Code Pinko-- the Cindy Sheehan affair ( click the picture )
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 |
Quite obviously it was a set up.
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.
Yea, I was wondering about that too.
"I wonder how she got that seat? That's damn near dead center, if I'm not mistaken."
I read in another article that the ticket was given to her by, Congressperson Lynn Woolsey (D).
Dear Cindy
You represent all that is clearly wrong with your side of the protests against the war in Iraq. You have condoned,by your actions, the rantings of a paranoid dictator named Hugo Chavez, and for that alone no one with any amount of brain function can support or defend your position without making themselves look like so much bovine excrement as to render your popularity, such as it is, useless to further your cause.
Please refrain from showing the true idiocy you exhibited tonight in any other venue involving the President. You are unfit to be a citizen of the US and should find a new home. Preferably where others can kiss that wide-load butt of yours to make you feel important.
Thanks for listening.
I know, but that's a damn good seat for a congresswoman without much seniority.
I'm well aware of that. She already has a police record on file. She should have been stopped way before she was seated. They knew who she was when she got there.
Oh, ding dong..........you are so right!
She's been over at KOS posting that the Capitol police are all lying about her and that they were waiting for her -- took her out before "George" started telling his lies.
Honest to God, we just cannot EVER let these people get back in power.
For your list......
Code Pinko-- the Cindy Sheehan affair ( click the picture )
Who was the Officer that caught her breaking the law?
Mike Weight, she says.
How dare he violate her right to a free national television audience. Doesn't he know it's all about her? /extreme sarcasm
Now I'm not so sure.
She said: "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?
No, she wasn't:
ROFL!
Good Job!
Cindy Nailed again....
nite!
"Well, at least the crazy broad upstaged the Democrats attempt to put a moderate face on their opposition. I am sure that somewhere, more thoughtful Democrats are pulling their hair out over this staged event. The crazy brigades led by Woolsey and Conyers are now the face of the Democrat party. I cant wait to hear Rush describe this later."
She might have upstaged them momentarily, however, while she claimed she 'didn't know' the shirt would be a problem, these thoughtful dems who gave her the ticket surely knew the rules against protesting and gave her a 'ticket to ride'. Her argument that her rights to free speech, etc., etc., etc., are thwarted as just more fodder to exhibit her stupidity. The only good argument she puts forth is the argument over whether she's mildly stupid or extremely stupid. And the only good argument her supporters put forth is the argument over whether they think America is mildly stupid or extremely stupid.
Whatever brains her son had, must have come from his father's side of the family.
She knew the rules, Woolsey knew the rules, Conyers knew the rules. I feel sorry for the poor arresting officer to had to have laid a hand on her after the ribbing the other two must have received following the awful photo this summer.
well said and I agree.
I'm sure they were watching her from the getgo knowing she would be doing something, or shouting out...and got her outta there pronto!
Some other members were upset about Sheehan's arrest. "I'm still trying to find out why the president's Gestapo had to arrest Cindy Sheehan in the gallery. ... It shows he still has a thin skin,'' said Rep. Pete Stark, D-Fremont.
Luckily, the Dems are pulling their hair out again, after another failed venture. I cant imagine how much it must suck to be a Democrat today. Even over at the crazy DU, they are at war over Sheehan. A few of them understand that she stole the message right from under the Kaine stupidity, but others think she is their best weapon.
Imagine a Political party that has to depend on a crazy woman to score political points?
Hey Howlin...I didn't get those discharge papers yet, did you find your father's yet?
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