The Fox News headline says it all so perfectly: Man Gets Within 10 Feet of Cheney. Presumably this put Cheney at risk of ending his nearly three years in complete isolation from actual human contact, most of it spent in an undisclosed secure location. The scary thing is, he's the guy who's supposed to be more in touch than Bush. Fortunately alert secret service agents were able to wrestle the man to the ground. He was then arrested and charged with some truly absurd violations: assaulting federal officers (presumably when he responded to being pushed by any action other than going completely limp), and the Kafkaesque ' impeding the operation of the Secret Service.' Well, the secret service are supposed to protect the vice-president. They arrested this guy because they thought he posed a threat. Sounds to me like they were operating just fine. More to the point is the question of whether anyone will think to suggest that the secret service should be arrested for impeding the operation of the first amendment.
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