Cindy Sheehan was arrested in Washington D.C. by the powers that be for civil disobedience. It's a good thing Gather doesn't have police or they'd have to go after a few of the flaggers on Gather. I seriously think childen have nothing better to do.
What do you know about Cindy Sheehan's arrest. I only know that she was trying to get support to impeach Bush.
Any more information?
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Peace activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Tuesday in the House gallery after refusing to cover up a T-shirt bearing an anti-war slogan before President Bush's State of the Union address.
According to a blog post on Michael Moore's Web site attributed to Sheehan, the T-shirt said, "2,245 Dead. How many more?" -- a reference to the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq.
"She was asked to cover it up. She did not," said Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman.
House rules bar demonstrations in the galleries.
After nearly an hour of talking with Conyers, a clearly angry Sheehan emerged together with Yearwood and McGovern, and announced to the waiting throng in the hall that Conyers had told them "impeachment isn't going to happen because we don't have the votes." Sheehan said Conyers had insisted that the best thing was for Democrats to focus on "winning big in 2008." To volleys of boos and hisses, the three went back inside Conyers' office suite, where they were joined by some thirty other supporters, and all were subsequently arrested, at Conyers' request, by Capitol police, who cuffed them and walked them off for booking. Several of those who sat in refused to walk and were carried or dragged out of the Rayburn Office Building, as the activists in the hall chanted "Shame on Conyers! Shame onConyers!" and "Arrest Bush, Not the People!"
It was a disgraceful scene wholly unworthy of a dean of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before returning to sit in the Judiciary chairman's office and await arrest, Sheehan publicly announced her intention to run in 2008 as an independent candidate for Congress against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and she called on Americans everywhere to run not just against Republicans in 2008, but against Democrats too. Yearwood, who is a chaplain in the Air Force, said that Conyers had been a mentor to him, but he declared that he now felt betrayed and that Americans needed to take back their government. As he was led down the hall to his arraignment, the handcuffed Yearwood sang "We Shall Overcome!"
http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff07242007.html
By no means take the above comment as a pro-Cindy remark. I think she goes overboard in almost every undertaking that stirs her wild hairs.
Maybe Chavez will pay her bail.
I worry that she's going to crack and lose her mind. I am angry at all the politicos (democrats? I guess) who are using her as a pawn. She needs to channel her anger into something constructive. Her efforts, although highly publicized, have not resulted in any constructive end results.
There is a time and place for everything...that wasn't the time or place.
As for the question "Who owns the white house?" YOU DO. Don't forget, the president and his cronies are civil servants that work for us, and yet we fear them? Haven't you had enough?
Better mark it on the calendar. You may not be so lucky next time.