Truth Revealed- Direct Order From White House Lead To DENVER 3 Removal At Bush Appearance

[kpete]

Denver 3 name Bush staffers
By Bruce Finley
Denver Post Staff Writer
Article Last Updated: 03/02/2007

Alex Young and Leslie Weise, filed a federal suit claiming that for political reasons they were kicked out of a 2005 town meeting with President Bush held in Denver. White House staffers directed two men serving as bouncers at a 2005 Denver appearance by President Bush to eject three activists from the public event, the bouncers said under oath today.

It was the first time in the long-running controversy over the barring of the so-called "Denver Three" from the Bush event that specific White House officials have been named as having been involved in the ejection.

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The bouncers were being questioned in a lawsuit claiming three activists were kicked out of the public event for political reasons.

According to attorneys for both sides in the lawsuit, the bouncers said that the two White House staffers directed one of the bouncers, Michael Casper, to please ask them to leave, referring to the three activists, and Casper did so.

more at:
http://www.denverpost.com/rockies/ci_5341085

[EFerrari]

1. About time this was made public. Good for the Post!

K&R

[Rockholm]

6. Wait, but what about Anna Nicole?

Sadly, this little piece of wonderful news will not see the light of day.

[EFerrari]

8. Be the media.

:hi:

[Jeanette in FL]

9. Exactly

Since we don't have one, we have to do the work ourselves.

[EFerrari]

14. Paul Thompson who put together the 9/11 timeline set a great example.

We have to do the work. :toast:

[Richard Steele]

2. Bit by bit, the lies and fascist mindset are exposed. recommended

[wicket]

3. K & R

:kick:

[MADem]

4. Man, their childish insistence on friendly crowds is going to bite them in the ass

They'll have to limit their games to private, invitation only events...and the media doesn't like to cover those...no drama:

The Secret Service later investigated whether a Republican volunteer committed a crime of impersonating a federal agent. The U.S. Attorney's office declined to press charges, giving no explanation.

Democratic lawmakers requested an investigation.

Federal judges eventually ordered Casper, a federal Government Services Administration employee, and Klinkerman, an auto worker who led Denver-area Young Republicans, to submit to a legal deposition.

The deposition was limited to two questions: Who told the bouncers to eject the thee guests? And what were the bouncers told?

The Bush administration has run into similar trouble elsewhere after critics were ejected from Bush appearances.

People in North Dakota complained they'd been put on a list of guests who should not be allowed to enter an event in 2005. And the ACLU filed a case on behalf of two West Virginia residents arrested in 2004 after refusing to remove anti-Bush T-shirts at a Bush campaign event.

The ACLU has looked into whether there was a pattern of illegally preventing critics from speaking at Bush public forums.

The Denver Three case could set a precedent for how exclusive a White House event can be. During the administration of the elder President Bush in the early 1990s, a federal court of appeals in Missouri held that White House staffers can exclude people from presidential events if those running the event believe the people are likely to be disruptive.

[Joe Chi Minh]

12. Like it did when Bush went to Ireland, and the female reporter

wouldn't be cowed by his threatening demeanour, but kept asking him uncomfortable questions. He found it was a big, wide world out there, and the people he had to deal with were long past reading "My Pet Goat".

[MADem]

13. My favorite headline from that disastrous Irish trip

On edit: It's the double-entendre that appeals, not the dire warning.

[Joe Chi Minh]

19. Yep.Though I didn't get it, until you mentioned it.

[Lasher]

15. I wish I could watch a rerun of that interview.

It gave me perspective on just what a pack of lapdogs our US journalists have become.

[MADem]

20. Here you go.

Click through to the Carole Coleman interview, requires REALPLAYER http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0624/primetime.html

Here it is in GOOGLE VIDEO: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7808409601322156924&q=carole+coleman%2C+bush%2C+RTE&hl=en

Enjoy the stroll down memory lane.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Well, well. Good to know it came from paid WH staffers.

[gratuitous]

7. But what's the penalty?

There should be the harshest possible penalties meted out for this kind of denial of civil rights. The Denver 3 had barely gotten into the building, they had valid passes for the event, and they were excluded based solely on the say-so of a Bush administration staffer who didn't care for the bumper sticker on the car in which they arrived at the venue.

Of course, once the event is over, the Denver 3 will never again have the chance to see, do or say what they may have contemplated that day. They can't be made whole by being allowed in to another gathering. The staffer or staffers who so boldly stripped these citizens of their rights should go to jail for a minimum of 10 years, and the good little Nazi bouncers should probably go away for about 2/3 that time.

[appal_jack]

11. yes, and more...

B*sh swore an oath to uphold the Constitution.

His (taxpayer-paid) staff willfully violated the 1st Amendment by excluding citizens from a public, taxpayer/government-funded event.

To me, this is an impeachable offense (yeah, I know, only one of many, and perhaps not the most grievous, but c'mon Congress, throw us a bone and investigate at least a few of them already).

-app

Edited for clarity beyond what my general nausea at this administration's doings initially permitted.

[Joe Chi Minh]

10. What does Bush know about Law? (I mean apart from its being

irrelevant when applied to him.) Have not most politicians, most lawmakers, had some, if not full, professional training in law, as well as a legal specialisation? What training in law does he have? Even a foundation course in paralegal studies? What about administration?

How about Cheney? Does he have any training in either disciplines? I trust their training, such as it was, was not simply in Business Studies. Adam Smith warned very emphatically against having businessmen in government.

It's worse, of course, in the US, with its barmy military spending, because of the revolving door, through which politicians move on to become directors in the armaments industries, and vice versa. Apparently Bushco is no misnomer. Heck, our Tories are bad enough, but compared to your armaments scene, ours make pop-guns, so the desire of your right-wing governments to make war is endemic. Goes with the territory. You need unrepealable laws proscribing such movements between government and the armaments industries, if you want a peaceful future.

[roody]

17. Bush couldn't get into law school.

[PhilipShore]

16. The war protestors

[Herman74]

18. Hey, I like that "Sophie Scholl: The Final Days" movie too...

...there's a young lady who wouldn't have put up with Bushevik crap.

Hope that the ACLU is ultimately victorious here.