Subscribe'You have two choices. You can keep your sign here and receive a ticket for trespassing, or you can remove the sign and stay in line and attend this town hall meeting.'Kreck received a ticket for trespassing and her court date is July 23."*. Video of Kreck's encounter with the police.
'Carole Rome, the woman to whom Florida vice presidential hopeful Governor Charlie Crist conveniently just got engaged after 30 years of being single, "inherited - and runs -- one of America's oldest Halloween costume companies. The woman marrying the gayish governor from the sultry southern state actually makes beards.'"*
"The U.S. government will pay $4.6 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Steven Hatfill, a former U.S. Army biodefense researcher who was intensively investigated as a 'person of interest' in the deadly anthrax letters of 2001, the Justice Department announced Friday.
The settlement, consisting of $2.825 million in cash and an annuity worth $1.8 million that will pay Hatfill $150,000 a year for 20 years, brings to an end a five-year legal battle.
Hatfill, who worked at the army's laboratory at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, in the late 1990s, was the subject of a flood of news media coverage beginning in mid-2002, after television cameras showed FBI agents in biohazard suits searching his apartment near the army base. John Ashcroft, then the attorney general, later called him a 'person of interest' in the case on national television."
The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.-- Teddy Roosevelt
Some, like Representative Dana Rohrabacher of California, simply wish Mr. Bush would keep out of it, though few would say so openly.
“I don’t think there are a lot of people who want to see him at the convention,” said Mr. Rohrabacher, who is especially irked with Mr. Bush for his stance on immigration. He said the president “should stay home from the Republican convention, and everybody would be better off.”
weird. What exactly is she trying to say. I mean, shouldn't that sign read McCain == Bush.Well, yeah, that is probably what she meant, but in fairness, McCain has become Bush in the past several years, so "McCain = Bush" works, too.
(McCain = Bush) == Bush"Kreck, a former Denver Post reporter who works part-time as a librarian for an education think tank, said she was removed as she quizzed a police officer about whether he could deny her free speech 'on city property' by taking away her sign, while McCain supporters wore buttons inside.
Jenny Schiavone, a spokeswoman for the performing arts center, said the venue is city-owned rental property, but is not legally defined as public
...A McCain spokesman said no one, including McCain supporters, were allowed to carry signs.
Detective John White, a spokesman for the Denver Police Department, said officers acted as they would for any complaint on private property."
“Capitol Police dropped a charge of unlawful conduct against antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan on Wednesday and apologized for ejecting her and a congressman’s wife from President Bush’s State of the Union address for wearing T-shirts with war messages.
‘The officers made a good faith, but mistaken effort to enforce an old unwritten interpretation of the prohibitions about demonstrating in the Capitol,’ Capitol Police Chief Terrance Gainer said in a statement late Wednesday.
‘The policy and procedures were too vague,’ he added. ‘The failure to adequately prepare the officers is mine.’
The extraordinary statement came a day after police removed Sheehan and Beverly Young, wife of Rep. C.W. ‘Bill’ Young, R-Fla., from the visitors gallery Tuesday night. Sheehan was taken away in handcuffs before Bush’s arrival at the Capitol and charged with a misdemeanor, while Young left the gallery and therefore was not arrested, Gainer said.
‘Neither guest should have been confronted about the expressive T-shirts,’ Gainer’s statement said.
Gainer added that he was asking the U.S. attorney’s office to drop the charge against Sheehan. The statement also said he apologized to the Youngs and ‘share the department’s plans for avoiding this in the future.’
‘A similar message has been left with Mrs. Sheehan,’ Gainer said.
For his part, Bill Young said he was not necessarily satisfied.
‘My wife was humiliated,’ he told reporters. He suggested that ‘sensitivity training’ may be in order for Capitol Police.
A foreign-born American citizen who was the guest of Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., also was taken by police from the gallery just above the House floor, Hastings said Wednesday.
The congressman met with Gainer and House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., about the incident.
‘I’d like to find out more information,’ Hastings said in an interview, identifying the man only as being from Broward County in Florida. ‘He is a constituent of mine. I invited him proudly.’
