Posted on 02/01/2006 1:12:39 AM PST by Howlin
| Dear Friends, As most of you have probably heard, I was arrested before the State of the Union Address tonight. I am speechless with fury at what happened and with grief over what we have lost in our country. CindySheehan's diary :: :: There have been lies from the police and distortions by the press. (Shocker) So this is what really happened: This afternoon at the People's State of the Union Address in DC where I was joined by Congresspersons Lynn Woolsey and John Conyers, Ann Wright, Malik Rahim and John Cavanagh, Lynn brought me a ticket to the State of the Union Address. At that time, I was wearing the shirt that said: 2245 Dead. How many more? After the PSOTU press conference, I was having second thoughts about going to the SOTU at the Capitol. I didn't feel comfortable going. I knew George Bush would say things that would hurt me and anger me and I knew that I couldn't disrupt the address because Lynn had given me the ticket and I didn't want to be disruptive out of respect for her. I, in fact, had given the ticket to John Bruhns who is in Iraq Veterans Against the War. However, Lynn's office had already called the media and everyone knew I was going to be there so I sucked it up and went. I got the ticket back from John, and I met one of Congresswoman Barbara Lee's staffers in the Longworth Congressional Office building and we went to the Capitol via the undergroud tunnel. I went through security once, then had to use the rest room and went through security again. My ticket was in the 5th gallery, front row, fourth seat in. The person who in a few minutes was to arrest me, helped me to my seat. I had just sat down and I was warm from climbing 3 flights of stairs back up from the bathroom so I unzipped my jacket. I turned to the right to take my left arm out, when the same officer saw my shirt and yelled; "Protester." He then ran over to me, hauled me out of my seat and roughly (with my hands behind my back) shoved me up the stairs. I said something like "I'm going, do you have to be so rough?" By the way, his name is Mike Weight. The officer ran with me to the elevators yelling at everyone to move out of the way. When we got to the elevators, he cuffed me and took me outside to await a squad car. On the way out, someone behind me said, "That's Cindy Sheehan." At which point the officer who arrested me said: "Take these steps slowly." I said, "You didn't care about being careful when you were dragging me up the other steps." He said, "That's because you were protesting." Wow, I get hauled out of the People's House because I was, "Protesting." I was never told that I couldn't wear that shirt into the Congress. I was never asked to take it off or zip my jacket back up. If I had been asked to do any of those things...I would have, and written about the suppression of my freedom of speech later. I was immediately, and roughly (I have the bruises and muscle spasms to prove it) hauled off and arrested for "unlawful conduct." After I had my personal items inventoried and my fingers printed, a nice Sgt. came in and looked at my shirt and said, "2245, huh? I just got back from there." I told him that my son died there. That's when the enormity of my loss hit me. I have lost my son. I have lost my First Amendment rights. I have lost the country that I love. Where did America go? I started crying in pain. What did Casey die for? What did the 2244 other brave young Americans die for? What are tens of thousands of them over there in harm's way for still? For this? I can't even wear a shrit that has the number of troops on it that George Bush and his arrogant and ignorant policies are responsible for killing. I wore the shirt to make a statement. The press knew I was going to be there and I thought every once in awhile they would show me and I would have the shirt on. I did not wear it to be disruptive, or I would have unzipped my jacket during George's speech. If I had any idea what happens to people who wear shirts that make the neocons uncomfortable that I would be arrested...maybe I would have, but I didn't. There have already been many wild stories out there. I have some lawyers looking into filing a First Amendment lawsuit against the government for what happened tonight. I will file it. It is time to take our freedoms and our country back. I don't want to live in a country that prohibits any person, whether he/she has paid the ulitmate price for that country, from wearing, saying, writing, or telephoning any negative statements about the government. That's why I am going to take my freedoms and liberties back. That's why I am not going to let Bushco take anything else away from me...or you. I am so appreciative of the couple of hundred of protesters who came to the jail while I was locked up to show their support....we have so much potential for good...there is so much good in so many people. Four hours and 2 jails after I was arrested, I was let out. Again, I am so upset and sore it is hard to think straight. Keep up the struggle...I promise you I will too. Love and peace soon, Cindy |
You mean Woolsey forgot the diaper bag? Inexcusable.
| Cindy Sheehan Pledges Civil Disobedience Campaign ^ |
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| Posted by Fudd Fan On News/Activism ^ 10/22/2005 11:30:37 AM EDT · 47 replies · 1,026+ views VillageVoice ^ | October 19th, 2005 9:52 PM | Sarah Ferguson Cindy Sheehan Pledges Civil Disobedience Campaign Submitted by davidswanson on Wed, 2005-10-19 22:29. Activism VillageVoice.com October 19th, 2005 9:52 PM Peace mom plans more arrests in D.C. and Thanksgiving in Crawford By Sarah Ferguson Cindy Sheehan made a return visit to the streets of New York Wednesday, joining the weekly vigil of Grandmothers Against the War outside Rockefeller Center. In contrast to the scene in Union Square last month, when the police stormed the podium and cut off Sheehan’s mic, this time the NYPD went out of its way to be gracious to America’s leading peace mom. Police politely urged... |
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Probably worth the sacrifice! I didn't even know this happened until this morning.... I spent most of the SOTU hating on Hitlery. I could have gotten a 2-for-1 !
PLUS
"I wore the shirt to make a statement. The press knew I was going to be there and I thought every once in awhile they would show me and I would have the shirt on."
EQUALS
CONSPIRACY
"I was wearing the shirt that said: 2245 Dead. How many more?"
Why doesn't the traitor ask the murderers when they are going to stop killing people and allow the Iraqi people to live in freedom and peace?
Obviously that would interfere with her political goals and media spot light.
what a pathetic sad bitch
Does anyone else think that Cindy was like the T-mobile cheerleader when she was a little girl?
video here:http://exposetheleft.com/2006/02/01/hillarylaughs/
I disagree. NO ONE should be let in the Capitol wearing a "t-shirt."
As Nelson from the Simpsons says, "HA!HA!"
Greta has invited her audience to comment on Sheehan's arrest. Go to her site on foxnews.com and have at it.
no way. the girl is annoying in a "cutesy" way. plus, she's a cheerleader. i.e. popular at school.
cindy has never ever ever been cute and is only popular amongst moonbats and taliban officials.
I was laughing at Stark last night, but this morning that doesn't seem so funny.
It brings to mind Kerry call that Secret Service Agent an SOB.
They just don't respect anything, do they?
I for one am happy she was arrested. My son is one of the numbers represented on her shirt, and I am offended. Of course, as she says, if the media was alerted.....she had to be there!
Debbie Argel Bastian, another Gold Star mother
How does Cindy finance her trips around the country? Is travel in America really that cheap?
What a BIG FAT LIAR. First she says she is just taking off her jacket because she was hot, then she says she wore the t-shirt specifically because she wanted everyone to know how many had died. Get your story straight, lady.
I've been to the House balcony. There are VERY STRICT rules posted EVERYWHERE about conduct and decorum in the chamber. You are not allowed to wear a hat, talk, etc.
She absolutely KNEW what she was doing. I have no sympathy for her whatsoever. And for those who defend her, I ask why the rules should be different for her.
Because it's her, I imagine is what she'd say.
She should get a ticket for traveling more than her 15 minutes of shame.
Whoa, there's a First Amendment right to attend the SOTU?
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