Posted on 01/31/2006 5:45:38 PM PST by NapkinUser
Edited on 02/01/2006 3:43:42 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Just in.
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Reuters Additional Information
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Police at the U.S. Capitol arrested anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan on Tuesday, shortly before President Bush was to give his annual State of the Union speech, a police spokeswoman said.
The spokeswoman, Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, said she had no immediate details.
Sheehan had been invited to be a guest at the address to a joint session of Congress by U.S. Rep. Lynn Woolsey, a California Democrat.
Sheehan, who became a central figure for the U.S. anti-war movement after her soldier son Casey was killed in the Iraq war, won wide attention with an anti-war vigil outside Bush's Texas ranch.
CNN said Sheehan was arrested after unveiling a banner and was being held on Capitol Hill for about an hour, which would keep her away from the address, which was set to start at 9 p.m. EST.
Sheehan and other activists were arrested in September for protesting outside the White House without a permit, a misdemeanor that carriers a $50 fine.
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"..Posted at 09:55 PM
SHEEHAN [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
A newsroom type shares notes:
This from Sgt. Kimberly Schneider of U-S Capitol Police.... Cindy Sheehan was arrested in the gallery of the house floor tonight and charged with demonstrating in the Capitol--a misdemeanor. ...Sgt. Schneider says she was wearing a T-shirt with a slogan on it and was asked to cover it up. Sheehan did not cover it up and she was arrested. ....She is being processed at Capital Police hd and is expected to be released at some point tonight. The misdemeanor charge carries one year in jail. .."
Hmm, a few of the ephors around here are telling me that she's a sanctioned troll. "Token," I believe the word was.
MurryMom is fun to have around. She doesn't post often enough if you ask me. My one complaint about her is that she rarely if ever responds to posts to her comments.
liberallarry isn't really liberal.
"Cindy Sheehan is in federal custody, and the state of the union is good."
You have an interesting post history. You will fit in fine over at the dump!
"..Invited by Rep. Lynn Woosley (D-CA) to attend the State of the Union, reports are that she was arrested inside the Capitol chamber.
MORE... 9:08p ET - CNN's "Breaking News" banner announcing the arrest at their website now removed, shortly after CNN reported arrest on air. No further news available currently at their site on the arrest...
9:14p ET - AP reports on CNN's report. Says, "Activist Cindy Sheehan Arrested at Capitol".
9:30p ET - The BRAD BLOG has confirmed the arrest moments ago with David Swanson of AfterDowningStreet.org.
According to Swanson, Sheehan was "arrested for wearing the shirt she was wearing all day, which had the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq...She was lifted out of her seat [in the Capitol Chamber gallery] by the Capitol Police and taken away."
Swanson told The BRAD BLOG moment ago that Sheehan is "now under arrest and lockup by Capitol Police." He confirmed that moments ago with Gael Murphy, a co-founder of CodePink, an organization which has been working Sheehan. Murphy spoke by cell with Sheehan after the arrest, and they are currently arranging for an attorney for her.
"This not the Park Police," said Swanson. "We're used to getting arrested by them. This was the Capitol Police....She didn't even want to go to the speech, she said she couldn't stand to listen to Bush, but she went. She didn't even protest, she was just wearing the same shirt she'd be wearing all day, a black shirt with the number of troops killed. It was already 'out of date' and she had to add 3 more to the previous number.".."
Liberallarry responds to rebuttals. Usually with violations of rules of logic that would make anyone who knows anything about the laws of evidence vomit.
What I've noticed is that the "progressives" are in reality, unbelievable hate-mongers.
There are pics of her getting arrested. She was wearing a dress. These people are nuts.
At least they don't end up in Ft. Marcy Park like they did back in the good ol' days of Clinton and Gore.
And what do you mean by "speaking truth to power?" Are you disappointed because Iraqis now have the right to vote and aren't being fed into meat grinders? That's the truth you hate to hear.
Limbaugh says that liberals love misery. If that's true, and I believe that it is, then I suppose that liberating Iraq and Afghanistan and lifting people out of their misery must be very upsetting to a liberal.
Well, the pictures of her above being escorted out show that it is a lie to suggest her shirt had anything to do with it. Unless Hillary requested her offense for wearing a black pant suit.
Maybe Skinner was caught up in the Bart Abramhof scandal too, as this pic clearly indicates!
Progressive is what liberals call themselves now that we have shelled the word "liberal" into mud. Nobody is willing to stand on that ground anymore. Same crap, different label.
MurryMom's been around here so long, she has sort of been "grandmothered" in.
George Orwell wrote that all pacifists were hypocrits ... of course, the leftys don't want to read the real Orwell,
"GET THE F*$% OUT!"
Watched it play in real time over the past few years, thanks. MurryMom he ain't.
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