Well, during the campaign for the election, George Bush made sure that he only had supporters in the audience for his "public" speaches, and, on several occasions, had local police ban people from attending if they had anti-Bush bumper-stickers, tee-shirts or buttons. The behavior inspired me to make this icon for my blog.

So I think it goes deeper than "a security system that has it's collective head up its ass."

But, as far as I can tell, that was legal (barely), if he chose to make his speaches in the open to an invitation-only audience.

But this? To arrest someone who was someone else's legal guest?

Feh. I think George Orwell may have gotten it right... he was just 20 off....