GOP Lawyers Say Bush can Eject Dissenters from Events, Even if They Don't do Anything

[demobabe]

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

It all started when two people were removed from a public town hall meeting hosted by President Bush in March 2005. They had not caused a disturbance or even entered the building; their lone offence was an anti-war bumper sticker on their car.

Alex Young and Leslie Weise, the victims, sued the two responsible event organizers, Michael Casper and Jay Bob Klinkerman (who also happened to be chairman of the Colorado Young Republicans). Their response? "The president's right to control his own message includes the right to exclude people expressing discordant viewpoints from the audience," according to a brief filed by their lawyers.

In other words, George Bush's right to freedom of speech guarantees him the right to restrict yours.

But that's not all. A lawyer for Casper said it is permissible to exclude people from a presidential event for posing a mere "threat of being disruptive."

Full article here: http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/202

[tblue]

1. Okay. It's official. I hate them.

[youngdem]

2. We will be thankful for this rule in about two years

;-)

[flobee1]

4. Democrats are better than that

dissent makes for better policy

[muntrv]

3. Shrub will not listen to anything other than "I love you."

[ninkasi]

5. I wonder what Thomas Jefferson

would have to say about this? Well, actually, I KNOW what he'd have to say, and Bush would probably "disappear" him under his draconian and completely undemocratic Patriot Act. Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, and the rest must be terribly disappointed in the sorry state the country they tried to bequeath us is in.

[demobabe]

6. I'm sure TJ is already spinning in his grave over the Patriot Act.

(and everything else that Bush has done...)

[scarface2004]

7. gop lawyers says bush can jack off and shoot you..

if he feels like it!!