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	From the News.com web site: Banned for a George Bush T-shirt Allen Jasson was barred from a London-Melbourne flight unless he removed a T-shirt depicting George Bush as the world's number one terrorist. Mr. Jasson was first told he would need to turn the T-shirt inside-out before he would be allowed to board the Qantas flight. After a prolonged argument about freedom of speech and expression, Mr. Jasson said a Qantas gate manager said he could not fly at all unless he wore another T-shirt. Mr. Jasson's clothing had already been checked in and he was forced to buy a new T-shirt. "I felt I had made my point and caved in," Mr Jasson said. But after arriving in Australia, Mr Jasson put his Bush T-shirt back on and was again banned from boarding a connecting flight – this time a Virgin Blue plane from Adelaide to Melbourne. Mr Jasson says Qantas and Virgin Blue were engaging in censorship, but the airlines say the T-shirt was a security issue and could affect the sensitivities of other passengers.
	From the Rogers Yahoo! news site: T-shirt turns air guitarists into musicians Australian scientists have invented a T-shirt that allows air guitarists to play actual music as they strum the air. The T-shirt, created by scientists from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), is called a "wearable instrument shirt." The shirt has censors in each elbow and sleeves to detect and interpret the air guitarist's arm movements -- one arm chooses chords and the other strums imaginary strings. The gestures are then connected wirelessly to guitar audio samples to generate the music. "It's an easy to use, virtual instrument that allows real time music making, even by players without significant musical or computing skills," said CSIRO engineer Richard Helmer. "It allows you to jump around and the sound generated is just like an original mp3," Helmer said.
	From the NBC11 web site: Oakland-Bound Passenger Barred For Arabic T-Shirt An Arab human rights activist was prevented from boarding a plane at Kennedy Airport while wearing a T-shirt that read, "We will not be silent" in English and Arabic. Raed Jarrar was at the gate to board a jetBlue Airways flight to Oakland, Calif., on Aug. 12 when four officials from the airline or a government agency stopped him and told him he could not board with the shirt on, he said Wednesday. One official told him, "Going to an airport with a T-shirt in Arabic script is like going to a bank and wearing a T-shirt that says, 'I'm a robber,"' he said.
	From the Rogers Yahoo! news site: Man ordered to wear "sex offender" T-shirt A Delaware judge on Friday ordered a man who twice exposed himself to a 10-year-old girl at his workplace to wear a T-shirt with the words: "I am a registered sex offender" in bold letters, a prosecutor said. Russell Teeter, 69, who pleaded guilty to two counts of indecent exposure, also was sentenced to 60 days in jail by Superior Court Judge Jan Jurden in Wilmington. Deputy Attorney General Donald Roberts said he requested the unusual T-shirt punishment because he was concerned about Teeter exposing himself to children at the gardening business he runs with his wife. "This is a unique way to let his customers know that he is a sex offender," Roberts told Reuters.
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