Bowdoin students ejected from Bush event (Maine)

http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2004-09-24§ion=1&id=2

Bowdoin students ejected from Bush event

September 24, 2004

By James D. Baumberger

Two Bowdoin students were ejected from President Bush's campaign appearance in Bangor yesterday on suspicion that they planned to protest inside the event. Another Bowdoin student, who worked at the event, was involved in the removal.

Bree Dallinga '06, co-president of the Bowdoin College Democrats, and Ashley Cusick '05, both self-described liberals, said they planned to attend the event to observe and possibly protest by wearing anti-Bush t-shirts. According to Dallinga, after successfully passing through security, Dan Schuberth '06 spotted the two students and requested their removal from the event.

Chris Averill, executive director of the Maine College Republicans, said Schuberth played a role in the ejection. Averill said, as head of volunteers at the event, "Schuberth had the discretion to have checked out by security."

Schuberth, Chairman of the Maine College Republicans, is on leave from Bowdoin this semester to work full-time with the Bush campaign in Maine. The Orient made repeated unsuccessful attempts to contact Schuberth for comment.


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Kerry's already doing it. Bush wouldn't want to look like Candy W. Ass, would he?

I remember going with a group of Democrats to listen to a Republican candidate for senator at a university in North Carolina. This was years ago. The candidate didn't make it through the primaries, but at the time he gave his talk it seemed possible that he might be elected. We went to hear what he had to say.

We were quiet and didn't wear or bring anything to identify ourselves as Democrats or anti-Republican. A college Republican passed around a sign-up sheet. Someone in our group said, "We're liberals. Are you sure you want us to put our names down here?" The young Republican looked totally shocked. He didn't say anything welcoming or gracious - he looked like he wanted to ask us to leave. I actually leaned forward and reassured him that we had come to listen and didn't plan to disrupt.

That was twenty years ago. The paranoia on the part of Republicans is still there.

"We're liberals. Are you sure you want us to put our names down here?" The young Republican looked totally shocked.

It sounds as if you would have gotten the same reaction from this person if you had said "We're lepers...are this seats free?" But I suppose in the eyes of a neo-fascist Republican, liberals and lepers are the same.

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Oh, it seems that Islam treated lepers less harshly than Christian societies, at least in the Middle Ages:
Treatment of lepers in Christian and Islamic Societies:
Although lepers were isolated and treated differently than other members of society in both religious cultures, the medieval treatment of lepers in Islamic society seemed to be less harsh than in Christian societies. There are common religious interpretations in both Christian and Islamic societies regarding leprosy, but the effect of such interpretation appeared to be less " marginalizing" in Islamic societies. In Islamic society, there was little evidence of lepers being required to wear distinctive clothing. The association of lepers with the "unclean" is seen in the popularity of baths as a treatment for leprosy, but this occurred mostly in areas of Christian influence, such as the Crusader states.
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http://www2.kenyon.edu/Projects/Margin/lepers.htm

Sturmtruppen auxiliaries.

The Eyes of Fuhrer Bunnypants are upon you...

what will happen to dissenters then?

Today it's okay to exclude people from campaign events. Ratting some out to their boss for their political beliefs is acceptable. Demanding that prominent people in the media who disagree with the party line be fired.

What's next? Camps? Numbers on our arms? Black lists?

Hey, don't you understand. We have to protect the president.

not something to look forward to...

look like amateurs.

I don't think I EVER heard of this before. I don't mean jjust a diff between Kerry & Shrub. I've been to a few rallys over the past years, the most recent being a few for Dean. Nobody asked me any questions, and I didn't see anyone else being asked anything either.

Thinking way back to Johnson, Nixon campaigns...there were a lot of protestors, but I don't remember people being banned from attending.

And that country is now a part of history.

Imperial Amerika has yet to be fully born, and it will be as ugly as any Totalitarian Nation before it.

That poor little twit.

Hmmmm...I can think of one word - Gestapo!

I hate it that my country has come to this!!!

Bowdoin is hosting the Maine College Democrats' convention beginning this afternoon. I'm anxious to hear how this event plays out. We have some super young Democrats in Maine colleges!

I think I remember Bowdoin as being pretty progressive/Radical.

There would be outrage if Kerry or Edwards tried this, as there should be.

Whats the most disturbing here is the fact that someone in the media has never asked Bush or Cheney why?...why all the fear of people there that don't like what your doing?...why the fear of a few folks there wearing T-shirts that have Anti-bush/Cheney slogans on them, what harm?

Their "image" is so important to them there so frighted that one small slip-up like a person showing his/her dislike for them in there gatherings will topple the whole government? For people that talk of how tuff they are on terrorist it seems funny to see them cower when a few protesters come there way.

As has been said, talk is cheap..Too bad for Bush/Cheney thats all they have had for four years, a lot of cheap talk.

Dem or Repub!

The secrecy of this administration shows their distain for the American people

Too bad your average Republican doesn't realise that the Bush admin. despises them too.

This is as unsurpirsing as the difference in treatment between a Liberal College Professor (thrown out a helicopter to his death) and the guy who murdered him for Augusto Pinochet in Chile in the 70s.

Yes, that shit happened.

It could start happening here any time. The conditions are right, the rulers are the same, and increasingly, the people are the same.

But we all knew that anyway....

he wouldn't be able to effectively counter a protestor. Must stick to the stump speech at all times. An off-the-cuff chimp is a disaster waiting to happen.

that are being "detained"...or that's what they are showing us.

If it goosesteps like a brownshirt,
if it extends it's arm like a brownshirt,
if it crushes dissent like a brownshirt ...