Bushit as protected speech

Wausau - Protester's sign's legality up in air

A 1971 U.S. Supreme Court decision protects the rights of protesters to use offensive language in political speech. Paul Robert Cohen was convicted in Los Angeles of disturbing the peace for wearing a jacket that said "F--- the Draft," but the Supreme Court overturned the conviction.

"Surely the state has no right to cleanse public debate to the point where it is grammatically palatable to the most squeamish among us," the court wrote. "For while the particular four-letter word (at issue in this case) is more distasteful than others of its genre, it is nevertheless often true that one man's vulgarity is another's lyric."