More Rove protest reactions
I would like to point out something that the heated emotions surrounding the erstwhile citizen's arrest of Karl Rove may have caused people to overlook. The protesters who laid down in front of Mr. Rove's car and made such a big deal about being forcibly removed by Public Safety and the Secret Service seemed to forget one very important fact: The job of the Secret Service is to protect certain people.
By lying down in front of Mr. Rove's car, preventing it from leaving, the students created a security risk. For all the Secret Service officers knew, the students could have been laying in front of the car to allow a group of heavily armed terrorists to ambush it while its progress was impeded. Sure, that is ludicrous and completely false, but the Secret Service is trained to assume the worst, so their reaction to the incident was exactly what it should have been, if perhaps a little overeager (that man showing off his gun and cursing at students, for example, although he was actually a Secret Service officer fully authorized to carry a firearm and wear a suit instead of a uniform, so stop whining about that, please). This wasn't Kent State, people.
Andrew Robinson
Sophomore, SIS
The Coalition for Action and Social Justice isn't the only group that can perform a citizen's arrest, and that's why I might as well issue my own arrest warrants against the criminal actions of the select few protesters that crossed the line from peaceful demonstration into disorderly conduct.
The "warrant" issued by Mr. Kent and others at the protest and in Thursday's op-ed decries the trampling of the Constitution and the law by Mr. Rove and the administration he serves, using a violation of the 1978 Presidential Records Act regarding written communication as the main exhibit.
