Expelling citizens was White House policy

You may recall the 2005 case in Denver where three citizens were expelled from a taxpayer funded presidential forum on Social Security. It now appears that it was White House policy to eject people who might disagree with Shrub. From The Denver Post:

Today's revelations by volunteer bouncers Casper and Klinkerman showed that the decision to eject the activists "was made at the highest levels of the White House," suggesting a policy of excluding potentially-disruptive critics at events nationwide, ACLU legal director Mark Silverstein said after the men were deposed in Denver's federal courthouse.

White House spokesman Blair Jones declined comment.

The bouncers' statements appeared to contradict a White House spokesman's assertion in 2005 that volunteers at the Bush event were responsible for ejecting the Denver Three - self-described progressives Alex Young, Leslie Weise and Karen Bauer. Only Young and Weise are involved in the federal lawsuit.

If you read the full article, you can see that these citizens were indeed guilty of having an anti-Bush bumper sticker on their car and having on t-shirts that said "No more lies," t-shirts which they did not reveal, by the way. Essentially they were guilty of ThoughtCrime.

Keep in mind this was an official government event, not a campaign rally, so there is no basis for comparison at all between this incident and the staged antics by Republicans at a political rally in Washington state last fall.

Of course, it's happier for Bubble Boy if he never understands how much the public actually opposes him, but in a democracy you don't get to expel citizens because some local "bouncers" say so. The authoritarian mindset of these people is breathtaking.