The Known Unknowns of a public book signing

Two people were removed from a Donald Rumsfeld book signing Friday at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, including the Yelm widow of an Army Ranger who blames the military for her husband’s suicide.

Security officers for the former secretary of defense escorted Ashley Joppa-Hagemann out by the arm, she said Saturday. She and Jorge Gonzalez, the executive director of Coffee Strong, a Lakewood-based anti-war group, confronted Rumsfeld as he promoted his memoir, “Known and Unknown.”

According to an account posted on Coffee Strong’s website: “Mrs. Joppa-Hagemann introduced herself by handing a copy of her husband’s funeral program to Rumsfeld, and telling him that her husband had joined the military because he believed the lies told by Rumsfeld during his tenure with the Bush administration.”

Joppa-Hagemann complained about Rumsfeld’s response Friday to her account of Staff Sgt. Jared Hagemann’s multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan and his death at age 25. Hagemann belonged to the 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/08/27/1798800/rangers-widow-expelled-from-rumsfeld.html#ixzz1WiiIdI15

I hope he comes to Texas (I'm sure he will). I'll be there and might be arrested.

I just can't envision this enormously paranoid man going on a "regular" book signing tour. My guess is he'll make personal appearances only for highly-screened audiences, like this one at the Reagan Library that costs $85.00 per person:

http://www.reaganfoundation.org/details_t.aspx?p=PE40002PGE&h1=7&h2=13&sw=&lm=programandevents&args_a=cms&args_b=888&argsb=N&tx=2452

Isa that customary at book signings?

They don't have any problem sending other people off to kill and die, but even the minimal confrontation described in this story is too much for these delicate personages to countenance.