Click here to hear Cindy's response!
Posted on 02/02/2006 11:44:46 AM PST by LouAvul
Capitol Police may have dropped charges against antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan and apologized, but that apparently hasn't made her any less angry over her arrest, or how she was treated as it happened.
Sheehan was one of two people kicked out of the audience of President Bush's State of the Union address in t-shirt-related incidents Tuesday night, but she was the only one arrested, on unlawful conduct counts.
She was wearing a t-shirt that alluded to the number of soldiers killed in Iraq: "2245 Dead. How many more?"
Also removed was Beverly Young, wife of Rep. C.W. "Bill" Young, R-Fla., whose t-shirt had the opposite message: "Support the Troops — Defending Our Freedom."
Sheehan was taken away in handcuffs before Mr. Bush's arrival at the Capitol and charged with a misdemeanor, while Young left the gallery and therefore was not arrested, said Capitol Police Chief Terrance Gainer in a statement.
Gainer apologized, saying, "The officers made a good faith, but mistaken effort to enforce an old unwritten interpretation of the prohibitions about demonstrating in the Capitol.
"The policy and procedures were too vague," he added. "The failure to adequately prepare the officers is mine."
But, back home in Los Angeles Wednesday, Sheehan told Linda Alvarez of CBS station KCBS-TV, "They violated my civil rights they humiliated me. They treated me like, instead of having just a t-shirt on, I had a weapon."
Sheehan was a guest of California Democratic Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey.
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But she is not humiliated by figuratively urinating on her hero son's grave?
She's humiliated herself. Repeatedly. For over a year now.
Nailed it. Why is ANYONE paying any attention to this Commie loving Anti American stoodge?
What a phoney. She loves the attention.
You're just now starting to feel ashamed?
She was arrested. Anyone see her mugshot yet?
Tom DeLay's was all over the media. Cindy was arrested and NEWS of her arrest was broadcast far and wide but no perp walk pic.
I want to see the jail photo.
I wonder how many times she's been arrested already?
Does she have the most irritating voice ever? She has that sing-a-long whine.....OMG
'They treated me like, instead of having just a t-shirt on, I had a weapon'
If Cindy "just" had a t-shirt on, they thought she was a weapon of mass destruction and can certainly understand their confusion.
Are her "15 minutes of shame" up yet?
When the Iraq conflict is over, what is she gonna protest then?...........
Yes, yes, yes, Cindy -- it sucks being you.
Humiliated? She should feel ASHAMED for dishonoring the memory of her son the way she does.
I can't believe they apologized to the moonbat, unless it was "We're sorry that you're a demented fool."
America
I'm sorry, Cindy. I really thought you had hit bottom by now.
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