It is not freedom of speech or anything like that. It is ,who the hell knows if this guy is a nut wacko job or what? Do you know? Do I know? Are any of us mind readers? We just don't know. I'll say this: if you got the nerve to go up to the vice president of the United States and lash out at him verbally, waving your arms, touching him or not, you pretty much got the nerve to do almost any stupid thing. This guy, Steve Howards, was obviously a potential trouble maker.
A shopping mall to make derogatory opinions known to the vice president is just stupid. So what was Steve Howards thinking? That maybe Cheney would go back to the oval office and tell the President that some guy in a shopping mall told him that "our policies in Iraq are reprehensible" so we should stop the war.??? Maybe he thought the vice president would say, "what do you mean? lets go get a slice of pizza and a coke at the mall restaurant and talk about it".??? There is no method to Steve Howards madness. It is just stupid, about as stupid can be.
So I say lets check this idiot out so we can provide some security for the vice president of the United States. Don't act like a nut wacko and you won't be treated as one. Doesn't the vice president deserve some security? He is after all a very important person.
Does anybody think his wife would like to hear that some nut job killed her husband because we had to play some washed out freedom of speech game routine for the politically correct? Freedom of speech is here, it is there, it is everywhere. It is even in your hair. I swear I swear.
Look how we use it on this BB.
We are free. However, and this is the tricky part, it does require some tact to apply it properly. You just don't walk up to a guy, any guy, especially the vice president of the United States in a shopping mall and mouth off to him without asking for some trouble. This isn't a freedom of speech issue, it is just a common sense issue.
