Civil Liberties
Date Submitted: 04/10/2004 03:44:40
Category: / Arts & Humanities / Music
Length: 1 pages (188 words)
Category: / Arts & Humanities / Music
Length: 1 pages (188 words)
John Schroeder, an 18-year-old Marilyn Manson fan, was walking with his mother in a grocery store in New Braunfels, Texas,when he was arrested by an off-duty police officer for wearing a Manson T-shirt. The shirt bore a lyric from Manson's song "Cake And Sodomy" which read "I am the god of f*ck". The officer, who was working security, said that some shoppers had complained about it. Schroeder was walked outside, where the officer …
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…The American Civil Liberties Union is defending Schroeder, whose trial date should be set within the next month. It is these kinds of actions that infringe on the First Amendment o f the Constitution of the United States of America, and they must be stopped. Music is a large part of our culture, and has been for thousand!
s of years. It is a form of expression, motivation, or just plain pleasure.
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