Wire compound with riot police.
Please note that there is an election going on in the US .... and the writer
is running in that election. In reprinting this article it is not to be seen
as support for either elections (which are a 100% fraud) or the man running.
However when Bush begins putting people in opposition to his agenda behind
six foot cyclone fence and had the gate shut in their faces then riot police
a few dozen yards away from the compound, spread a few feet apart,
nightsticks and tear gas guns in their hands there has to be something very
wrong..
Nelson
I'm 45 years old, have three kids, my wife and I work full time jobs, we own
our home and pay taxes, and I'm the Democratic candidate for Congress in
Oregon's District Two.
On Thursday, August 22, I went to Central Point, Oregon, to express my
opposition to the current policies of our government. I was placed in a dirt
compound behind a six foot cyclone fence and had the gate shut in my face.
The occasion was a visit from President George W. Bush to the district I am
a candidate in. Mr. Bush was scheduled to speak to 5000 invited guests. The
guests were all people in agreement with the current policies of our
government.
They were invited for that very reason. They were politely ushered into the
arena where Mr. Bush's speech was to be given. The people in opposition to
the current policies of our government were ushered by the police into a
dirt compound behind a six foot cyclone fence.
I have to say that I had a very hard time believing this was actually
happening. This is not the America I believe in, am working for and want to
leave to my sons.
I wasn't alone behind the fence. There were several hundred of us. There
were a good number of young activists, of course, who were protesting Mr.
Bush's very sorry record on environmental issues. But there were also a good
number of senior citizens and middle aged folks like me who simply wished to
state our opposition to Mr. Bush's economic policies that are doing so much
damage to our country, or our opposition to his lust for war with Iraq. We
were crammed together in the dirt behind the fence, with the temperatures
rising and no possible way to express our views.
We tried to discuss the situation with the young cop who was on the other
side of the gate. He had his orders, we understood that, and he kept
repeating that we had to be behind the fence for the president's security.
The arena in which Mr. Bush was to speak was well over 200 yards away. Riot
police stood a few dozen yards away from our compound, spread a few feet
apart, nightsticks and tear gas guns in their hands. I looked around our
compound and at the woman in her early 70s standing next to me. I didn't
feel particularly dangerous at the moment, and I couldn't see anyone else
who looked particularly dangerous, either. We simply did not and do not
agree with the current policies of our government and wished to express our
opposition.
We were not to be allowed to. We were not to be allowed anywhere near any
kind of position where the president, or the media which follows him, would
see or hear us.
This is not America. This is not the land of the free and the home of the
brave. This is some other country. I'm a patriotic American. I want the
country I was raised to believe in, a country strong enough for political
discourse and debate, with leaders courageous and decent enough to have the
willingness to listen to all citizens, not just those who parrot their own
views.
We're moving in the wrong direction, it's as simple as that. What happened
in Central Point, and what is happening everywhere Mr. Bush goes, is wrong.
The effort being made to hide political opposition in this country is more
than cowardly. It's un-American.
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