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Librarian carrying McCain=Bush sign kicked out of McCain Event:
McCain Town Hall attendees get escorted out again
For Immediate Release
July 7, 2008
Contact: Michael Huttner
303-931-4547 cell
DENVER, Colo.-On orders from Senator John McCain's security detail, Denver police escorted a 61-year-old woman away who was waiting in line to attend a so-called town hall meeting with McCain that was billed as open to the public.
Carol Kreck, who works as a librarian in Denver, held a homemade sign reading "McCain = Bush." On orders from McCain's security detail, police cited her for trespassing and escorted her to the sidewalk. She was told if she returned she would be arrested.
"And all I did was carry a sign that said McCain = Bush," Kreck said. "And for everyone who voted for Bush, I don't see why it's offensive to say McCain = Bush."
This episode by McCain's Secret Service appears to be a rerun of McCain's 2005 town hall in Denver with President Bush in which the Secret Service had three Denver citizens removed from an "open" event where McCain was campaigning with Pres. Bush for his plan to privatize social security.
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McCain and Bush: The same record on the economy
Senator McCain was in town to speak about his economic agenda, outlining more of the same failed policies of George W. Bush. McCain's plan, like Bush's gives break after break to millionaires and wealthy corporations, but does little for middle class families.
Bush said, "The fundamentals are strong. We're just in a rough patch." (Los Angeles Times, 2/2/08).
McCain said, "I still believe our fundamental underpinnings of our economy are strong." (CNN 1/22/08). McCain actively supports Bush's failed policies. According to Congressional Quarterly, McCain supported President Bush a majority of the time-supporting Bush as much as 100 percent in 2008 and 95 percent in 2007. [CQ Voting Studies, Accessed, 5/15/08]
The Wall Street Journal reported that McCain policies will "explode deficit" or result in "unprecedented spending cuts equal to one-third of federal spending on domestic programs." [WSJ, 4/22/2008]
McCain and Bush: The same record on tax cuts
Bush said, "We need to make the tax cuts permanent." (President's Speech on the economy at the EEOB, 2/19/04.)
McCain said, "I'll make the Bush tax cuts permanent.... I've said 500 times that I want the tax cuts to be made permanent." (NBC "Meet the Press," 1/27/08). McCain makes Bush's tax cuts permanent, and calls for a $1.7 trillion tax cut for corporations according to a Center for American Progress Action Fund report.
McCain's corporate tax cuts would give $3.8 billion in tax breaks to the 5 biggest oil companies and $1.9 billion in tax breaks to the 10 biggest health insurers. Meanwhile, families who are struggling to pay the bills get much less.
America's top 5 oil companies Exxon, Shell, Valero and others would stand to receive a $3.8 billion tax break, while the average family might save $44.40 from McCain's gas holiday.
McCain Supported Bush 100 Percent in 2008, 95 Percent in 2007McCain Supported Bush 100 Percent in 2008 and 95 Percent in 2007. According to Congressional Quarterly, McCain supported President Bush a majority of the time-supporting Bush as much as 100 percent in 2008 and 95 percent in 2007. According to CQ, "CQ tries to determine what the president personally, as distinct from other administration officials, does and does not want in the way of legislative action. This is done by analyzing his messages to Congress, news conference remarks and other public statements and documents." [CQ Voting Studies, Accessed, 5/15/08]
I guess the words on it must be profane?
NO SIGNS ALLOWED!!!
Liberals don't follow rules.
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The DPAC encompasses all the buildings at the 14th and Curtis site and is OWNED by the City and County of Denver. The site where we were threatened by the police with arrest this morning is NOT PRIVATELY OWNED. The DCPA is merely a user of the property and had no right to do what they did.
Maybe they're related...
JT
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What's the matter ... got an overdue book?
old people don't like to be shushed.
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Rock on, Carol!
and some others that say Bush is a Republican.
Get a bunch of people to wear them to the next McCain event and we'll see how far the thought police go.
I mean really, this is too easy.
it seems that all have one thing in common
they want to ensure there political power
and do not care how they get there
Your attempts to berate a 61 year old female librarian for holding a sign displaying "Bush=McCain" are extremely mature.
Glad to see the Republican ideology is represented on this website. You do your Party justice.
Let's not kid ourselves, the "open" events in both campaigns are not truly open. Just like Obama threw the Muslims off of the stage at his Michigan event, this is the same thing. They want an event to go smoothly, they don't need some old 60's throwback wingnut ruining it for the rest of the audience.
Maybe she can jump on the Obama bus, unless she is just a "typical white person" like his grandmother, in that case the sight of the big black Barack might just scare the life out of her.
