Hu heckler to be charged

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A FALUN Gong protester who heckled Chinese President Hu Jintao on the White House lawn today is to be charged with disorderly conduct and "intimidating" a foreign official, the US Secret Service said. Wang Wenyi, who was working for the Epoch Times, stood among press photographers and shouted pro-Falun Gong slogans as Mr Hu made brief remarks before he held talks with President George W. Bush.

Ms Wang was led away by uniformed Secret Service agents. "She was removed for disrupting the event. She will be charged with disorderly conduct and an additional charge," said Jonathan Cherry, spokesman for the Secret Service.
The charge is, "Willingly intimidating or disrupting a foreign official", he said. Ms Wang was still being held pending an initial appearance at a Washington DC federal court, possibly today, he said.

She was at the Chinese leader's official welcoming ceremony "on a temporary press pass" and "went through all the appropriate levels of security, to include metal detectors and the security protocols", he said. Stephen Gregory, a spokesman for the Epoch Times, said the newspaper was "investigating and trying to find out what happened".

He said Ms Wang's action "is not something done on behalf of the Epoch Times". Ms Wang was a pathologist who researched claims by the Falun Gong that thousands of its followers in Chinese concentration camps have been killed and had their organs harvested and sold, he said. Chinese authorities have rejected the group's claims.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,18879893-1702,00.html

[Sammy Pepys]

1. A small price to pay for standing up...n/t

....

[Roland99]

2. Ship her off to Gitmo! She's obviously a threat to freedom & democracy.

[MadMaddie]

3. This administration keeps screwing up don't they...

they are afraid of an older woman yelling at an event....

Has America woken up yet...

* apologized to the Chinese President for an American expressing her Constitutional right.....America wake up...

[BrklynLiberal]

4. She will be Guest #1 at oneof KBR's Concentration Camps.

[WinkyDink]

5. "Willingly intimidating or disrupting a foreign official", What statute

is THIS???

[jimshoes]

8. Probably PATRIOT ACT

Free speech is a thing of the past.

[durrrty libby]

6. Oh the repulsive irony of this.

W just finished telling Hu that he needs to let his people speak freely.

Then they squash this woman’s free speech, cart her off, and charge her.

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. Ayuh. I was just thinking of what would have happened to her speaking

out like that in China.

[dogday]

7. I don't like the word heckler, she was a protester

That is what the M$M is using..

[politicaholic]

9. "You have the right to free speech..."

"just as long as you're not dumb enough to use it!" -The Clash-

The Bush administration's disdain for American civil liberties just shows that they have no idea what Democracy actually IS.

[Sinti]

10. * wants to prove the Chinese that he can lock dissidents up too?

[lpbk2713]

12. It wasn't her fault. She should not be detained.

If Smirky's security was as good as they say it is, she shouldn't have even gotten close.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

13. Epoch Times

I see that left out for free at the local library.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/

[The_Casual_Observer]

14. "Let freedom reign!"

That was one god damn brave soul.