Young Republicans chair confronted, Woman bounced from Bush event recalls

[Rose Siding]

...Woman bounced from Bush event recalls Klinkerman

The chairman of the Colorado Young Republicans was one of the people involved in a March 21 incident in which three Denver residents were forcibly removed from a speech given by President Bush because of a bumper sticker.

Jay Bob Klinkerman, leader of the state group for Republicans ages 18 to 40, admitted in an interview that he was at the gate of the Wings over the Rockies Museum when the three people were stopped.
...
Two of the three who were removed, Bauer and Leslie Weise, said that Klinkerman is the event volunteer who was wearing a magenta shirt and smiley-face tie that night, and told them, "Secret Service is coming down to talk to your group."

Then a man who looked and acted like a Secret Service agent arrived and threatened them with arrest. He allowed them to enter but then found them 20 to 30 minutes later and forced them to leave.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3732570,00.html

[swag]

1. Two responses

1. I hope they nail these mothefuckers.

2. Jay Bob Klinkerman has a cool-assed name.

[meganmonkey]

2. It only sounds cool b/c of Jay and Silent Bob

and there is no way he is that cool :P

[alcibiades_mystery]

12. I always though Zebediah Esabar was a cool sounding name

He's a suspected 9/11 co-conspirator (still on the run, as I understand).

And not for nothing, but Zacarias Moussaoui is also a cool sounding name.

[Larkspur]

17. Is Klinkerman related to Colonel Klink from Hogan's Heroes?

:sarcasm:

I couldn't pass that one away.

[kliljedahl]

3. Jay Bob Klinkerman?

Funny name of the week. Was this Colorado or Alabama? Brothers Billy Bob & Joe Bob.

Keith’s Barbeque Central

[librechik]

5. he's a klinker, man--discard that waste!

the names are so descriptive among those rePukkkes.

[HereSince1628]

4. I guess they can't ID the republican who impersonated an SS

agent. You know, all the SS look alike, march alike, and salute alike.

[Lerkfish]

6. odd. you would think someone ACTING like SS would draw the attention

of the REAL SS...now wouldn'tja?

If NOT, then our secret service is completely incompetent.

[pnorman]

7. As pointed out on DU a short while back,

depriving a person of his rights "under the color of law", is NOT a 'harmless prank'. It's a serious offence, and the range of penalties match those for real criminal activities.

Let's hope that this "Klinkerman" snot gets the smirk wiped off his face --- FAST.

pnorman
On edit: Here's that "color of law" item:
TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 13 > § 242
§ 242. Deprivation of rights under color of law
>
>
http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000242----000-.html

[Oreo]

8. Jay Bob

I googled his name and found a cached page from georgewbush.com

Calendar < Home

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BC '04 Phone Bank
Where: Adams County Republican Headquarters
72nd Ave and Federal Blvd.
CO

When: Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 5:00pm
Event Ends: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 8:00pm

What:

Event Information:
Can President Bush and Vice President Cheney count on your help as a volunteer? Get involved with the campaign at a county phone bank today!

More Info:
Contact: Jay Bob Klinkerman
Phone: [phone]

Directions: On the Southeast Corner

Cost: Free

[gordianot]

9. Is there a penalty posing as a Secret Service agent?

If there is a penalty who investigates? Who would they need speak to file a complaint?

If this happened to me you can bet I would have been on their website finding out who to complain to. These people are supposed to work for us, and as any government agency are and should be sensitive to complaints.

People need to stop acting like sheep and martyrs, having a Kerry sticker is not a crime. It takes time to move through a bureaucracy but it can be done with persistence.

To contact Secret Service see link: http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/index.shtml

[Justitia]

10. Lesson learned? Ask for official ID, write it all down (in front of them)

They may not be so quick to impersonate a federal law enforcement official.

[CottonBear]

11. Young Repubs are the Bu$h Storm Troopers

and the * Stasi combined.

I thought these "young" Republiocans were a college group. Can anyone under 40 join?

[Oreo]

13. Denver Post reporter answered some ??'s for me

The author of the Denver Post replied to my email and clarified that Klinkerman is known to have told the people that they needed to wait for the SS to show up.

He said the SS are trying to determine whether a crime was committed before they press charges.


It sounds to me like the SS knows exactly who did it

[AzDar]

14. So...either way, Ol' Jay Bob was complicit in denying these people

their civil/constitutional rights..and is apparently familiar with (on SOME level)whomever impersonated a Secret Service agent.I mean, either this impostor is LOCAL, or else traveling with Shrub, right?

[Kimber Scott]

15. "Jay Bob" - Perfect name for a Righty nt

[applegrove]

16. In the BBC documentary about "Nightmares" and governments ruling

using fear as a vision... they showed that in Algeria, the people who got to the top of the Islamist terrorist movement kept attacking people who would not agree with their fundamentalism 100%.

In the end, these terrorist decided that everybody in the country of Algeria should be killed and that only the 10 of them should be allowed to exist in Algeria.

Look for that trend in the USA.

Not that Americans are being killed. But that the fundie leadership will start to eat its own tail as it gets more and more delusional.

[AlCzervik]

18. i bet he's friends with Jeff Gannon.

[BronxBoy]

19. He damn sure looks like him!

Are they kin?

