Monday, November 21, 2005

ACLU suing over ouster from event

Remember Bush's town hall meetings about Social Security that only had Bush supporters at them? It turns out that some others occasionally tried to go and in at least one instance were removed from the event.

The ACLU is taking up the case of 2 people ejected from a tax-payer funded presidential appearance in Denver on March 21, 2005.
The lawsuit says that at other presidential appearances around the country, people with views opposing the president's have been denied entry, ejected or arrested. "This case isn't about just a couple of people here in Denver," Mark Silverstein, [legal director of the Denver ACLU office] said. "It's really about a principle, about the rights and liberties of us all."

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