Whitehouses’ Biggest Problem: Anti-Bush T-Shirts
Posted in H.L. News, Main Blog (All Posts) on August 20th, 2007 7:37 am by HL
Did you hear the story last week in which the Bush administration is being forced by a jury to pay $80,000 to a couple who were thrown out of a Presidential speech for wearing anti-Bush T-shirts? Seems there was a top secret manual put out by The Republican that told how to deal with dissenters who were expressing their first amendment rights to free speech. You see, Bush is opposed to the constitution in all forms. Here is some of the tips that they give to suppress liberty.
The settlement, in which the government admitted no wrongdoing, came after the disclosure of an allegedly “sensitive” Presidential Advance Manual, which laid out the White House’s meticulous efforts to protect the president and his public image from dissent.
“As a last resort, security should remove the demonstrators from the event,” the manual instructs. The government turned over a heavily redacted version of the manual to the ACLU in the course of the lawsuit.
The first step to keeping demonstrators out of events, the manual tells the president’s event staff, is to encourage the Secret Service to “ask the local police department to designate a protest area…preferably not in view of the event site or the motorcade route.”
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Inside the event space, the manual advises, White House advance personnel should preposition “rally squads” that can swarm any protesters at the event and “use their signs and banners as shields between the demonstrators and the main press platform.”The rally squads can be formed using “college/young republican organizations, local athletic teams, and fraternities/sororities,” the manual notes.
The squads can “lead supportive chants to drown out the protesters (USA!, USA!, USA!),” it suggests.
HLs Take
Ahh the old USA, USA, USA, the mindless chant of the truly dumb. By the way if you would like a chance to win $80,000 from the Republicans, here is a big list of Anti-Bush T-Shirts you can purchase Right Here