Monday, October 18, 2010

POLITICS - In the GOP Gestapo's Handbook

"Miller security guards handcuff journalist" by RICHARD MAUER, Anchorage Daily News 10/17/2010

Excerpt

The editor of the Alaska Dispatch website was arrested by U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller's private security guards Sunday as the editor attempted to interview Miller at the end of a public event in an Anchorage school.

Tony Hopfinger was handcuffed by the guards and detained in a hallway at Central Middle School until Anchorage police came and told the guards to release Hopfinger.

Hopfinger has not been charged but the owner of the Drop Zone, the private security firm that's been providing Miller's security, accused Hopfinger of trespassing at the public event, a town hall sponsored by the Miller campaign. The owner, William Fulton, also said Hopfinger assaulted a man by shoving him.

Anchorage Police who responded to the call said they would leave it to the District Attorney's office to decide whether to prosecute. They spent more than an hour taking statements, then left.


So, IF this article is accurate, according to this GOP Gestapo's Handbook there is such a charge as "trespassing at the public event?!" Public event = private event? I DON'T think so.

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