Man Nabbed At Cheney Event Sues Secret Service

[sabra]

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/9990208/detail.html

Man Nabbed At Cheney Event Sues Secret Service

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Steven Howards said the agent arrested him in June a few minutes after he had confronted Cheney in the resort town of Beaver Creek, where Cheney was attending a conference.

Howards said he saw Cheney in a crowd, shaking hands and posing for photos. He said he walked to within 3 feet of Cheney and told him, "I think your policies in Iraq are reprehensible," and then left. Howards said he may have touched Cheney on the elbow or shoulder, like others in the crowd.

Minutes later, when he was returning through the area with another son, Secret Service agent Virgil D. "Gus" Reichle Jr. questioned him, handcuffed him and told him he would be charged with assaulting the vice president, Howards said.

When Reichle took him to the Eagle County jail, however, he told deputies to issue him a summons on a state charge of harassment, Howards said. Howards said the harassment charge was dropped less than a month later at the request of the district attorney.

[Kagemusha]

1. Oh, they tried the 'I feel threatened so you assaulted me' version.

THAT is reprehensible, and good luck to the man in his lawsuit.

Edit: And I mean, the 'I feel threatened because you disagree with my political views and no one managed to stop you from coming all the way to my face. I thought you might be some terrorist or traitor!' version.

[KellyW]

8. touch his elbow...

and you get arrested.

He shoots someone in the face-no charges

[Qutzupalotl]

11. He's just like Jesus

in oppositeland. Jesus could heal with a touch.

"Who touched me? I felt the power go out of me. Oh it was you. Arrest that man."

[tanyev]

2. Oh, it's so easy to be a tough guy when you're surrounded

by Secret Service agents.

[Supersedeas]

3. Arrest that man and charge him with something...assault or treason

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Good for him!

[Submariner]

5. I would like to see your graph updated

Since Woodward's book has revealed BushCo brushed off warnings from Tenet I would think Bush will harbor much more blame for 911.

[lonestarnot]

6. Yes, perhaps Sabra should check for an update.

[NVMojo]

7. liars hate being confronted with truth

[indepat]

9. Surely DC's entire Secret Service detail will be fired for not immediately

recognizing and stopping a blatant assault on the Veep occurring before their very eyes. We can't have dereliction of duty by those sworn to protect the person only a heart-beat from the Presidency.

[progressivebydesign]

10. I'm pretty sure he didn't actually touch Cheney.

Otherwise, Howard's arm would have turned to stone and fallen into crumbly dust... or is that from just looking at Cheney? I can't remember.

[Robbien]

12. Colorado man says he was arrested after criticizing Cheney (acting strange

A Colorado man filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday accusing a Secret Service agent of arresting him on trumped-up allegations of assaulting Vice President Dick Cheney after he told Cheney the administration's policies in Iraq were "reprehensible."

The lawsuit said Howards saw Cheney in a crowd, shaking hands and posing for photos. He said he walked to within 3 feet of Cheney and told him, "I think your policies in Iraq are reprehensible," and then left. In an interview, Howards said he may have touched Cheney on the elbow or shoulder, like others in the crowd did.

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Minutes later, when he was returning through the area, Secret Service agent Virgil D. "Gus" Reichle Jr. questioned him, handcuffed him and told him he would be charged with assaulting the vice president, the lawsuit said. When Reichle took him to the Eagle County jail, however, he told deputies to issue him a summons on a state charge of harassment, the lawsuit said. Howards said the harassment charge was dropped less than a month later at the request of the district attorney.

. . .


It was at least the second lawsuit filed in Colorado by people who say they were singled out for criticizing the administration. Three people who were kicked out of President Bush's town hall meeting in Denver in March 2003 alleged they were told to leave because of a "No blood for oil" bumper sticker on their car.

http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/50163.html


edit: update. This is the man in the stories about the man arrested for acting strange

Story from last June

Cheney was walking outside when the agents charged with protecting him noticed the man, identified as Steven Howards, who “wasn’t acting like the other folks in the area,” Zahren said.

http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20060616/NEWS/60616011&SearchID=7325776790455

[Kutjara]

13. Is it fascism yet? n/t

[Fridays Child]

15. Smells like it, to me. n/t

[niyad]

14. are we surprised? Colorado is, after all, home of the only city in

the world, outside of a town in Greece, where peace protestors were tear-gassed on February 15, 2003.

