Prison Planet.com | May 12 2006
Eyewitnesses are reporting that during Bush's recent visit to Florida,
protesters were shocked to see security goons and secret service
aiming assault rifles at them hanging out of the window of the passing
motorcade.
Should we be surprised that ordinary bill of rights exercising
Americans are treated like terrorists in light of the latest
revelations on the NSA spying program?
Is this Nepal or America?
Accounts provided to the Daily Kos website are reprinted below.
Narrative re: Bush's visit to SCC on May 9, 2006 from Barbara Nicholson
We stood with about 50 others on rte 674 and when the motorcade came
by there was assault rifle OUT the window pointing at ALL of us and
the cars all looked like I remember seeing in the Hitler motorcades in
the movies when I was a child, all boxy and black and one had the Pres
seal and American flag on the sides. It was absolutely chilling! I
worked the inner city for 15 years with gangs and even with kids and
families of the Bloods and Crips and have never had an assault rifle
pointed my way. In my 75 years I have seen many Pres motorcades and
shook many pres hands and seen many pres elects and their entourage
but never anything like this with the motorcycles, big black cars and
rifles were just the very last straw. It wasn't the rifle that was
scary it was knowing that this madman is so insecure and scared and
psychotic that this is how he must travel. AARRRRRGH! USA, Banana
Republic for sure. Then to know our tax money paid for this photo op
and for the fundraising luncheon at the Renaissance Club is truly the
icing on the cake which will kill us all. Very depressing to say the
least.
>From an intern for Congressional candidate John Russell (FL-5):
Here is my full story, with everything correct. As you know I am
interning with John Russell, a candidate in District 5 running against
Ginny Brown-Waite. We went to the protest to make sure bush heard
about the problems with Medicare Part D. As the President drove by
John was delivering his message to the President, who was looking at
us out the window. I don't remember if it was before or after the
President's car, but inside on of the black suv's was a man holding,
what looked to be, an automatic rifle out the window. It was pointed
at the protesters. I am glad to hear that the people on the other side
of the street saw this too. Those of us on the corner I was on
couldn't believe that this had occurred, and John proceeded to tell
President Bush as he got out of the motorcade, 'how dare you point a
weapon at civil protesters' among other things. It was a very
interesting day for me, being the first time I have ever seen the
President, and the first time I have been directly threatened by the
President. hopefully this helps in lining up the stories. Please send
this out to everyone, and keep the talk growing. I want to know if
this is standard operating procedure for the Bush motorcade, or a one
time thing.
~Nic Zateslo
Intern for John Russell, Candidate for Congress District 5
And from Kossack boofdah:
Mary, Nic, and I were there as well; and yes, it went down exactly as
Barbara and John have said below. I don't think I've ever felt such a
sense of foreboding in my life as when I saw that automatic rifle
pointed at us, peaceful protesters.
At the time September 11th happened, I worked at a military base near
where I used to live before we moved to FL. Immediately after 9/11,
our base was at Threatcon D, meaning that the military personnel
guarding our base had to be armed. Yeah, I saw sharp-shooters and
automatic rifles; but I took some kind of comfort in the notion that
these measures were meant for the "bad guys."
On Tuesday, the message that the sniper hanging out the window with
his automatic weapon had for us was that we peacefully-protesting
Americans were the "bad guys." And that thought alone gave me the chills.
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