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Capitol police arrest Cindy Sheehan
CNN | 01/31/2006

Posted on 01/31/2006 5:45:38 PM PST by NapkinUser

Edited on 02/01/2006 3:43:42 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

Just in.

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Reuters Additional Information

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Police at the U.S. Capitol arrested anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan on Tuesday, shortly before President Bush was to give his annual State of the Union speech, a police spokeswoman said.

The spokeswoman, Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, said she had no immediate details.

Sheehan had been invited to be a guest at the address to a joint session of Congress by U.S. Rep. Lynn Woolsey, a California Democrat.

Sheehan, who became a central figure for the U.S. anti-war movement after her soldier son Casey was killed in the Iraq war, won wide attention with an anti-war vigil outside Bush's Texas ranch.

CNN said Sheehan was arrested after unveiling a banner and was being held on Capitol Hill for about an hour, which would keep her away from the address, which was set to start at 9 p.m. EST.

Sheehan and other activists were arrested in September for protesting outside the White House without a permit, a misdemeanor that carriers a $50 fine.

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NRO The Corner Update

"..Posted at 09:55 PM

SHEEHAN [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
A newsroom type shares notes:

This from Sgt. Kimberly Schneider of U-S Capitol Police.... Cindy Sheehan was arrested in the gallery of the house floor tonight and charged with demonstrating in the Capitol--a misdemeanor. ...Sgt. Schneider says she was wearing a T-shirt with a slogan on it and was asked to cover it up. Sheehan did not cover it up and she was arrested. ....She is being processed at Capital Police hd and is expected to be released at some point tonight. The misdemeanor charge carries one year in jail. .."



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To: Mr. Mojo

Hmm, a few of the ephors around here are telling me that she's a sanctioned troll. "Token," I believe the word was.


301 posted on 01/31/2006 6:40:06 PM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: ovrtaxt

302 posted on 01/31/2006 6:40:58 PM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: Gordongekko909

MurryMom is fun to have around. She doesn't post often enough if you ask me. My one complaint about her is that she rarely if ever responds to posts to her comments.


303 posted on 01/31/2006 6:41:03 PM PST by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: Gordongekko909

liberallarry isn't really liberal.


304 posted on 01/31/2006 6:41:04 PM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: spectre

"Cindy Sheehan is in federal custody, and the state of the union is good."


305 posted on 01/31/2006 6:42:09 PM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: MurryMom

You have an interesting post history. You will fit in fine over at the dump!


306 posted on 01/31/2006 6:42:26 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (MAY I DIE ON MY FEET IN MY SWAMP)
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To: hellinahandcart
I'm sorry; progressive. That's what they call themselves now. Check his posting history right quick.
307 posted on 01/31/2006 6:42:30 PM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: Flifuss
Below is a Lefty Blog report on this. I don't know if this is true or not but they are saying she was arrested for the shirt she was wearing.:

Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan -- who was invited to attend President Bush's State of the Union speech -- has been arrested, Capitol police say.

"..Invited by Rep. Lynn Woosley (D-CA) to attend the State of the Union, reports are that she was arrested inside the Capitol chamber.

MORE... 9:08p ET - CNN's "Breaking News" banner announcing the arrest at their website now removed, shortly after CNN reported arrest on air. No further news available currently at their site on the arrest...

9:14p ET - AP reports on CNN's report. Says, "Activist Cindy Sheehan Arrested at Capitol".

9:30p ET - The BRAD BLOG has confirmed the arrest moments ago with David Swanson of AfterDowningStreet.org.

According to Swanson, Sheehan was "arrested for wearing the shirt she was wearing all day, which had the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq...She was lifted out of her seat [in the Capitol Chamber gallery] by the Capitol Police and taken away."

Swanson told The BRAD BLOG moment ago that Sheehan is "now under arrest and lockup by Capitol Police." He confirmed that moments ago with Gael Murphy, a co-founder of CodePink, an organization which has been working Sheehan. Murphy spoke by cell with Sheehan after the arrest, and they are currently arranging for an attorney for her.

"This not the Park Police," said Swanson. "We're used to getting arrested by them. This was the Capitol Police....She didn't even want to go to the speech, she said she couldn't stand to listen to Bush, but she went. She didn't even protest, she was just wearing the same shirt she'd be wearing all day, a black shirt with the number of troops killed. It was already 'out of date' and she had to add 3 more to the previous number.".."

308 posted on 01/31/2006 6:43:11 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Phantom Lord

Liberallarry responds to rebuttals. Usually with violations of rules of logic that would make anyone who knows anything about the laws of evidence vomit.


309 posted on 01/31/2006 6:43:37 PM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: Gordongekko909

What I've noticed is that the "progressives" are in reality, unbelievable hate-mongers.


310 posted on 01/31/2006 6:43:49 PM PST by George - the Other (400,000 bodies in Saddam's Mass Graves, and counting ...)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

There are pics of her getting arrested. She was wearing a dress. These people are nuts.


311 posted on 01/31/2006 6:44:40 PM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: MurryMom
Nowadays when anybody dares to tell truth to power, he or she is either arrested and thrown in jail or ridiculed as insane.

At least they don't end up in Ft. Marcy Park like they did back in the good ol' days of Clinton and Gore.

And what do you mean by "speaking truth to power?" Are you disappointed because Iraqis now have the right to vote and aren't being fed into meat grinders? That's the truth you hate to hear.

Limbaugh says that liberals love misery. If that's true, and I believe that it is, then I suppose that liberating Iraq and Afghanistan and lifting people out of their misery must be very upsetting to a liberal.


312 posted on 01/31/2006 6:45:05 PM PST by DallasMike
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Well, the pictures of her above being escorted out show that it is a lie to suggest her shirt had anything to do with it. Unless Hillary requested her offense for wearing a black pant suit.


313 posted on 01/31/2006 6:45:24 PM PST by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: _Jim
>" DUMMIE LAND IS IN LOCK DOWN!"

Maybe Skinner was caught up in the Bart Abramhof scandal too, as this pic clearly indicates!


314 posted on 01/31/2006 6:45:35 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (Why waste time learning when ignorance is instantaneous---Hobbes the Tiger)
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To: George - the Other

Progressive is what liberals call themselves now that we have shelled the word "liberal" into mud. Nobody is willing to stand on that ground anymore. Same crap, different label.


315 posted on 01/31/2006 6:45:50 PM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

MurryMom's been around here so long, she has sort of been "grandmothered" in.


316 posted on 01/31/2006 6:47:01 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Gordongekko909

George Orwell wrote that all pacifists were hypocrits ... of course, the leftys don't want to read the real Orwell,


317 posted on 01/31/2006 6:47:16 PM PST by George - the Other (400,000 bodies in Saddam's Mass Graves, and counting ...)
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To: Phantom Lord
"DUMMIE LAND IS IN LOCK DOWN!"

Skinner may as well leave it that way. Only the scúm de la scúm will show up there after this - anyone with a synapse in his head will leave or be thrown out now.
318 posted on 01/31/2006 6:47:24 PM PST by decal (Too many people mistake "tolerance" for "approval")
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To: markomalley
Love this

"GET THE F*$% OUT!"

319 posted on 01/31/2006 6:47:45 PM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: Gordongekko909
Check his posting history right quick

Watched it play in real time over the past few years, thanks. MurryMom he ain't.

320 posted on 01/31/2006 6:47:55 PM PST by hellinahandcart
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