Three Denver residents yesterday charged that they were forcibly removed from one of President Bush's town meetings on Social Security because they displayed a bumper sticker on their car condemning the administration's Middle East policies....Kind of reminds you of the BC04 campaign, doesn't it? Except we're paying for this bullshit. Of course, as Pudentilla points out, if the "volunteers" or "staffers" are impersonating Secret Service agents, they're breaking the law. (Via TPM.)
Initially, the three believed Secret Service agents had grabbed them and ushered them out of the auditorium, Recht [their attorney] said. But he said that Lon Garner, the Secret Service agent in charge of the Denver office, told them the service investigated the matter and found it was a "Republican staffer" who removed them because they had a "No More Blood for Oil" bumper sticker on their car....
...a man in a blue suit told the three they had to leave and "in a physical, forcible way" escorted them out, refusing to explain why....
As the WaPo article points out, these shenanigans have happened elsewhere on the Privatalooza campaign trail. And you may remember an encounter a Memphis coffee shop owner had with someone claiming to be a secret service agent a couple of weeks ago. The alleged agent asked the shop owner not to put up any signs of protest in the window of his shop, which would be visible from the Privatalooza campaign stop. Others elsewhere reported similar encounters. But I'm sure we're not seeing a pattern here. And I'm sure all the "volunteers" or "staffers" were merely overzealous, misguided souls who aren't getting instructions from higher up the food chain. After all, Bush™, isn't known for top-down management structure or strict message-discipline.
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