Bush Protester Faces Charges in S.C.

[Rose Siding]

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A lawyer for a local activist charged with refusing to leave a restricted area during a visit by President Bush last fall says the Bush administration is trying to make criticizing the president a crime.

In a motion filed Friday, Brett Bursey's attorney included testimony from a Michigan case to boost his argument that the U.S. Secret Service unfairly pushes protesters hundreds of yards away from the president while allowing supporters to line Bush's route.

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In the transcript, a police captain said the Secret Service told him to move anyone protesting the president away from areas near where Bush would speak.

The issue isn't security, said Bursey, pointing out that the Michigan arrest happened before the 2001 terrorist attacks. "They want no photo opportunity that would show the president in a bad light," he said.

Bursey, who held a sign that said "No War for Oil," contends other people with signs favoring Bush were allowed to stay in the area.

"The Secret Service is being used as a palace guard ... to make sure there are no protesters against him near him," Bursey said.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-protester-arrested,0,4621402.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

How can the state possibly claim it was for security when others were allowed to stay? How can that hold up?

[treefrogjohn]

1. lesson for the terrorists

If you want to get close to Bush, just carry a sign supporting him. That seems to be ticket in.

[yella_dawg]

2. Piece of cake.

Just make signs that are pro-Shrub on the outside, connected to reality on the inside, and once the idiot opens his pie hole, flip 'em like a reversable sweater.


yella

[Flubadubya]

4. Think... "Venetian Blinds"...

:evilgrin:

[AntiCoup2K4]

3. Next time I go see Junior, I'll take a "Bush/Cheney" campaign sign

...and on the back side, I'll write:

IMPEACH THE UNELECTED CRIMINAL MURDERING FASCIST PIECE OF SHIT IDIOT SON OF AN ASSHOLE!! :evilgrin:

[DieboldMustDie]

5. How about a one that reads...

"Re-appoint Bush/Cheney"? Think they'd get it?

[NYC]

6. I wonder where they would make you stand.

???

[young_at_heart]

7. Do we have an "imperial presidency"?

I wonder if people have been sent to jail for protesting?

[the masses against the classes]

8. the boy king can't take disapproval

he'd rather elimate the protestors than secure free speech and that is why he is an awful president...'there ought to be limits to freedom of speech...'