Protester Tries to Arrest Rove in SF

[Hissyspit]

Source: KGO-TV ABC

Protestor tries to arrest Rove in SF

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 | 12:40 PM
By Terry McSweeney
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- There was major political theater involving President Bush's former chief of staff Karl Rove. A protestor tried to arrest Rove for treason Tuesday morning while he was speaking at the Mortgage Bankers Association Convention, continuing in San Francisco.

There were three protests during a very lively back and forth between former senate majority leader George Mitchell and Karl Rove. Rove blamed the Democrats for everything wrong with the economy.

A protestor tried to smack handcuffs on Karl Rove, but Rove slapped back, and the woman was taken off stage.

Read more: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/business&id=6461516

[tabatha]

1. I will be so glad when that man is off the political scene.

He is a monster - pure evil.

[Roy]

17. He was humiliated twice on that stage.....

First by the woman and again By Mitchell.
Let him stay on the political stage, since he is not going to jail.

Let him be afraid to dine out with his family for fear that someone will walk up to him and attempt to put handcuffs on him.

Let him live a life of looking over his shoulder and sink into self imposed isolation due to fear of consequences from the damage he has caused.

[lonestarnot]

43. Yeah that will work too, but not enough!

[tabatha]

2. I will be so glad when that man is off the political scene.

He is a monster - pure evil.

[OhioChick]

3. We need a video of this!

:rofl:

[OneAngryDemocrat]

4. Ask and Ye Shall Receive...

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/business&id=6461516

Please vist my anti-war website, www.shockedandawful.com

[OhioChick]

6. Priceless! Thank You!

:rofl:

[OhioChick]

11. I enjoyed reading over your website....

You should include it in your signature line. :thumbsup:

[petgoat]

15. Also here. Righteous Pinkers!

http://codepink4peace.org/blog/2008/10/official-release-codepink-women-try-to-make-citizens-arrest-of-karl-rove-at-mortgage-bankers-association-convention/

I have a hard time believing she could have got on stage without collusion of Security.

[Hissyspit]

14. DU videos here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=221379&mesg_id=221379

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x221320

[Gregorian]

5. Doh! Missed him by that much!

That would have been so good. If only she'd gotten them on.

I'll be George has had handcuffs on Rove. In private.

[kansasblue]

7. Gawd I'd love to see that play out in an opened minded court....

citizen arrest vs. kidnapping

What's the facts?

hmmmmm he is scum! Let's see more facts. Hold Rove in custody.

[pam4water]

8. The worst thing to happen to Rove since the 12 year girl beat him up. Good job to both! nt

[grasswire]

9. is there a penalty for interfering with a citizen's arrest??

The woman was attempting a lawful arrest. They interfered.

[ManiacJoe]

67. Check your state laws.

Many, if not most, states restrict the how's and when's so that her attempt would not have been legal.

[Redstone]

10. What an idiotic and utterly useless thing to do.

Redstone

[Gin]

13. thank you for this......he is such an asshole....man that woman had courage...

I don't have the nerve to do that...but I thought about it.

the depends thing was too funny.....he is a pathetic little man

[Tuttle]

55. ?

I applaud her for her boldness and perhaps Rove saw some foreshadowing. I must have seen a different video...

Tut-tut

[Kalifornia.Kid]

12. They helped her out to get larger hand cuffs ...

Why bring hand cuffs when a baseball bat is needed.

[sakabatou]

16. We need people to do justice like this

[NoodleyAppendage]

18. She was much too calm and timid. I would have tackled the fucker.

Rove WILL come to justice. His days are numbered as a free man. I'm so looking forward to hearing about his being raped in prison.

J

[Hissyspit]

19. .

[Nambe]

20. Protester attempts to handcuff former Bush adviser Karl Rove in San Francisco

Source: By Associated Press

An anti-war protester confronted former Bush administration aide Karl Rove while he spoke at a San Francisco mortgage bankers' meeting.

