Speak out against the government, go to jail

[Weston-work]

Yet another person has had his rights violated when he spoke out against this administration's policies...

http://www.9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&IKOBJECTID=0e70e47a-0abe-421a-0163-8489d1abcff6&TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf

[M@]

Interesting.. that story doesn't sound quite right though. Just something about it seems fishy (imagine that).

[Dave_L]

Who knows what really happened. Maybe he was getting aggresive? If he never assaulted him, I'd have to say that arresting him was over board. If he was just being beligerent and suspicious, they should have just asked him to leave.

[Loud_Scott]

Interesting.. that story doesn't sound quite right though. Just something about it seems fishy (imagine that).

perhaps we need to know exactly what ...said something approximating, "I think your policies in Iraq are reprehensible." means

[Weston-work]

It doesn't matter... If it's just words and he's not making threats, then he can say whatever he likes.

[Slow96GSR]

You won't get a good answer out of the Secret Service, as they do not comment on their policies or how they ran the show. If the guy approaches the President or V.P. then they have the right to search him, as it is a security issue. However if he just said something to the V.P. and didn't try to touch him, run at him, or anything that could be a provocation then I see nothing to be worried about as long as it wasn't a comment like I'm going to kill you.

[David]

If you don't like America then you can just ghet out

[smithz]

Didn't it say that the guy "went back later"? Maybe they just didn't like someone coming back a second time. If he said his piece, then why did he need to go back for seconds?

I guess I could see why that might possibly look a little suspicious. The SS doesn't fuck around with that shit. Still, it sounded like they took it too far with detaining him with charges.

[rmcdaniels]

You try protecting the VP. Angry citizens approaching the VP to protest his administration's policies look exactly like angry citizens approaching the VP to stick something sharp in him. I'm surprised they let him come back a second time. If I was in charge of his security detail, then I'd have done the same thing, detain him on some pretense, get him out of the vicinity of the VP, then arrange to have the charges dropped later. No harm done, and the VP doesn't become a pincushion.

As far as the citizen protesting the administration's policies, that had nothing to do with it. The citizen could have been approaching the VP to criticize his hairstyle, the same thing would have happened.

[smithz]

As far as the citizen protesting the administration's policies, that had nothing to do with it. The citizen could have been approaching the VP to criticize his hairstyle, the same thing would have happened.

Very, very, true.