Ridiculing theHow long before other slogans on T-Shirts might upset Homeland Security officials?
Federal Emergency Management Agency is high art in the Gulf Coast areas where Hurricane Katrina hit last year.
Many parade floats in New Orleans' Mardi Gras were decorated in themes that skewered the relief agency.
George Barisich, president of the United Commercial Fisherman's Association, has been selling anti-FEMA T-shirts since last fall, a reflection of his frustration with the federal government's response to the storm that left him homeless and unemployed.
But on Feb. 1, when he handed a shirt to a fellow Katrina victim as he was picking up canned goods at a charity's relief tent, Barisich found himself in trouble with the government.
He was cited by a group of
Homeland Security officials for selling a T-shirt on federal property - in this case, near a FEMA center in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart in Chalmette, La.
Friday, March 03, 2006
Feds Don't Want You to Sell Anti-FEMA T-Shirts
USA Today reports:
