Elderly hippie arrested for protesting at airport

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I guess some of you are Just About Ready For Euros To Stop Ragging About How Much The US Sucks, Thanks, but this really stood out.

http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1863097

The prosecutors say that Mr Bursey was not in a special “free-speech zone” that was set up for protesters half a mile from the hangar.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 23 June 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

don't forget to look over your shoulder every now and then.

― Stuart (Stuart), Monday, 23 June 2003 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha! I know Brett. He's a good guy. He's also a hard working organizer for a variety of local progressive causes, but, yeah, he's pretty much an old hippie, long gray ponytail, running to fat, etc. I don't think he'd dispute that at all. By Euro standards, Brett Bursey is very center-left.

Strom Thurmond, jr., the 29 year old US attorney general (just recently out of law school himself. Wouldn't you like your Daddy to get you a job like that?) is making an example out of Brett, basically. The charges keep Brett from organizing and intimidate others. Bursey's hearing (I've heard it won't be a jury trial) is soon--this week or next. If anyone's interested, I'll try to do a little on the scene reporting.

― Paul Ess, Monday, 23 June 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

This is nothing new - people holding anti-Bush signs wherever Bush shows up have been told to take them down, and have been escorted off the premises - it's a pattern wherever Bush goes.

Bush showed up for last year's St. Patrick's Day parade (that fuck). Of course he's too chickenshit to march in the thing - he just whizzed by in his limo.

Some of us were so offended by The Monarch's hijacking of OUR PARADE that a group of us got together to protest. Access was heavily restricted, and some of us got thrown out for having signs with sticks nailed to the back them. I and some other people got through by wrapping cloth banners under our clothes, and whipping them out when Bush came by.

It pissed me off so bad. The whole parade crowd was taken over by non-Irish Bush supporters who were bussed in from the remote burbs.

All of this took place IN A PUBLIC PARK. Fuck you, Bush.

There's some dude sitting in jail in Indiana for running down the street with a UN flag.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Monday, 23 June 2003 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

it may not be politically correct but i can't say i'm at all opposed to the arrest of elderly hippies just on general principle.

― otto midnight, Tuesday, 24 June 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/04/INGPQ40MB81.DTL

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

(mostly the same story again in other places, but the line about the FBI's "belief that dissident speech and association should be prevented because they were incipient steps toward the possible ultimate commission of act which might be criminal" scares the living shit out of me)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

okay, wait -- Strom Thurmond had his son at age 70?!?!?

― Catty (Catty), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

That Van Winkle fuck needs to be shot in the face. FWIW the Secret Service is full of chumps and boorish incompetents. Not all of them, just a lot of them.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

This article is adapted from one that appeared in the Dec. 15 issue of the American Conservative.

This is my favorite part of the entire article.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

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