Capitol police arrest Cindy Sheehan

CNN | 01/31/2006

[NapkinUser]

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. .."

[Grampa Dave]

Rules/laws and the code of proper conduct never apply to lunatic libs.

It is past time to start enforcing the rules/laws and shining the light of truth on their lunatic behavior.

[Jeff Head]

So, MurryMom...you believe Sheehan is "telling the truth to power?"

Sorry, but in Sheehan's case, and IMHO, that is pure unadulterated Bravo Sierra. What she claims and what she represents is anything but the truth.

In addition, given her stalking of this President, given her rhetoric and statements regarding him, she should not have been allowed in the same room with him. When she was, and attempted to protest in the Capitol building during his speech, then she suffered the consequences.

[Peach]

Man wearing anti-Clinton tee shirt removed from Senate gallery during impeachment trial.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1569282/posts?page=1

Hat tip to Kristinn for posting it.

[bmwcyle]

Cindy is their media poster girl. Code Pink is evil behind so much of the World Socialist Party.

[Jeff Head]

She simply had to try and upstage the President during the State of the Union address. Unveiling her little protest t-shirt hoping that the media would pick it up and use the President's moment to deliver her anti-American, sick protests to the entire world.

Nobody can tell me it wasn't planned from the getgo that way...that she sought and was given that seat in order to do that very thing. She got what she deserved...and I hope, given her record now, that they throw the book at her and she spends the next year in jail there in DC.

No protests...not sit ins at the President's ranch...no mic...no camera. Just cold bare cell floors, non-private camodes, and other criminals.

[brothers4thID]

Invited guests are informed of House Chamber rules- which specifically forbid such displays. Furthermore she was precisely what you said she was- an invited guest to a working join session of Congress. Her actions threatened to interrupt activities of the US Government conducting its Constitutionally mandated duties. As such her HOSTS politely asked her to leave- in the polite way that US Capitol police have...

[Grampa Dave]

Lynn Woolsey, the rat congressit, who gave the lunatic lib, Cindy the seat, is from marvelous Marin County in N California, the home of Johnny Jihad. These A$$holes make the people in San Francisco seem moderate at times.

[jennyjenny]

This woman is a nut and needs to spend some time in jail for stalking the president. What a clown.

[No Surrender No Retreat]

Hey Joe,
Too bad the bitch did not slip on a bar of soap on her way to criminal processing, by the CP.

I would love to see her US citizenship terminated along with the rest of the left wing demo-commie anti-americans.

As I See It,
NSNR-THM

[Squantos]

She didn't have the intelligence to "wait" for the middle of GW's speech to spring her game of sedition and profit from her sons sacrifice to a nation he clearly loved vs his birth mothers trashing his good name for money.

Doom on this mentally ill idgit ! Get her committed yesterday the days she's released from her one year jail term and fine that she better get for this crap !

Stay safe Jeff !

[Jeff Head]

She was clearly attempting to use the President's SOTU address, and the press associated with it, to super-charge her anti-American, anti-war, anti-President message and get it out to the world.

Well, they have rules in the chamber...and she violated them. She got exactly what she deserved. Let her get her message out on her own nickel...nobody is stopping her from doing that.

[Jeff Head]

She was hoping to upsatge the Rpesident my friend...to get the cameras on herself before his speech started so she and her message somehow would be the talk of the town and go out in advance of what he had to say.

I believe she and the rabid representative that gave her the seat planned it that way.

Either way, they would have carted her out...and should have been. As you say...doom on her and her sick, dishonest message and all of those who want to spread it.

[Albion Wilde]

Cindy Sheehan & Nick Nolte - Separated at Birth?

He's better looking.

[HKMk23]

>> MUst...play...victim. Can't....just...sit...

Hasn't that script been used in a "Dilbert" comic before?

"Must...restrain...fist...of...death..."

[Albion Wilde]

orry but that is just wrong.Wearing a t shirt is protected by the first amendment and its just as wrong to arrest her for that as it was for clinton to have freepers arrested for holding signs up as clintons motorcade passed by and for having those two protesters arrested for saying you suck.

We have laws prohibiting the distribution of partisan literature within so many hundred feet of a polling place, and that's not a free speech issue. First Amendment religion can be as fanatic as the Taliban.

[FourtySeven]

Every time I see you, I'm reminded of the fact that DU doesn't allow dissension at all and, in fact, were any of us to go there and make similarly inflammatory statements as yours (to the right of course) we'd be immediately tombstoned.

Kinda says something about the difference between our two sites, doesn't it? So much for liberal "tolerance". < snort >

[GoldwaterChick]

Kay Bailey Hutchinson was on Fox & Friends this morning and said that Cindy unfurled a banner over the railing, and that is why she was arrested.

The lack of expression on Cindy's face as she was led away caused me to think that this woman was totally out of it. She has been used by the left and I'll be she doesn't even know who she is any more.

[LYSandra]

ABC radio said she was ejected for tshirt - left out she had a banner-heard that on Fox last night. She was Rep. Wolf's guest. Wolf represents California! She ought to receive lots of emails!