A very interesting story has been circulating through the Denver press about three people being ejected from a Bush road show meeting here about Social Security because of a bumper sticker on their car.
The Secret Service says it is investigating the claims of three people who claim they were removed from President Bush’s town hall meeting on Social Security last week after being singled out because of a bumper sticker on their car.
The three said they had obtained tickets through the office of Rep. Bob Beauprez, R-Colo., had passed through security and were preparing to take their seats when they were approached by what they thought was a Secret Service agent who asked them to leave.
It’s finally starting to get a little bit of national coverage from the “liberal” media, and even the White House is starting to get pestered by this and other GOP agenda-type issues at their press conferences.
Members of the local GOP group who witnessed the event are denying their role in the incident to the local conservative paper, the Rocky Mountain News.
Klinkerman also was identified as being involved in the incident by Karen Bauer, one of the three removed. She confronted him about it at a Young Republicans event Tuesday night.
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.
But Klinkerman, 31, of Thornton, told the Rocky Mountain News that he never said anything to Bauer and Weise about the Secret Service.
This incident is supposedly under investigation by the Secret Service, yet they seem to be leaving-out people who would be crucial to interview during an investigation process. At least I think it would be a good idea to interview witnesses?
The Secret Service is reportedly investigating whether a Republican staff member illegally impersonated a federal agent when he removed Alex Young, Leslie Weise and Karen Bauer before President Bush’s March 21 Social Security forum in Denver.
The Tylers, both 57, say the same man who threw Young, Weise and Bauer out of the president’s taxpayer-financed public meeting threatened them with arrest but didn’t banish them.
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Bush’s spin doctors, it seems, would have Americans believe that any old Republican Party member gets to wear a lapel pin and an earpiece at an official White House event.
They would also have Americans believe any old volunteer can throw people out of a taxpayer-financed meeting and threaten to arrest those who stay.
Maybe that works for the president’s propaganda preachers.
Max and Susan Tyler - for two - aren’t buying it.
The latest new twist to this story which is where it really starts to become very interesting is that more and more people are starting to speak-out about it as the same thing has happened to them at completely seperate events in locations across the country.
He was in Fargo - always a hotbed of dangerous political insurgency in this country - prior to Bush’s Feb. 3 appearance in a Social Security town meeting.
There he blackballed more than 40 North Dakotans, placing their names on a list to be denied tickets and excluded from the event because they could not be certified as Kool-Aid-drinking Bushies.
He was in Tucson on March 21 when he refused access to the Social Security town meeting to ticket-holder Steven Gerner, who was found guilty of wearing a University of Arizona Young Democrats T-shirt.
And he was in Portsmouth, N.H., on Feb. 16 when he and another guy dressed to look like a Secret Service agent with a serious weight problem ejected two middle-aged women from a sparsely attended Social Security town meeting there.
I suppose to the average American, none of these events is really much to call home about; especially if you’ve voted for the current President. On the other hand, to someone who has opinions based on history, logic, and reason (not just me I hope!), it’s just further evidence to a much worse problem of the continued erosion of the First Amendment and other NeoCon related agendas. Keep in mind I’m someone who is still registered as an “open” voter and would have a hard time voting for a Democratic candidate provided I liked the Republican candidate more rather than sticking with party lines.
Today most people’s opinions of politics are based on very shallow facts or small blurbs which they’ve been spoon-fed by the “liberal” media. I can partially understand why based on my personal experience of public education– too much time is spent on the Civil War and memorizing dates and battles of said war rather than the American Revolution and why us Euro mutts and other nationalities fled their countries to the US, how our political system works, and other matters which should be very important to the average American.
I’m vastly under educated in this area myself and need to study it more, but the point I’m trying to get to here is that many people are not aware of the values that our country was created with by our founding fathers. In today’s conservative movement I can see them being interpreted as “liberal values”, however they are there for many good reasons which were generally created because of past oppression of the average citizen by various overstepping of powers in the past. I would probably elaborate on this a bit more with specific examples, but I’ll save that for another day.
Removing people from events who do not agree with your agenda is completely Un-American; especially if they are public government-related events
Yeah, Dude, WTF? You like McCain more than…who?
I like him more than Dubya.
McCain is too moderate to ever get the GOP nomination I think, and I certainly disagree with him in general more than typical Democratic candidates. Overall he’s not too shabby and not afraid to call out his own party when he thinks they are doing wrong, etc.