Posted on 01/31/2007 8:29:17 AM PST by darkness78
Diane Baker's voice was barely audible above the rumble of the trash can she pushed down the sidewalk. But her actions tended to speak louder, anyway.
Four months ago, Baker was one of 71 people arrested during a protest in Washington for crossing a police line to sit on the steps of a Senate office building.
As punishment, the 60-year-old was sentenced to sweep the streets of the nation's capital for eight cold, blustery hours Tuesday.
"I'm a rather fragile, small woman," said Baker, a hospice chaplain at United Church of Christ in Dallas. "Being a minister, I offered to do counseling, but this is what they gave me."
Baker, a mother of four and grandmother of two, suffers from myoclonic epilepsy, a degenerative muscle condition that causes her voice to quiver and hands to shake. As she signed in to begin her community service, she struggled to write her name.
She sure found a way to get arrested despite her ailment.
methinks there's more to the story...
Cry me a river!
Peaceniks lament! someone please write a "peace song" about this birdbrain!
Her frail self managed to travel to DC to protest. Actions have consequences.
What a poor, delicate little flower!
If she's that bloody fragile, maybe she should stay home next time.
TFS
Oh gee whiz. My heart bleeds just for you granny Baker. They should have given her a couple of weeks of it.
How come Sheehan isn't sweeeping streets?
Like we say, freedom (to protest) is not free!
A Judge with a brain in DC? What are we coming to?
Push that broom granny - you got off easy in my mind.
Like maybe the judge was underwhelmed by the serious nature of her physical condition.
Boo-friggin-hoo. She was well enough to get arrested, she's well enough to sweep streets. Sorry it's not for 8 weeks instead of 8 hours. Probably the only useful work the minister has ever done.
Truly amazing.
She broke the law willfully and wantonly... now the press wants us to feel guilty because she has to face the music for it? Sorry, I don't care if you are 100.. you broke the law, you did so voluntarily... not stop whining and do your punishment.
Actions have consequences... when did this country get so screwed up that people have forgotten that?
I'm sure here hands were steady enough to hold a sign. Exercise is good granny, push that broom!
and seek and accept Yah'shua, She needs to quit serving haSatan
b'shem Yah'shua
with her political action
L-rd ands Savior of the universe.
As my Pops always said...."Cant do the time, don't do the crime.......and don't come whining to me for help."
Remember when protesters who broke the law to prove a point accepted the consequences for their actions without whining?
Had to be before the 60's and the Vietnam protesting hippies.
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