Monday, October 30, 2006

Disagree with the Bush Administration, Go to Jail

Flagged by ThisIsTrue from the Rocky Mountain News -

on June 16, Steve Howards was walking his 7-year-old son to a piano practice, when he saw Cheney surrounded by a group of people in an outdoor mall area, shaking hands and posing for pictures with several people...

Howards and his son walked to about two-to-three feet from where Cheney was standing, and said to the vice president, "I think your policies in Iraq are
reprehensible," or words to that effect, then walked on.

Ten minutes later, according to Howards' lawsuit, he and his son were walking back through the same area, when they were approached by Secret Service agent Virgil D. "Gus" Reichle Jr., who asked Howards if he had "assaulted" the vice president. Howards denied doing so, but was nonetheless placed in handcuffs and taken to the Eagle County Jail.


What - they didn't drop him to the ground 2 seconds after he said it, punch his lights out, and take the kid as well?

Kevin Tillman, brother of San Jose native son and Iraq War fatality, Pat Tillman, put it well in a SJ Mercury News Perspective on Sunday:

Somehow subversion of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is tolerated.

Somehow suspension of habeas corpus is supposed to keep this country safe.

Somehow torture is tolerated.

Somehow lying is tolerated.

Somehow reason is being discarded for faith, dogma and nonsense.


Maybe this years election will change things. Or will we just give up the illusion of a democracy, and crown the Shrub "King Bush"?

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