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So I hit the link to the story about the Dangerous Wimmen with their Radical Breasts for Civil Liberties Lambert posted. Decided to look around Google news to see how other papers in the area covered the matter. The answer is, not very much. But they DID cover Preznit Psycho's standard stump speech just as though it was actual news....

Anyway, I'm looking at the Eugene paper's coverage and at the bottom is one of those "related stories" links. I hit that and, yup, it's a related story all right:

(via Eugene Register-Guard (how ironic a name!)

JACKSONVILLE - Police in riot gear fired paintballs filled with cayenne pepper Thursday night to disperse a crowd of protesters assembled in this historic gold mining town where President Bush was spending the night after a campaign appearance.

Witnesses said Bush supporters were on one side of California Street chanting ``Four more years,'' and supporters of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry were on the other chanting "Three more weeks." Police began moving the crowd [Question: ALL the crowd or just a part of it? Doesn't say.] away from the Jacksonville Inn, where the president was to arrive for a dinner and to spend the night after his speech.

``Nobody was being violent, said Cerridewen Bunten, 24, a college student and retail clerk from Ashland. "We were out of the streets so cars could go by. We were being loud, but I never knew that was against the law.''

Bunten said she was pushed by police as she held her 6-year-old daughter.

Jacksonville City Administrator Paul Wyntergreen said the protest was peaceful until a few people started pushing police. Police reacted by firing pepperballs, which he described as projectiles like a paintball filled with cayenne pepper. Two people were arrested for failing to disperse. There were no reports of injuries.

Richard Swaney, 65, of Central Point, said he was walking with the crowd away from the inn when he was hit in the back with three separate bursts, one of which knocked him down. He felt a stinging sensation he thought was rubber bullets and smelled pepper.

``I don't think I moved fast enough,'' Swaney said. ``I can't believe this happens in the United States. It was very peaceful. I think this is the way tyranny begins."

So the Preznit was protected from six year old girls and 65 year old men. I think the shot-up and peppered Mr. Swaney is dead-on right, don't you?