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T-shirt protester intercepted Robin Marshall / Budapest Sun | June 28 2006 WITH President George W Bush in town, US businessman Karl W B Schwarz decided to test his right to protest. What he found, he says, mirrors the US. He didn't mean it as a compliment. Schwarz spent Thursday (June 22) morning wandering the area of the Kempinski and Le Meridien hotels, wearing a shirt bearing a less-than-flattering image of Bush with the word "International" written above and "Terrorist" below. "I must have passed more than 5,000 people this morning and perhaps 1,000 of them looked at the t-shirt and smiled," Schwarz told The Budapest Sun. "Only one person glared and that was a US Secret Service agent." The businessman says he was able to walk around unimpeded until the President's limousine was due to depart, when "a Hungarian police car came screeching up to me and three police officers confronted me." Schwarz gave the officers his US passport and says he was treated with politeness. They asked him to walk back another way, away from the path the President's convoy would take. "It seems that, even here in Hungary, free speech and demonstrating against our president have to occur outside of his field of view, just as in America." It would be fair to say Schwarz, author of One-Way Ticket to Crawford, Texas, a Conservative Republican Speaks Out (a "blistering critique of the Bush-Cheney Administration," according to www.karlschwarz.com), is not the number one fan of America's 43rdPresident. Schwarz had even considered running as an Independent for the 2008 Presidency but formerly withdrew his candidacy in December 2005. Schwarz is in Hungary exploring the possibilities of building a nano-technology facility in the region (he says he has also been talking to the Italian and Austrian governments) with his company Patmos Nanotechnologies, LLC (www.patmosnanotech.com). ---------------------------------------------------
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