Posted on 09/21/2005 10:38:12 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Washington, D.C.—At just past noon on Wednesday, anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan and the rest of the Bring Them Home Now tour were stopped by a pair of squad cars two blocks from the U.S. Capitol by members of the Capitol police force. Officers explained that they wanted to use bomb-sniffing dogs to inspect the caravan of three RVs and several cars.
The officers said it was standard practice to inspect large vehicles in the area. “RVs aren’t allowed on Capitol Hill,” one said. “That’s standard procedure. Any trucks that come on Capitol Hill are stopped and turned around.” Campers aren’t allowed at all, the officer said, “unless they’ve been previously authorized.”
Officers told the peace activists they couldn’t park at the Capitol because they don’t have the proper permits. Sheehan and company then began preparing to make the rest of the trek on foot. Awaiting them near the Capitol steps were a crowd of television cameras for a scheduled noon press conference.
Earlier this week in New York City’s Union Square park, police officers unplugged Sheehan’s microphone, saying she didn’t have a proper permit for that either.
People with Bring Them Home Now seemed unfazed. “It’s always something,” said Stacy Bannerman of Military Families Speak Out, whose husband spent a year fighting in the Sunni Triangle. “It’s just part of the deal.
The conference is being held by Sheehan and the others to announce their arrival in Washington and to kick off a weekend of resistance that is expected to include a march of 100,000 people and mass civil disobedience.
At 1:30 p.m., Sheehan and her allies plan to head to the White House, where they’ll attempt to give President Bush a letter asking him to answer the question, “What noble cause are our loved ones dying for?”
AW, she's on saturday? But BC is playing Clemson at noon.
"Cindy.....YOUUU, SLUTTT!!!"
The Big Witch will be scrupulously polite to the Little Witch in public. Meanwhile, various inconveniences, embarrassing disclosures, and other unfortunate things will continue to happen to the Little Witch, none of which will be traceable to the Big Witch. Of course, no one was ever able to collect enough evidence to even indict Al Capone for the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre.
I think your probability chart just hit 100% on that analogy.
These people are just the worst.
And I'm sure this woman was working tirelessly against Clinton's war in Bosnia, right?
Whose organizing this caravan? Ray Nagin?
LOL!!!
But she's just another liberal who's in denial. : )
Sounds like a poor man's Church of Scientology to me!
Photos by cf_river_rat 9/22/05
You would think that with all the time and preparation they've had they would be able to investigate and acquire the proper permits and understand the rules.
I guess this highlights how dumb they truly are.
I bet there were some people there sweating bullets. Lucky for them those were bomb sniffing dogs and not drug sniffing ones.
I feel sorry for the dogs. The stench must be awful!
Idiots did the same thing here in NYC. Did not get a permit for a loud speaker system. The police promptly pulled the plug. Cindy's cronies plugged it back in and then the police went ballistic! Good for the NYPD! You don't mess with them - when they say stop doing what you are doing - you listen!
FOX news just had a commercial on by the Gold star Families for peace. It was despicable. I really wish I could go to DC this weekend. I hope the freepers that will be there will be careful.
is ugly illegal in DC?...
Unfortunately for some Senators it is encouraged. :)
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