Anti-Obama shirt yields suspension

AURORA, Ill., Sept. 23 (UPI) -- An Aurora, Wis., father says his 11-year-old should not have been sent home from school for wearing a "Barack Obama is a terrorist's best friend" shirt.

Dann Dalton, a self-proclaimed "proud conservative," said administrators at Aurora Frontier K-8 School were biased against his son, Daxx, The (Madison, Wis.) Capital Times reported Tuesday.

"It's the public school system," Dalton said. "Let's be honest, it's full of liberal loons."

School administrators said Daxx Dalton chose the suspension over changing out of the home-made shirt or turning the garment inside out.

The boy said his shirt is protected by his First Amendment rights.

"They're taking away my right of freedom of speech," he said. "If I have the right to wear this shirt I'm going to use it. And if the only way to use it is get suspended, then I'm going to get suspended."

The elder Dalton said he plans to fight his son's punishment in court.