A statement by the group Code Pink identified the woman as 58-year-old Janine Boneparth, who tried to handcuff Rove in what she called a citizen's arrest for "treason."

Rove, who was speaking Tuesday at the Mortgage Bankers Association's annual convention, elbowed Boneparth away as she was escorted off the stage. ..

Read more: http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-rove-accosted,0,4836395.story

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In total, five Code Pink members were removed from the hall during Rove's appearance. The organization says none of the five women were charged.

[WatchWhatISay]

21. Damn, I was hoping

for pictures

[eleny]

22. video

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=221379&mesg_id=221379

[dubeskin]

23. That's great!

It's too bad they didn't succeed.

[Stinky The Clown]

42. Note to FBI: Hire that woman.

She wants to go after criminals. We need people like that.

[Name removed]

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[jeff30997]

26. Yep. I see that you're a specialist,being full of crap yourself.

Goodbye now.

[billyoc]

27. I can see you're going to be a superstar.

[Rage for Order]

30. Would you like your pizza carry-out or delivery? n/t

[conspirator]

47. what's that joke about the pizza? I don't get it nt

[BulletproofLandshark]

32. Buh bye

Go back to that other site and brag to all your friends.

[Jazzgirl]

36. Enjoy your brief stay.

n/t

[Indenturedebtor]

37. The fact that Rove is a traitor is crap?

Where to start... how about with interfering with millions of Americans right to vote? I would go on but I don't want to fill your brain.

[Name removed]

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[jeff30997]

25. The day I'll see this it will be better than sex:

[tomreedtoon]

28. Code Pink won't be taken seriously...

...until they start toting those pink-stock shotguns they're selling to the Palin types.

Seriously. This woman didn't want to handcuff Rove. She wanted to appear to handcuff Rove. The proper move would have been to intimidate him with the shotgun, break his jaw with the butt of the shotgun, and THEN handcuff him.

But since Code Pink doesn't want to really take effective action, only get noticed, this happened.

[jeff30997]

31. And also...

A pink Taser would have been nice too. :evilgrin:

[sce56]

33. Uhh I believe that Code Pink believes in NON VIOLENT PROTEST! Duhh

[tomreedtoon]

34. Then Code Pink doesn't want to do anything.

The whole point of nonviolent protest is to get people's hearts and souls. Does anyone believe Code Pink is doing that? They'd get more response by TP'ing the trees outside Rove's house. Most of the public, even those favorable to their beliefs, believe Code Pink is made up of clowns and poseurs.

You don't stop criminals by shaking your pink-gloved finger at them. You stop them by stopping them.

[EFerrari]

39. That lady whose foreclosure was stopped by Medea dosn't think

we're posers.

Seriously, what did you do today?

[tomreedtoon]

45. I tried to tell you the truth, but you didn't listen.

I certainly didn't participate in street theater, and make myself a good object lesson for Limbaugh's listeners why anyone who doesn't support Bush is insane and should be killed.

A shotgun stock to Rove's jaw, and then handcuffing, would have been more effective and sent a better message than the little passion play that lady put on.

[EFerrari]

46. Maybe if you stop listening to Rush these fantasies of violence will subside.

[tomreedtoon]

70. What Rush? I listened to ordinary citizens giggling...

...at the poseur pretending to be a brave revolutionary.

Code Pink is a joke. Symbolic protests are pointless.

And you should be very wary of completely discarding violence as an appropriate tool, especially if McCain steals the election. That cute little post about everyone going to Washington to "peacefully protest" that the Swanson dude talked about...will be the first field test of the Army's microwave "pain gun." There will be no protest. There will be dead would-be protesters. And that's the result of your nonviolence.

[EFerrari]

71. If you think symbols are pointless, you are clueless.

And there's never been any struggle in this country where people didn't get dead.

[sabrina 1]

41. Well, she got closer to hand-cuffing him than

Congress has ~ he ignores subpoenas, a judge rules against his excuses, and still Congress hasn't sent out the Federal Marshals to bring him in. They haven't even threatened to do that.

