Des Moines Catholic Worker: Second Arrest Attempt On Karl Rove In Iowa
Leads To 4 Arrests
7/25/2008

Date: July 25, 2008
Release: Immediately

Contacts:
Mona Shaw
Kirk Brown
Chet Guinn
Frank Cordaro
Phillip Berrigan Catholic Worker House
713 Indiana Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50314
515-282-4781
www.DesMoinesCatholicWorker.org

SECOND ARREST ATTEMPT ON KARL ROVE IN IOWA LEADS TO 4 ARRESTS

Four Iowans were arrested today while attempting to make a Citizens'
Arrest of Karl Rove in Des Moines, Iowa. Citing Iowa Code provisions for
making Citizen's Arrests as well as citing Federal Statute violations
they claimed Rove had violated, the four were stopped at the gate of the
Wakonda Country Club in Des Moines where Rove was scheduled to speak at
a Republican Fundraiser.

The four arrested were retired Methodist minister and Peace and Justice
Advocate, Rev. Chet Guinn, 80, as well as three Des Moines Catholic
Workers, Edward Bloomer, 61, Kirk Brown, 25, and Mona Shaw, 57. All four
were cited for trespassing and released.

The four maintained that they were acting within the guidelines of Iowa
Code that obligate private citizens to make such an arrest if they
believe a felony has been committed and turn Rove over to police
officials to bring Rove before a judge for formal indictment. By law, a
federal judge should consider the charges and determine if an indictment
should be made.

Brown and Shaw made a similar attempt last March when Rove spoke at the
University of Iowa, Iowa City. Brown and Shaw were arrested and released
without charges following that attempt. Deaths in the Middle East since
the March attempt number in the thousands including, 151 more US troops
have been killed in Iraq, and 284 killed in Afghanistan as well as far
more citizens of those two nations.

Rove remains unindicted and recently refused to cooperate with a
Congressional subpoena in the Valerie Plame leak investigation. Despite
mounting evidence of Rove's wrongdoing concerning leading the U.S. to
war as well as other actions, Congress and the U.S. judicial system
remain reluctant to bring charges against either Rove or the Bush
administration. Recent evidence includes Articles of Impeachment that
will again be presented by Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich tomorrow.
Vincent Bugliosi's new book "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for
Murder" carefully lays out a case against Bush and his administration
for war crimes and felony murder. Bugliosi was prosecutor for the
Charles Manson Family murders and author of the book "Helter Skelter,"
which dealt with that crime.

To date there have been 4125 US Military deaths in Iraq, 896 in
Afghanistan, 66,775 casualties (wounded as well as those removed for
other injuries and illnesses), and more than 200,000 Iraqi and Afghani
citizens killed and many, many more wounded.


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Wouldn't it be a trip and a half if everywhere Rove went, there were
private citizens attempting to make a citizen's arrest of him?