Sheehan FINALLY gets her reward....

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Cindy Sheehan Arrested After U.N. March
Tuesday, March 7, 2006 8:48 AM EST
The Associated Press
By PAUL BURKHARDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Cindy Sheehan, who drew international attention when she camped outside President Bush's ranch to protest the Iraq war, was arrested Monday along with three other women during a demonstration demanding the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.

The march to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations by about a dozen U.S. and Iraqi anti-war activists followed a news conference at U.N. headquarters, where Iraqi women described daily killings and ambulance bombings as part of the escalating violence that keeps women in their homes.

Women Say No to War, which helped organize the march, claimed Sheehan was physically assaulted by security officers during the arrests. Photos show officers dragging Sheehan, with her shirt yanked up. Police said the four women were arrested for criminal trespassing and resisting arrest.

The women were trying to deliver a petition to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations with more than 60,000 signatures urging the "withdrawal of all troops and all foreign fighters from Iraq." When they arrived at the mission, they found the doors locked.

Ann Wright, a former U.S. Army colonel and U.S. diplomat, said in a statement issued by the group that the U.S. Mission refused to send someone to meet with the women "whose lives and families have been shattered by this destructive and immoral war." The protesters refused to leave without delivering the petition, she said. At one point, witnesses said they sat down in front of the doors and interlocked their legs.

Richard Grenell, the spokesman for the U.S. Mission, said in response to Sheehan's arrest: "We invited her in to discuss her concerns with a U.S. Mission employee. She chose not to come in but to lay down in front of the building and block the entrance. It was clearly designed to be a media stunt, not aimed at rational discussion," Grenell said.

At the news conference, Sheehan said when her 24-year-old son — a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq — died in April 2004, "the morgues were filled with innocent men, women and children."

Entessa Mohammed, a pharmacist who works at a hospital in Baghdad, became tearful when recalling the deaths and injuries she said she has witnessed daily.

She estimated that 1,600 Iraqis are killed in Baghdad every month, with a greater number injured. "Thanks for the liberation from Saddam" Hussein, Mohammed said, addressing the Bush administration, "now please go out."

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice planned to meet with delegations of Iraqi and Afghan women in Washington on Wednesday, which is International Women's Day, to honor their achievements in politics.

The Women Say No to War activists, who plan to be in Washington on Wednesday to meet with members of Congress, said they were denied requests to meet with Rice or other "relevant" State Department officials.
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I'm starting to like Cindy. Not only is her cause noble (ending the war in Iraq), but now she's shown that she's willing to put her money where her mouth is, by being arrested.

Now don't get me wrong - personally I don't agree that we should just up and withdraw immediately, because things would go quickly to hell in a handbasket, and that would make the lives lost, including her son's, all for naught. But since we should never have invaded in the first place, my heart is with her.
 
Yes, we should all celebrate this woman's 1st amendment rights being so grossly violated. I guess that's what her son died for.

What has gotten into some people??? :barf:
 
My wife was telling me about two people that were removed from the Congress building for wearing sloganed T-shirts during the state of the union address. One was politely escorted out of the building, the other arrested and kept in custody for many hours.

The second one was Sheehan.

I think she's a fool, but I don't think that she should be treated in a manner any different than any other public or private figure. Her dissent is not a crime.


This incident was just clumsy stunt, however.
 
Before you draw too many conclusions about her actions you might should consider how you would react if you had a child, parent or spouse killed in this mess. If you haven't lost one maybe you should keep your complaints about one who has, to yourself.
 
We all lose loved ones. Her loss doesn't give her a universal pass to behave any way she wants, or a gag order on anyone else in commenting on it.


She has a right to do what she does, and it is understandable why she does it. But she is still a fool.
 
Imagine being arrested and handcuffed in the land of the 1st Amendment for a T shirt.........

hrmmm....

Capitol Police dropped a charge of unlawful conduct against antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan on Wednesday and apologized for ejecting her and a congressman’s wife from President Bush’s State of the Union address for wearing T-shirts with war messages.

“Neither guest should have been confronted about the expressive T-shirts,” Gainer’s statement said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11120353/
 
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I agree with arresting her.
I think she is someone who never had anyone pay any attention to her, and now she is using her son's death to get attention.

She is a nut.

Jerry
 
It couldn't have happened to a better person. She's a nut case who acts as if her adult son didn't know he may die while in the military. It's the gamble we all make and if you're not willing to take the good with the bad, then leave the good to others who accept it.
 
Shehann arrested

Without flaming anybody I just have to state that America has always had some fine strong women who supported their sons, the US Government and its efforts overseas in armed conflicts. My Mom was one of these who drove me, a little skinny Boy Scout around Victoria Texas during WWII helping with pots and pans and scrap aluminum drives, waste paper drives, and raising a Victory Garden in the yard, buying War Bonds and urging me to buy War Bond Stamps.

I urged her to destroy her beautiful "Made in Japan" China table ware and she told me No, the war will be over someday, we will win it and you will not be ashamed to eat from it then and when you are a little older.

She also sat up late some nights listening to a German Broadcast in English on the short wave band of our old Zenith radio where they let American POWS say a word that they were alive and how to contact their parents, Mom contacted several to tell them that their son was a prisoner but alive and etc.

