White House Manual Details How to Deal With Protesters

Source: Washington Post

A White House manual that came to light recently gives presidential advance staffers extensive instructions in the art of "deterring potential protestors" from President Bush's public appearances around the country.

Among other things, any event must be open only to those with tickets tightly controlled by organizers. Those entering must be screened in case they are hiding secret signs. Any anti-Bush demonstrators who manage to get in anyway should be shouted down by "rally squads" stationed in strategic locations. And if that does not work, they should be thrown out.

The "Presidential Advance Manual," dated October 2002 with the stamp "Sensitive -- Do Not Copy," was released under subpoena to the American Civil Liberties Union as part of a lawsuit filed on behalf of two people arrested for refusing to cover their anti-Bush T-shirts at a Fourth of July speech at the West Virginia State Capitol in 2004. The techniques described have become familiar over the 6 1/2 years of Bush's presidency, but the manual makes it clear how organized the anti-protest policy really is.



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Gotta keep "the people" from shouting down the supreme leader.

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bush and company know that he was never elected and he (bush)
is scared to face real Americans.

You would think that the supposed "Leader of the Free World" wouldn't be
so afraid of a few protesters and people who don't agree with him.

Is our pResident the biggest wussy who has ever lived?

"No! NO! Don't make me listen to the bad people who don't like me!!!"

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That after shrub leaves office he will never be able to make any public appearances without being heckled or protested. Go to your ranch and stay there.

Is anyone surprised by this?
Anywone want to bet me when I say Rove was most likely the author?

We observed it and talked about it here on DU for years. No surprises, and we know who authored it.

millennium will always be referred to as the "dark days" of the Bush regime. Unless we miraculously get an honest congreffs next time I expect we shall see a Stalin-esque style dictator.

It keeps slipping further into that trench.

rove's fingerprints are all over this approach.

Bunch of lawyers from Atlanta.

... into not demonstrating on a property adjacent to the Brownshirts' rally here in 2004.

why nobody takes Bush seriously when he talks about spreading democracy.