Different messages expressed
Sheehan’s T-shirt alluded to the number of soldiers killed in Iraq: ‘2245 Dead. How many more?’ Capitol Police charged her with a misdemeanor for violating the District of Columbia’s code against unlawful or disruptive conduct on any part of the Capitol grounds, a law enforcement official said. She was released from custody and flew home Wednesday to Los Angeles.
Young’s shirt had a message with a different tone: ‘Support the Troops — Defending Our Freedom.’
‘They said I was protesting,’ Young told the St. Petersburg Times. ‘I said, ‘Read my shirt, it is not a protest.’ They said, ‘We consider that a protest.’ I said, ‘Then you are an idiot.’’
The two women appeared to have offended tradition if not the law, according to several law enforcement and congressional officials. By custom, the annual address is to be a dignified affair in which the president reports on the state of the nation. Guests in the gallery who wear shirts deemed political in nature have, in past years, been asked to change or cover them up.
Rules dealing mainly with what people can bring and telling them to refrain from reading, writing, smoking, eating, drinking, applauding or taking photographs are outlined on the back of gallery passes given to tourists every day.
However, State of the Union guests don’t receive any guidelines, according to Deputy House Sergeant at Arms Kerri Hanley. ‘You would assume that if you were coming to an event like the State of the Union address you would be dressed in appropriate attire,’ she said.”
"We Screwed Up" -- Police say Sheehan Didn't Break the Law at Bush Speech"Capitol Police will ask the U.S. attorney's office to drop the charges [against Sheehan]. 'We screwed up,' a top Capitol Police official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
He said Sheehan didn't violate any rules or laws."
I believe you're looking for this: McCain ≡ Bush.weird. What exactly is she trying to say. I mean, shouldn't that sign read McCain == Bush.Hmm. I'd use McCain === Bush. You know, just to be sure.
McCain = Tigh =Dude, that was like half a season ago. Hell, the DVDs have been out for about 3 months. Where have you been?
if that's a spoiler I'm going to hunt you down and kill you.
You have two choices. You can keep your sign here and receive a ticket for trespassing, or you can remove the sign and stay in line and attend this town hall meeting.That's one choice. Two options, but one choice. Dumbass.
"Dissent, no matter how softly murmured, no matter how small it is printed on a poster or bumper sticker, will only get you ticketed, or worse, arrested and in need of bail money when national political figures come to town [Denver]....'McCain=Bush,' was all that Carol Kreck's sign said. And they came for her even before they went for the man wearing a ridiculous pea pod costume plastered with photos of the president and Sen. McCain. Turns out, she didn't even make the sign. It was handed to her, she said....'It was all kind of larky,' acknowledged Kreck, a former Denver Post reporter, of her being there at all. 'Since I only work part time at the library, I thought (attending the news conference) was something I could do to be helpful.' ...She is due in court July 23 when she will be told when her first hearing will be. Carol Kreck insists she will not fold and pay any fine, which she says could be anywhere from $50 to $100. 'I can't imagine a judge for one minute who will not throw this case out.' She has hired an attorney and hints that her legal fight will not end with the criminal charge. 'If the security men or the Secret Service asked Denver police to do something illegal, it is an issue, an argument, a court should address.'" *
"'I believe we'll be having a lawsuit against the police officers and any Secret Service agents who have violated her First Amendment rights,' said Lane. 'She was on public property and Denver Police officers were censoring her.'"
"...the Secret Service has been hit several times with lawsuits alleging violations of First Amendment rights when citizens expressed opposition to administration policies. Locally, Denver attorney David Lane is suing them for a violation of Steven Howards' First and Fourth Amendment rights. Howards approached Dick Cheney in a Beaver Creek mall and told the vice president his policies in the Middle East were reprehensible. He was arrested; charges were dropped.
(As the New York Times reported, that issue devolved into 'Secret Service agents -- under oath in court depositions -- accusing one another of unethical and perhaps even illegal conduct in the handling of Mr. Howards's arrest and the official accounting of it.')"
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