I am so proud of Mom and the millions more like her, then and now!
 
Imprisoning people is a good way to silence the opposition. I don't agree with what she says, I agree with her right to say it.
 
She has openly denounced America, with help from far left wing nut groups like code pink, moveon, etc.

She's a parrot. for liberals!

Liberals new she was weak and hurting, thats the best time grab hold of a persons mind. They made good USE of her.
 
I agree with arresting her.
I think she is someone who never had anyone pay any attention to her, and now she is using her son's death to get attention.

She is a nut.

Jerry
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It couldn't have happened to a better person. She's a nut case who acts as if her adult son didn't know he may die while in the military. It's the gamble we all make and if you're not willing to take the good with the bad, then leave the good to others who accept it.
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How does this suspend her right to free speech or her right to petition her government or her right to assemble?

I guess the bill of rights only applies to people we agree with.

Don't worry, the Democraps will be back in power soon and they can start doing the same things to gun rights activists and pro-war protesters. Then it will be bad I guess.
 
Personally I would like to see any video of the incident. Knowing that Sheehan was involved the news media was certain to be there with the cameras pointed in the right direction.

Any video showing that they tried to get in but the doors were locked?

If no, then there probably isn't any. That leads one to wonder if indeed the doors were locked or that the protesters just assumed that they were.

ANYONE who is a high profile media figure is bound to be the one arrested at any protest gathering. Sheehan is getting the attention she wants. Unfortunately, she's not delivering the msg she really wants to deliver.
 
Photos show officers dragging Sheehan, with her shirt yanked up.
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Who's that worse for, her, or the poor folks that that saw it happen?

Does it wear a bra or is she a true hippy?

I really have a hard time feeling sorry for it. I'm just guessing, but I think her son would be ashamed of her behavior. She gave up custody of her son when she was younger, but now, all of a sudden she cares. She cares about nobody but herself.
 
I agree that Cindy Sheehan has a right to free speech and I respect the fact that she is excersising that right. We have a right to keep and bear arms, I wish more of us would excersise our right to free speech to preserve the latter.
Whether we agree or disagree with her message is our individual personal opinion. Sooner or later it may be "us" excersising our right of free speech against the same odds for something we believe in, specifically the RKBA.
Get it together gentlemen, our time to speek is closer than you think. For some of us, it's already here.
 
This is absurd.
Cindy Sheehan should not have been arrested at the Capitol Forum. She SHOULD have been ejected for improper attire at a State of the Union gathering. But the police dropped all charges and publicly apologized; Cindy got lots of attention and sympathy; so she looks for more.

Her argument that "nobody told me what I should wear", is as naive and transparent as everything else she has done to gain publicity after the Left quietly dropped her as their poster-girl for the anti-war movement.


Cindy Sheehan was not arrested in front of the UN for exercising her First Amendment Rights. She was arrested for laying down in front of the door and preventing others from conducting their business....just as anyone here should be. Try it sometime....try a little protest nap in front of the doors of the local Court House, Police Station, Hospital, Library or restaurant. Then come back and tell us how your First Amendment rights were "violated".
Rich
 
I first voiced my fear that this kind of thing would happen, back when the Iraq war first started. I was told my fears were irrational. I was told that it would never happen again in this country. I was ridiculed and derided for even thinking this would happen, and I would have loved to have been proven an idiot... I take no satisfaction in having my worst nightmares vindicated. But here we are.

Cindy Sheehan was an anti-war protestor during Vietnam. While she never achieved the notoriety she now has, it was her life, back then.

Cindy Sheehan had a son who joined the US Army against her wishes. As an adult, he made his choice. He re-enlisted, again under Sheehan's almost violent protests, was sent to Iraq where he was killed.

She has used his death as a vehicle to catapult her into the limelight, thereby recapturing that bygone era and as an added bonus, Fame, as a "leader" of the Anti-Iraq War movement. She has made a mockery of her own son's valor and destroyed her family and marriage in the process.

She has vilified our troops with the same fervor she used in vilifying Vietnam vets. She has called the Iraqi terrorists Freedom Fighters, just as she did with the Vietcong.

Cindy Sheehan has every right to speak her mind and protest in the manner she does. Just as I have the right to address her and her actions as immature, totally self-centered and painfully wrong to the memory of her brave son.

She is a perfect example of the late 60's and early 70's "ME" generation, a generation that I belong to, and encompasses everything wrong that I see in America today.

For those of you that find her cause "noble," remember what her kind did to us vets returning from Vietnam. And you wish this upon Iraqi vets, why exactly? Do you really want another generation of our finest to return to the scorn and derision that we returned to? This is your "noble" cause, to emotionally scar another generation?

To those that think we need to have lost a son or daughter in war in order to speak out against people like Sheehan, then you need to rethink your attitude. Those of us that can empathize with our troops, have as much right to speak against Sheehan and her opinions as anyone. Sheehan, in my opinion, is no different than Jane Fonda. I hold both in utter contempt.

But if some of you really think her cause is noble and I have no right to oppose her, since I have not lost a child in war, then I would answer that you have no right to your opinion, unless you have gone to war yourself and suffered the trek back home as I and many others have.

Both concepts are fallacious, however. The bottom line is that my opinions are as perfectly valid as are hers.
 
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