You're going to pieces, Cindy.
Posted on 03/07/2006 8:22:05 AM PST by Cecily
Cindy Sheehan took another bust for the anti-war cause Monday. She was cuffed and forcefully dragged away from the plaza in front of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, where she had marched with a delegation of Iraqi women in hopes of delivering a petition to demand the immediate withdrawal of U.S. and other foreign forces from Iraq. Sheehan and three other women from the protest group Code Pink were charged with criminal trespass and resisting arrest for refusing to leave the plaza of the private office building at 140 East 45th Street, where the U.S. Mission, and the offices of Ambassador John Bolton, are temporarily housed.
"It's private property," said one NYPD officer on the scene. "If security or the State Department officials don't want to let them inside, it's their call."
Activists with Code Pink, who said they had notified police of the demonstration, said they were shocked that they were not allowed to deliver the petition. "A detective called me before and I told him exactly what we were planning to do and that we'd be marching from the United Nations on the sidewalk, and he said it would be fine," said spokesperson Andrea Buffa.
Instead, when the march got within shouting distance of the U.S. Mission, cops tried to corral the crowd of about 50 demonstrators into a protest area across the street. Sheehan and the Iraqi women pressed forward, determined to deliver the petition to the offices of Ambassador Bolton. "We come in peace!" Sheehan shouted. "We're coming in peace with a peace plan."
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I think this has been posted like a gazillion times already
America has moved on, Cindy. Even the liberals realize she's too kooky to be spokesman for any cause.
The beer belly flash was a nice touch though.
First I've heard about it....../sarcasm
When the three strike rule applies to her it will be NEWS.
You're going to pieces, Cindy.
Code Pink? I bet Fidel Castro will be proud of them.
Code Pink is feeding her well.
Ack, the muffin top look!!!
Her 15 minutes of fame is long gone.
Yeah, but it is interesting to see how they keep inflating the numbers. In the earlier articles it said about 20 protesters and 66,000 signatures...now it's 50 protesters and 77,000 signatures.
I liked this one:
"It's going to be the women who are going to lead us out of the violence and toward peace," declared Sheehan, speaking prior to her arrest. "We have the mother in us. And I'm calling on everyone, whether they're mothers or women or not to follow us."
Gee, Cindy, think Zarqawi, Osama & Company will follow you?
GASP! I didn't know that. I wonder why she never mentions it?
Cindy's on a roll.
No....Cindy IS a roll.
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