Cindy Sheehan Claims Cops Roughed Her Up

Sweetness & Light ^ | February 1, 2006 | N/A

[Sam Hill]

It follows like the night the day.

From Buzzflash:

What Really Happened at the State of the Union

by Cindy Sheehan
February 1 , 2006

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.

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 shirt 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

The "people's" this the "people's" that. It sure is clear she has been totally co-opted by the Communist fringe.

And I really wish one of her handlers would explain to her the phrase, "paid the ultimate price." It doesn't apply to the relatives of dead heroes. Just the heroes themselves.

At most Cindy's paid the penultimate price. And that sacrifice never stopped her from claiming that other Gold Star mothers are "for murder and mayhem":

I have been silent on the Gold Star Moms who still support this man and his war by saying that they deserve the right to their opinions because they are in as much pain as I am. I would challenge them, though, at this point to start thinking for themselves...

How can these moms who still support George Bush and his insane war in Iraq want more innocent blood shed just because their sons or daughters have been killed?

I don’t understand it. I don’t understand how any mother could want another mother to feel the pain we feel. I am starting to lose a little compassion for them. I know they have been as brainwashed as the rest of America, but they know the pain and heartache and they should not wish it on another. However, I still feel their pain so acutely and pray for these "continue the murder and mayhem" moms to see the light.

Mother Sheehan is only too happy to smear anyone who disagrees with her. Even those who have paid the "ultimate price" according to her Valley Girl dictionary.

And speaking of smears, I hope Officer Michael Weight sues Mother Sheehan for defamation.

[auto power]

We are so SICK of this despicable anti-American traitor.

[Deb]

Maybe she didn't know it was all caught on tape.

And you know that if Barbara Lee is involved, the commies have totally stolen her soul.

[Deb]

She scared the dog.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

You know, you might be on to something here. Really. Since, as you put it

Drudge is a blog. American Thinker is a blog. Newsmax is a blog. Huffington is a blog. Limbaugh is a blog. Malkin is a blog. FR is a "mob blog."

You should post a thread to the owner of Free Republic, and tell him his post

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Posted on 04/12/2004 3:07:16 AM EDT by Jim Robinson

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Hopefully, this will become a very popular forum for promoting and or discussing blogs and personal opinion/news/forum pages.

Thanks,

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is all wrong. He ought to change everything to blog format. This way all the Topics and subscriptions and sidebars could ALL be elimiinated. Really. It's a great idea. Then likely the copyright laws from blogs like the LA Times would go away, and we could just blog away! Good idea!

[SwinneySwitch]

"I have been silent on the Gold Star Moms who still support this man and his war by saying that they deserve the right to their opinions because they are in as much pain as I am. I would challenge them, though, at this point to start thinking for themselves..."

Silence is better, Cindy.

[TheGrimReaper]

psssssst....somebody tell this poor ignorant woman that her 15 minutes were up about 10 months ago!

[Sam Hill]

Can't you stop? Are you insane? Didn't you see that I had already "addressed the owner of this site"?

What is your problem?

Check out what was posted yesterday, you asshat:

Cindy Sheehan Kicked Out Of State Of The Union Address
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1569132/posts

Notice where it was posted -- in the News/Activism section. Exactly where approximately a hundred other Sweetness & Light articles have been posted.

Stop pestering me with your rank ignorance or I will report you for abuse, you idiot.

Sheesh.

[at bay]

How bout that Letterman drivel? As I think back, maybe Dave was just being drole. Not.

[TeddyCon]

Wish the President would call Rodney and Abner Louima and order em' to show this media whore what police brutality Really is.

[Hillarys nightmare]

"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,

Is it any wonder as to why these nice people had invited the darling Mrs. Sheeman to be a part of the spectacle?

[Anti-Bubba182]

The incident with the Congressman's wife did hit CNN.

Activist Sheehan arrested in House gallery
GOP congressman says his wife was also ordered to leave

[Anti-Bubba182]

Also:

FLASHBACK: Man Wearing Anti-Clinton T-Shirt Removed from Senate Gallery at Impeachment Trial

Not allowing protests in the gallery is a standing rule in Congress.

[Sam Hill]

Thanks.

You have a good memory!

[kcvl]

If she can't take the heat get out of the kitchen.

All she does is whine and *itch. Her fifteen minutes have been up.

[SmithL]

That would explain why she looks like she was shot at and missed, sh!t at and hit.

[seafire05]

How can we ever miss Cindy when she won't go away. Just run for office like any other fringe candidate. No one forced her son to re-enlist, but he did because he actually belived in this country.

[Mo1]

Gail Murphy from Code Pink was just on my local radio yapping about Cindy being put in cuffs

I have yet to find a picture of her being in cuffs .. have you?

http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=Cindy+Sheehan&c=news_photos

[TheGrimReaper]

Stand by for Dave's big knee-slapper for tonight:

"The only thing funnier than a horny President is an idiot President."

You're a real genius, Dave.

[Sam Hill]

No, but several press reports have claimed she was cuffed.

Such as the MSNBC one here:

"U.S. Capitol Police took Sheehan away in handcuffs and charged her with unlawful conduct, a misdemeanor, when she showed up to President Bush’s address Tuesday night wearing a shirt that read, “2245 Dead. How many more?” — a reference to the number of soldiers killed in Iraq."

Cindy Sheehan’s Charges Will Be Dropped | Sweetness & Light
http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/cindy-sheehans-charges-will-be-dropped/

But Mother Sheehan herself neglected to mention being cuffed, even though she talked about every other detail, such as being fingerprinted:

Cindy Sheehan Claims Cops Roughed Her Up | Sweetness & Light
http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/cindy-sheehan-claims-cops-roughed-her-up/

And I haven't seen any photos. So I doubt that it actually happened. But I guess it might have.

[Mo1]

But Mother Sheehan herself neglected to mention being cuffed, even though she talked about every other detail, such as being fingerprinted

I'm thinking it didn't happen