I hope this helps.
It was clearly heard in the tape shot at the scene that the order for the removal of the three orderly protesters came from the Secret Service. These people work for the Government -- not for McCain. If the McCain campaign can't handle legal and orderly protest, they shouldn't be having government employees do their dirty work for them!
If you've read articles(today on MYFOX) from Mpls and St.Paul arrests are already being made of people expressing their 1st Ammendment rights.
With the conventions coming, we will all have front row seats on the Constitution in action...
at the convention and in the street.
Rush's dream of "operation chaos" may become reality if 61 year old librarians are ticketed for trespass on public grounds for a simple sign.
I guess those that lead the anti Patriot Act movement(refusing to turn in names of people that check out books from a library) should also be the ones leading us in our 1st Admendment cases.
I saw Spamalot last year in this very place. It is a PUBLIC city-owned venue.
This woman's constitutional right to free speech and expression was CLEARLY violated. As was the peas in a pad gentleman. What right do law enforcement have to curb the free speech of citizens who are doing NOTHING but existing in the face of their own expression, not being disruptive or causing any harm.
This is not my country any more. I am ashamed.
NO SIGNS ALLOWED!!!!
Great name, BTW - who says conservatives have no self-knowledge? ;->
When police move protestors away from the site of a political event, they do it to save the President or the person trying to be elected to office. The President must not be embarrassed by someone telling him how lousy he is. It is the same for McCain. A visiting dictator must not be offended by someone telling the truth. No one seems to mind until it is them being hustled away. In fact strictly speaking from the Constitution the police are breaking the law. We are supposed to have the right to assemble. And when they move protestors away a mile or so from the event they break the Constitution.
The fact is Americans are sheep. Cowed, sleep walking sheep. They value nothing, because they know nothing about the Constitution except for a few isolated truths. Americans don't know a fraction of what they should know. Which accounts for the reason they don't demonstrate. They are willing to give up their rights without a whimper. And they don't understand anyone willing to demand what the Constitution promises.
It has been forty years or more since public schools eliminated teaching the Constitution. And the end result is an ignorant, electorate. We are the most ill informed people in the world. And this apathy would not happen in Mexico. When they election was protested for weeks. Out into the streets, people by the thousands took to the strees. This has not been done since the Vietnam war.
We have reached the point where dissention and accountability regarding our government is now treason. Now any demanding of truth is anti-American. We have the government we deserve. Fascist, authoritarian, duplicitous, theocracy,oligarchy.
1.fascist-A movement or regime that exalts a militaristic, centalized autocratic government.
2.theocracy-a government run by officials regarded as divinely inspired.
3. oligarchy-a government with all the power resting in the hands of the few.
Now what part of this is not relevant to our situation? It is not enough to simply vote anymore. Activism is the only answer to a government that denies basic freedom to it's citizens. If you want to go quietly into a dictatorship, you can. We are already on the way. Or you can save your own democracy by doing what this lady is doing. Hold the bastards accountable. Hold your legislators accountable to you. Vote them out of office.
If you really don't mind having your mail read, your email read, your phone conversations listened to, your privacy violated, then by all means keep your mouth closed. And if you think all this spying is the result of 9/11, think again. Bush was spying on Americans seven months before 9/11.
So go ahead. Give up your rights. But don't think you can get them back. America will always be in danger or under the gun, as it were. The value of the Constitution and our rights is how we are protected while the danger exists.
Once you give up your rights how do you get them back? Do you wait and hope for the goodwill of your government? What is the cut off point? Just suppose we as a people believe it is time to get them back and the government says no, not yet. So when? How do you force them to give back what you have let them take?
Without habeas corpus, without the right to privacy, without the right to free speech and the right to demonstrate what do you have? NOTHING.
I do not intend to willingly give up my rights for one day, not one hour without fighting. This librarian deserves a pat on the back. Respect.
We HAVE protested by the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS all over this country against the Iraq War. I was among the nearly 1/2 million who marched on the Capitol in Washington, DC back in September '05.
It was briefly mentioned on the M$M with the generic, accepted "reportable" figure of "tens of thousands." That march was only one of countless marches where there have been "tens of thousands" gathered to protest.
Just because the media never gives us the "airplay" doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Don't let the propaganda convince you that we are mostly apathetic. Sure, too many are, but the rest of us are being ignored and/or silenced.
I hope Ms. Kreck can get this ticket thrown out. Jeez - these republicans. What a bunch of weenies.
my hat is off to the lady with the sign, i am fed up, how many of our people have died for us to have and keep our freedom, whatever it takes, we have to protect our rights, one way or another we must get rid of the people taking them from us, and we have every right to do so, the time is now.
