Cindy and "Freedom Fighter"
Posted on 01/31/2006 7:10:46 PM PST by presidio9
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.
Sheehan, who had been invited to attend the speech by Rep. Lynn Woolsey (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., was charged with demonstrating in the Capitol building, a misdemeanor, said Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider. Sheehan was taken in handcuffs to police headquarters a few blocks away and 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 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.
"Good, I hope they give her a nice padded cell."
Not me....remove the padding!
Unimportant charge for an unimportant person
Anyone know what the slogan was?
Yes, it's I'm having Hugo Chavez's bastard....
If my dog was as ugly as Sheehan, I'd shave his butt and make him walk backwards.
She was wearing a T-shirt under her blouse that had something on it. She took off her blouse. She was told to put her blouse back on and refused. Outta there.
"While I am not upset that Cindy got arrested, but for wearing a shirt?"
I'm hearing that she tried to unfurl some kinda banner.
Doesn't DC have "three strikes"?
How many times has this woman been arrested?
I've read it was the # of KIA in Iraq and "How Many More Have to Die?" or something to that effect.
It was misreported. Other media outlets are saying she was trying to display a banner. THAT is definitely illegal in the House chambers.
Maybe they could give her a sharp object to hold in jail.
Even some of the DUmmies have more sense than you.
If it gives her more "fodder" (no pun intended?) that will be helpful in the hoped for challenge to DiFi.
I don't see a shirt. I see something (a banner) in her hand. The t-shirt story is a lie.
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