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Secret Service shuts down ‘fire Eric Holder’ protest
Washington Examiner ^ | 7 2 2012 | Joel Gehrke

Posted on 07/02/2012 10:02:30 AM PDT by tutstar

U.S. Secret Service officers shut down a student-led protest calling for President Obama to fire Attorney General Eric Holder this morning, according to a report from in front of the White House.

After discovering a “suspicious package,” the Secret Service ended the protest. “Several agents seemed hostile to our march and seemed anxious for us to leave the area,” Maurice Lewis, a University of California student, told Campus Reform. “The discover[y of] the ‘unidentified package’ came just as the protest began gain traction.”

The U.S. House of Representatives cited Holder for contempt of Congress on Thursday after he defied a subpoena demanding documents pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious, the gun-walking scheme that claimed border patrol agent Brian Terry’s life.

The Justice Department denied, in a February 4, 2011, letter to Congress, that law enforcement ever allow guns to be trafficked into Mexico. In December 2011, DOJ retracted that claim.

About 50 students congregated outside the White House this morning for the anti-Holder protest.


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The Blaze says reason is suspicious pkg (no one there says that as far as I'm aware) http://www.theblaze.com/stories/secret-service-shuts-down-fast-and-furious-protest-due-to-suspicious-package/

1 posted on 07/02/2012 10:02:37 AM PDT by tutstar
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To: tutstar

I’m bettin’ there was no such “suspicious package”. This was broken up by the SS on orders from above. Bank on it.


2 posted on 07/02/2012 10:05:01 AM PDT by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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To: tutstar

The Brown Shirts have returned.

What did they do with this supposed package?


3 posted on 07/02/2012 10:05:08 AM PDT by MindBender26 (America can survive 4 years of Romney. She cannot survive another 4 years of an unfettered Obama!)
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To: tutstar

It was interfering with the daily trip to the brothel.


4 posted on 07/02/2012 10:05:20 AM PDT by immadashell
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To: LucyT; BP2; rxsid; null and void; Candor7; melancholy

Are no longer allowed freedom of speech and to protest our government??


5 posted on 07/02/2012 10:05:20 AM PDT by tutstar (I)
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To: RightOnline
I’m bettin’ there was no such “suspicious package”. This was broken up by the SS on orders from above. Bank on it.

I'm with you on that bet. This Administration WANTS us to riot.
6 posted on 07/02/2012 10:07:07 AM PDT by Eagle of Liberty (We the People are coming!!)
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To: tutstar
After discovering a “suspicious package,” the Secret Service ended the protest.

What, did Al Gore show up looking for new acolytes?

7 posted on 07/02/2012 10:07:07 AM PDT by theDentist (FYBO/FUBO; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: Eagle of Liberty

I second it. Nothing surprises me anymore.


8 posted on 07/02/2012 10:08:22 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: RightOnline; All

Of course there wasn’t any thing suspicious.

Matthew Boyle just said they will post video soon!!


9 posted on 07/02/2012 10:09:00 AM PDT by tutstar (I)
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After discovering a “suspicious package,” the Secret Service ended the protest.

Gut instinct - it was planted to end the student protest. Oboma didn't want to hear it.

10 posted on 07/02/2012 10:09:24 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: tutstar

I “suspect” the Secret Service brought in the “suspiscious” package so they could shut down the protest.

Where were the Metropolitan Police?


11 posted on 07/02/2012 10:09:35 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: MindBender26

Brown shirts is right!! Watch Matthew Boyle’s twitter feed, he’s going to post video soon. We have some admirable young patriots. It gives me hope. He wrote something the other day re FF and debunked a Fortune article.

I can’t believe how quickly things are going downhill!


12 posted on 07/02/2012 10:11:07 AM PDT by tutstar (I)
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To: MestaMachine

ping


13 posted on 07/02/2012 10:11:38 AM PDT by tutstar (I)
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Marjorie Jeffrey ‏@MarjorieJeffrey Secret Service was letting bureaucrats in and out of Treasury/White house while protesters removed: http://fb.me/xSgVr27l h/t @JosiahRyan
14 posted on 07/02/2012 10:13:01 AM PDT by tutstar (I)
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To: tutstar

In before some brainwashed FReeper calls this “Nixonian”.


15 posted on 07/02/2012 10:13:09 AM PDT by EyeGuy (Armed, judgmental, fiscally responsible heterosexual.)
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To: tutstar

http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=3070

some pics at link


16 posted on 07/02/2012 10:14:41 AM PDT by tutstar (I)
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To: tutstar

So, the Occupy Washington crowd got to stay even after one of their members popped off a few assault rounds at the White House. But this crowd gets forcibly removed over some mysterious package that, as of yet, has not been reported as dangerous at all. Don’t take a brain surgon to figure out what’s going on here.


17 posted on 07/02/2012 10:17:23 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: tutstar

Post #5

I’m sure it’s still OK to protest anything conservative .


18 posted on 07/02/2012 10:17:42 AM PDT by Lionheartusa1 (-: Socialism is the equal distribution of misery :-)
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To: tutstar

No, remember that law they passed a couple of month ago about shutting down protests near government officials . You know, the law the msm didn’t cover.


19 posted on 07/02/2012 10:17:42 AM PDT by Husker24
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To: tutstar

Yeah, right..suspicious package.

As they say in Jersey, “I got yer suspicious package right here , pal”.


20 posted on 07/02/2012 10:17:42 AM PDT by Carl LaFong (Vera the possum is US.)
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