posted November 01, 2006 04:20 PM            

Maine lawyer arrested after dressing as bin Laden
Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:59 PM ET

BOSTON (Reuters) - A Maine attorney who released information in 2000 about President George W. Bush's drunken driving conviction was arrested on Tuesday after he dressed up as al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and waved a fake gun at traffic.

Police in South Portland, Maine, arrested Thomas Connolly, 49, of Scarborough, Maine, and charged him with criminal threatening. He was released on bail, local officials said.

Lt. Todd Bernard said the police department received calls about a man wearing Middle Eastern garb and a bin Laden mask and carrying fake dynamite standing along an interstate highway. When police arrived, they saw Connolly holding a gun.

"They ordered him to drop the weapon several times and he eventually complied," Bernard said.

It turned out the gun was fake, Bernard said.

In a phone interview, Connolly said he'd been trying to protest a planned change in local tax rules.

"I didn't expect to be arrested," he said. "Obviously I touched a post-9/11 nerve."

Days before the 2000 presidential election, Connolly released information about Bush's 1976 drunken driving conviction.

The Bush campaign said Democratic "dirty tricks" were behind the disclosure that at age 30 Bush had been arrested for drunken driving in Kennebunkport, Maine, pleaded guilty, paid a fine and had his license suspended for 30 days.

Connolly, a Democrat, ran for governor in Maine in 1998.

posted November 07, 2006 01:45 AM              

However, I noticed that either you, Pidaua, or your Republican source edited the original news article.

This is the "unedited" version of the news article from Reuters:

BOSTON (Reuters) - A Maine attorney who released information in 2000 about President George W. Bush's drunken driving conviction was arrested on Tuesday after he dressed up as al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and waved a fake gun at traffic.

Police in South Portland, Maine, arrested Thomas Connolly, 49, of Scarborough, Maine, and charged him with criminal threatening. He was released on bail, local officials said.

Lt. Todd Bernard said the police department received calls about a man wearing Middle Eastern garb and a bin Laden mask and carrying fake dynamite standing along an interstate highway. When police arrived, they saw Connolly holding a gun.

"They ordered him to drop the weapon several times and he eventually complied," Bernard said.

It turned out the gun was fake, Bernard said.
In a phone interview, Connolly said he'd been trying to protest a planned change in local tax rules.

"I didn't expect to be arrested," he said. "Obviously I touched a post-9/11 nerve."

Days before the 2000 presidential election, Connolly released information about Bush's 1976 drunken driving conviction.

The Bush campaign said Democratic "dirty tricks" were behind the disclosure that at age 30 Bush had been arrested for drunken driving in Kennebunkport, Maine, pleaded guilty, paid a fine and had his license suspended for 30 days.

Connolly, a Democrat, ran for governor in Maine in 1998.

South Portland, Maine, is located about 100 miles northeast of Boston.

© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved

Just wanted to clarify that it was the Bush campaign that stated it was Democratic "dirty tricks." You edited that part out of the article to make it appear as a fact when really it was just an unsubstantiated accusation on the part of the Bush campaign. Something I have noticed that you have done before on more than one occasion.

posted November 07, 2006 02:00 PM            

Back to your baseless accussations again? You accused me of editing an article. Do you ever get tired of lying?

I did no such thing. I copied it as it was and if the article had more information added to it on another site- so be it.

The fact that you accused me or a Republican source of editing a document/ story demonstrates how frenzied you are in your rabid beliefs. Are you sure you don't condone what the idiot lawyer did? I would think you would bow down to the man that leaked Bush's drunk driving charge. That is right up your ally isn't it?

LMAO... pathetic

Mirandee- you may want to read my article again. I am sick and tired of your lies and accusations. You make me sick to my stomach and how you look at yourself in the mirror after the crap you post is beyond me. The quote you spoke of is there and has always been there. You need some serious help and a lesson in ethics.

I hope you don't do this in the real world because you have made yourself look like a complete psycho with your posts...

The article has not been altered in any way, shape of form.