http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.impeach05aug05,0,3963248.storyA blaring call for impeachment
Carroll group makes noise to get rid of Bush, but some aren't listeningBy Melissa Harris | Sun reporter
August 5, 2007
At a busy intersection in the bucolic and conservative town of Hampstead yesterday morning, seven people waved signs calling on Carroll County drivers to honk for President Bush's impeachment -- and yelled "thank you" to those who cursed at them. The honks and horn blasts from cars and trucks pierced the air at a rate of about two per minute. But nearby, an unlucky man who worked the night shift was trying to sleep. He called the police.
The protest organizer, Brad Brown, 27, of Westminster displayed his permit. Capt. Jay Gribbin of the Hampstead Police Department read Brown a transportation code that bans honking on highways for nonsafety reasons.
Brown agreed to move the small group to the northeast corner of Main Street and Gill Avenue so that most of the honking drivers were traveling away from the man's house. Brown didn't really mind. He was just tickled by all of the honking.
"In this county, I just can't believe it," said Brown, who borrowed the "honk for impeachment" idea from a Web site and organized a similar protest last weekend in Westminster. "It's just amazing. In Carroll County, of all places." Brown is leading a small contingent of peace protesters this summer at four stops in Carroll and Baltimore counties on his way to a nationwide pro-impeachment march in Washington next month.
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Helminiak, however, wondered whether the protesters had thought through the potential consequences of their call to action: "Then Richard Cheney would be our president." Brown's answer was on his T-shirt: Impeach Cheney too.
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