Boston mayor vows to seize t-shirts from stores

by Walter Olson on December 5, 2005

…because he doesn’t like the message printed on them, as Reason “Hit and Run” reports:

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has ordered the city to seize T-shirts that say “Stop Snitchin.” “‘It’s wrong,’ Menino said. ‘We are going into every retail store that sells the shirts and remove them.’”

(Boston Herald; Boston Globe; KipEsquire; Eugene Volokh; ACLU of Mass. press release, PDF). More: Gunner at No Quarters Blog has an update.

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{ 3 comments }

1 Gunner 12.05.05 at 9:50 am

I call things like this a Niemoller moment

2 Deoxy 12.05.05 at 10:48 am

Um, on what grounds? “I don’t like them”?

3 J.T. Wenting 12.06.05 at 5:18 am

what about the first ammendment?

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