USA: anti Bush dissidents jailed

Associated Press reports:

Dissenters Evicted or Arrested at Bush Events Now Look to the Courts

By TODD DVORAK

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa Jul 22, 2006 (AP)— When school was canceled to accommodate a campaign visit by President Bush, the two 55-year-old teachers reckoned the time was ripe to voice their simmering discontent with the administration’s policies.

Christine Nelson showed up at the Cedar Rapids rally with a Kerry-Edwards button pinned on her T-shirt; Alice McCabe clutched a small, paper sign stating “No More War.”

What could be more American, they thought, than mixing a little dissent with the bunting and buzz of a get-out-the-vote rally headlined by the president?

Their reward: a pair of handcuffs and a strip search at the county jail.