02/01/2006
Cindy Sheehan's Side of the Story
As an addendum to this morning's post, Cindy Sheehan has told Buzzflash the details of her arrest. An excerpt:
"I was never told that I couldn't wear that shirt into the Congress. I was never asked to take it off or zip my jacket back up. If I had been asked to do any of those things...I would have, and written about the suppression of my freedom of speech later. I was immediately, and roughly (I have the bruises and muscle spasms to prove it) hauled off and arrested for "unlawful conduct."After I had my personal items inventoried and my fingers printed, a nice Sgt. came in and looked at my shirt and said, "2245, huh? I just got back from there."
I told him that my son died there. That's when the enormity of my loss hit me. I have lost my son. I have lost my First Amendment rights. I have lost the country that I love. Where did America go? I started crying in pain.
What did Casey die for? What did the 2244 other brave young Americans die for? What are tens of thousands of them over there in harm's way for still? For this? I can't even wear a shirt that has the number of troops on it that George Bush and his arrogant and ignorant policies are responsible for killing.
I wore the shirt to make a statement. The press knew I was going to be there and I thought every once in awhile they would show me and I would have the shirt on. I did not wear it to be disruptive, or I would have unzipped my jacket during George's speech. If I had any idea what happens to people who wear shirts that make the neocons uncomfortable that I would be arrested...maybe I would have, but I didn't."
Continued at Buzzflash...
What Really Happened at the State of the Union [cindy sheehan]
ADDENDUM:
Police state works both sides of the aisle: wife of Republican congressman removed from SOTU as well.
Bradblog: Women treated unequally.
I'm surprised all the Democrats weren't removed for standing up and applauding at Bush's failed plan to destroy Social Security.
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"unlawful conduct"—now there's an Orwellian, Nixon Speak, catch-all-you-disagree-with charge if I've ever heard one. And redundant, too. Aren't all arrests [theoretically] because one has conducted him/herself in violation of a law. Oh, yummy, Mummy. We've fallen down the rabbit hole—which started in Crawford, Texas.
For once, I'm actually glad Lush, I mean Bush, took another cheap shot at us. I feared Rove would be smart enough to say, "Let's skip the fudge packers this time because it'll just get 'Brokeback Mountain' more Oscar votes from Hollyliberals and [you're too stupid to understand it, you pathetic puppet, but I know] the more people see it the more they will eventually offset the religious nuts we've been spoonfeeding rabid homophobia for the past 30 years." Too much to hope that Ang Lee will include Bush in his thank you speech, I guess.
But as long as I'm in a rare good mood, some of the latest from Mark Morford, in response to the State of the Disunion:
"In one short year, the sneering, all-consuming GOP has gone from master of all domains, from owning every aspect of the federal government and launching multiple failed wars and abusing all laws and spying and wiretapping and torturing and lying, to one of the least stable parties in ages. Scandals, indictments, arrests, Abramoff, Enron, DeLay, thousands of dead U.S. soldiers and nothing to show for it but more enraged terrorists, an economy running on fumes. Regimes built on lies and religious fearmongering never last. It's like a genital rash -- it just SEEMS to take forever to heal."
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/
Posted by: Leland | Feb 1, 2006 12:14:17 PM
I think Cindy is mentally ill, and the looney left is taking advantage of her suffering.
Posted by: thatsright | Feb 1, 2006 12:17:01 PM
I think Casey Sheehan is dead and Karl Rove deserves to be in his grave instead.
Posted by: BRIAN NYC | Feb 1, 2006 12:21:02 PM
God get that dumb bitch out of here! Hey, you stupid whore, your son died a LONG time ago. GET OVER IT! Mothers lose their sons every freaking day.
Posted by: Larry | Feb 1, 2006 12:31:54 PM
Cry me a river...oh wait - I have not cried a river over you poor Cindy!
Posted by: Matthew Schooler | Feb 1, 2006 12:44:26 PM
What are the people of this country waiting for? When will they stand up as a nation and demand their country back from these people? Will they wait till gay men and women are in concentration camps? Will they wait until all civil rights are taken away and the only law is the one that serves this administration? Lying isn't enough. 2245 dead Americans isn't enough. Torture isn't enough. Spying without warrants isn't enough. Rampant corruption isn't enough?
Hello, America? are you out there? what does it take to convince you?
