# George "Yellowcake" Bush Uses Palace Guard to Crush Dissent **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 19, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-yellowcake-bush-uses-palace-guard-to-crush-dissent/189583 "2003-07-19T15:10:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kitfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@Kitfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitfox)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-yellowcake-bush-uses-palace-guard-to-crush-dissent/189583/41 "2003-07-21T05:07:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fear Itself \* > \*\*Doesn’t apply here. Bursey was on public property, the Columbia Metropolitan Airport. > > Not according to the South Carolina Supreme Court. In 1969, the court ruled that anti-war demonstrators could not be charged with trespassing if they were on public property. Ironically, the defendant then was Bursey, and the location was also Columbia Metropolitan Airport. Some presidents never learn. > > But peacefully carrying a sign meets none of those definitions of disorderly. > > Thereby violating the dissenter’s rights, as guaranteed by the SC Supreme Court > \*\*Nope. No trespassing. Public Property. > Only in your fevered imagination. > > You are living proof. \*\* Let’s go to the play-by-play… The Ryan posts that there is a difference between hunting down dissention and prosecuting a critic who seeks you out. Fear Itself responds that dissention is protected in both cases, and asks someone to explain the difference. I explain that dissention is not always protected in both cases, that there are a number of ways in which dissention can be punished. Fear Itself then misses my point completely and launches into a bizarre defense of Mr. Bursey against charges I didn’t make, and throws in a personal attack for good measure. Hokay…I don’t know Mr. Bursey nor the specifics of his case. But, if he did nothing wrong, then he had the basis for a nice lawsuit. Provided he didn’t do anything like over-react when a officer asked him (and only asked him) to leave or something. Which, if he was arrested for trespassing, he probably did (polite people do not get arrested for trespassing). ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-yellowcake-bush-uses-palace-guard-to-crush-dissent/189583/42 "2003-07-21T06:25:13Z")
> [@](#): > > _Origianlly posted by Kitfox_ > **I don’t know Mr. Bursey nor the specifics of his case.** If I missed your point, it was because it wasn’t clear that your statements were purely hypothetical and had no relationship to the case being discussed. I presumed you were attributing actions to Mr. Bursey that were not in evidence. And I don’t think it was unreasonable to infer that your “too bad so few actually understand it…” comment was aimed at anyone who supported Mr. Bursey’s free speech defense. If I misconstrued your statements, let me apologize: I am sorry you were imprecise. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-yellowcake-bush-uses-palace-guard-to-crush-dissent/189583/43 "2003-07-21T06:30:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by manhattan \* > > **Collounsbury** : That’s the beauty of protest signs – they need not make sense! Ahhh, I can see you now. Protesting: > [@](#): > > Break Golden Mountain Chains! > Yuan Up. Float! Float! It brings a tear to my eye. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-yellowcake-bush-uses-palace-guard-to-crush-dissent/189583.md?page=2)