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Criticize Dick? Get slapped with assault charges

October 12, 2006 by in Politics,SoapBox,Stupid with 6 Comments

Ouch, what a dick move to slap Cheney critics with assault charges for a little innocent criticism. Mr. Howards learns the hard way that the administration does not take to kindly to public criticism.

Howards says he was taking two of his kids to their Suzuki piano camp in Beaver Creek, Colorado. They were walking across the outdoor public mall area when all of a sudden he saw Cheney there.

“I didn’t even know he was in town,� Howards says. “He was walking through the area shaking hands. Initially, I walked past him. Then I said to myself, ‘I can’t in good conscience let this opportunity pass by.’ So I approached him, I got about two feet away, and I said in a very calm tone of voice, ‘Your policies in Iraq are reprehensible.’ And then I walked away.�

Howards says he knew the Administration has a “history of making problems� for people who protest its policies, so he wanted to leave off at that.

But the Secret Service did not take kindly to his comment.“About ten minutes later, I came back through the mall with my eight-year-old son in tow,� Howards recalls, “and this Secret Service man came out of the shadows, and his exact words were, ‘Did you assault the Vice President?’ �

Does anyone have the courage to drop their thoughts concerning the matter in the public arena here on UNEASYsilence?


  • Roberto Felgueiras

    Screw that! Assault is when you shoot someone in the face, wait a minute… doesn’t that sound familiar? In all honesty, as a taxpayer he has a right to critique civil serpents, wait I mean servants, and that is what he is. As long as the incident went down as described this should be all over the news. It won’t, but it should.

  • s0crates82

    Dissent is Patriotic.

    I think the Vice President is a smart man, and should recognise an intelligent citizen with differing opinions when he sees one.

    I also think that the Vice President’s policies are reprehensible, and would fearlessly tell him to his face – and I would expect the Secret Service to be a little paranoid, and calmly evaluate how great a threat I was to the second-in-command.

    Considering the popularity of the current administration, I can completely understand the reaction of the bodyguards, and I think that a discreet question, out of the way, was called for.

    It’s not like he said something, and a secret service agent shouted “treason!” and the man was dogpiled by suited guards.

  • TOm D.

    Actually, I would kind of liked to have seen the “TREASON” – Dogpile response myself, would have been more viually stimulating… damn, I watch to much TV! lol

  • Emory

    Oh how I hate this man….

  • http://rvgl.tonycai.com/blog/ j2

    Oh god.

  • Jeff Anderson

    Somehow I do not believe you. The assertion that you calmly told the VP what you think is akin to Dave Chapelle’s characterization of the “refined” lil’ john. I can see it now. In your mind you said “excuse me sir, but I believe that your policies in Iraq are rubbish” but what came out was “HALLIBURTON SUCZ U OLD FART AND U STINK 2 – GO 2 HELL”!!!

    j

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