Exclusive: CODE PINK Attempts Another Citizens Arrest on Karl Rove, This Time in Vegas

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Exclusive: CODE PINK Attempts Another Citizens Arrest on Karl Rove, This Time in Vegas
Co-Founder Evans to join me tonight on 'Malloy Show' during Rove protest at UNLV...

I just spoke with CODE PINK co-founder Jodie Evans who tried again --- as she did last month in Los Angeles --- to file a citizen's arrest against Karl Rove. This time Rove, who she accuses of war crimes, was at a Barnes & Noble book signing event in Las Vegas. Last time, Rove was forced to cancel his plans to sign books after his speech in L.A.

Evans writes to say that she and several others from CODE PINK, including an army vet who is a member of Military Families Speak Out (MSFO), attempted to hand-cuff Rove at the table where he was signing copies of his new book, while unfurling a "Rove is a War Criminal" banner.

"We get to the table, he looks up to take my book and jumps back against the book shelves," Evans says. He then points to three security guards and says "it's her", before the guards "pile in", according to her account….

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[JuniperLea]

1. "It's her"

:rofl:

Oh, to be "her" and have that effect on KKKarl! Nirvana!

Pardon me... now off to actually read the rest of the story:)

[Downtown Hound]

21. I love Code Pink

Sexy women, sexy causes, sexiness all around. Any organization that makes Karl Rove feel like a chump is da bomb diggity in my not so humble opinion.

[Ian David]

2. It's HER! n/t

[DisgustedTX]

3. Good.

I'm sure a bastion of journalistic integrity will send crack reporter J. Leopold to the scene singing 'Happy Fitzmas' at any time.

At least Code Pink's efforts are real.

[JuniperLea]

Was that really necessary?

Hold a grudge much?

:eyes:

[DisgustedTX]

24. Yes.

The truth is often painful to sycophants.

[JuniperLea]

28. How many years ago was that?

And how many times has that particular reporter been wrong again?

You know, grudges are cumbersome and unattractive. They serve no purpose.

No, it wasn't necessary to air your grudge in this thread... it has no place here, really.

[crim son]

79. So, do you also think that

we should just leave the shrub's war crimes in the past as well? Move on, better times ahead & all that hogwash?

[PuraVidaDreamin]

4. Excellent!

Hope he lives a life full of frightened paranoia!

Good work women!

[wisteria]

5. I am sorry, but this is a stupid stunt at this point. Does anyone really pay any attention to

these stunts and what do they really accomplish?

[thereismore]

6. War crimes have about 1 year statute of limitations in your household. I see. nt

[dencol]

7. What are you doing to bring about justice?

It's easy to criticize others who are doing something about war crimes from the comfort of our computer chairs.

[TerribleLarryDingle]

8. Yeah Poor Karl

:sarcasm:

[Chef Eric]

9. What is stupid about arresting someone who has shown a disregard for the law?

And what difference does it make whether it "accomplishes" anything or not? Sometimes doing the right thing is its own reward.

[liberation]

10. They accomplish more than your concern for Rove's feelings, that is for sure.

[JuniperLea]

11. Really? You can't see what this accomplishes?

First, and foremost, Rove is a sniveling coward, and his "it's her" comment proves just how paranoid he is. That's a beautiful thing in itself.

Second, this is going to get a lot of media attention. I for one love it when Rove gets this sort of negative attention. It allows the media and the rest of us to review the long laundry list of evil deeds attributed to this scumbag.

I could go on, but this will give you something to digest.

[femrap]

12. We're talking about Rove....

remember Turd Blossom? He worked on a 'marketing plan' to sell War on Iraq. Remember 'Shock and Awe?'

This dude is evil and he's out there selling lies in his book.

Bravo Code Pink! He deserves to be in jail.

Go read Saul Alinsky's book, 'Rules for Radicals' on how to get political CHANGE.

Stunts get publicity and I, for one, do not want the stupid America public to forget what this turd is responsible for.

