Inaugural run-in for Reid aide (arrested) -The Hill

[Rose Siding]

An aide to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was arrested on the West Front of the Capitol for disorderly conduct during President Bush’s inaugural address last week.

The aide, Nathan Ackerman, is a television producer on the Senate Democratic Communications Committee — an organization that was folded into Reid’s new communications “war room.”
About 20 minutes into Bush’s speech, Ackerman, 36, and another man held up a sheet that said “No War.” According to a Capitol Police report, Ackerman and another suspect “were blocking the view of the audience and they were engaged in a verbal dispute with members of the audience.”
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Ackerman’s arrest was aired on national television by ABC News on Inauguration Day, although he has not previously been named or identified as a Senate employee.
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“I didn’t yell,” he said. “I did not resist. Other people who had signs were approached and given warnings. I was given no warning. I was immediately shuffled off.”

http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/012605/reidaide.html

[VegasWolf]

1. Welcom to the new Murika! Fanatics and idiots hold hands. n/t

[NYC Liberal]

2. Ah, the smell of fascism in the morning!

[zann725]

8. Please! He was singled-out due to who he worked for!

Oooo, the Right loves to spin this type of thing! Especially when they planned it!

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. Just today bush described "freedom" as a persons ability

to "stand on the street corner and express your views". It sounds like bush's ideas are like reagan's, where all this liberty stuff is
is quaint and polite, in a small town Iowa movie world where people are free to give speeches at Fourth of July picnics.

[merh]

5. Well maybe the weed meant its okay to stand on street corners

only, which, at the rate things are going, most of the population will be doing, begging for money. Poor guy would have been okay if he had been on a street corner.

[Pirate Smile]

4. The weird thing was that Reid wasn't there. I don't know why. Dodd

stood in for him.

[phusion]

6. How is this disorderly conduct?

“were blocking the view of the audience and they were engaged in a verbal dispute with members of the audience.”

This happens at baseball/football/etc. games all the time.

Maybe I can get Joe arrested next time for rooting against my team!

[w4rma]

9. It's the usual editorializing slime that comes from "The Hill". (nt)

[fooj]

7. Look what Nathan Ackerman does!!!!!

He's a TV producer on the Senate Democratic Communications Committee!! Reids communications "war room"!!! That's why he was shuffled off! Don't you think? Eliminate dissent!