I hope Ms. Kreck has a good Constitutional lawyer to represent her -- if so, I can't imagine that the case won't be thrown out.
Is FreeRepublic shut down tonight for some reason?
Every time you conservatives and Republicans write some drivel you just prove that slugs have more intelligence then your entire movement and party.
This is what we used to see in Moscow circa 1970.
Pathetic.
Either way, it is public property. She has her right to stand there, which I will agree with you all. But seriously, it is just plain childish and immature to keep going and going on about how bad McCain is. We get it, he is a bad candidate, vote for Obama, etc. I'll tell you what, I'll vote for Obama as soon as these people shut their traps.
How about:
Bush: 8 Years of Getting Screwed.
McCain: 4 More Years of Sloppy Seconds!
In fact, I think it should be dubbed the Sloppy Seconds Campaign.
Honestly, how can ANYONE want to endure another minute of this crap??
How about:
Bush: 8 Years of Getting Screwed.
McCain: 4 More Years of Sloppy Seconds!
In fact, I think it should be dubbed the Sloppy Seconds Campaign.
Honestly, how can ANYONE want to endure another minute of this dreck??
"John McCain's security"....BULL - it was the venue's security.
You liberal pukes think that you don't have to follow the same rules as everyone else - the venues rule was no signs. That means NO SIGNS! If she wanted to discuss the facts she could have put down the sign and done so but all she (and the rest of you) have are platitudes and staged sound bites like this.
What a surprise that you have a camera handy
Real americans stand up to fascist BS. You are a sheep. You probably watch Fox News because it is fair and balanced. Since you do watch Fox, have they found Natalie Halloway yet? That is what kind of news you get from them.
2> She is a taxpayer (one assumes) so the public venue belongs to her as well. As long as she is not being destructive, she has every right to be there along with the rest of the public. How can she be tresspassing if there are thousands of others there who are not? They ought to ticket EVERYONE THERE in that case!
3> The Supreme Court deemed that a sign is free speech granted by the Constitution.
There is nothing right with this scenario. If I were her, I'd sue.
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This was an event open to the public, therefore she was invited. This was on property that is paid for by my taxes as I am a Denver resident.
I called Hickenlooper's office and they were aware of the situation and promised that they were looking into it.
The poor old lady! haha
Bush and his failed policies! Now we see he also
doesn't believe in free speech! This whole election so far seems to be that way. Somebody
says something and they have to apologize. But,
hey, that's okay! We live in AMERICA where we
have the right to free speech, don't we? Or do
we? Everyone is so PC that free speech is getting
thrown out the window along with habeus corpus and properly executed search warrants and oh, yeah, Torture is okay now! Give me a break, anyone who votes for McCain must be willing to live in a communist country cuz that's what it is
going to be soon if we aren't watchful and smart about who we elect to every office and position in the government! PEACE!
The Obamafiles gathered across the street with their idiot McBush signs high fiving each other for interrupting a legitimate Town Hall. At least MCain had the balls to speak in an open forum that wasn't scripted. Barack Hussien Obama personally had the Muslim women removed from the camera shot.
Hypocrisy rules with him and his ilk.
Talk about hypocrisy.
And how can you "interrupt a town hall" from across the street? Do the Democrats have scary telekinetic powers or something?
Incidentally, escorting out anybody expressing an undesirable opinion is by definition NOT an "open forum".
The two Islamic women were kept from sitting within camera range behind Senator Obama by a panicky volunteer worker who over-reacted and thought it might look bad. Senator Obama had nothing to do with it.
Are we all clear on this now?
I am speaking real slowly as well.
I'm for neither candidate, but let's keep it real people. The Republicunts can't take a hit and neither can the Dems. so it's hypocrisy at its best.
Like an earlier post, I, too, shall write in Ron Paul. True democracy has been lost in this country and it's high time we face those facts. People get angry (dem or rep), because it pushes a button in their circulatory system. Knee jerk reactions rather than actually considering the facts!
Ugh!! Where's my martini, oh there it is.
Talk amongst yourselves.
To those of you displaying intolerance and hate on these boards, don't blame the cops, don't blame the woman, blame yourselves.
"It's not clear to me whether this woman was a "liberal" or "conservative". It's not clear to me what the legal justification for removing her might have been. But the whole thing seems to be fuel for the hate fire.
To those of you displaying intolerance and hate on these boards, don't blame the cops, don't blame the woman, blame yourselves."
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Don't hand us that 'It's not clear to me' or communal guilt stuf