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?”
Nope. HC was in the WH, remember?
Nope. HC was in the WH, remember?
Don't forget Helen Thomas and what's her face Albright.
First no permits...now this!
Whose organizing this caravan? Ray Nagin?
m,y thoughts exactly!! Who is paying these jerks to be a pain? If they had "Normal" lives they would not have the time to do this crap!!
don't forget maxine waters
Actually its a good thing because this makes her whole caravan look unorganized and also like she's doing everything illegally.
"Hey! What's all this I hear about violins on television? We need more violins on TV!"
"Sheehan and company then began preparing to make the rest of the trek on foot."
On foot!?
Shouldn't they hoist her aloft on their shoulders and carry her there on a special grieving chair?
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
There's been rumors and insinuations re them skimming a couple of hundred grand off the top of some N.O. money they collected.
This protest group is very poorly organized from top to bottom....
I can't believe that they haven't done all their homework on permits, and so forth. It'd be pretty funny if they don't have all their permits for their Saturday protest....
Bets are even money that they don't however. Someone should have forseen this prohibition on large vehicles and had smaller vans waiting to take them to the protest site.
if someone put a gun to your head, and made you choose between cindy and hillary for a quick romp in the hay, which do you choose?
I think I wold pick the bullet.
sorry for the creepy thought. home from work today with the flu; sorta whacked out on nyquil.
"Oh. Never mind....b!tch." /rrdanna to cindy me-han
I'll be there freeping her!
I guess they don't got a Math department, huh?
How is their football program?
I wish I could photoshop that pic of Sheehan with the media behind her.....all on a flatbed truck.
Hey, I got my bag searched entering the subway this morning, and if anybody looks like a NY cop or fireman, it's me.
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