[blue sky at night]

14. you hit the nail on the head....

you are sorry. I am wondering what brave thing you have ever done in the world??? just wondering....imagine doing something that could get you thrown in jail or beat up by a bunch of paid thugs, because you believe a man should be arrested for war crimes. What would you say to Hitler? What you say to Bush?

[boppers]

16. Does anybody pay attention?

Well, you just posted about it, so....

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[sabrina 1]

20. Apparently Rove does! He's terrified of a few women

in pink.

It reminds people that he is a war criminal, which the media fail to do each time they have him on, helping him to sell his lying version of history.

Who do you suggest should hold these criminals accountable? The media? This administration which has already told us to look forward, those crimes are in the past?

Good for them. Maybe you can come up with a better idea. Meantime he should never think that the crimes they committed will be forgotten, even if their enablers in this government choose to ignore the law.

[fascisthunter]

26. yeah, yeah whatever...

[proud2BlibKansan]

36. I do

I'm someone and I pay attention.

[EFerrari]

38. How can anyone subject this busy man to "stunts" like that?

:evilgrin:

[Mojeoux]

43. Code Pink Rocks !!!!! n/t

[roguevalley]

48. given that they put their freedom and financial security on the line each time

they try and get this bastard, its hardly stupid and it accomplishes a great deal: a fucker is discomfited and the world remembers what he is because of them. until all of us get up off our asses and do half as much as these women, none of us have the right to criticize those who actually do something toward justice.

[creeksneakers2]

13. Bunch of kooks

They make the rest of the left look bad. Look at a righty doing it and see how it looks.

http://socialismisnottheanswer.wordpress.com/2010/04/02/lt-commander-walter-fitzpatrick-iii-arrested-for-trying-to-expose-government-corruption/

[Hissyspit]

15. False equivalence.

Anyway, just annoying the hell out of bullshitblossom as he tries to shill his volume of bullshit revisionism is enough for me.

[proud2BlibKansan]

37. Amen!!

[laughingliberal]

59. +1 nt

[Downtown Hound]

19. See post #17

It applies to you as well.

[sabrina 1]

22. So are you saying that Obama is as guilty of crimes as

Rove is?

[creeksneakers2]

44. I'm saying the people making the "citizen's arrests"

are just as riduculous. In states where one can make a citizen's arrest its only for a crime in progress, and then probably only for a felony.

[sabrina 1]

76. Well, when the whole system of law and order

breaks down, as it has in this country regarding war crimes, it is the duty of citizens to step in and take over until law and order are restored. We voted to try to restore it, but unfortunately that hasn't happened and war criminals like Cheney and Rove are walking the streets, perhaps still plotting and planning more crimes, like attacking Iran eg. Someone has to do something about that don't you think? Unless you think they are innocent.

As for your example, the only way that would relate to this situation would be if Obama had committed the crimes that Rove has committed. Otherwise I see no relationship between the two.

[Greyhound]

80. So far we've shown both the California and Nevada statutes on citizen's arrest

and surprise, surprise, you're flat wrong.
:hi:

[Name removed]

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[SDuderstadt]

86. "Both times Jodie had the arrest warrant in hand"

Really? Issued by whom?

Also, could you please point to a single person here "defending war criminals"?

[JuniperLea]

30. Wow... not even the same thing... eom

[creeksneakers2]

42. They both make citizen arrests

It comes off as a silly gesture by crazy people.

[DisgustedTX]

55. Crazy has a precendent

Name.

[liberation]

31. Are you one of those "center-right" peeps who love to play dress up leftie?

[creeksneakers2]

41. I consider myself to be left

Though we may define that differently. I believe in pragmatism.

[laughingliberal]

60. With all due respect, 'pragmatism' within the Democratic party has put us squarely in line with the

policies of Reagan. Some of us on the left are not seeing good results from the Third Way. It has been very effective in getting a lot of center right policies enacted but not much else.

