Iowans Attempt To Arrest Karl Rove

[Imagevision]

(snip) (AP) Des Moines police arrested four people Friday who attempted a citizen's arrest of former White House adviser Karl Rove.

Rove was in Des Moines to speak at a fundraiser.

A news release says a retired minister and three members of the Des Moines Catholic Workers community were cited for trespassing and released.

The four accused Rove of election fraud and conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud the United States in the time before the Iraq war.

The arrest complaint also says they accused Rove of treason, sedition and subversive activities for fraudulent acts leading to the deaths of 300,000 Iraqi civilians and 4,000 U.S. Military personnel.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/27/national/main4297842.shtml?source=mostpop_story

[patrice]

1. God bless their True Sweet souls! nt

[iamthebandfanman]

2. ummm

how can you arrest people making a citizens arrest?
doesnt that defeat the purpose?

[MrModerate]

3. From the cops' point of view . . .

I'm sure it was regarded as a security problem and potential assault. "Citizen's arrests" are only sort-of legal in many jurisdictions.

[Imagevision]

4. I was tryin to keep the Rove message out there so we don't forget what he needs coming (arrested)

[Bobcat]

5. Citizen's Arrest

Hell - I was "citizen arrested" in Iowa in 1965 as was the entire HS baseball team I was on. We ran a stop sign that was laying in a ditch in a small town north of Waterloo. We ignored the "citizen" but were stopped in a small town 10 miles south by the Iowa Highway Patrol and had to go back to face a "kangaroo court judge". Even the though the stop sign was face down in the ditch, we lost and had to pay. I believe citizen arrests are legal in the state of Iowa.

[Chloroplast]

6. Bless 'em! If they'd attempted this 4 years ago, who knows what would have happened to them.

[Lyric]

7. Those people should be honored by Congress for their dedication

to seeing justice and law upheld.

Not that it'll actually happen. *sigh*

[AZBlue]

8. Now THAT'S impressive!

[IDemo]

9. The Iowa statute on citizen's arrests certainly seems to indicate they had the power to do so

(underline mine)

804.9 Arrests by private persons.

A private person may make an arrest:
1. For a public offense committed or attempted in the person’s presence.
2. When a felony has been committed, and the person has reasonable ground for believing that the person to be arrested has committed it.

[lynettebro440]

10. I love my city

:yourock:

[samsingh]

11. good for these heroes