[NCLaw441]

You know, you folks are right. This lady should not be punished for interrupting an official state visit and disrupting the speech of the president and Commie Hu. Never mind she had a press pass, meaning she was authorized to cover the event, not participate in it. She has First Amendment rights.

Of course, next time the President wants to speak somewhere, he should just let his opponents take the stage or speak over him. And when he gives his next state of the union address, it isn't important that he be heard, just let the dems shout him down. Maybe Cindy Sheehand could bring her bullhorn and drown out the president.

Or, next time a college group gets permission to put up an anti-abortion display, please don't deny a professor's right to trash the display so she can exercise her First Amendment rights.

/sarcasm

[Gator113]

Finally...somebody on this thread with a brain!!

These Bush hating Freepers are grating my nerves.

[NCLaw441]

Oops-- Shehand should be Shehan.

[inquest]

Get the facts straight before launching into your strawman rant. She was charged with "willfully intimidating, coercing, threatening and harassing a foreign official." (Source) Note that that has nothing to do with press passes, or public events, or anything else. Under the interpretation of the law that they're using against her, the same charge could be applied to anyone who says such a thing to a foreign leader outside an official event as well as during one.