Is this where we are headed? (Or what happens if you mess with Cheney)

[No2W2004]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=2&u=/ap/cvn_man_detained

NEW YORK - A 21-year-old Yale student, posing as a volunteer at the Republican National Convention, got within 10 feet of Vice President Dick Cheney and shouted anti-war statements before being dragged away, authorities said Tuesday.

Thomas Frampton was released on $50,000 bail and told to stay 100 feet from Cheney and President Bush. He also was ordered to give back a red convention volunteer's shirt he used to get into the arena, along with any convention passes.

A complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan said Secret Service agents spotted Frampton carrying a "Bush-Cheney '04" placard on the walkway behind Cheney's box at 9:30 p.m. Monday. One agent instructed him to keep moving.

Frampton began to move away, then turned back in the direction of Cheney's box and began shouting anti-Bush administration slogans. He then started to climb over a low wall separating Cheney's box from the walkway and got within 10 feet of Cheney before the Secret Service agents tried to restrain him.

Federal prosecutor John M. Hillebrecht said Frampton went through elaborate efforts to get close to Cheney, including going through training sessions with convention organizers, "all the while masquerading as a Republican supporter of the president."

Defense attorney Henry E. Mazurek described Frampton as a model citizen and Yale junior with a near-perfect grade-point average.

[bobroberts]

1. would have been the same eight years ago

if it had been Gore's box...the Secret Service is funny that way

[No2W2004]

7. agreed

the SS would have jumped on him for trying to get too close, but would they have thrown him in jail & set bail so high?

[BlueJazz]

2. I'm sure the Dude knew that he was gonna'....

get in trouble but I admire him greatly for his actions.
He represents the frustration out there....

[stellanoir]

3. he should countersue on the grounds that

crashcart has endangered his future with his preemptive war and looting the treasury with his no bid cost plus contracts and war profiteering. He has condemned this young man to economic servitude and potential mandatory military service. He had a right to speak his mind. Hope he can afford the fine.

[miss_kitty]

4. man. "... masquerading as a Republican supporter of the president"

that is bad. they're REALLY pissed because he duped them. that is his real crime. it is incomprensible to me that some people can be beaten, stripped down, attacked by guard dogs, sexually abused and humiliated and tortured with loud music under the auspices of this government, while another class of people is protected from being shouted at while in a security bubble. that is sick-making

they'll mess him up so bad for shouting slogans, he'll be lucky if he is able to sell pencils on a street corner.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. they're REALLY pissed because he duped them<<

They duped an entire country. Tit for tat.

[miss_kitty]

6. well they are from the "do as we say, not as we do"

school of philosophy...