Don't tell Dick Cheney to go fuck himself anymore, you might get arrested. It's amazing that the guy who did that after Katrina (he was interviewed in Spike Lee's documentary), didn't get arrested consider this poor guy was locked up for assaulting the vice president for a non-vulgar statement of protest.

Anyway, here's how it supposedly went down:

Howards says he was taking two of his kids to their Suzuki piano camp in Beaver Creek, Colorado. They were walking across the outdoor public mall area when all of a sudden he saw Cheney there.

"I didn’t even know he was in town,” Howards says. "He was walking through the area shaking hands. Initially, I walked past him. Then I said to myself, 'I can't in good conscience let this opportunity pass by.'; So I approached him, I got about two feet away, and I said in a very calm tone of voice, 'Your policies in Iraq are reprehensible.' And then I walked away."

The result?

"About ten minutes later, I came back through the mall with my eight-year-old son in tow," Howards recalls, "and this Secret Service man came out of the shadows, and his exact words were, 'Did you assault the Vice President?'"

Here's how Howards says he responded: "No, but I did tell Mr. Cheney the way I felt about the war in Iraq, and if Mr. Cheney wants to be shielded from public criticism, he should avoid public places. If exercising my constitutional rights to free speech is against the law, then you should arrest me."

Which is just what the agent, Virgil D. "Gus" Reichle Jr, proceeded to do.

Never trust anyone named Virgil by the way. At least not in Virginia.

Nice story though huh?