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by Open-Publishing - Wednesday 4 October 2006
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Arrest over Cheney barb triggers lawsuit

By Charlie Brennan, Rocky Mountain News
October 3, 2006

A Denver-area man filed a lawsuit today against a member of the Secret Service for causing him to be arrested after he approached Vice President Dick Cheney in Beaver Creek this summer and criticized him for his policies concerning Iraq.

Attorney David Lane said that on June 16, Steve Howards was walking his 7-year-old son to a piano practice, when he saw Cheney surrounded by a group of people in an outdoor mall area, shaking hands and posing for pictures with several people.

According to the lawsuit filed at U.S. District Court in Denver, Howards and his son walked to about two-to-three feet from where Cheney was standing, and said to the vice president, "I think your policies in Iraq are reprehensible," or words to that effect, then walked on.

Ten minutes later, according to Howards’ lawsuit, he and his son were walking back through the same area, when they were approached by Secret Service agent Virgil D. "Gus" Reichle Jr., who asked Howards if he had "assaulted" the vice president. Howards denied doing so, but was nonetheless placed in handcuffs and taken to the Eagle County Jail.

The lawsuit states that the Secret Service agent instructed that Howards should be issued a summons for harassment, but that on July 6 the Eagle County District Attorney’s Office dismissed all charges against Howards.

The lawsuit filed today alleges that Howards was arrested in retaliation for having exercised his First Amendment right of free speech, and that his arrest violated his Fourth Amendment protection against unlawful seizure.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5039230,00.html

Forum posts

  • Another Cheney prank, which shows the GOP - doesn’t care about democracy.

  • I really hope he wins the lawsuit.

  • The question is, when will someone arrest Cheney?

  • So you’re telling me that the secret service allowed an unidentified man to get within 2-3 feet of the second most paranoid and vilified U.S. government leader alive today ? I think somebody is pulling our chain .

    • 24.94: File your complaint with the Rocky Mountain News of Denver, Colorado, where the story originated from. Too many people who read the American version of Bellaciao seem to believe that all the articles found on this website originated from this website. NOT so. In fact, I woudn’t be surprised to find out that over 80% of the material that I’ve read on Bellaciao has been down-linked from other websites, just like this one.
      By the way, the Rocky Mountain News is one of the greater Denver area’s two big newspapers, the other being the Denver Post. It has won several Pulitzer Prizes and is Colorado’s oldest daily newspaper, established in 1859. Nobody is puling our chain, buddy. The event described in this article more than likely happened. By the way, I can shout out and project my voice to at least 50 feet, buddy. How about you? You don’t have to be within 3 feet of anybody to get your point across, especially if you are shouting.

    • 24 94 - Maybe The New York Times is also pulling your chain. A word of warning to you - what you don’t know and refuse to know will get you. Talk (type) less and read more!

      http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/04/washington/04cheney.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

  • Surely no one should be surprised. All criticism of our beloved fascist leaders is treason and, since the Patriot Act, anyone can be detained for any reason, or without any reason. The top administration cabinet members are all above the law. They can lie, slander, deceive at their pleasure as the attorney general is convinced they are acting to defeat terrror and is therefore legitimate and lawful. Their contempt for our Constitution, for our laws and values, can only be punished by our votes in about a month now. Enough said.

    • President Cheney and Dubya, as well as probably 15% of this lopsided, upside-down administration, will soon be put back into parts of the private sector.
      Too, the top corrupt officials of this ConSpiracy lead batch of Loozers, will also have
      armed gaurds about them most of the day. The time for the Patriotic people of this Nation to find and arrest them,...is while they sleep, as while their gaurds are still gorging themselves on donuts & Starbucks and not able to react.

      Too bad our Iraqi bound troops have not yet turned back for Washington D.C.,....where the real traitors, murderers and clearly identified industrialized investment Terrorists now reside !
      Still,....I have faith left, that some power will raise all of our previously dead soldiers,....rearm them to the teeth,....and march them directly, to the capital of each state, to arrest the real traitors. That done, Washington D.C. is next cleared of all the worthless Lobbiests and Military investment Sleazweazels of the Bush Administration.
      While these vile and worthless batch of human beings still Walk in Washington, no real Patriot is safe in this country! That’s why these worthless deserve the security of their own cell, as otherwise the real, living, breathing and " Hard Working," people of this Nation, will have to finally take the LAW,....and put it into their own hands.

      Dubya has plans to fill his newly built concentration camps, with we Patriots and Working people of the United States. After he claims Marshall Law, while moving into Syria and Iran and certainly bombing what they can of such things from the Air, my guess is that he will have little
      choice otherwise, so he can use selected terror to his advantage, so as to control the masses.

      As they come for your guns, keep them fully loaded and waiting and probably remembering
      that we’re we to have all been soldiers once, as the Swiss have been for over a hundred years,.....nothing of this War would have taken place and DubYa and friends would already be in Jail, where they should be now.

      Pondskank@yahoo.com

  • d.c. is the ground ZERO man.
    http://tvnewslies.org/html/cheney_s_secret.html

    http://www.nogw.com/warforisrael.html

    He is he dark force behind bUSH....
    http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=44174

    He is the one who gave the green light for the kidnapping and torture scenario .....
    http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair/04092005.html

    THINK about it...