Heckler Charged With Harrassing Chinese President

"The U.S. government has charged Wenyi Wang, a Chinese national who has lived in the United States for 20 years, with threatening Chinese President Hu Jintao on Thursday while he met with President Bush at the White House."

"After waiting overnight in jail, Wang was formally charged with "knowingly and willfully intimidating, coercing, threatening or harassing … a foreign official performing his duties," a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in prison and a fine of $5,000."

"Wang did not break the law when she yelled "Stop oppressing the Falun Gong" at Hu or even when she unfurled a red-and-yellow banner of the Falun Gong, a religious movement banned in China. Wang broke the law — crossing from First Amendment protected speech to criminality — according to government prosecutor Angela George, when she yelled "Your time is running out," to Hu, and later, when she screamed "Anything you have done will come back to you in this life."

So, informing someone that they've created "bad karma" is now a crime. Let's cut the bullshit, her one and only real crime was embarrassing our dictator in front of an honored guest dictator.

Pure, wholesome, good old-fashioned dissent is not tolerated in America these days. Our right to protest our own, or anyone elses' government has become so stiffled over many years by rules and regulations, that we can now only protest by appointment, after applying for the proper permits and authorizations, and staying within certain designated areas, a certain distance away from the target of protest, and using only certain language, and signs must be constructed of certain materials....etc, etc, that it's just no fun anymore. Throwing a tomato would definately result in execution on the spot. And you know that's no joke.

She should have no problem "beating the rap", but the damage is done. Another warning has been implanted into your psyche that your peaceful, law-abiding, constitutionally protected acts of civil disobedience, are not welcome in the land of the formerly free.