Posted on 03/12/2008 3:45:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. Capitol Police arrested 10 war protesters who began shouting in the Senate gallery Wednesday.
The protesters were quickly hustled into a hallway and out of the view of reporters. They had chanted, "The war is immoral! Stop funding the war!"—as police officers grabbed them and physically removed them from a visitors gallery overlooking the Senate floor.
The demonstrators wore gauze shrouds over their heads and black shirts that read, "We will not be silent." One member said they represented the "National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance."
Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas was speaking during debate on the federal budget when the protest broke out. She stopped talking while the protesters were removed.
Outside the chamber, police ordered reporters to leave the public hallway where authorities were detaining the protesters. An officer could be heard reporting that there had been 10 arrests in the incident.
I wish they'd stop pushing their morals on us.
The creeps will be out in full force over the next week or so. I hope they all get arrested.
Nothing will happen to them. They’ll be booked and released at most. They’ll wear that like a badge of honor!
Hippies! The wanna take over the world but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.
Just sayin'.
We don’t have to have Sharia Law for the point to be made. All they have to do is ask a Holocaust survivor, boat person, or refugee (Cuban, Iranian, ect.)
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The demonstrators wore gauze shrouds over their heads and black shirts that read, “We will not be silent.” One member said they represented the “National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance.””
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=%22We+will+not+be+silent%22&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2
ON THE INTERNET:
www.iraqpledge.org/
I guess there’s no freedom of speech in a democrat run Senate......</sarcasm>
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