CNN: Cindy Sheehan has been arrested!! This is real.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

On CNN now!!

:popcorn:

[Sugar Smack]

1. I thought you were going to post the "brazillian" joke, Crazy.

Get over here for your *you know* :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank:

[LisaL]

35. She has actually been arrested.

This ain't no joke.

[Sugar Smack]

43. Thanks, lizzy,

I thought this was a Crazy ploy, & I'll check into it.

:o

[Radical Activist]

2. She has been arrested on numerous occasions.

I wonder what happened this time.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

4. Lynn Woolsey invited her to the SOTU. The police looked out for

her and she was arrested.

[caty]

30. That's how repubs

are when they are running scared.:scared:

[Ptah]

3. BASTARDS!

[huskerlaw]

5. For what?

Just showing up?
:shrug:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

6. Yes.

:popcorn:

[Midlodemocrat]

8. Essentially. She had a guest pass and was invited.

This could totally backfire on these morans. Let's hope.

[huskerlaw]

9. What are they charging her with?

I mean, presumably they have to have some sort of legal basis.

Unless they're gonna ship her to Guantanamo.

Otherwise, we better make damn sure it backfires. Assholes.

[Midlodemocrat]

12. Don't know. I will look for a link.

[zone]

13. Presumably they have a legal basis?

Why would anyone make that presumption at this point in the game?

[huskerlaw]

14. I didn't say it was a legitimate one

but as far as I know as long as you're on American soil they at least pull some legalese out of their ass when they arrest you.

[zone]

20. I think that pretension was abandoned a long time ago.

[RoyGBiv]

15. "Officially" it's disrupting Congress ...

She is alleged to have unfolded a banner while sitting in the gallery. Presumably it was an anti-war banner.

Side Note: Journalists <sic> have a habit of using the word "allegedly" when speaking of a person who may have committed a crime. They often even go so far as to use it in wildly inappropriate context, such as "he was convicted for allegedly machine-gunning a school full of children in front of 20,000 eye-witnesses." But, with this, I noticed that the word "allegedly" was not used. Found it odd.

Anyway, can't have anything that might make Lord Pissypants feel uncomfortable, ya know.

[huskerlaw]

17. ahhh ok

thank you

[RoyGBiv]

19. Small update ...

Some reporters are now saying what she unfolded was an American flag.

[huskerlaw]

22. Ooooh, god I hope so!

Arrested for unfolding an American flag in the Capitol. That would create some interesting spin, wouldn't it? :evilgrin:

[RoyGBiv]

27. Yet another update ...

This is what I get for paying attention to CNN for one second. Someone posted this in LBN, and I broke down and went there. Gawd they suck.

NOW, the story is that she was wearing a friggin' t-shirt with the number of American dead on it. A shirt. And, she wasn't "arrested," or so the story goes this minute, but "escorted out."

I think I'm just going to go back to my original plan for the evening and finish this bottle of Grey Goose I have sitting here.

[GOPisEvil]

26. I'm reading t-shirt with the number of Iraq war dead...

...as reported by Pacifica Radio.

[RoyGBiv]

28. Yeah ... I fell for CNN crapola ...

It took real journalists a bit to get their stories on the wire.

That seems to be what is coming out from more than one source now.

[Radical Activist]

31. Isn't that what Bush is doing?

disrupting congress.

[driver8]

36. She is being charged with mutiny against the Fuhrer.

Heil! Heil! Heil!

We can't have dissenters protesting in public now, can we? What kind of example does that set for the rest of the country??

Jesus, Mary and Joseph...this country of ours has gone fucking crazy.

[LynneSin]

16. Well we know about those White House Guest Passes

[huskerlaw]

18. ...

:spray:

:rofl:

[Midlodemocrat]

21. Ooh, now you have made me all

....disgusted.

Ya thought I was gonna say something else didn't ya, LynneSin?

[LynneSin]

23. Well if you said horny I would have lost all respect for you

Seriously - even you would have lost respect for yourself to!!

[SofaKingLiberal]

10. She unfolded a banner. n/t

[hippywife]

41. Not so!

Pacifica is reporting she was wearing a t-shirt with the number of soldiers killed in Iraq.

How would she even get a banner into the Capitol?

[GOPisEvil]

11. Apparently, she unfolded a banner.

Free speech is not allowed in the Capitol. Go figure.

[driver8]

37. What would happen if I were to unfurl a banner that read, "Fuck Bush"?

How many night sticks would I get bashed against my skull??

Someone try and tell me that this is not a fascist government. I fucking dare you...

[SeattleGirl]

7. Another pre-emptive strike by the Chimp Administration

Assholes! :grr:

[Ptah]

24. In a just world, she would be his honored guest.

[ronnykmarshall]

25. What the hell?

What did she do? Show up?

[Deja Q]

29. This should either be in the lounge or in the rubbish bin.

The last time I encountered this sort of nonsense was when I was gaming online and another person had to say "terrorist attack on the white house". Everyone instantly knee-jerked... I think the bastard was kicked.

Not that I'm comparing you to him; a forum isn't online gaming! But it's still tasteless if you're not truthful. (more tasteless than even my most sick joke.)

[LisaL]

32. What on Earth are you talking about. This is not a joke.

[Deja Q]

38. You tell me; the original post had nary a link!!! BTW,

I just stumbled into GD-ville and it turns out it's true.

Still, with no links, it's Chicken Little on dope to go to the non-political theatre and scream "FIRE!" like this. IMHO, but what do I know?

[SofaKingLiberal]

34. She really did get arrested.

It was reported on CNN before the speech.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

33. Here's the link to CNN.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/31/sheehan.arrest/index.html

[Deja Q]

39. Thanks much! BTW, I owe you an apology for my foot'n'mouth action.

:hug:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

40. .

Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."

"OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's terrible!"

His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.

Finally, the President looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"

[LisaL]

42. Anyone who tells this joke should be kicked out of DU.

Seriously. There are only that many brazillian jokes one can take.
:spank:

[Midlodemocrat]

44. Locking.

At OP's request.

Thank you.

DU Moderator.