CINDY SHEEHAN TO BE ARRESTED THURSDAY AS "THREAT"

[patrioticliberal]

Cindy Sheehan to Be Arrested Thursday
by David Swanson
Mon Aug 8th, 2005 at 09:49:41 PDT
Cindy Sheehan phoned me from Texas a few minutes ago to say that she's been informed that beginning Thursday, she and her companions will be considered a threat to national security and will be arrested. Coincidentally, Thursday is the day that Rice and Rumsfeld visit the ranch, and Friday is a fundraiser event for the haves and the have mores. Cindy said that she and others plan to be arrested.
http://www.meetwithcindy.org

http://dailykos.com/story/2005/8/8/124941/6758

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Cindy Sheehan -- Rosa Parks?

The whole world is watching...

[tavalon]

91. Cindy Sheehan -- Mahatma Ghandi

That's been my comparison of reference since she got there.

[evil eggplant]

2. I'm going to be sick

A threat to national security? Unfucking real.

[whatever4]

56. Echo that, real sick. Monsters. Liars. UGH!!!!!!!! nm

[Mad_Dem_X]

60. How is she a threat?

Am I missing something here? How does her protest constitute a threat to national security?

[TankLV]

73. Of course! Anything or anybody that is a threat to BUNKERBOY

his fantasies and lies, is a threat to National Security.

After all, criticizing bunkerboy is the same as denegrating the COUNTRY!

Get with the program!

[meegbear]

3. A threat to national security ?!??

:wtf:

[Rose Siding]

9. But not til Thursday

when, magically, what wasn't a threat on Wednesday emerges from its cocoon, fully formed.

[Goldeneye]

12. That's pretty telling isn't it.

We know she's not a threat, but just in case anyone anywhere was wondering...it's right there for them to see.

[OneTwentyoNine]

85. LOL,not a National threat on Monday but a TERRORIST on Thursday...

Got to get the rif-raff cleared out of Crawford before the big fucking Bush hoe-down on Thursday and Friday.

Yeah,Bush cares about your kid getting killed,NOT........

[tavalon]

92. LOL

That's a good way to put it!

Would you like a helping of absurdity to go with the unconscionable mess you're having for dinner tonight, Mr. President?

[katsy]

63. National security trumps 1st amendment?

Only in fascist amerika.

:nuke:

[Sparkman]

84. Can we make that FALSE, PRETENSE of Nat'. Security? Another AWOL

by the wartime president! Can't even meet with a Gold Star Mother after an insincere 1st meeting with her.

[wryter2000]

4. She's real scary, all right

:mad:

[henslee]

5. Rove is brilliant.

[henslee]

7. Who was the mom that got roughed up and arrested at a Cheney event

last year? I think it was at a Cheney event. And her son had been killed. She should be teaming up with Cindy.

[KyndCulture]

33. Sue Neidermier and it was at a pickles event.

[Goldmund]

10. Are you being sarcastic?

[henslee]

27. Yes... I am. A pic. of her in cuffs on the front page of the Daily Planet

would be a disaster for Bush.

[Goldmund]

30. I agree totally.

[magnolia]

62. Brilliant?????

If this is Rove...he's lost his mind! You think the country is going to go along with this mother of a dead soldiers being arrested while Bin Laden is still out there! Rove will be the most hated man alive. A title he richly deserves!

[TheCowsCameHome]

82. So is the Sun. Too bad he channels his energy

into assisting evil, wicked people and causes.

I live for the day he does the perp-walk on national TV.

[tavalon]

93. Hey

you might want to go back and edit this note to include the sarcasm icon, otherwise you're likely to get a 100 replies telling you you're nuts, when in fact, you hit it dead on.

[noamnety]

6. Wednesday she's not a threat

but Thursday she is?

Are they using some kind of astrological charts now to assess national security?

[countingbluecars]

41. Thursday will give them

plenty of time to smear her. My guess is that at this very moment a group of little neo-cons is looking at everything she has ever written that they can get their hands on. By Thursday she will be a terrorist sympathizer.

[ChiciB1]

74. Betcha They'll Be Saying She Inhaled, She Snorted And

She has needle marks!! Whatever it takes! And WHO will run with THAT story??

Why The Corporate F--king MEDIA!!!

[DBoon]

8. She's five miles away - and she's a threat?

What did she do - try to gaze upon Bush's royal visage?

Will she have a trial by her peers, or will she just disappear into some cell?

[devinsgram]

11. That will be a big mistake!!!!!!

[NoFederales]

13. Who informed her?

Was it the Crawford sheriff, or the secret service?

In what manner are they a threat to national security?