[EFerrari]

40. What rest of the left?

lol

[roguevalley]

49. HEY! LOOK AT THE KOOKS! --A tory talking to another tory about the

rebels in Boston before Bunker Hill. One man's kook is another's freedom fighter. They are actually putting their butts on the line to make this criminal know he can't have a comfortable day. What are the rest of us doing besides complaining and judging?

[kas125]

51. I keep telling you guys, CodePink is not about, and does not

CARE about right and left. We care about right and wrong!

[SDuderstadt]

56. Yeah, that's why they tried to take over Nancy Pelosi's office...

they are an absolute embarrassment.

[kas125]

57. Like I said last week, if we embarrass someone with your

attitude, we consider that a good thing.

[SDuderstadt]

58. You haven't got the slightest idea what my "attitude" is...

Simple question: upon what grounds did Code Pink try to take over Nancy Pelosi's office? Do you think any Grand Jury notices your antics and says, "Hey! Maybe we should indict Karl Rove."?
My problem with Code Pink's circus tactics is that they trivialize legitimate efforts to bring Bush, Cheney, Rove and others to justice, while alienating independents exactly at the time progressive Democrats need swing votes to effect change.

Beyond that, what, precisely, would Code Pink do if you managed somehow to get handcuffs on Rove (before you get arrested yourselves)? Have you guys thought that far ahead?

Why don't you leave crazy to the RW? They're far better at it.

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[kas125]

68. WHAT "legitimate efforts to bring Bush, Cheney, Rove and

the others to justice"?!!? Whose are they and where are these other efforts taking place, pray tell?

[SDuderstadt]

70. You might want to try the judicial branch....

that would be a good start, no?

[kas125]

71. The judicial branch is prosecuting the war criminals? Care

to provide a link to your assertion?

[SDuderstadt]

73. No, I'm saying CP should try going through the judicial branch n/t

[kas125]

74. No, you said, "My problem with Code Pink's circus tactics

is that they trivialize legitimate efforts to bring Bush, Cheney, Rove and others to justice." Now you're saying that there ARE no legitimate efforts. You're arguing with your own self here, lol.

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[Greyhound]

78. I can't believe they deleted that little joke.

Zere Vill be NO chokingk here! Der master vill not tolerate ziss insolence!
:rofl:

[conturnedpro09]

81. This is why, like most Dems (outside of DU land), I can't stand Code Pink. n/t

[butterfly77]

18. They need to get...

Sarah Palin...

[sabrina 1]

23. Rove sympathizers unrecing yet another

thread that exposes him for what he is.

[fascisthunter]

27. good, now I know my posts piss them off because they are here to read them

weirdos

[bobbolink]

46. Thank you for reminding me to rec this thread.

:hi:

[sabrina 1]

52. Hi bobbolink!

[dflprincess]

47. It isn't so much that they sympathize with Rove - they just don't want

anyone to call attention to the fact that the Obama administration is ignoring the crimes committed by Bush, etal.

We have to move forward now because it was all in the past. :sarcasm:

(Of course, by the time a case gets to trial, the crime is in the past, so following Obama's logic, one has to wonder why does anyone ever get prosecuted for anything?)

[bluestateguy]

25. If they are really serious about doing this

and not just playing to the cameras with stupid stunts, they would find him when he is not surrounded by security.

[JuniperLea]

29. When would that be?

I don't think he poops in all that much privacy.

[liberation]

32. I take that since you have not done so, that you actually support Rove, no?

[Abq_Sarah]

33. And then they would end up in jail

Like it or not, you're not guilty of a crime until you've been formally charged and you've been found guilty in a court of law.

Vigilante justice, stalking and harassment can get your butt thrown in jail.

[Downtown Hound]

35. You mean...when he's dead? n/t

[EFerrari]

39. We should leave all the cameras to the right wing and shut up

so we don't make "the left" look bad. :sarcasm:

[sabrina 1]

45. Hilarious, isn't it? People worried about the left looking bad but NOT

worried about war crimes being exposed. THere is no way the left or anyone else could ever be made to look bad by making Karl Rove realize that the people have not forgotten, even if our government has, the crimes he committed.

