Posted on 07/24/2007 10:06:14 AM PDT by Kieri
Peace activist Sheehan taken into custody in Conyers' office 7/24/2007, 8:05 a.m. EDT By NATASHA T. METZLER The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested at the Capitol for disorderly conduct, shortly after saying she would run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the California Democrat's refusal to try to impeach President Bush.
Sheehan on Monday was taken into custody inside Rep. John Conyers' office, where she had spent an hour imploring him to launch impeachment proceedings against Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Conyers, D-Mich., chairs the House Judiciary Committee, where any impeachment effort would have to begin.
"The Democrats will not hold this administration accountable, so we have to hold the Democrats accountable," Sheehan said outside of Conyers' office after the meeting. "And I for one am going to step up to the plate and run against Nancy Pelosi."
Sheehan and about 200 other protesters had walked to Conyers' office from Arlington National Cemetery. She said Conyers told her there weren't enough votes for impeachment to move forward on the issue.
Forty-five of Sheehan's fellow protesters also were arrested. Capitol Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said that after they are processed, the arrested activists could each pay a $50 fine to be released.
"Impeachment is not a fringe movement, it is mandated in our Constitution. Nancy Pelosi had no authority to take it off the table," Sheehan told her group of orange-clad activists before they began their march from the national cemetery.
Sheehan, whose 24-year-old son, Casey, was killed in Iraq, has been saying for two weeks that she would seek to oust Pelosi from office by running against her as an independent in her San Francisco district if Pelosi didn't change her mind by July 23 on trying to impeach Bush.
Conyers introduced a bill last term calling on Congress to determine whether there are grounds for impeaching Bush. Pelosi has steadfastly dismissed any talk of impeachment, saying Democrats should focus their efforts on ending the war in Iraq.
Oh my! Liberals eating their own!
Sheehan is an attention junky. Really, the woman is mentally ill. The libs convinced her she can go anywhere and do anything. How embarrassing.
We all know what happened when Dr. Frankenstein lost control of his creation.
Cindy, you’d best hide.
That’s really unfair to seven year olds.
I think the liberals are starting to regret the creature they created.
They arrested her so she couldn’t announce her candidacy against Nancy Pelosi.
It’s common practice under one-party states.
The only thing I can hope for is that these protests and these marches and these arrests drain the life savings of these idiots.
EEK What is me saying? They live off my money anyway.
The democrats and the media made Sheehan what she is today - an attention-dependent liberal monster. I’m glad she’s turned on her masters. Run Cindy run!
I think most of us knew this was coming, and that the libs that propped this crackpot up would ‘rue the day’.
I’d say that day is here.
you give her far too much credit..
Don’t count on it.
She’ll probably be lock up until early 2009.
I thought she quit a few weeks ago because the money had dried up! Wonder who is funding this new round of ranting? Could it be a Rove opperative? He He He Heeeee!
It’s disgusting that the police and this administration refuse to deal with this seditionist traitor except with velvet gloves on.
If I pulled a stunt like this I would be sitting in the pokey (in general population no less)and yet who is leading more useful idiots to treason and subversion?
And where oh where does this nasty baggage get her money? Even more glaring, why isn’t it pursued by the media and the administration.
Is it really only freepers that notice that all her publicity stunts are staged on days when most people are working? She is so careful to avoid any adverse viewpoints. Why doesn’t the media ever remark on that?
That picture of her smugly holding up her hand to dismiss the criticism of her Stalinist agitprop just makes my blood boil.
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