Your tax dollars at work.

80K payout because the White House is full of douchebags who don't understand the Bill of Rights and freedom of speech.

Lovely.

ABC News: Feds Pay $80,000 Over Anti-Bush T-Shirts:

"A couple arrested at a rally after refusing to cover T-shirts that bore anti-President Bush slogans settled their lawsuit against the federal government for $80,000, the American Civil Liberties Union announced Thursday. Nicole and Jeffery Rank of Corpus Christi, Texas, were handcuffed and removed from the July 4, 2004, rally at the state Capitol, where Bush gave a speech. A judge dismissed trespassing charges against them, and an order closing the case was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Charleston."