God the arrogance of the Bush administration is just unbelievable.
Freedom of speech and expression? Nope. A little common courtesy? Nope. Knee-jerk reactions and bullshoot platitudes afterwords? Oh yeah.
So the "official" explanation is: Yes, we of the capitol police force are a bunch of trigger happy yahoo's who just enforce the law, although we don't have a clue what the law is.
Sad as that is, I guess it does at least feel better than the truth of the Bush administrations actions: If you don't think like us, you are treasonous and deserve no rights or respect.