What does Cheney fear? Little old ladies with sticks...

[walldude]

I saw this, and even though it's really a 1st amendment violation and nothing to laugh about I just couldn't get the image of this little old lady whapping Cheney on the head with her little flagstick. It struck me as funny. Make sure you click the "Quad City Times"link to see the brave policeman gathering the deadly weapons.


"...Berta was carrying a sign that said: “No, You Can’t Have My Rights, I’m Still Using Them.”
And she was also holding a little American flag on a stick.
But the police wouldn’t let her, or anyone else, carry the flags.
“I’m going to have to take your stick,” one officer told her, she says.
She describes him as “very courteous, and very embarrassed.”
“I said, ‘I know you’re just doing your job,’ and he just kind of nodded,” she says.

Berta says she went along with the request because she wanted to keep the protest positive. “Had we resisted, there would have been a really ugly picture in the paper,” she says. (For a picture of Berta holding her sign next to the police officer, go to the Quad City Times article.) "
http://progressive.org/mag_mc073106

[RDU Socialist]

1. well cheney is a poltroon through and through

[Placebo]

2. totally

it's so sad

[longship]

6. Thank you

poltroon, one of those wonderful words.

pol·troon (pŏl-trūn') pronunciation
n.

A base coward: “Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers . . . and magazine poltroons who perpetuate this absurd creation” (Nina Totenberg).

[RDU Socialist]

7. i'm trying to get it back into the popular lexicon

it used to be one of the most harsh swears in the early years of this country's existence.

[hootinholler]

14. Patriot or Poltroon?

Has a certain ring to it.

-Hoot

[Hardrada]

3. I was the one with the large peace flag on a pole

and I didn't give up flag or pole. I said I was NOT going to try to see Cheney and the police desisted in trying to take these from me. I walked down the hill a little and stood by the curb so the passing traffic could see the peace flag and others with their signs stood alongside and a number of drivers honked their horns in support. And, yes, it was a hot day.

[RDU Socialist]

4. good for you not being a poltroon like our dickhead veep

we need less poltroonery in our leadership.

[walldude]

5. Ah.. the media strikes again..

Nice job though :toast:

[MagickMuffin]

8. Thanks for Posting this important information

I decided to do my blog on this. It's hard to believe that Dick can be so afraid of Freedom of Expression, and people waving the American Flag no less.

What a PUTZ!

Hardrada, Thank You for standing up to the Police State. It definitely takes courage in this day and age! Several protesters regretted not standing up for their Rights, but feared how the Press would portray them. I'm sure they would have stood their ground if not for that Fact.

I guess the Terrorist won, since our Freedoms have been taken away, they really have no reason to hate us anymore:sarcasm:

Of course our Freedoms were being taken away, way before 9-11!

[soup]

9. As If

Cheney's motorcade was going to stop and he would get out of his vehicle and chat with these people. Yeah, sure, that'd happen.

Headline Should read: "Bloodsucker fears wooden stake"

Here's a copy of the photo from the article - Had to save this one because this is just plain NUTS:

photo credit: Jeff Cook/QUAD-CITY TIMES

[ShaniqaPie]

10. The crappy stinky poltroon!

Sticks? The Constitution guarantees People the right to carry guns! When did it get re-written to only apply when government officials aren't anywhere around. Wouldn't it be ironic if someone belted him upside the head with a 90-year old lady's walker?

S.

[Mnemosyne]

11. K and R n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

12. Truth, reality and most of all real honest to God...Justice.

He hates it when he gets caught lying and stealing.

[lectrobyte]

13. And the Tee Vee today was having a Castrogasm about how good it

was going to be for Bush to overthrow Communism in Cuba. Good thing we are going to help them overthrow tyranny so they can be a free country like the USA. :sarcasm: Go America! USA! USA!

[elehhhhna]

15. THOUGHT CRIMES!

[walldude]

16. Kick for the day crew...