From: "Gary Britt" 


"Randy H"  wrote in message
news:411e1bba$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Reading some of the quotes is interseting, too:
>
> I wanted them to see that the president was supposed to be working for all
> Americans.

At campaign rallies the President is not acting in his official capacity as
President, but as a CANDIDATE FOR OFFICE.


> Even if I didn't agree with his policies, I could still show my
> children how elections and politics work.

He could have shown them this by taking them to a Kerry campaign rally, so
this sounds like a completely made up story, or an ass who was hoping
something like this would happen so he could get on the news.


>
> I waited in line, picked up my Bush tickets and waited in line to enter
the
> park to hear the president. When I got up to the front of the line, I was
> grabbed by security, pushed to the side (in front of my children and
> Republican friends) and my ticket was ripped. They said, "We don't like
your
> pin, so get out of here."
>

Based upon his partisan actions and statements leading up to this ALLEGED
event, I don't give the writer ANY credibility as to accurately describing
the incident (assuming any of this really happened and isn't just
completely made up).  If this guy was truthfully just trying to let his
daughters get a gander at the President, any rational person any merely
polite person wouldn't have worn a Kerry pin.  What an ass.  If this
incident happened, I'd say he got exactly what he was hoping to cause to
happen.


>
> in America we have the right to free speech. We have the
> First Amendment, but that was blatantly violated.
>

The guys an even bigger ass trying to assert the above with a straight
face. Either that or he's an idiot.  Maybe he's both.  Nobody said he
didn't have the right to wear his Kerry pin, but the people at the campaign
rally have a right to admit whomever they want.  It is a PRIVATE event, not
a PUBLIC GOVERNMENT event.


>
>  I didn't even say anything. My daughters don't
> understand why this happened.

Some day the will come to realize Dad is a small minded individual
desperately trying to get his 15 minutes of fame, even at the expense of
his own daughters.


> They thought in America people could express
> themselves without repression."
>

In America you don't have the right to come into somebody else's home,
club, party, unless you are invited.  People have the right to associate
with whomever they please, to the exclusion of others at PRIVATE (i.e., NON
GOVERNMENT) functions.

Maybe we should show up at this guys house wearing some Bush pins and then
demand to come in to hear what he has to say.  You don't think he would try
and repress our speech do you.

Gary

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