[Strawman]

20. bet Jay Bob got a huge hard on pulling that fascist move

"The Secret Service is coming down to talk to your group."

What an asshole.

[cap]

21. I bet the secret service has been waiting for this to unfold

they are professionals and their duty is to protect the president from harm not from his own innocent civilians...

they have seen the goings on and now have enough evidence to stop the Young Republicans...

The question is who orchestrated this? Who put the word out to all the Young Republicans to turn back demonstrators? I dont think this was spontaneous...Someone thought this idea up ....Karl Rove?

[leetrisck]

22. During election,bush was using "contract security"

along with SS - does he still have them? Don't know why he was using them in the first place but it was reported. Betcha he's still got them.

[dmr]

23. Why doesn't the SS know the guy's a fake SS-man?

Why wouldn't he or they stand out?

Aren't real SS-men trained to find people who stand out? And if they saw a fake SS-agent, wouldn't they be able to recognize him, and also know something is wrong when they try to contact him via his fake earpiece?

Funny, Bush* and gang ran their campaign on how much better they would protect America from terrorism, but they sure have enough security breeches at Presidential events with 'fake' SS-men; and then in the White House with fake journalists aka Gannon running amok 'forgetting' to sign-in or sign-out. Who or what else is being breech?

But we know the real answer lies with the fact that these instances are not breeches, but planned with the likes of Rove.

Either the White House and their Secret Service are either fuck-ups, or they are fucking the country.

We ought to fire them all. Let's start with Bush*.

Edit: grammar

[LizW]

25. I wondered the same thing, dmr

The Secret Service should be watching and noticing if the same face is showing up at many Bush appearances. They should certainly be noticing if the person is wearing an earpiece and trying to look like SS.

My theory is that Bushco is still using contract security and having them bounce citizens from events. The Secret Service knows it, but they are covering for Bushco.

[KansDem]

26. Not enought SS agents for Bush's appearances...

They need extra contract help. Many SS agents are too busy bailing the twins' drunk friends out of the drunk tanks:

From March 5, 2001
The Secret Service - It would appear that the Secret Service have acquired yet another new role under George W. Bush. Along with protecting the president and busting down the doors of junior satirists (see Idiots Week 6), they are also required to pick up underage alcoholics from the local drunk tank. After the recent TCU booze-up, Jenna Bush's "boyfriend" William Ashe Bridges (Nash to his friends) was thrown in jail for public intoxication. Four hours later, Secret Service agents showed up in a black Chevy Suburban, bailed him out, and give him a ride home. Now this may seem an unusual way of spending the public's tax dollars, but think about it - bearing in mind this guy's connections, it's entirely possible that the Secret Service were just protecting our future president! Nash Bridges in 2032!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/01/top10_2001_08.html

[Virginian]

27. Someone in Dallas...

Said they saw a man with a gun on the 6th floor of the Texas Book depository and thought he was SS looking out for President Kennedy. I wonder why the real SS didn't see him, too.

[mountainvue]

24. The guy admitted to the Secret Service

that he booted them because of the bumper sticker on their car.
Does that break any laws? Is this lawsuit material?

[Virginian]

28. Impersonating a law enforcement agent is illegal.

on edit, added text:
The Secret Service are federal officers, so it would be a federal offense, wouldn't it?

[Mari333]

29. Those young republicans would stay out of trouble if they enlist

but Im sure they will take the same route as the Bush admin took


chickenhawks.

[Fluffdaddy]

30. Our side need to keep and eye on what happens to this punk ass pos

Some community service at least is in order

[cosmicdot]

31. future Karl Roves in the making

this Jay Bob is somewhat at the level Karl Rove was at when Donald Segretti et al, were doing their thing re for Nixon ...

at the state & local level, they're likely competing against each other to earn Rove points and attention

North Metro Young Republicans meet 3rd Thursday 6:30pm at CB & Potts on 120th Ave. Contact: northmetroyrs@ Jay Bob Klinkerman 303-
http://www.coloradosenate.com/results.php3?news_id=711

i.e.,

January 19, 2004 CONTRIBUTOR ARCHIVES

Young Republican Brown Shirts in Iowa Try Out for the Tom DeLay Beer Hall Putsch Squad

~snip~
A group of college republicans at their Midwest caucus leadership conference heard about the rally and stormed in.

"There are seven of us who worked really hard at putting this conference together, said Jason Cole of the college republicans. "so, we met, discussed and majority ruled. We went down there."
~snip~


http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/01/con04023.html

KOI-TV5 scrubbed the article fairly quickly (the buzzflash writer mentions this)
search using the wayback machine yields
"We're sorry, access to http://www.woi-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1605772&nav=1LFWKGNJ has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt."

from the Daily Kos

WOI's reporter sensationalized the physical aspects - it wasn't a full-fledged brawl, more like a verbal and visual confrontation with a dash of gratuitous violence from the Young Rethugs.

They did get a couple of other facts wrong - they called it a "Democratic" rally rather than a Howard Dean event, and campus security didn't break it up, it more or less petered out on its own after Jett and the Dean supporters defused the situation by rocking out to our national anthem

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/1/18/61328/1232

"This is nothing new. From the Brooks Brothers riot to the ... racist and misogynistic attacks on Margaret Cho, this kind of conservative bullying is becoming more and more common place."

http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004_01_18_atrios_archive.html#107443278241823906