Bush Advance Team Sued by ACLU

Posted on March 16, 2007

DENVER - Two people who claim their political views got them kicked out of a hall where President Bush was about to speak filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against three White House officials.

The lawsuit filed names Greg Jenkins, director of White House travel planning; Steve Atkiss, Jenkins’ deputy at the time; and James O’Keefe, the White House’s lead advance staffer for the event.

Leslie Weise and Alex Young of Denver were ejected from the hall in Denver just before Bush was to talk about his plans for Social Security at the March 21, 2005, taxpayer-funded event.

Weise and Young had arrived in a car with a bumper sticker reading “No blood for oil.” They were wearing T-shirts saying “Stop the lies” under their clothes but did not show them. They have said they had no plans to disrupt the event, but Young hoped to ask Bush a question if given the opportunity.

The lawsuit, filed on their behalf by the Colorado branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, claims they were ejected from the event because they might have been critical of the president.

“The White House should not be in the business of censoring Americans,” said Mark Silverstein, the group’s Colorado legal director. “Our clients were removed not because they were disruptive, but because they could `potentially’ engage in critical speech.”

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This story, sent by The Steel Deal said:

And just the other day, A reporter from the Christian Broadcasting Network was physically removed from a ‘press conference’ held by CAIR, (Council on American-Islamic Relations) to announce that the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) was going to file a lawsuit on behalf of six Muslims who staged a scene prior to a flight on U.S. Airways, in which they did everything they could possibly do to give every impression that they were about to hijack that flight, even going as far as duplicating many of the actions of past hijackers. Their suit claims discrimination and suppression of their freedom of speech. CAIR claims it has every right to bar that network because ‘it has repeatedly, in the past, been critical of Muslims and CAIR’. I am NOT going to waste my time searching to find if there are ANY Jewish news organizations allowed into CAIR press conferences. The answer is HELL NO! That the ACLU defends radicals from the extreme Left and Islam is no surprise. That they cannot be bothered to protect the same freedoms for the extreme Right is no surprise. That they can do so with such facility and hypocrisy is no surprise - they ARE lawyers, after all. That the comparison of these two stories will not be found in the mainstream media is no surprise. My only surprise is at the lack of outrage from the American people.

I posted on the CBN rejection from the CAIR press conference Wednesday

Jay said it is pretty ironic that while the ACLU is suing because people were removed from a Bush event, that CAIR removed a reporter from their press conference announcing that the ACLU was going to represent the Muslim Imams that got kicked off the airplane for acting like jihadists.

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golden phoenix on March 19th, 2007 8:53 am

Back when BILL CLINTON was still our dictator a brother and sister were beaten by teamster union thugs and they filed a lawsuit over this it seams that the brother and sister were there protesting the presence of the CLINTONS they did win a big settlement against the teamster hoods