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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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 Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 8:57 pm Post subject: Man arrested for expressing opinion about Cheney |
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Rocky Mountain News
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A Denver-area man filed a lawsuit today against a member of the Secret Service for causing him to be arrested after he approached Vice President D!ck Cheney in Beaver Creek this summer and criticized him for his policies concerning Iraq.
Attorney David Lane said that 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.
According to the lawsuit filed at U.S. District Court in Denver, 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.
The lawsuit states that the Secret Service agent instructed that Howards should be issued a summons for harassment, but that on July 6 the Eagle County District Attorney's Office dismissed all charges against Howards.
The lawsuit filed today alleges that Howards was arrested in retaliation for having exercised his First Amendment right of free speech, and that his arrest violated his Fourth Amendment protection against unlawful seizure. |
This is the same Richard Cheney who argues in favor if indefinite detention without access to attorneys or recourse to appeals..... |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:19 am Post subject: |
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| Additionally, all peace officers are sworn to uphold the LAW, not the person holding office. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:32 am Post subject: Re: Man arrested for expressing opinion about Cheney |
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| Hater Depot wrote: |
Rocky Mountain News
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A Denver-area man filed a lawsuit today against a member of the Secret Service for causing him to be arrested after he approached Vice President D!ck Cheney in Beaver Creek this summer and criticized him for his policies concerning Iraq.
Attorney David Lane said that 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.
According to the lawsuit filed at U.S. District Court in Denver, 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.
The lawsuit states that the Secret Service agent instructed that Howards should be issued a summons for harassment, but that on July 6 the Eagle County District Attorney's Office dismissed all charges against Howards.
The lawsuit filed today alleges that Howards was arrested in retaliation for having exercised his First Amendment right of free speech, and that his arrest violated his Fourth Amendment protection against unlawful seizure. |
This is the same Richard Cheney who argues in favor if indefinite detention without access to attorneys or recourse to appeals..... |
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| Well that's just more sneering anti-Americanism masquarading as anti Cheneyism! |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:45 am Post subject: |
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| Un-effing-believable! I'm shocked. When you got Canadians such as myself worried that American's civil rights are being dissolved, you know something is going wrong. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:40 am Post subject: |
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To be honest I'm not really that shocked. The Secret Service doesn't play and it's possible Cheney himself didn't know they were going to do that.
It's still not good, of course. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 7:44 am Post subject: |
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| Hater Depot wrote: |
To be honest I'm not really that shocked. The Secret Service doesn't play and it's possible Cheney himself didn't know they were going to do that.
It's still not good, of course. |
I remember during the movie "Fahrenheit 9/11" when this guy was questioned by the FBI just because he spoke out against Bush in a gym where he works out. I think this government has gone too far. It has attacked Habeas Corpus, which comes from British Common Law, and it is part of this country's heritage. And Congress, unfortunately, went along with it. I also remembering some Arab-American kid was investigated, because he simply scrawled the word PLO on his notebook or something. And what about all those peace groups being monitored by the government? As far as I am concerned, Bush stated that Binladin attacked the U.S., because "he is against our freedom", but it was not Binladin who has been leading an administration that has been working against civil rights of citizens, tossing people out of
rallies, because they had peace stickers on their cars etc.... |
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