When King George travels, liberties suffer

The Capital Times ^ | May 13, 2004 | John Nichols

[armyboy]

Look pal, When a VIP comes to town stuff gets disrupted, it life. This is about the only country where you could write this about it's leader and not get into trouble. I'm fighting for your right to say those things. if it wasn't for strong leaders like President Bush there would be no America to defend.
So F you and the horse you rode in on ,,I,,

[RightthinkinAmerican]

You show the maturity I would expect. You're a racist, too judging by the photo. (Would be the claim your type makes). What made you this way, was it a poor mother figure?

[freeeee]

This writer and his "imperial subjects" should be stacked naked in a pyramid, with liberal feminist environmentalists panties stuck on their heads.

Your concern for free speech is touching.

[steve-b]

I see nothing here that did not take place during Clinton.

So, basically, your argument is that Dubya is just like Billzebubba?

[rabidralph]

The people along the route don't want him dead. BTW, the "King" traveled to Bethesda, MD on Wednesday and took Marine One, rather than his limo, which would have tied up early afternoon traffic on busy Wisconsin Avenue. He's not a king, he's considerate.

[Dane]

Before you get your panties in a wad

Takes one to know one.

[TBP]

Bump for later reading and comment.

[RightthinkinAmerican]

When you use his idiotic logic, Bush has to visit everyone in the town. The baby's sore he didn't get to spout his hate rhetoric at Dubya. It's obvious to people like us that he's visiting the TOWN, not everyone in it.

[freeeee]

Typical Bush-hater hypocrisy. I'm sure things went like clockwork when Clinton travelled.

Funny you should mention Clinton and hypocrisy in the same sentence.

I was thinking the of the same exact words.

[narby]

I'm sure you've forgotten Clinton's tying up Los Angeles International for an hour while he got a haircut on Air Force One.

Presidents cause disruptions.

The references to "royalty" in the article are disgusting and insulting.

[RightthinkinAmerican]

Your hate of free speech is obvious. You just attacked his, hypocrite.

[tiamat]

All right, look.

A few years ago, Al Gore visited my daughter's school.

Between the cops and his motercade and the Secret Service, it bound up our little town for hours.

( Not that Security was on it's game that day.. I worked at the school at the time, but because I'm tiny I wandered right past the check-point. They thought I was just another kid depsite my pectoral developement. Idiots. I didn't know Gore was even in the school til I got into the office)

When Presidents and Vice Presidents travel, things get shut down because they must.

I've looked at your profile. You state that "we are no longer a free country".

How so?

I don't get visited by a Block Captain. I'm not required to go to " political meetings" . Nobody has offered me an incentive to rat out my neighbors. The Men in Black have not visited my husband at ork. Nobody has messed with our bank-account. Unless I travel by air, I don't even get asked to show a photo ID. No one is bugging my phone. ( I know how to check) No one is sidling up to my daughter and asking her about how I vote. There is no curfew. I get to live where I want, work where I want, send my daughter to school where I want.

I do what I want, when I want.

What is YOUR problem?

[SuziQ]

Get over it. Presidents cause disruptions where ever they travel. Republicans AND Democrats.

Guess some folks just have a NEED to complain about anything President Bush does.

[Protagoras]

Freeom to not have hecklers shout you down was also employed by Bill. It's the sameol' sameol'.

So it's OK?

[freeeee]

Takes one to know one.

Were you taught to debate by a gaggle of schoolgirls?

[RightthinkinAmerican]

Dumbasses don't understand logic.

[Protagoras]

The sign's "dangerous" message, "FUGW," was incomprehensible to children and, no doubt, to many adults. Yet, it was still determined sufficiently unsettling to the royal procession that Van Den Bosch was slapped with a disorderly conduct ticket.

What's this all about?

[Sender]

Thank you. Always glad to help the poor oppressed subjects of the king.

[armyboy]

Good point

[conservonator]

A little whine from the cheese state :(