Activist Cindy Sheehan Arrested at Capitol
Posted on January 31, 2006
Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a fallen soldier in Iraq who reinvigorated the anti-war movement, was taken into custody by police in the House gallery Tuesday night just before President Bush’s State of the Union address.Police escorted Sheehan from the visitors’ gallery above the House chamber after causing a disruption, said a Capitol Police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because details of the incident were sketchy.Source
More: I’m hearing it was over an anti-war T-shirt.
The T-shirt bore the words “2,245 Dead — How Many More??” in reference to the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq, protesters told NBC News.
Koo Koo!
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Poor Cindy….arrested. I’m all broke up.
Yea my heart also pumps for her but it is not love. I enjoyed the state of the union address except seeing the smirky smiles on the face of the senator from New York that we can do without, but it was nice not to see bourbon breath Kennedy.
I hoped they use excessive force, we will work it out later.
Maybe her good friend Hugo Chavez can bail her out. What a waste of human life she is.
Nutty [edited]! Normally, I’m all for free speech, but this woman’s a nut case. Doesn’t the Secret Service investigate the people who are going to be present? They shouldn’t have let her in in the first place. I’d say she was a threat to the President’s safety. That trumps free speech.
To be fair, she doesn’t own a shirt that doesn’t have an anti-american slogan.
So let’s see we are for free speech if it is goodfree speech that we like but if it is bad free speech then you should be arrested ?
“So let’s see we are for free speech if it is goodfree speech that we like but if it is bad free speech then you should be arrested”
Exactly.