Anti-Iraq war protesters arrested after sitting inside Sen. McCain's office to protest funding -pics

[Kadie]

Anti-Iraq war protesters sit inside Sen. John McCain's (R-Az) office to protest funding for the war before being arrested on Capitol Hill in Washington February 5, 2007. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES)


Anti-Iraq war protesters are led away after being arrested for sitting inside Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) office to protest funding for the war on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 5, 2007. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES)

[niyad]

1. how in the HELL is this a crime???

[meldroc]

6. Technically, it's trespassing.

AND I'M ALL FOR IT!!!

It's civil disobedience. Pack into McCain's office, raise a big stink, refuse to leave. The end result is getting arrested.

Nothing but keeping up the tradition of Henry David Thoreau, Martin Luther King, etc.

[niyad]

20. what I want to know is WHY they were told to leave!! mccain needs to be reminded that he works FOR

us, and that WE are HIS bosses. so how in the HELL does he get away with telling these people to leave? if they were not committing a crime, what is the problem?

well, except for the fact that he doesn't like being called to account, that is. he needs to be reminded that WE pay his salary.

[DRoseDARs]

7. How the Hell did they even get in?

:shrug:

If only they could have cornered McCain as well.

[butterfly77]

16. And follow his ass all over the place....

[izzie]

8. I guess you have to think like the autocrats.

Our autocrats love war.

[unhappycamper]

2. And so it begins.

K&R

[bdamomma]

12. we have to show them that we will not be ignored.

to those demonstrators you have more utmost respect. Hopefully there will be more to get our point across.

[noamnety]

3. This is part of The Occupation Project, which began today

(for those unaware of it)

http://www.vcnv.org/project/the-occupation-project

http://www.vcnv.org/the-occupation-project-a-campaign-of-sustained-nonviolent-civil-disobedience-to-end-the-iraq-war

[blogslut]

4. Sweet!

I like this campaign. :)

[izzie]

9. Good I am glad they are doing it.

It would help me to just understand who we are now fighting in Iraq. I can not figure what side we are on or is it just to see if we can stay alive if we get out in the street or up in the air? Maybe we are just their to kill anything that moves? This has got to be one silly thing to be in that country. All our tax money put into this silly stuff.

[malaise]

5. More of these protests needed

or nothing will change.

[Breeze54]

10. They are patriots!

Thanks, Kadie, for posting these pics!

[Kadie]

11. I found a link from CNN with a little info...

Monday, February 5
POSTED: 3:25 p.m. EST, February 5, 2007


Code Pink anti-war protesters arrested at McCain's offices

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Several anti-war protesters were arrested in the lobby of Sen. John McCain's office suite in the Russell Senate Office Building Monday afternoon.

The group Code Pink said nine of its members were arrested after refusing police orders to leave. U.S. Capitol Police Sergeant Kimberly Schneider told CNN 10 members of the group were arrested, all for disorderly conduct.

Code Pink said the demonstration was one of more than two dozen similar protests across the country Monday, all part of The Occupation Project which will continue at congressional offices at least through the end of March.

The series of demonstrations began on this day because it is the fourth anniversary of the U.N. speech delivered by former Secretary of State Colin Powell outlining the threat Iraq posed to the world because of its supposed weapons of mass destruction programs, according to a press release issued by Code Pink.


http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/02/05/monday/index.html?section=cnn_latest

[Breeze54]

14. Thanks! Go Code Pink! -- "The Occupation Project"

Code Pink & Veterans for Peace are awesome and so are the rest of the groups!
:applause: :applause:

-------------------------

The Occupation Project

http://www.counterpunch.org/leys01082007.html

January 8, 2007

A Campaign of Sustained, Nonviolent Civil Disobedience to End Iraq War Funding
The Occupation Project

By JEFF LEYS

On February 5, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell delivered his infamous speech to the United Nations
in which he set forth the deceptions about Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction program.
At the conclusion of his speech, no doubt remained: the U.S. invasion of Iraq was imminent.

On February 5, 2007, the Occupation Project will launch a campaign of sustained nonviolent
civil disobedience focused upon Representatives and Senators who refuse to publicly pledge
to vote against any additional funding for the Iraq war.

The campaign will continue at least through the start of April.

Let there be no doubt that the antiwar movement will use all means of nonviolence
to end our country's war in and occupation of Iraq.

Initiated by Voices for Creative Nonviolence, the campaign is growing exponentially as such national organizations as Veterans for Peace, CODEPINK, Declaration of Peace, National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance and Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space join the campaign.

The premise is simple. Representatives and Senators: publicly pledge to vote against the $100 billion
supplemental war spending package which President Bush will submit in early February
or we will occupy your offices.

The premise is simple. This will not be a singular action on a single day.

We will return again and again and again until you pledge to vote against funds for the Iraq war.

More at link.........

[otherlander]

13. How the hell did they get in there?

:applause:

[Breeze54]

15. The door?

They walked in! ;)

[Jeanette in FL]

17. For the times they are a-changin' - Dylan

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

[Jacobin]

18. Bottom line

The Iraq conflagration is not enough of a personal pain in the ass for politico warmonger president-wannabe's like McCain. This sort of thing will make it a personal pain in the ass if done often enough.

It should be no surprise that McCain, having no means of empathizing with the hundreds of thousands of people being slaughtered and maimed, will eventually get fed up enough with the personal inconvenience that he will change his stance.

Only in America do we grow soul-less cretinous ideologues like him.

I say, keep it up

[Alamom]

19. Incredible, Wonderful, Selfless people. !

:kick: :applause:

[Breeze54]

21. K & R'd!

:kick: