Posted on 09/19/2004 4:45:43 PM PDT by Brian Mosely
TRENTON, N.J. - Police have dropped charges against a Hopewell woman who was arrested when she interrupted a campaign speech by first lady Laura Bush to ask why her son was killed in Iraq.
Sue Sapir-Niederer had refused to leave the Thursday rally at a Hamilton fire house and was eventually escorted from the site. Sapir-Niederer wore a T-shirt that bore the words "President Bush You Killed My Son" and a picture of her son, Army 1st Lt. Seth Dvorin.
While he defended police for doing the right thing, Mercer County Prosecutor Joseph L. Bocchini Jr. issued a statement Friday that said police would dismiss the trespass charge.
"It is our determination that the police officers had more than enough probable cause to arrest Ms. Sapir-Niederer and were justified in the their actions," said Bocchini. "Taking all factors into consideration, including the recent loss of her son while serving in the armed forces in Iraq, I believe that the continued prosecution of the this matter would serve no useful purpose."
Dvorin was killed in February while trying to disarm a bomb in Iraq. The 24-year-old had just returned to Iraq after spending two weeks with his family.
At the campaign rally, the first lady continued speaking after the arrest, touting her husband's record on the economy, health care and the war on terror.
On Friday, New Jersey Democrats criticized Assemblyman Bill Baroni, R-Mercer, for statements he made to The Times of Trenton that Sapir-Niederer ought to "find something better to do with her time."
Baroni said Friday that he felt sorry for what Sapir-Niederer had experienced.
"I feel profoundly sorry for Mrs. Niederer and her son is an American hero," said Baroni. "None of us can truly understand what she is going through, and she and her family are in our prayers."
I'm glad they let her off, but I'm SURE they're watching her every action.
Notice there is no mention of the union thugs who tore the Bush/Cheney sign from the hands of a little girl.
I also grieve for her son.
She diminishes her own son's memory by this kind of talk.
She needs to be locked up for a long time. This is not just grief talking.
The woman is a nut! A liberal nut!
I dont think she is all there
NO Sympathy. Just another bull$hit idiot. If you join the military for college money and/or some other self-serving B.S., then deal with it. Nobody makes you volunteer, and if you think your son or daughter was duped, then you are really to blame for passing on the faulty gene pool.
Politically it is. After learning about her arrest, the left was all prepared to make a martyr out of her and dropping the charges deflates that. The Administration would have had more to lose if they followed through for conviction over a tiny little trespassing charge.
I guess the USSS is keeping tabs on her.
Probably. I hope so.
Exactly. This was a 24 yr. old man. Not a 12 yr. old boy, as she makes it sound.
Doesn't seem like any Christian lady I know.
From reading the interview, this appears to be a combination of grief displaced as rage against the Commander-in-Chief and partisan rancor, with perhaps a little mental instability tossed into the mix. I guess she thought her son's death would have been entirely in vain if she couldn't at least use it to promote her political opposition to the war in Iraq.
That said, she is a professional malcontent joined with other professional agitators who are no friends of America, or Americans.
There are 2 sides to every issue. As someone who still grieves the loss of a grandchild, I can sympathize with the mother-and I think, if she had had the chance to do so, Laura Bush would have taken the time to sit down and listen.
It would have been more seemly if she had been removed VERY quietly..AND,if some of the insensitive jerks in the audience had not started chanting "Four More Years!" in an effort to drown her out.It was tasteless and unneccessary.
Now, let me look at the OTHER side. There were people-and I know some of them-who didn't give a rat's fanny about this woman,but decided it would be a great idea to egg her on.
If she had come to serious harm, or had managed to harm Mrs. Bush, they would have danced for joy.
One of these "wise counsellors" is an area lawyer,noted for his devotion to left-wing ( and I don't mean Democrat) causes. He is HARD CORE : the kind of guy who sneaks down to Cuba-via Mexico-every so often to visit with Joanne Chesimard: a Black Panther,who murdered a NJ state trooper in cold blood,got broken out of prison, and lives in Cuba under the protection of Fidel.
This lawyer was up to the same crap during the Vietnam war,and could virtually sign his work.
I hope some day the mother is able to work through her grief,but am not optimistic.
Her son-regardless of why he enlisted-was a good officer,who died trying to protect his troops.
"None of us can truly understand what she is going through,"
We are all going to die. Everyone we know is going to die. People are dying all around us, fathers, mothers, sisters brothers, childeren. Some die horribly. Many die before their time--but none of us truly knows what this woman is going through.
Got it.
I have no patience, nor do I have any sympathy for a person of this womans' low character. She is grieving for a loss I could not imagine, but that has nothing to do with her violent, hateful, idiotic comments so long after her son died. This woman needs to be put away for a very long time.
Sue Sapir-Niederer's son Seth, was an American Hero, he died trying to save others, too bad Sue can not appreciate the sacrifice her Son made, not just for our Country, but for Freedom in Iraq.
Sue Sapir-Niederer, your son, your baby, became a man, and he died defending Freedom. God Bless Seth's mother, thru this difficult time.
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