I wonder if the public was polled on the question 'who do you take more seriously, Congress or Code Pink, what the results would be. Code Pink only needs 12% approval rating to beat Congress.

[philly_bob]

57. Handcuffing someone against their will is violent. n/t

[Indenturedebtor]

38. Well they've done more than I have today

so who am I to judge?

I think that this is great :D

[Lilith Velkor]

59. I want this one

[Nambe]

29. The bush people and their families must live in fear every day.

10s of thousands of people have had their lives fractured by them. I doubt if they go into public on a regular routine. A grieving parent or spouse could easily interrupt that routine.
I hope I am right.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

53. You hope someone hurts a member of the Bush family????

Are you serious?

David

[Occulus]

56. Go reread what he was responding to

and then stop putting words in other people's mouths.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

60. Stop with the emotional reactions.

Here it is, "The bush people and their families must live in fear every day. A grieving parent or spouse could easily interrupt that routine. I hope I am right." What other way is there to possibly interpret what he meant? In fairness though I asked what the poster meant. How does a question put words in anyone's mouth?


David

[Occulus]

62. "What other way is there to possibly interpret what he meant?"

Try rereading the whole exchange and maybe you'll figure it out. Here's a hint, though: the answer you're looking for involves an angry or grieving parent or spouse making a citizen's arrest- you know, like in the OP.

Not violence. Nobody mentioned violence.... except you.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

63. Yeah I'm sure that Laura Bush is concerned about someone attempting a citizens arrest.

That's logical.

David

[EFerrari]

64. And we should fill our days with what Laura is concerned with.

Because after she ran over her boyfriend and stopped dealing, she became an American icon.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

66. Could you please try and follow along?

[EFerrari]

65. That's right. They have built their own prison.

Hell, Bush couldn't go anywhere in the world without shutting the town down.

That's what you get when you're a murderous, torturing, corrupt felon.

[skyounkin]

35. It's sad that

Code Pink has more courage than most members of congress.

[Xenotime]

68. "treason"?!? you have to be fucking shitting me!!

Has this world lost it's mind?

[Le Taz Hot]

44. OK, this needs to be a national effort.

Every time this MF goes out in public, somebody needs to attempt to handcuff him and make a citizen's arrest -- a perfectly legal process, by the way.

This vermin has some serious karma coming his way but he desperately needs a little temporal justice in the meantime.

[John Kerry VonErich]

48. Actually and surprisingly no.

I am really shock that no charges was pressed. I believe she had perfect intent on doing so, BUT handcuffs are a no no. It's one of those dumb laws where you can own but no use things (like brass knucks, etc). She's very lucky she wasn't charged with attepmted kidnapping since handcuffs were in play. Just one of those wrong thing for the right reason episodes.

[goforit]

49. Alot of pissed off people Rove has created. Oh well...no tears for the sucker.

[newtothegame]

50. I hope he wasn't paid...

He was paid $40,000 to speak here at the University of Iowa and the protestors shouted him down, thus allowing the PIG to just sit up there and grin. I'm all for protesting, but he didn't even have to SPEAK to get his $40,000 because the protestors wouldn't let him; at least let him show himself for the Repug PIG he is.

[specimenfred1984]

51. I hear if Rove just supports Obama he'll be redeemed

Read it here on DU the other day when another war criminal was offered redemption.

[brendan120678]

52. An error in the news story...

I don't think that Rove was ever Chief of Staff to Bush - only a Deputy Chief of Staff and Special Advisor.

[EFerrari]

54. You're right. n/t

[NeoTheo]

58. Gee, somebody acted like an American

and tried to do what our spineless congress is too busy cowering to do. You don't see that much these days.

[petgoat]

61. My CongressQuisling Won't even Appear in Public to Campaign

Fucking wimp. Scared of Bush and scared of the people.

Is this a Democracy?

[GeneralCobra]

69. Fox News

It's not a wonder he works for Fox News.