Protesters Try To Put Karl Rove Under Citizen’s Arrest

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by Glynnis MacNicol | 4:14 pm, March 30th, 2010

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Does anyone else think it strange that Karl Rove makes public appearances with no security? Rove was chased from his own book signing yesterday in Beverly Hills by some determined Code Pink protesters who heckled the former Bush adviser, calling him a liar, and a war criminal. At one point a woman wielding handcuffs attempted to make a citizen’s arrest of Rove, who was there to promote his book…Courage and Consequences. Nevertheless, Rove, who was without security, didn’t go quietly when faced with this particular set of consequences. According to the report below he engaged a number of the protesters accusing them of being perfect examples of the “intolerance of the left.”

This is not the first time Code Pink has made itself loudly known to former Bush administration officials. Last spring at the White House Corespondents Dinner they chased Donald Rumsfeld (who also appeared to be without security) through the crowded lobby of the Washington Hilton.

What is perhaps most interesting about the video below, however, is that not a single person in the audience appears to be concerned enough about Rove’s safety to bother standing up in his defense.

Charitini, Code Pink, donald rumsfeld, Karl Rove

Zakk

You must have the story confused with another. According to the MSM the only protesters who would ever act like that are the Tea Party people. From what I’ve seen on MSNBC and CNN, the left would never stand for this.
http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

Citizen’s arrest? I think the United States Code has a different name for it: “kidnapping.” There’s probably some state-law names for it, too, like “assault” and “battery” and “false imprisonment.”
roxsteady

It’s funny that you’d compare them to teabaggers because they accomplished the same thing the teabaggers did at the townhalls. They didn’t come to hear their congressmen and women speak either. They came to disrupt. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! It’s not so funny when the shoe is on the other foot.
http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

How can this idiot still say at this point in time that Rove “outed a CIA agent”???? It was Richard Armitage for God’s sake! And Armitage didn’t do anything wrong because it wasn’t illegal. That’s been incontrovertibly established a thousand times over. Do these people care at all about facts? No, they think they can just repeat the same discredited claims over and over again. Some of them may even be dumb enough to believe it.
http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

No, roxsteady, the Code Pink idiots came there to commit a felony.
bleeplander

Hahaha, perfect.. read about how to defeat Sarah Palin and the Tea Partiers,
http://kathygregg.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/sarah-palin-and-the-tea-partiers-mean-girls-in-menopause/
TylerDurdin

More hate from the liberals, but what’s new abt that?
PureFreedom

Dont you know …Free Speech is subjective to the liberals. they seem to make the rules.
tjl

On the bright side, this is the closest Rove has been to a woman in months! Go get ‘em jowls! RAWR!
marcus.lewis

They are idiots. Its one thing to be against war, but the one thing they have proven throughout the years has been they lack any sense of tact or taste.
Bias-Media

Clearly, Code Pink is NOT about demonstration against any war…if they were, they would be picketing the US Government right now.

Clearly, they are about scoring political points for one party over another…
marcus.lewis

I’m pretty sure they were just in DC for the anti-war rally that went down the same day as the republicans who were protesting the health care bill.
ex politicalmedia hack

EVEN THOUGH IVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST BUSH’S WARS – I FIND CODE PINK FOLKS SOOO ANNOYING!

CAN WE PUT TOGETHER A COLLECTION TO RAISE ENOUGH DOUGH TO HIRE SOME 14 YEAR OLD GIRLS TO KICK THEIR POMPOUS ASSES?
Bias-Media

Maybe I’m wrong…maybe Code Pink is still actively protesting US Wars in Afgan…maybe we just haven’t heard much about them because the media stop giving them coverage since the Democrats are now in power…

maybe Code Pink believes this is one way for them to get back into the spot light…

…maybe I think too much…
felixw

Okay, they can kidnap Karl Rove. They can shout him down. An angry mob can shout abusive comments. But I hope no one got any spittle on his lapel while they were screaming. Because that would be a big national story.
HALO101st

When will you left-wing losers give it a rest? You make yourselves more and more ridiculous with every passing minute. Just enjoy your last seven months in power. In November, you are going to be so far out of power that air will have to be pumped to you.
We Americans have had enough of your whining, anti-American, socialistic, crap.
http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

Who’s “we Americans”, HALO?

You don’t speak for me, or damn near ANYBODY in my neighborhood.

As for Karl Rove, good for him. I hope more of these right winged chickenhawks get their blood-money book signings interrupted.

–Cobra
Grammie

Cobra Cobra says:
March 30, 2010 at 11:21 pm

I feel your pain, Cobra.

I have long been ticked off when the women of NOW and NARAL etc with their grandiose pronouncements on behalf of not just American women but of ALL women.

They don’t speak for me and they never have yet the MSM treat them as the sole arbiters of not only what women think and support but more egregiously what women SHOULD think and support.
Jelperman

Book him Dan-O!
TylerDurdin

More liberals trying to prevent free speech. But ya didn’t see this on ABC, CBS or NBC.

I wonder why?
Grammie

I just saw this afternoon an interview of the Code Pink punk who was wielding the handcuffs by Megan Kelley.

Colby has a thread here:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/megyn-kelly-goes-code-red-on-code-pink-co-founder-who-confronted-karl-rove/

I was disappointed in MK. She did not bring up the very obvious lie that Karl Rove had outed a CIA agent. You’ve got to be living under a rock, maybe she is at that, to not know that it was Richard Armitage (Undersecretary to Colin Powell) who brought Plame to the public’s attention and no “outing” crime was committed.

I was on the verge of screaming at the TV b/c as often as that dingbat said that she was within her rights to attempt to arrest and handcuff Rove in a citizens arrest MK never once asked what arrest warrant, issued by whom, on what charges and exactly what authority did she plan on handing Rove over to on the chance that her crackpot scheme succeeded.

Surely all this is pertinent to what occurred!
Grammie

Sorry, I forgot to include that Ms Dingbat prefaced every “citizen’s arrest” remark with her assertion that she had an arrest warrant for Rove.
Grammie

One more correction. Upon listening again at the other thread she claimed to have a “citizen complaint” that authorized her to behave like a spoiled brat.

However, my questions remain in relation to the complaint.
shootfromthehip

Hey Tyler, she let Karl Rove speak for an hour before she “tried to prevent free speech.” She bought a ticket to the event, like everyone else.

Who is trying to prevent free speech?

It may be rude, but so is sending 5000 Americas to die for a war of choice and then politicizing it with lies and calling anyone not on board with killing innocent Iraquis “treasonous.”

Karl Rove had 8 years where he was unchallenged by the people and allowed to lie daily on the meagphone that is NBC, Fox, CBS and every other TV outlet known to man.

And now you get upset that woman wants to voice her opinion at an event she paid to go to simply to tell Karl she disagrees and believes (as many Americans do) that he is a war profiteer at best and war criminal at worst?
pyrope

Code Punk at its best.
Penguin60

I have to agree, many people pay for a ticket then that gives them the right to act like a rude, disruptive a$$. Just go to any hockey game.