Posted on 07/22/2007 2:26:31 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A blog written by antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan and posted on MichaelMoore.com criticizes Charlotte police for allowing counter-protesters to "try to intimidate us" during Sheehan's antiwar rally Tuesday in Bryant Park.
But in a memo to top police administrators, one captain said officers had no issues during the two-hour event and expressed surprise at the complaints.
"At the School of the Assassins in Columbus, GA, and in Charlotte, NC, we ran into similar problems: police presence that seemed to be there to foster violence. At both places the neo-Nazi, pro-war fascist group "Gathering of Eagles" came out to mostly try to intimidate us from our mission," Sheehan writes in her blog.
"At Ft. Benning, after we complained, the police kept them separate from us, but in Charlotte, the police refused saying that the Eagles had their rights to `freedom of speech.' "
Sheehan, one of the best-known opponents of the war in Iraq, stayed in her car during the antiwar rally at Bryant Park that drew about 125 people.
Instead of addressing the crowd -- some of her supporters said there was concern about her safety -- Sheehan moved to Talley's Green Grocery in Dilworth.
In a police memo dated July 19, Capt. Doug Gallant, who reviewed and evaluated the event in Bryant Park, said he was "quite frankly, surprised there have been complaints...."
The police memo says the 14 officers on hand noticed no displays that violated North Carolina law. One protester began using profanity, the memo says, and an officer asked the person to stop cursing.
The memo also says that police didn't have to bring in physical barriers, like bike racks, to keep the groups away from each other. At one point, Sheehan's security advisor said she had concerns about the Gathering of Eagles, and officers asked the group to move back, creating a buffer of at least 25 feet.
I couldn’t agree more!
When hearing this comment others have replied: "Better a Chickenhawk than a Chicken Shit".
The shoe fits her sheehanness perfectly.
Hypocrisy thy name is Democrat.
Cindy needs a straight jacket.
Can’t her family do something about her? I mean if I were as looney as she is, my family would step in and do something.
She is no more a “sad” creature than Stalin, Hitler, or Castro. She is a vile kook who was hostile before her son died (she offered to hit him with the family car to keep him from being deployed).
Hmmm... Cindy wants to deny people the right to freedom of speech and assembly... And she’s calling Conservatives Nazis?? Jeez. it’s all to invoke emotion and it’s dumb.
IMHO, MS. Sheehan packs the zeal of Nazi's and Fascists with similar goals in mind.
It gets better...she was arrested today, July 23rd, in DC! She just gets farther out in left field every day.
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