Posted on 11/01/2006 1:17:09 PM PST by Allen In Texas Hill Country
FREEDOM OF SPEECH: Steve Howards, 54, and his wife were walking their son to piano practice in Beaver Creek, Colo., and were surprised to see Vice President Dick Cheney on the street chatting with citizens. "Many of us fantasize what would we do if we had the opportunity to really tell Mr. Bush or Mr. Cheney how we feel," Howards said, so as he passed by he told Cheney, "I think your policies in Iraq are reprehensible." After dropping off his son, a Secret Service agent approached Howards and asked, "Did you assault the vice president?" Howards said no, and made it clear he didn't even attempt to touch Cheney. "If this had happened, I would think if they were doing their job, I would have been face-down in the concrete five or 10 minutes earlier," he said later. Still, he was handcuffed and jailed, with the Secret Service demanding he be charged with harassment. The Eagle County District Attorney dropped the charge. Howards has filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing Secret Service agent Virgil D. Reichle Jr. with civil rights violations. (Rocky Mountain News) ...Dick Cheney's America: where exercising one's rights has become an act of courage.
Source?
Darn... I was hoping these people would have been tortured :)
dude. this is such a lame post. no link. no source. nuthin.
But then again, is it true hillary's motorcade struck and injured a police officer and kept going?
Got links??
Whats the source???
sounds like cow flop
Ship him to Iraq!
Otherwise he's a mild mannered leftwinglunatic who probably shouldn't be allowed within 100 yards of the President or Vice President ~ guy drips venom.
The account is inaccurate. The guy was rambling around acting weird before he said anything.
The only source for this story is Steve Howards.
This is an old and thoroughly debunked story. The man in question is an activitist lawyer who attempted to use a chance opportunity for his political purposes.
No, It is not accurate.
This was covered at length by the local press who revealed the rest of the story. I will try to find it and post the actual facts of the incident.
PF
OH Pleaseee sound like Dick Cheney was being harrassed by this LOSER NOT way around
Thought such stuff required a source - or is FR going to become a forum for slander by anyone out there?
A friend said it came from ThisIsTrue. If its a web site I didn't bother going there.
Isn't that what the Secret Service is supposed to do? How did they know this guy didn't have a gun? The way the liberals HATE Cheney - how could they take a chance that this guy was harmless?
Sounds like a pansy to me.
I remember this story, I believe we saw it many many months ago.
I would have done one worse. I would have nailed him in the parts with my knee and said, "Oh, excuse me," and move on. But I'm just like that. Why give the guy his 15 minutes when one could nail him on the sly?
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