Under the old guy:
"On Monday, March 21, at [a town hall meeting] billed as a "conversation on
saving Social Security," I and two friends, Leslie Weise and Karen Bauer,
decided to go down and participate in this dialogue.
Unfortunately, we were evicted before the President arrived by an as yet
unnamed man, because of the content on the bumper sticker of my friend's car.
That bumper sticker said, 'No more blood for oil.' ...
We were parked in the parking lot, stood in line for a half an hour or so, went
and sat down in the audience and then were forcibly ejected by a person who was
posing as a secret service agent."
---Alexander Young, April, 2005
http://www.democracynow.org/2005/4/8/three_people_forcibly_removed_from_bush
One of the latest incidents came when John Sachs, 18, a Johnston High School
senior and Democrat, went to see Bush in Clive last week. Sachs got a ticket to
the event from school and wanted to ask the president about whether there would
be a draft, about the war in Iraq, Social Security and Medicare.
But when he got there, a campaign staffer pulled him aside and made him remove
his button that said, "Bush-Cheney '04: Leave No Billionaire Behind." The
staffer quizzed him about whether he was a Bush supporter, asked him why he was
there and what questions he would be asking the president.
"Then he came back and said, 'If you protest, it won't be me taking you out. It
will be a sniper,'" Sachs said. "He said it in such a serious tone it scared
the crap out of me."
---Des Moines Register, October, 2004
http://zzpat.tripod.com/cvb/oct_2004/john_sachs_leave_or_sniper_will_take_you_out.html
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Under the new guy:
"We're going to take questions. All right. Just want to make sure my mike's
working here. Here's the deal on questions. First of all, we didn't screen
anybody. So there's some people who like me in the audience, some people that
don't. Some people agree with me, some people who don't. It doesn't matter. We
want to take questions from everybody."
---President Obama, town hall meeting, Elkhart, Indiana, Feb. 2009
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0902/09/cnr.04.html