And who are we supposed to be looking bad to? The irrelevant rightwingnuts?

[laughingliberal]

62. Yet another example of the Democratic strategy. When the right says 'boo'

soil yourself and ask what else we can give up to appease them. It's worked brilliantly, wouldn't you say?

[bobbolink]

63. You're such a snot.

:evilgrin:

Yup, its definitely worked brilliantly. :rofl:

:hug:

[G_j]

54. Thank You Code Pink!!!!

:yourock:


your detractors think war criminal extraordinaire Rove deserves to sell his book in peace.

:rofl:

[pengillian101]

75. Why would you say that?

Code Pink stinks - to be kind.

They totally demoralize our service men and women with their antics just like Jane Fonda did.

Please do not buy into that crap.

Support your neighbor folks who joined up and send them a gift package.

www.operationminnesotanice.com

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[benld74]

34. HEre's to their eventual success!

[Cid_B]

50. Yay! Assault is fun...

including an army vet who is a member of Military Families Speak Out (MSFO), attempted to hand-cuff Rove at the table where he was signing copies of his new book

NRS 200.471 Assault: Definitions; penalties.

1. As used in this section:

(a) “Assault” means:

(1) Unlawfully attempting to use physical force against another person; or

(2) Intentionally placing another person in reasonable apprehension of immediate bodily harm.


_____________________________________________
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Nrs/NRS-200.html#NRS200Sec481

[sabrina 1]

53. Well, Rove seems to support it.

If you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen seems to apply to these war criminals. He was totally for extreme assault on a entire population. Kind of ironic if he were to object to a little demonstration letting him know a lot of people remember that.

I wouldn't worry about him if I were you. He's doing okay, unfortunately, lots of money, lots of air time. In a reald democracy, he'd be in jail. He should count his blessings that we do not live in a real democracy rather than whine about a few women and a someone who actually did wear a uniform exercising their rights. Certainly that veteran earned his right to let a war criminal know what he things of him. Rove never earned anything, most of what he has he got by deception and lies and the destruction of other people's lives.

[laughingliberal]

61. Funny, how anything done to another human is OK with these chickenhawks.

Against them? Not so much.

[bobbolink]

64. Those "Get Out Of Jail Free cards" have come in very handy for them.

:nuke:

[Greyhound]

72. I'll see your unrelated link and raise you the Nevada Revised Statutes;

NRS 171.126 Arrest by private person.

A private person may arrest another:

1. For a public offense committed or attempted in his presence.

2. When the person arrested has committed a felony, although not in his presence.

3. When a felony has been in fact committed, and he has reasonable cause for believing the person arrested to have committed it.

(Added to NRS by 1967, 1402)

NRS 171.104 Arrest defined; by whom made.

An arrest is the taking of a person into custody, in a case and in the manner authorized by law. An arrest may be made by a peace officer or by a private person.

(Added to NRS by 1967, 1400)

NRS 171.1772 Issuance of citation after arrest by private person.

Whenever any person is arrested by a private person, as provided in NRS 171.126, for any violation of a county, city or town ordinance or state law which is punishable as a misdemeanor, such person arrested may be issued a misdemeanor citation by a peace officer in lieu of being immediately taken before a magistrate by the peace officer if:

1. The person arrested furnishes satisfactory evidence of identity; and

2. The peace officer has reasonable grounds to believe that the person arrested will keep a written promise to appear in court.

(Added to NRS by 1973, 1157; A 1975, 1201; 2001, 2023)

NRS 171.1774 Form and contents of citation: When issued after arrest by private person.

