Man Arrested for Having Back Turned on Hillary Clinton

[JAW959]

I saw this on FP and thought I would share it with you all, kind of disturbing really.

(NATIONAL) -- Could it be the U.S. government thinks peaceful, civilian protest against government is fine on the streets of Cairo, Egypt but not on U.S. soil?

As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a speech at George Washington University yesterday condemning governments that arrest protestors and do not allow free expression - and lauding freedom of speech on the Internet - 71-year-old military veteran Ray McGovern was grabbed from the audience in plain view of her by police and an unidentified official in plain clothes and hustled out of the building and, according to McGovern and his supporters, was “brutalized and left bleeding in jail.”

What McGovern did was simply remain standing silently in the audience and turned his back on her as Secretary Clinton began her speech.

That was it.

McGovern, a veteran Army officer who also worked as a C.I.A. brown townyst for 27 years, was wearing Veterans for Peace t-shirt.

Blind-sided by security officers who pounced upon him, McGovern remarked, as he was hauled out the door, "So this is America?"

According to Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, attorney with the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, “For this peaceful expression of dissent, he ended up bruised, bloodied, arrested, and jailed. Secretary Clinton never paused, continuing her speech lecturing other countries about the need to allow freedom of expression and dissent, while Mr. McGovern was hauled out in front of her.”

McGovern was later found to have his arm covered with bruises. The metal handcuffs were fastened so tightly that his wrists were cut and some blood flowed from the cuts.

After being held by local police, McGovern was told he was being charged with disorderly conduct.

Watch the incident in the video below.

Video is here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Vy8fFnz18


I have a hard time believing this really happened but here you go guys, surprised there wasn't a thread about this before.

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[Ronin]

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[yuki]

They tried detaining him and he resisted.

He was silently protesting, he has a right to. I think the security were just overzealous in their detaining of him for "suspicious activity". But really, are we really this fearful in our society, this paranoid, that silent protesters are "suspicious"? This is ridiculous.

In the next few years, if policing like this keeps up, we'll be on the verge of civil war and revolution. Our paranoia and the government's effort to patronize that paranoia will inevitably lead to a violent climax.

[Ronin]

They tried detaining him and he resisted.

He was silently protesting, he has a right to. I think the security were just overzealous in their detaining of him for "suspicious activity". But really, are we really this fearful in our society, this paranoid, that silent protesters are "suspicious"? This is ridiculous.

In the next few years, if policing like this keeps up, we'll be on the verge of civil war and revolution. Our paranoia and the government's effort to patronize that paranoia will inevitably lead to a violent climax.

Do you sleep with Glenn Beck by any chance?

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Do you sleep with Glenn Beck by any chance?

He hates Glenn Beck and Fox News.

[Skateaton]

He hates Glenn Beck and Fox News.

with a passion

[yuki]

Do you sleep with Glenn Beck by any chance?

I detest him and that entire pseudo-information outlet. I was just saying that we're so absurdly paranoid that every person doing something out of the ordinary has a bomb, and that's causing overzealous policing.

[IkeTheGeneric]

Even though it's wrong, and many things happen unfairly, the United States is the most free country there is right now.

It is sad, but that's about all there is.

[Ronin]

He hates Glenn Beck and Fox News.

Should've saw that coming but whatever.

Fact: Suspicious people are terrists!

A mentally unstable man can buy automatic pistols without a background check and I can't bring a bottle of shampoo on a plane, this is the age we live in.

I detest him and that entire pseudo-information outlet. I was just saying that we're so absurdly paranoid that every person doing something out of the ordinary has a bomb, and that's causing overzealous policing.

I was checking to see if you were somehow a tea party reactionary seeing how Hilary Clinton is involved. My bad.

[Titanium]

I agree with the notion that it a travesty that he was arrested for exercising his right to protest, especially given the topic of the speech.

But what exactly was he...protesting?  Clinton's presence?  I don't really understand the symbolism of keeping one's back turned to Clinton other than to say "I don't like you," considering that the speech was pretty cut and dry.

[JAW959]

I agree with the notion that it a travesty that he was arrested for exercising his right to protest, especially given the topic of the speech.

But what exactly was he...protesting?  Clinton's presence?  I don't really understand the symbolism of keeping one's back turned to Clinton other than to say "I don't like you," considering that the speech was pretty cut and dry.

I just watched an interview with him, he opposes Clintons ideas about war.

[yuki]

A mentally unstable man can buy automatic pistols without a background check and I can't bring a bottle of shampoo on a plane, this is the age we live in.

We keep sacrificing our rights and our privacy for some bullstuff sense of security, and it's stupid. The TSA isn't going to stop a religious zealot from blowing up a building and gun control laws won't stop a sociopath from getting an Uzi and mowing down the local McDonalds, or buying a Toyota and plowing through the local Day-Care center.

I was checking to see if you were somehow a tea party reactionary seeing how Hilary Clinton is involved. My bad.

No, the whole "Tea Party" movement is uneducated garbage, and most anyone who supports it has no grasp of history or politics or people.