Iowans Arrested Trying To Arrest Karl Rove

The Cedar Rapids Gazette:

Police here arrested four Iowans Friday after they attempted a citizen's arrest of former White House adviser Karl Rove, who was in Des Moines to speak at a fundraiser.

Retired Methodist minister Rev. Chet Guinn, 80, and three Des Moines Catholic Workers, Edward Bloomer, 61, Kirk Brown, 25 and Mona Shaw, 57, who lives in Iowa City, were cited for trespassing and released, according to a news release.

Citing the Iowa Code, which allows citizen's arrests, the four accused Rove of election fraud; conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud the United States in the time before the Iraq war; and treason, sedition and subversive activities for fraudulent acts leading to the deaths of 300,000 Iraqi civilians and 4,000 U.S. Military personnel, according to their arrest complaint.

Read the whole story: The Cedar Rapids Gazette

Comments

[marc1antony]

01:27 AM on 07/29/2008

Rev. Chet Guinn, 80, Edward Bloomer, 61, Kirk Brown, 25 and Mona Shaw, 57 - MY HEROS!!!!

[gifu]

11:45 PM on 07/28/2008

No mercy for tweedle-demon. He will reap what he has sown, one fine day.

[condew]

10:52 PM on 07/28/2008

I posted a comment 12 hours ago, it still hasn't shown up.

[Bitsko]

08:36 PM on 07/28/2008

For anyone contemplating something like this, be very careful how you go about it. The penalties for kidnapping can be pretty harsh, to say the least, and folks like Rove have some high-powered lawyers (often paid for by the taxpayer). But, good luck!

[SantaFeStars]

07:28 PM on 07/28/2008

Keep up the good work, Reverand & friends! At least you tried, most in Congress will not lift a finger!

[research]

06:19 PM on 07/28/2008

"Each state with the exception of North Carolina permits citizen arrests if the commission of felony is witnessed by the arresting citizen," wikipeadea

[Vurz]

05:45 PM on 07/28/2008

While most Iowa citizens make me proud to be an American, the Iowa police are not doing so. Arresting people for exercising their patriotic duty under state law? How terrible. The police need to be given civics classes before being allowed another paycheck.

[Bitsko]

08:46 PM on 07/28/2008

Civics classes? I'd be happy if they just wouldn't harass and beat up on their fellow Iowans who are African-American, Chicano, or non-conformists.

[AzRealProgressive]

12:57 AM on 07/29/2008

The people were arrested for tresspassing. They had no basis to arrest Rove for anything. You need to have charges first. No one around here seems to understand that. Charge him with something, and then arrest him. If you have no charges then just post here or write nasty letters to his employers.

[bobwalters]

01:52 PM on 07/29/2008

Your response is nonsense. You charge the criminal at the time of the citizens' arrest. You've been listening to Joe Arpaio too long, and/or Andrew Thomas. The police were protecting a felon, at the expense of not only the alleged "trespassers" (who were charged at the time of arrest, BTW) but also the Constitution, rule of law, probably Iowa statutes re: felonies, etc.

[harriscrl3]

05:31 PM on 07/28/2008

Go Iowans You make me so PROUD!!!

Carol

[mollyjackson]

05:29 PM on 07/28/2008

Good, another nut in jail!

[wheresthebeef]

05:49 PM on 07/28/2008

Sorry to hear it. When do you get out?

[ymax]

06:36 PM on 07/28/2008

Not so fast.

[ROBOT8]

05:26 PM on 07/28/2008

THEY'RE CLOSING IN MAN!!!!!!

[yallkiddn]

04:59 PM on 07/28/2008

I hate to sound like a "nit picker" and an "old fogey," but why is it that folks nowadays seem to be egregiously negligent about placing apostrophes in words that actually REQUIRE them? (e.g. cant instead of can't, Roves instead of Rove's, citizens instead of citizen's, lets instead of let's...) Have we become that LAZY or are people just that uninformed, let us say?

[jeplanet]

04:48 PM on 07/28/2008

Best story EVER !
Way to go Iowa.
Karl Rove can only postpone the inevidable for so long. He'll be in a cell eventually.

[Topfeeder]

04:32 PM on 07/28/2008

Those crazy corn-fed yahoos. You gotta love 'em!

[levibatgirl]

04:20 PM on 07/28/2008

I apologize to all Iowans for having made fun of your perfect lawns and boring state in the past.

You have my respect and admiration. Keep up the good work. Maybe other states will follow your lead.

[Ramirez]

04:26 PM on 07/28/2008

I agree. Kudos all around.

I think the Iowans did a fine job of gently ejecting the heckling moonbats from the hall before they became a danger to themselves and others.

[jeplanet]

05:01 PM on 07/28/2008

Are you actually defending this teasonous, cowardly, fat b*stard???
Give your head a shake.

[masha2008]

04:18 PM on 07/28/2008

these iowans should be commended. karl rove has plunged this country so low it's a wonder there's not more doing this sort of thing. rove should NOT be profiting from putting this country to the depths it is in right now.