1. In those instances described in NRS 171.1772, the peace officer summoned after the arrest shall prepare a misdemeanor citation manually or electronically in the form of a complaint issuing in the name of “The State of Nevada” or in the name of the respective county, city or town, and containing:

(a) A notice to appear in court;

(b) The name and address of the person;

(c) The state registration number of his vehicle, if any;

(d) The offense charged, including a brief description of the offense and the NRS or ordinance citation;

(e) The time when and place where the person is required to appear in court;

(f) Such other pertinent information as may be necessary; and

(g) The signatures of the private person making the arrest and the peace officer preparing the citation.

2. The time specified in the notice to appear must be at least 5 days after the alleged violation unless the person charged with the violation demands an earlier hearing.

3. The place specified in the notice must be before a magistrate, as designated in NRS 171.178 and 171.184.

4. The person charged with the violation may give his written promise to appear in court by signing at least one copy of the misdemeanor citation prepared by the peace officer, in which event the peace officer shall deliver a copy of the citation to the person, and thereupon the peace officer shall not take the person into physical custody for the violation. If the citation is prepared electronically, the officer shall deliver the signed copy of the citation to the person and shall indicate on the electronic record of the citation whether the person charged gave his written promise to appear. A copy of the citation that is signed by the person charged or the electronic record of the citation which indicates that the person charged gave his written promise to appear suffices as proof of service.

(Added to NRS by 1973, 1157; A 1991, 16; 1999, 1142)

NRS 171.178 Appearance before magistrate; release from custody by arresting officer.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 5 and 6, a peace officer making an arrest under a warrant issued upon a complaint or without a warrant shall take the arrested person without unnecessary delay before the magistrate who issued the warrant or the nearest available magistrate empowered to commit persons charged with offenses against the laws of the State of Nevada.

2. A private person making an arrest without a warrant shall deliver the arrested person without unnecessary delay to a peace officer. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 5 and 6 and NRS 171.1772, the peace officer shall take the arrested person without unnecessary delay before the nearest available magistrate empowered to commit persons charged with offenses against the laws of the State of Nevada.

3. If an arrested person is not brought before a magistrate within 72 hours after arrest, excluding nonjudicial days, the magistrate:

(a) Shall give the prosecuting attorney an opportunity to explain the circumstances leading to the delay; and

(b) May release the arrested person if he determines that the person was not brought before a magistrate without unnecessary delay.

4. When a person arrested without a warrant is brought before a magistrate, a complaint must be filed forthwith.

5. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 178.484 and 178.487, where the defendant can be admitted to bail without appearing personally before a magistrate, he must be so admitted with the least possible delay, and required to appear before a magistrate at the earliest convenient time thereafter.

6. A peace officer may immediately release from custody without any further proceedings any person he arrests without a warrant if the peace officer is satisfied that there are insufficient grounds for issuing a criminal complaint against the person arrested. Any record of the arrest of a person released pursuant to this subsection must also include a record of the release. A person so released shall be deemed not to have been arrested but only detained.

(Added to NRS by 1967, 1404; A 1971, 574; 1975, 1201; 1979, 323, 1190; 1997, 3356; 2001, 2023)

A police officer faces criminal liability for failure to take an arrested person into custody:

NRS 199.260 Neglect or refusal to receive person into custody.

Every officer who, in violation of any legal duty, shall willfully neglect or refuse to receive a person into his official custody or into a prison under his charge shall, in a case where no other punishment is specially provided by law, be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

If one didn't know better, one might get the impression that there are a number of people here with an interest in allowing the 21st century's first crimes against humanity to go unpunished. But of course, that can't be right.

[Greyhound]

77. That's what I thought. n/t

[UTUSN]

65. May he have *F E A R* in his chest cavity every day of his life. n/t

[JustAnotherGen]

66. Karl Rove is afraid of that sweet woman?

:rofl: He would not have lasted 2 minutes at recess on the playground of my elementary school! :rofl:

[NoodleyAppendage]

82. Presence of Rove sympathizers is prima facie evidence of either Repuke trolls or DINOS at DU. n/t

J

[SDuderstadt]

83. Could you point to anyone here you regard as a...

"Rove sympathizer"?