Shame on You BUSH!
Can't wait to hear how Hugh Hewitt spins this one for the administration!
An old lady, almost in tears, with the cameraman soothing her. She looked not the least bit threatening.
"Harrassing"? Well, that's in the eye of the beholder. Do foreign dictators have a right not to be harrassed now? Is Washington D.C. now a Free-Speech Denied Zone?
As for the comment "your days are numbered", again I think it is a huge stretch to construe that as a threat. More of a classic Marxist pronouncement on the inevitability of history, or something.
I'm not shocked that this is being brought, but saddened. It is unworthy of our Republic to punish people for merely embarrassing tyrants. "The right to petition for redress of grievances". I would be a very hard jury-person to convince in this trial.
The most fitting punishment would be a firing of who ever was in charge of security. That was way too close to our POTUS for comfort!
The United "Door Mat" of America...
Come on over and scrape your feet globalists.
check this out:
http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-4-21/40651.html
Wiping our collective asses with the first ammendment. Why not, the second has pretty much already been flushed.
Obviously the federal government considers this a much more dangerous crime than illegal entry through our borders, SS fraud, welfare fraud and documents forgery that every illegal worker is doing now.
47 is old?
She should be given a Medal Of FReedom.
AKA the Enemedia!!!
Time for a REAL security crackdown on so called "reporters"!
"... now arrest this witch for making my Chi-Com guest feel bad about how he treats dissent in his country ... "
Sometimes it seems like this Administration does things that DUhers could not improve on to make Bush look bad.
Can't wait to hear how Hugh Hewitt spins this one for the administration!
Some price to pay is essential here. Specially reporters should not abuse their special privileges.
Unworthy is the perfect adjective. Is that very far from a similar attempt to prosecute a fervently dissenting editorial or severely critical book of this ''superlative''president?
BOOS ET AL. v. BARRY, MAYOR OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ET AL.
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
No. 86-803.
Justice O'Connor:
See, e. g., 118 Cong. Rec. 27112-27113 (1972). At the same time, the history reflects a substantial concern with the effect of any such legislation on First Amendment freedoms. For example, the original provision contained a prohibition on willful acts or attempts to "intimidate, coerce, threaten, or harass . . . or obstruct a foreign official," as does the current version of 112. In a portion with similarities to the display clause, however, it also punished anyone who
"parades, pickets, displays any flag, banner, sign, placard, or device, or utters any word, phrase, sound, or noise, for the purpose of intimidating, coercing, threatening, or harassing any foreign official or obstructing him in the performance of his duties." Act for Protection of Foreign Official Guests of the United States, Pub. L. 92-539, Title III, 301(c)(1), 86 Stat. 1070, 1073 (1972).
Concerned with the effects that such a provision might have on First Amendment freedoms, the Senate added a new subsection, which directed:
"[N]othing contained in this section shall be construed or applied so as to abridge the exercise of rights guaranteed under the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States." 301(e), 86 Stat. 1073.
The prosecution of Wang Wenyi promises to be difficult.
The charges should be dropped.
She should not be made to pay for a failed security check.
She was admitted to the Rose garden, and as such has first amendment rights if she is a US citizen. As a pubbie I am glad she spoke up, and double glad because she was morally right to do so. Often these affairs are over saving the whales , etc, but this one was genuine speech stating what our government cannot, as it tries to woo China onto the US side, re: Iran.
Of course if Mr. Pinochet of Chile had been here this would have been encouraged and not prosecuted.
"...with the cameraman soothing her."
That cameraman was desperately trying to get her to shut the heck up.
President Bush should give this Person(Heckler) the Medal of honor for what she did at that staged affaire at the White House.President Bush should be embarrassed to have invited the Chinese leader to the White House.
Frankly, I'm not in favor of using a gathering like this to heckle a guest; I hate it when people do it to our people, and I probably wouldn't do it myself.
But then, again, "threatening the President of China"; could there be anything cooler than that on your resume?
She should be charged with disorderly conduct and the judge should throw it out. And her friends should treat her to beer and pizza; they should have the warrant framed and hung up on the wall. I would be more proud of that than any degree.