[intheflow]

20. And I was there!

Many of the speakers at that rally were clergy and theologians. I remember that because they wer my teachers and classmates in seminary. Very dangerous types, those religious peaceniks!

Hi niyad! :hi:

[niyad]

22. it was amazing, wasn't it? are you still here in the springs? your

profile says biloxi.

[intheflow]

24. I moved south to do hurricane relief work.

I mostly do volunteer coordination, but also work with a small church. Am trying very hard to get them to adopt an environmental ministry.

I miss Colorado, though. I'm thinkig of oving back up there when my contract down here is up next summer.

[w13rd0]

16. Wasn't acting like the other folks in the area...

...you mean, he wasn't acting like a dewey-eyed zombie ditto-head? And that's a crime now?

[truthisfreedom]

17. he wasn't fawning over the life support system for a pacemaker

[LiviaOlivia]

18. And the guy was with his 7 year-old kid

Arrest over Cheney barb triggers lawsuit
By Charlie Brennan, Rocky Mountain News
October 3, 2006

A Denver-area man filed a lawsuit today against a member of the Secret Service for causing him to be arrested after he approached Vice President Dick Cheney in Beaver Creek this summer and criticized him for his policies concerning Iraq.

Attorney David Lane said that on June 16, Steve Howards was walking his 7-year-old son to a piano practice, when he saw Cheney surrounded by a group of people in an outdoor mall area, shaking hands and posing for pictures with several people.

According to the lawsuit filed at U.S. District Court in Denver, Howards and his son walked to about two-to-three feet from where Cheney was standing, and said to the vice president, "I think your policies in Iraq are reprehensible," or words to that effect, then walked on.

Ten minutes later, according to Howards' lawsuit, he and his son were walking back through the same area, when they were approached by Secret Service agent Virgil D. "Gus" Reichle Jr., who asked Howards if he had "assaulted" the vice president. Howards denied doing so, but was nonetheless placed in handcuffs and taken to the Eagle County Jail.

~sign~

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5039230,00.html

What did the SS do to the kid?

on edit: Fuck Cheney

[iverglas]

19. may I tell my story again? ;)

Back in the winter of 1991 ... we'll all remember what was happening then, kind of like the winter of 2003 ... I finally expelled my then co-vivant, a Texan and also a cokehead and alcoholic, from Canada. Put him on a bus with a ticket to his mum's in Las Vegas. (He'd just about ruined me financially; imagine the fun of having your Visa rejected when you're at the bus station trying to buy a one-way ticket to Vegas.)

He fell off the bus in Moline, Illinois. He ended up in hospital a few days later, for detox. I wired him, rather than flowers, a plant. A big plant, it turned out. Kind of a shrub. He named it. George. He checked it for bugs.

While he was there, he went into the kind of fit of self-righteousness that only a persistent drunk can throw in their wily efforts to distract everyone from their own failings. He railed against the Gulf War (I). He said that if George Bush (I) tried to send his son to fight in Kuwait, he'd shoot him. Bush, that is. Of course, his son was 10 years old at the time.

Yup. Next day, he was visited by a party of two Secret Service agents and questioned at length.

Meanwhile ... well, 10 years later ... Prime Minister Chretien met up with an armed non-supporter in Charlottetown



An open society is such a nicer society.

[libhill]

21. OK, start the round up

I want every loudmouthed redneck Repubican piece of shit who ever criticized Bill Clinton arrested immediately.

[MissMarple]

23. That most certainly makes sense to me.

It might give them just a big enough jolt to shock them back into the reality based world.

[LiberalFighter]

25. That SS agent should be castrated!