Bush slammed for charging Hu protester

WORLDNETDAILY.COM ^ | April 25, 2006 | unknown

[jw777]

Yes. In response to the question of who is in charge of the Justice Department.

[inquest]

He's head of the executive branch. He's in charge of federal prosecutors. He can order them to drop the charges, to say nothing of his power to grant reprieves and pardons.

[Gator113]

Finally...somebody on this thread with a brain!!

These Bush hating Freepers are grating my nerves.

[Zhang Fei]

The best thing would be for her to go quietly to jail, and then have Dems run campaign ads about how Bush pushed to have her jailed in order to please his newfound Chinese friend. I don't think so. This kind of stuff is dynamite. Even Dems don't like the idea of jailing people for talking. I think she'll go free, even though she would make a bigger point by going quietly to jail. It would shame Bush and certainly push China's favorability ratings below their currently abysmal levels.

[inquest]

I'm merely saying the laws on the books should be enforced, all laws.

But there's the rub. Her actions were not in violation of the law, at least not in violation of the law that's being invoked against her. She's charged with harassing and threatening a foreign official, which is patently ridiculous.

[Wallace T.]

When China holds hundreds of billions of dollars in U.S. Treasury securities and runs an enormous trade surplus with our country, Wenyi Wang is worse than Cindy Sheehan, at least in the eyes of our leaders. We were made very aware in the last decade of the ties Chinese businessmen and companies cultivated with Democratic politicians. I do not doubt that they work both sides of the aisle.

[jazusamo]

I believe that is your opinion and maybe you're right, I don't know. It seems the Justice Dept. doesn't agree.

[Praxeus]

LoL.. dang, that looks bad. What context did he do that in?

It looks like:

"Hey.. hey.. hold on a minute. Where do you think YOU'RE goin', Hong Kong Phooey..."

LoL.

[plain talk]

WASHINGTON - A woman accused of heckling Chinese President Hu Jintao during a White House appearance was charged Friday in federal court with willfully intimidating, coercing, threatening and harassing a foreign official.

[NCLaw441]

Oops-- Shehand should be Shehan.

[Doe Eyes]

Yes. In response to the question of who is in charge of the Justice Department.

So the President is in no way responsible for his appointees?

[inquest]

Get the facts straight before launching into your strawman rant. She was charged with "willfully intimidating, coercing, threatening and harassing a foreign official." (Source) Note that that has nothing to do with press passes, or public events, or anything else. Under the interpretation of the law that they're using against her, the same charge could be applied to anyone who says such a thing to a foreign leader outside an official event as well as during one.

[RightWhale]

The First Amendment

somewhere in there is a reference to peaceable. her charge is something like disturbing the peace.

[Esther Ruth]

Sometimes you gotta wonder who's side he's really on.

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Well, we all better do are wondering quickly because someone might just come up with a law that forbids worker bee sheeple from wondering what side the politicians are on. Much smoother transition to communism that way.

[NCLaw441]

You said: Get the facts straight before launching into your strawman rant. She was charged with "willfully intimidating, coercing, threatening and harassing a foreign official." (Source) Note that that has nothing to do with press passes, or public events, or anything else. Under the interpretation of the law that they're using against her, the same charge could be applied to anyone who says such a thing to a foreign leader outside an official event as well as during one.
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Whoa, easy on the attack, big guy! I don't rant, I discuss. First, be clear that I support what this lady said to Hu. My problem is with the time, place and manner of the statements offered. She was not credentialed to speak at the event, and should not have done so. My concern with what she did is not content-related, contrary to the apparent position taken by most others on this thread. If we are to allow her to do this, then we must be prepared to let those with positions we disagree with shout down other speakers at official events. I support civil disobedience, but those who engage in it have to be prepared to pay the consequences of doing so. I agree that she should be punished only lightly, but one cannot simply ignore her actions and hope to be able to complain the next time he anti-war idiots disrupte say, Bush and Blair in the rose garden, or the president during his state of the union, etc. My points were not strawmen, as you state, they were examples of what we must be prepared to allow if this outburst is treated as authorized by the First Amendment.

[ProCivitas]

However this turns out, one things very likely:
Wenyi Wang will be a 'leading indicator' about the prospects for this administration and the Republican party in the '06 elections.

[TBP]

Which one is hte police state again? The difference is getting smaller and smaller.

[TomGuy]

Well, we all better do are wondering quickly because someone might just come up with a law that forbids worker bee sheeple from wondering what side the politicians are on. Much smoother transition to communism that way.

CFR, ala McCain, tried some of that with the FEC, but the FEC shot it down. McCain supposedly has some bill worming its way through the Senate that could impose 'restrictions' on Internet. You can bet Hillary 'the Internet needs a gatekeeper' Clinton would be for it. And so would John 'Swift Boat Vets sank my Presidental bid boat' Kerry would jump on board.

We have a situation where a journalist in front of a microphone is arrested. How soon before similar 'events' happen with Internet forum posters and commentaries?

[jwh_Denver]

" Those evil Commies are killing people for profit, and that isn't going to stand for long with a Bush White House."

He hasn't said word one about it and I don't think he'll ever bring it up.