ça me fait penser à cet article que j'ai lu récemment. En fait c'est assez extraordinaire, les gens se censurent à peu près volontairement, comme malgré eux.

horrible

symptomatique (j'espère qu'il n'y a pas de fote)

naun ille ïya pa d'eux fot !

StaZ >> Trop LOL ton smiley , jle connaissais oas encore

Un t-shirt "Fuck Irak" et tu reçois des promotions

C'est terrible, il est temps de libérer le peuple américain de ce tyran dangereux et nettoyer de la surface du globe les représentants de cet état voyou.

Ah, si j'avais un marteau !....

et une faucille peut etre? Bah, ce n est qu une preuve de plus que les US sont un peu barges

put1 le monde part trop en.... sérieux, c attristant et énervant a la fois... c pitoyable koua...

... pas d'autre truc à dire

Si il y a autre chose à dire : :2fuck: