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Four Arrested In Protest of Karl Rove
DES MOINES - Former Bush advisor Karl Rove was invited to speak at a GOP fundraiser in Des Moines, Iowa, but he did not get the warmest of welcomes from four residents who pledged to arrest him.
Law enforcement officers arrested Rev. Chet Guinn, 80, and three members of the Catholic Worker peace movement, Edward Bloomer, 61, Kirk Brown, 25, and Mona Shaw, 57, on Friday for their attempt to make a citizen's arrest, according to the Cedar Rapids Gazette. They were cited for trespassing and released.
Reuters reported that the arrest was prearranged and happened when the group stepped past a gate. The protesters accused Rove of, among other things, conspiracy to defraud the United States ahead of the Iraq War, leading to the deaths of United States military and Iraqi civilians, the Gazette reported.
Two of the protesters, Brown and Shaw, were previously arrested and released without charges when they tried to arrest Rove in March at the University of Iowa.
A group of netroots activists is also pushing for the prosecution of Rove for his refusal to testify before the House Judiciary Committee in Washington.
Earlier this month, the former White House deputy chief of staff, refused an order to testify about the firing of federal prosecutors and allegations of selective prosecution of Democrats seen as political opponents.
The committee asked Rove to testify about whether he influenced the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman on corruption charges. While he refused to testify, Rove wrote a letter to ranking committee member Lamar Smith (R-Texas) that he did not try to influence the prosecution in any way.
Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) have threatened to hold Rove in contempt. The White House has argued executive privilege allows immunity for Rove from testifying.
The committee has also subpoenaed Attorney General Michael Mukasey to turn over documents relating to the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity, including complete FBI interview reports with Rove and others.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Show AllWere they tasered?
Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) have threatened to hold Rove in contempt. The White House has argued executive privilege allows immunity for Rove from testifying.
Why the delay, DO it NOW
Arrest, covict NOW
RichM, tailcap, where are you? Can't blame Obama or Democrats for Rove? I guess you prefer Rove to the former.
The only thing tazered was Justice in America.... She was charged with aggravated assult, when the balance she was holding was knocked from her hand by a blackwater security agent. The agent reported that she was seriouly injured from running into obsticales as she was lead to a waiting booking station. The officer reported that he did not realize that Justice was blind as she was being booked, but stated that she should never have been present in an unlawful gathering of citizens, in the first place...!!!
KCT
Lock the bastard up and throw away the key!
rove - grandson of a nazi
bush - grandson of the "banker to the nazis"
kind of makes you wonder who won the big one WW2
exactly bryanD
isn't there something about the Bush family also having lot's of money invested in Cuban sugar plantations which they lost to Castro's nationalization? And weren't they pissed at Kennedy for not supporting the Invasion of Pigs more forcefully... so that the Bushies could've taken back their sugar factories? So someone 'fixed' that executive problem? Probably the same gentleman captured on film in the Ambassador Hotel lobby just moments before RFK's assasination. A gentlemen who was supposed to be stationed in the Florida Keys working for the CIA on the public payroll that week?
lady justice in america is not only blind, shes deaf and dumb
if she were blessed with the gift of vision, rove and the rest of the criminals would be locked up while Guinn, Bloomer, Brown and Shaw would be free as the air
if only we can arrest the cops who arrest the citizens who try to arrest Rove!
Karl Rove should be treated as the pariah he is. He should be hounded every time he sticks his nose outside his house and tries the breathe our air. An effective house arrest. What justice!
What a classic image: the empire's guards go after brave innocent citizens starved of justice, to protect bloated princes gourging at a profaned banquet table.
I never publicly advocate violence. But it's interesting to note how the French finally came to deal with such obscenities in the late 18th century.