Posted by: thumper | Feb 1, 2006 12:45:00 PM
Cindy may have been mislead by some and taken advantage of and may even be a bit odd. Whatever. The woman has lost her son in a war that is also killing the soul of this country. Is this who the government is afraid of...the appearance of a sad and angry woman? Is this the "terrorist" that we need to wiretap? At least she has the nerve to do what we all should be doing...Standing up to be seen and heard.
And Larry, you've shown us all how ignorant and selfesh you can be.
Posted by: Tommy | Feb 1, 2006 12:51:21 PM
Larry and Ms. Schooler, you guys are fucking inhuman. Selfish, ignorant, and vile.
Posted by: Tread | Feb 1, 2006 12:59:48 PM
She wasn't the only one evicted.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/3628007.html
Wife of a prominent Republican congressman was also removed.
By the way, Sheehan was a guest of Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Sonoma, CA).
Posted by: RDiggy | Feb 1, 2006 1:07:14 PM
BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH.
This woman went into that room with the intent of disrupting the speech, pure and simple. Anyone paying any attention to her antics over the last year is smart enough to know that. She has been caught in MORE THAN ONE LIE and, obviously, you people running to her defense have NO CLUE how the Capitol police operate or report to - FYI, the DO NOT report to GWB nor do they report to the Republican majority.
Rules are rules and if you break them, you should expect there to be consequences. That is how THE ADULTS operate. How do you know you are an adult? One clue would be when you can recognize what is appropriate behavior and what isn't.
Posted by: Robert | Feb 1, 2006 1:08:29 PM
Cindy Sheehan was the only one Handcuffed and Arrested and Held Incommunicado for hours after the speech. The kooky Republikkkan wife screamed at the police officer in an unhinged, violent way but was never restrained or arrested because she was a KKKonservative.
I guess some of the cocksuckers in this website are just used to having two kinds of law -- one for first-class citizens and one for second-class citizens.
They arrested her because she told one truth -- 2200 men and women dead -- and was disrupting the LIES.
Posted by: Brian NYC | Feb 1, 2006 1:17:30 PM
Cindy or no Cindy, the Idiots Belief of the Union sermon last night was nothing more than a string of non-linear talking points tossed out with the hopes that SOMETHING would get people to applaud. I was pleased to see that there really was no a rousing standing ovation for most of it, and even some dissent when the house Democrats cheered the failure of the Idiots social security measures last year.
I loved, early on, when the Idiot was stringing together nonsense to mixed applause, only to have the camera pan to John McCain looking rather bewildered and confused over trying to make sense out of the speech. Interesting, the contra-programming on C-SPAN1 was a panel discussion about impeachment over the lies going to war.
And finally, GOP... that 9/11 card needs to be retired. It was a shame what happened in Pearl Harbor, too, but even that went by the wayside after the bomb dropped.
I think Cindy Sheehan has a valid argument and has made valid statements. It's a shame she's nothing more than a post-script to the events of the time. Aside from choking down the bile when the Idiot opened with a tribute to Coretta Scott King, I think what Mrs. King did, and how she did it; not turning from fear, is exactly what Cindy Sheehan needs to embody.
Some day, someone will actually listen.
Rad
Posted by: Rad | Feb 1, 2006 1:17:50 PM
Cindy is going to be around a while, I'm afraid. She's going to be one of those persistent stalkers who shows up in every crowd with a knife, hoping to kill some important person she feels is responsible for her problems. One day she'll get the nerve to get a gun. She'll probably make a real assassination attempt on some government official before it's all over. Hopefully, she'll be caught before she kills an innocent person.
You can't blame the left or the right for Cindy's problems. She's just too twisted to know which side she's on.
Posted by: Jay Croce | Feb 1, 2006 1:21:15 PM
BryanNYC - I guess this woman was thrown out for supporting the troops then, if I am following your (and I try to say this with a straight face) logic.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. AP —The wife of Rep. C.W. Bill Young, R-Indian Shores, told a newspaper that she was ejected during the State of the Union address for wearing a T-shirt that says, “Support the Troops Defending Our Freedom.”
Beverly Young told the St. Petersburg Times that she was sitting in the front row of the House gallery Tuesday night when she was approached by someone who told her she needed to leave.
She said she reluctantly agreed, but argued with several officers in an outside hallway.
