From the Denver Post --
As political dissent goes, Carol Kreck's "McCain = Bush" sign was pretty innocuous. But that's not the point. As run-ins with the law go, her trespassing citation was relatively mild. Yet that isn't the point either. At the Secret Service's urging, Denver police deemed it necessary to oust Kreck — a 60-year-old student and librarian — from a public space Monday before John McCain's town-hall meeting in Denver. Not for shouting anything. And not for getting in anyone's face. Kreck was merely holding a sign that, for what it's worth, plenty of folks would consider a compliment to the GOP candidate. As it happens, the outdoor galleria where she was standing at the Denver Performing Arts Complex was the subject of a federal ruling proclaiming it a "non-public forum" or no-protest zone. Never mind that the property is owned by the city. Never mind that McCain himself declared his meeting an open forum......
(More at the Post site)
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