Peace mom Sheehan arrested in Washington

[QMPMom]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061109/ap_on_re_us/war_protest_sheehan_3

Peace mom Sheehan arrested in Washington

By DERRILL HOLLY, Associated Press Writer
25 minutes ago

Activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Wednesday as she led about 50 protesters to a White House gate Wednesday to deliver anti-war petitions she said were signed by 80,000 Americans.

The Berkeley, Calif., woman, whose son was killed in Iraq more than two years ago, was arrested along with three other women on the sidewalk outside the White House gate, said Lt. Scott Fear, a U.S. Park Police spokesman. They were charged with interfering with a government function, he said.

(more at above link)

[ClusterFreak]

1. So that's what all that commotion was...

...as Suzanne Malveaux was doing a live hit from in front of the White House a couple hours or so ago. And she never mentioned it, even though you could hear chanting and such very clearly.

[NoBorders]

10. I was wondering what that was. Huh. n/t

[MADem]

21. They were chanting the Na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye song

Someone mentioned that there were protestors on one of the stand ups, on MSNBC...didn't know it was her though.

[wordpix]

2. what govt function did Sheehan interfere with? Rummy's firing, lol?

[damntexdem]

8. No, the function of:

trying to keep the American people in the dark about the criminal war that Dubya lied us into.

The election results showed, however, that that particular government function is no longer functioning so well.

[Vidar]

23. Applauding Cindy.

[Hekate]

3. God bless you, Cindy. We have so far yet to go. nt

[silverojo]

4. Cindy, America got the point.

November 7th proved it. Now that you've raised awareness, will you please quit getting yourself arrested? One of these days, you'll be behind bars for good, and that's not going to help anybody. :(

[merwin]

11. Is it somehow illegal to deliver a petition to the president?

There's no way in hell she should have been arrested.

[tblue37]

12. In Japan during the time of the Shogunate,

a peasant who attempted to petition anyone in power would be executed. But our Constitution says that we have the right to petition our government for redress.

[merwin]

24. Unless you're not rich... then you have right to remain silent.

[sce56]

5. This should be a reminder we still live in a damm near POLICE STATE

And we need to get Madam Speaker Nancy to not only drain the moat but restore our constitutional rights and freedoms.

How about we start a new forum here on DU to put all the ideas of what needs to be desperately fixed like the freedom to march and protest in front of the white house!



October 17, 2006,Will be remembered as the Enabling day of the 21st Century!
"The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures..."
~Adolf Hitler, March 23, 1933, before the German Parliament (Reichstag) as he urged them to pass his "Enabling Act"

Got Fascism Yet?


http://www.georgewalkerbush.net/bush-nazilinkconfirmed.htm



Fascism Accomplished!

[rodeodance]

6. "the women to came to fame about a year ago" O'Donnel outside

of WH this am. she was reporting Live-but had to explain the noise in the background..

[stillcool]

9. bitch...I'd really like

to slap them all. I heard Candy Crowley last nite on CNN saying how the dems still have to kiss-up to the republicans if they want any changes in Iraq....because her bush is the commander in chief. I despise them all...except Keith.

[ima_sinnic]

20. but pretty soon a$$hat will come w/his hand out for $$ for Iraq

he may be "commander in cheat," but Congress controls the purse strings. PLEASE can we Just.Say.NO this time to another few billion for Iraq???

[leftchick]

7. Photos....

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan yells to fellow demonstrators as she is arrested outside of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2006. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/061108/480/c2b4d424814b4863a7cfcbf155cfe4bb

[Tellurian]

13. She got it right though..

Rummy WAS offered up as the sacrificial lamb.

Poppy distrusts Rumsfeld, always has, never liked him.
Rumsfeld is Cheney's man. Rumsfeld's resignation was a
show of good faith nw Baker will step in and start
running the show.

Poppy has effectively castrated Cheney's power and set
him off to the sidelines. Cheney had better cooperate
or the consequences could be nasty.

[DoYouEverWonder]

14. That's why Dimson has done a 360 today

and is singing a new tune.

[BrotherBuzz]

19. I'm new to all this fuzzy math, and correct me if I'm wrong, back in my day....

a person who did a 360 would be singing the same sorry tune. ;)

[TheBaldyMan]

22. 360=take a good look all around about you.

[leftchick]

27. aka:

poopy bails out his failed progeny yet again. :eyes:

[Tellurian]

28. Can you imagine how PO'd Poppy is not because of Baby but..

because he's swallowed his spit so many times at Chaney's arrogance,
literally, flipping him the bird at any of his suggested war plan
strategies. Cheney is in it for the quick buck. Where Poppy knows they
could have milked the War Cow into perpetuity.

I Loveit when they infight! :loveya:


:kick:

[Synnical]

15. "interfering with a government function"

What is that? Is there some local ordinance that does not allow a US citizen to address their Reps???

I don't think so!

[gratuitous]

16. Bush is scared of four women with a petition

Or am I reading this wrong? It sure looks like that, though.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

17. "...interfering with a government function"?

Did she tip Dumbyass's porta-john over, or what?

[bushass]

18. if they cant beat us..

if they cant beat us in he election , why hell!! lets just arrest all the "trouble" makers and put them in jail ,with all the new laws we have implemented in the last three years!

sorry folks! they still have the goods on all of us....we have a whole lot of work to do, and
hopefully, the congress will have the balls to do what is nessacary!
{with our encouragement of course}.........

[Ferret Annica]

25. It is still business as usual for the fascists building police state America

Make no mistake about it, the fight is merely starting, there is still much to do and no assurance anywhere that the ultimate outcome will be a win for democracy and the right of the people to assure the control of their country and defend their embattled and endangered Constitution.

[Ian David]

26. President Pelosi will pardon Cindy next year. n/t

[Theres-a]

29. Government function?

PUH-LEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE!!!!Enough of this nonsense already.She was delivering a petition for godssake.Don't they realize how ridiculous this makes them look? Don't they have a clue?

[yellowcanine]

30. Barney must piss there.