From the Rocky Mountain News:
Steven Howards saw a news story one morning this summer reporting the latest casualty totals from Iraq, and a few hours later had the rare opportunity to voice his feelings to a man he considers directly responsible.
Doing so, Howards said, sent him to jail for allegedly harassing the vice president of the United States. And now he is responding with a federal lawsuit against the Secret Service agent who put him in handcuffs.
The suit filed Tuesday alleges that Howards was arrested in retaliation for having exercised his First Amendment right of free speech, and that his arrest also violated his Fourth Amendment protection against unlawful arrest.
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"Many of us fantasize what would we do if we had the opportunity to really tell Mr. Bush or Mr. Cheney how we feel," said Howards, 54, of Golden.
"And to be honest, when I passed him, my initial thought was to keep walking. And then I said, I couldn't with a clear conscience let this opportunity pass."
So Howards approached the vice president and told him, " 'Your policies in Iraq are reprehensible.' And I moved on. I didn't want to give anybody any excuses to come after me."
But a few minutes later, according to Howards, he was walking back across the mall with his younger son, Jonah, then 8, when he was approached by an agent identified in the lawsuit as Virgil D. "Gus" Reichle Jr.
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Howards denied touching Cheney, repeated for the agent what he had said to the vice president, and promptly found himself being handcuffed and taken to the Eagle County Jail, where he said he remained cuffed for three hours prior to being bailed out by his wife.
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apparently this guy slipped through the "perimeter of unreality."
Like I said, that pesky First Amendment is next. Buh-bye.
They're making jack-booted thugs look pretty good.
Remember when the right was asking, "What will Clinton have as a legacy?" Well Bush will certainly have plenty! All the illegal aspects of the Iraq war, torture, illegal detainment/transportation, death of habeas corpus, illegal wire taps, rigged elections, his pedophilic party, Abramoff, an economy that in six years is back to even (DJIA) (less inflation), many children left behind, the budget, the deficit, the war dead, his inability to control the basics of the english language... This server isn't big enough for the complete list.
That's quite a legacy!
Reichle (sounds like Reichstag) must be one of those Brown/Root cowboys that's making a profit off the war. Well, it's a matter of time when more and more of us will be asked to visit our local law enforcement establishment for a checkdown.
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