Freedom of Speech In Action: Woman With “McCain=Bush” Sign Kicked Off of Public Property

By Eric on July 7, 2008

As policed removed protestors from his Virginia speech, President Bush, in the spirt of July 4th, proudly reminded the audience that “we believe in free speech in America.”

Eh, not so much:

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was in Denver, CO, today for a town hall meeting. The event, at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, was billed as “open to the public.” Yet Carol Kreck, a 61-year-old librarian carrying a “McCain=Bush” sign, was taken away by police for trespassing.
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Kreck received a ticket for trespassing and her court date is July 23. McCain has apparently taken a page from the Bush playbook. In 2005, the White House had three activists expelled from a Denver public forum with President Bush because it was the administration’s policy “to exclude potentially disruptive guests from Bush’s appearances nationwide.”

Watch the befuddled woman be escorted from city property for holding a sign outside of a public event.

This is Freedom of Speech in George Bush’s America.

Tags: 2008, First Amendment, George W. Bush, John McCain

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