In a telephone interview with the newspaper, Young said she told them her shirt wasn’t a protest but a message of support.
Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said Young wasn’t ejected from the gallery and she left on her own. She couldn’t provide additional details.
Young’s husband found out about the incident after Bush’s speech and called it unacceptable.Have another glass of Koolaid.
Posted by: Robert | Feb 1, 2006 1:24:43 PM
The rules apply to everyone when you are the Capitol Police.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/02/01/D8FGFK0G0.html
Posted by: Robert | Feb 1, 2006 1:34:47 PM
Thatsright, larry, and others
Uhm visit america much??
"DISSENT is the HIGHEST form of PATRIOTISM!" THOMAS JEFFERSON
jefferson trumps you wingnuts every time
"To follow the president without question is SERVILE, UNPATRIOTIC, UNAMERICAN, and TREASONOUS" Teddy Roosevelt REPUBLICAN , president, soldier
Posted by: Jimmyboyo | Feb 1, 2006 1:38:12 PM
And on a side-note: C'mon now. The woman showed up to the State of the Union address in a jogging suit. How classless can you be? Didn't her book deal pay enough for her to put on a decent outfit appropriate for the occasion?
Posted by: Robert | Feb 1, 2006 1:38:15 PM
"DISSENT is the HIGHEST form of PATRIOTISM" Thomas jefferson
"To follow the president without question is servile, unpatriotic, UNAMERICAN, and treasonous" Theodore roosevelt (president, soldier, REPUBLICAN)
Posted by: Jimmyboyo | Feb 1, 2006 1:40:38 PM
Robert, no, as usual you pass along a kkkonservative lie.
What part of Cindy Sheehan got arrested and thrown in jail don't you understand?
And what part of Republican wingnut wife was NOT ARRESTED OR even restrained when she went off in a violent and unhinged way at the police -- don't you understand? You cut all kinds of stuff out of that article, it's been pasted everywhere else with all the details in.
Liar.
Posted by: Brian NYC | Feb 1, 2006 1:40:56 PM
Well, first off, I posted the entire article and posted an additional link to an entirely different article - maybe you missed that while you were falling all over yourself to call me a liar and a kkkconversative?
Maybe you would be kind enough to back up your accusation with a link to the article I supposedly selectively cut and paste from?
Posted by: Robert | Feb 1, 2006 1:47:32 PM
Anyone who has read this far and still wonders why I often "rant," who wonder why I am so angry that the greatest threats to our LGBT civil liberties are not our straight attackers but others gays who would have been the first to raise their hands to volunteer to be Kapos in the camps of WWII, please read some of the posts above again. Sheehan is not the point, their reasons for attacking her and defending the administration at all costs to the Truth and their human dignity is. Seig heil! Seig heil! "Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!" Boom.
Posted by: Leland | Feb 1, 2006 1:48:00 PM
And anyone that has read this far and ISN'T delusional recognizes just how full-of-it that little diatribe is, Leland.
Posted by: Robert | Feb 1, 2006 1:51:50 PM
"After the tragedy of 9/11 we were on our way to becoming a fledgling Matriotic society until our leaders jumped on the bandwagon of inappropriate and misguided vengeance to send our young people to die and kill in two countries that were no threat to the USA or to our way of life. The neocons exploited patriotism to fulfill their goals of imperialism and plunder.
This sort of patriotism begins when we enter kindergarten and learn the nationalist “Pledge of Allegiance.” It transcends all sense when we are taught the “Star Spangled Banner,” a hymn to war."
keep flapping your stupid yap, Mother Sheehan.
Posted by: Tom | Feb 1, 2006 1:53:46 PM
Cindy makes a great face for the Democratic Party, and you should all keep supporting her as she runs around, trying to evict a respected and sensible Democratic Senator from Congress (Dianne Feinstein), hugging the America-hating crackpot-commie dictator, Hugo Chavez, etc. etc.
Hopefully the circus that is Sheehan will hasten the self-immolation of a party that is completely controlled by extremist lunatics, and then maybe our nation will have the credible opposition party that it so sorely needs.
Posted by: Malcontent | Feb 1, 2006 2:12:23 PM
"a party that is completely controlled by extremist lunatics"....Hello, Mr. Pot, meet Mr. Kettle.
Posted by: Chris in SF | Feb 1, 2006 2:21:33 PM