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Cindy Sheehan Strikes Again And Gets Locked Up...Freedom Of Speech?
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| InterMilan31 |
| quote: | WASHINGTON - Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a fallen soldier in Iraq who reinvigorated the anti-war movement, was arrested and removed from the House gallery Tuesday night just before President Bush's State of the Union address, a police spokeswoman said.
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Sheehan, who was invited to attend the speech by Rep. Lynn Woolsey (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., was charged with demonstrating in the Capitol building, said Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider. The charge was later changed to unlawful conduct, Schneider said. Both charges are misdemeanors.
Sheehan was taken in handcuffs from the Capitol to police headquarters a few blocks away. Her case was processed as Bush spoke.
Schneider said Sheehan had worn a T-shirt with an anti-war slogan to the speech and covered it up until she took her seat. Police warned her that such displays were not allowed, but she did not respond, the spokeswoman said.
Police handcuffed Sheehan and removed her from the gallery before Bush arrived. Sheehan was to be released on her own recognizance, Schneider said.
"I'm proud that Cindy's my guest tonight," Woolsey said in an interview before the speech. "She has made a difference in the debate to bring our troops home from Iraq."
Woolsey offered Sheehan a ticket to the speech — Gallery 5, seat 7, row A — earlier Tuesday while Sheehan was attending an "alternative state of the union" press conference by CODEPINK, a group pushing for an end to the Iraq war.
Sheehan, wrapped in a bright pink scarf against the cold, protested outside the White House with a handful of others before heading to the Capitol Tuesday evening. There were no cameras around, but the small band faced the executive mansion and repeatedly shouted, "You're evicted! Get out of our house!"
Sheehan was arrested in September with about 300 other anti-war activists in front of the White House after a weekend of protests against the war in Iraq. In August, she spent 26 days camped near Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, where he was spending a working vacation.
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So first of all I know little of this lady as I was in Europe when this whole thing went off down in Texas. I dont really agree with arresting her and I belive that this is just another slap in the face in freedom of speech and is there a freedom of thought if there is its another slap in the face of that too...but whatever this is mostly for the rest of you who might find this interesting and know more about it than I do. |
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| sensorium |
What in the hell was she doing in the House gallery? She obviously wasn't there to listen to the president but to make a statement and possibly disturb the speech, which I wouldn't mind if it had happened. There is no point in wearing a t-shirt if other people are not going to see it. So she was looking for some attention. She trying to make a statement is not a problem, to me, but it is a problem to the police. If they say demonstrating in the Capitol building is a misdemeanor there's little one can do.
Serves her right for wearing a t-shirt when she should've worn formal. Isn't this specified in the invitation? |
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| InterMilan31 |
| quote: | Originally posted by sensorium
What in the hell was she doing in the House gallery? |
| quote: | | Sheehan, who was invited to attend the speech by Rep. Lynn Woolsey (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., |
idiot |
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| sensorium |
| I read that. What I meant was what was her intention in going. |
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| Trancer-X |
| quote: | Originally posted by sensorium
I read that. What I meant was what was her intention in going. |
Probably to make a statement. You know, the thing that used to be called civil disobedience. |
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| InterMilan31 |
| quote: | Originally posted by sensorium
I read that. What I meant was what was her intention in going. |
true thats my first reaction...what she was there? that was the exact reaction..i dunno if she was invited than why cant she come I seriously doubt she would stand up and start screaming and bla bla because not only would it look tremendously bad for her but even worse for the rep who brought her to the event. |
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| Trancer-X |
| quote: | Originally posted by InterMilan31
i dunno if she was invited than why cant she come |
It sounds to me like they weren't taking any chances of anything happening. If they pulled her from her seat when she exposed her t-shirt, I doubt that they were going to give her a chance to make any kind of scene during Dubya's speech - which is probably what she had intended to do (given her penchant for outspokenness in regards to the war.) |
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| InterMilan31 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trancer-X
It sounds to me like they weren't taking any chances of anything happening. If they pulled her from her seat when she exposed her t-shirt, I doubt that they were going to give her a chance to make any kind of scene during Dubya's speech - which is probably what she had intended to do (given her penchant for outspokenness in regards to the war.) |
that could be true although I think what she was gonna do was just sit there and try to pull the guilt trip on Bush you know what I mean...like bush had to give the whole speak while speaking in front of her...kinda getting me here lol |
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| InterMilan31 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trancer-X
It sounds to me like they weren't taking any chances of anything happening. If they pulled her from her seat when she exposed her t-shirt, I doubt that they were going to give her a chance to make any kind of scene during Dubya's speech - which is probably what she had intended to do (given her penchant for outspokenness in regards to the war.) |
that could be true although I think what she was gonna do was just sit there and try to pull the guilt trip on Bush you know what I mean...like bush had to give the whole speak while speaking in front of her...kinda getting me here lol |
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| EvilTree |
She's just another attention whore. Probably be worse than some COR whores if that's possible.
It's not like Bush is going to give a what she thinks. He already knows! |
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| InterMilan31 |
| quote: | Originally posted by EvilTree
She's just another attention whore. Probably be worse than some COR whores if that's possible.
It's not like Bush is going to give a what she thinks. He already knows! |
true its not like she is the only mother of a dead soldier:rolleyes: |
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| Shakka |
Well, given this, maybe she shouldn't be too upset. Who wears only a T-Shirt to such a momentous event anyway?
http://www.local6.com/news/6647094/detail.html
| quote: | Florida Rep.'s Wife Says She Was Ejected From State Of Union
POSTED: 7:07 am EST February 1, 2006
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- The wife of Rep. C.W. Bill Young, R-Indian Shores, told a newspaper that she was ejected during the State of the Union address for wearing a T-shirt that says, "Support the Troops Defending Our Freedom."
Beverly Young told the St. Petersburg Times that she was sitting in the front row of the House gallery Tuesday night when she was approached by someone who told her she needed to leave.
She said she reluctantly agreed, but argued with several officers in an outside hallway.
In a telephone interview with the newspaper, Young said she told them her shirt wasn't a protest but a message of support.
Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said Young wasn't ejected from the gallery and she left on her own. She couldn't provide additional details.
Young's husband found out about the incident after Bush's speech and called it unacceptable. |
Sounds like they weren't taking any chances on either side. Hardly surprising. |
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