Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:10:54 -0500 Subject: FW: Man arrested for criticizing Cheney From: Kate Hale <halecl@uwec.edu> Message-ID: <C149392E.9E10%halecl@uwec.edu>
Colleagues,
I thought you would want to hear about this.
Time for a teach-in on civil liberties?
Kate
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From: Will Fantle <wfantle@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:07:59 -0500
To: canus lupes <canus.lupes@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Man arrested for criticizing Cheney
these bastards have to go, this is not America.
- wf
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Charlie Brennan, Rocky Mountain News October 3, 2006
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5039230,0
0.html
<http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5039230
,00.html> A Denver-area man filed a lawsuit today against a member of the
Secret Service for causing him to be arrested after he approached Vice
President Dick Cheney in Beaver Creek this summer and criticized him for his
policies concerning Iraq.
Attorney David Lane said that on June 16, Steve Howards was walking his
7-year-old son to a piano practice, when he saw Cheney surrounded by a group
of people in an outdoor mall area, shaking hands and posing for pictures
with several people.
According to the lawsuit filed at U.S. District Court in Denver, Howards and
his son walked to about two-to-three feet from where Cheney was standing,
and said to the vice president, "I think your policies in Iraq are
reprehensible," or words to that effect, then walked on.
Ten minutes later, according to Howards' lawsuit, he and his son were
walking back through the same area, when they were approached by Secret
Service agent Virgil D. "Gus" Reichle Jr., who asked Howards if he had
"assaulted" the vice president. Howards denied doing so, but was nonetheless
placed in handcuffs and taken to the Eagle County Jail.
The lawsuit states that the Secret Service agent instructed that Howards
should be issued a summons for harassment, but that on July 6 the Eagle
County District Attorney's Office dismissed all charges against Howards.
The lawsuit filed today alleges that Howards was arrested in retaliation for
having exercised his First Amendment right of free speech, and that his
arrest violated his Fourth Amendment protection against unlawful seizure
Will Fantle
wfantle@sbcglobal.net
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