Ignoring proticals, manners, civility, the goals of the President and the Administration in regards to China, entering the WH grounds under false pretenses (probably)and creating a disruption for her own pet causes cannot be excused under "Free Speech".
There is Free Speech and then there inappropriate behavior, which this performance was.
But to be honest, I am kinda glad she did what she did, screw the Chinese.
>Ignoring proticals, manners, civility, the goals of the
>President and the Administration in regards to China,
You forgot "not following the line of Communist Party" and "being American spy"..
There is Free Speech and then there inappropriate behavior, which this performance was.
What she did was what was necessary to get something said where it actually would be heard. The Feds hermetically sealed off the area where Hu was from any taint of what the protesters were saying. So, there would be protests where none actually would be heard. Granted this wasn't the most polite move, but our reaction is to arrest and charge her? How then are we different from what Hu does to his dissidents, pray tell? I would remove her, as she couldn't just take over the event; however, I would then let her go, as she speaks to truth. Heck, they let Cindy Sheehan go when they hauled her out of the State of the Union speech she was attempting to disrupt. Puts us in the same category as Hu if we jail an innocent old lady who was a doctor in China before she got out, and has seen the worst of Chinese government behaviour. This kind of makes me sick.