60-year-old Librarian Ticketed and Threatened with Arrest for Holding a Sign

A sixty year old librarian was asked to leave the sidewalk outside the city owned Denver Performing Arts Complex by four Denver police officers. She was ticketed and threatened with arrest if she did not remove her homemade sign that read McCain = Bush.

If this is city property, wasn't it funded by taxes, thus public space?

Hopefully McCain will have the decency to condemn the acts of these officers and apologize to this US citizen who was exercising her Constitutional right of free speach.

source: The Denver Post

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. - First Amendment to the United States Constitution (The United States Bill of Rights)




"If you believe in freedom of speech, you believe in freedom of speech for views you don't like. Goebbels was in favor of freedom of speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you're in favor of freedom of speech, that means you're in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise." - Noam Chomsky

"You have the right to free speech
as long as you're not dumb enough
to actually try it." - The Clash