Man who asks George Allen an inconvenient question gets assaulted by Republicans

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A heckler who confronted Sen. George Allen at a campaign appearance Tuesday was put in a chokehold and slammed to the floor by three of the Republican's supporters in an incident captured on video.

Mike Stark, a liberal blogger and first-year University of Virginia law student, approached Allen at an event in Charlottesville, loudly asking, "Why did you spit at your first wife, George?" according to witnesses.

Three men, all wearing blue Allen lapel stickers, immediately grabbed Stark, dragged him backward and slung him to the carpet outside a hotel meeting room, according to video captured by WVIR-TV in Charlottesville.

Stark said later in a telephone interview with The Associated Press: "I am a constituent. I am allowed to ask my U.S. senator questions."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061031/ap_on_el_se/virginia_senate

[whistle]

1. Assaulted, more like Nazi Brown Shirt attacks on anyone who

...attempts to exercise their 1st amendment rights of free speech

[Parche]

2. assault

I hope he presses charges against those right wing thugs....

[happydreams]

3. This should be added to the Macacca "bullying" angle.