Policing Is Aggressive at Bush Events

[rhino47]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3695-2004Oct27.html

Policing Is Aggressive at Bush Events
To Some, Protesters' Arrests Recall Vietnam War Era

By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 28, 2004; Page A07

As a phalanx of motorcycles sped by on Old Philadelphia Pike in Lancaster County, Pa., in July, Tristan Egolf and six compatriots stripped to their skivvies and piled on top of one another in a pyramid, mimicking the infamous photograph taken at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.

But a minute after their bit of street theater had begun -- and long before a motorcade carrying President Bush had arrived -- police moved in and arrested six of the protesters on disorderly-conduct charges. The seventh man got away.


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"They denied us our chance at expression," said Egolf, 32, a twice-published novelist who lives in East Lampeter Township, Pa. "That seems to be what they're doing these days: They don't agree with your opinion, so they haul you off and drop the charges later."

[meti57b]

1. anyone know if there's anything scheduled for when arnold is in Ohio ...

campaigning for bush on Friday?

[napi21]

2. What ever happened to these guys?

I read about this a while ago on DU, but never heard what finally happened. Were they just fined and released?

[rhino47]

3. That seems to be the pattern ..charge ,release,drop charges. eom

[elehhhhna]

4. Only sfter the copppers reenacted the electical-testes scene.

[global1]

5. What Galls Me is that the Media ......

doesn't pick up on these stories. I just read about what happened in that small town in Oregon with respect to anti-*/pro-Kerry
protesters. People's free speech and assembly rights are being usurped all over the country because of the * Gestapo tactics and
its not being publicized. Probably the only way this will get some press is if the protest was too large to ignore.