NoFederales

[patrioticliberal]

18. Who knows

THey just want her gone

[pecwae]

14. What is magical

about Thursday I wonder?

[Sequoia]

20. Hey there, Wecome to DU!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

Rice and Rumy are coming over for tea and crumpets

friday they are gonna have an event for the have and have mores, you don't want the rabble around for that you know

:sarcasm:

[dbt]

21. Condo Lizard Reisssssssssssss and Rumsferatu are coming

for some high-level stratagery meeting. Can't have peasants cluttering up the landscape, doncha know.

PS: Welcome to The DU!

:hi:

[Lochloosa]

59. The shurb is going to a ranch down the road a piece....

he would have to drive by her on the way

:yourock: Cindy

And welcome to DU....

[tavalon]

94. That Condi has to be driven by

Royalty should not have to look upon the face of the riff raff they are forced to rule over. :eyes:

[mvd]

15. For what - free speech?

:grr:

If they do, it's going to be a horrible PR move.

[patrioticliberal]

16. Please send this to every damn activist group you can fucking send it to

[mvd]

17. Gladly!

:hi:

[patrioticliberal]

19. ITS TIME TO FUCKING STAND UP..THANK YOU

[nadinbrzezinski]

29. Done

[OneTwentyoNine]

86. No.....for not walking in the DITCH Damnit!!!!

How many times do the Bush Nazi's have to tell these people they can't walk on a public road??...uh,like everyone else can. No...they have to keep it in the ditch or be a Terra threat by Thursday.

[tavalon]

95. No

She's a security risk. Didn't you get the memo?:sarcasm:

[Catchawave]

22. 3 days left to get reinforcements to her side.

Think they may need the National Guard? Oh, too bad they're probably all in Iraq now :(

[dbt]

23. Please, PLEASE let this be true!

LET the bu$hitas be dumb enough to do this with every gawddam "news" organization on Earth watching!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!

:evilgrin:

[patrioticliberal]

25. Please not. I'm afraid they might hurt her!

[Sparkman]

28. The exposure to danger in an SS directed "arrest" is very real.

[dbt]

36. An arrest will do more damage to bu$hler than a dozen DSMs.

The bu$histas have just been handed Mission Impossible with this one. This decision is so ill-advised that Junior probably came up with it all by himself!

:popcorn:

[senseandsensibility]

38. Unca Karl....make the mean lady go away

Yeah, sounds like the chimp's style.

[Sparkman]

58. You're right about that, it's frightenly inept and illadvised politics.

But I've seen Fascism go sour during arrests, the victims are in real danger. Cindy is a real hero, like her son, and this is no small volunteer action on her part.

[dbt]

71. Point taken, Sparkman!

In no way do I mean to minimize what a HERO (never mind the gender words) that Cindy Sheehan is.

I think the Regime is bluffing here, and Ms Sheehan is about to call their sorry asses on it.

If not, the Media Borg will be absolutely unable to pass up video/sound bites like the ones that will come from this! (I speak as an insider, BTW.)

[KyndCulture]

34. There will be a riot if they lay a hand on her and hurt her.

I'll have my broke ass on a plane with the grocery money if I have to... there's no way they are gonna hurt her if they have any sense left at all.... which they probably don't.

[sellitman]

75. The bushistas will arrest her and silence the media.

No one will know except a few kooks and terrorist sympathizers on the web. ( us)

[union_maid]

24. Oh, she's a threat, all right

But not to national security. She's a threat to what's left of Bush's image.Bush, OTOH, is a threat to national security.

[NoFederales]

32. You are spot on

If homeland security meant anything, then * would be hauled away and tried for being the treasonous, shitty little perp he is.

NoFederales

[Sparkman]

26. Patriot Act working. This outrageous lie of a threat to freedom to assembl

is just another brick in the wall between our constitution and the people. NOT ANY THREAT, especially if some of the national guard could be trusted by * to guard against the THREAT OF CINDY SHEEHAN to his security! But, apparently * can't even trust his old Texas Nat'l Guard to protect him from the RED LEVEL threat of a Gold Star Mother of a threat. I want to say it, but I won't.

[delen]

43. Could this be a test?

Not only of wills, childish be consider the source.
But of language added to the defense bill(?) last week stating that anyone calling for an end to the war is giving aid and comfort to the enemy, which under the patriot act is well .......

[Contrary1]

31. And so it goes...

Face it, my friends; under the Bush regime and their "Patriot Act", everyone who posts
here falls under the loosely defined "threat to national security" category. Who's next?

Several thousand more of us need to show up in Crawford before Thursday.

[KyndCulture]

35. Yes it's Revolution time.... nt

[theHandpuppet]

42. But therein lies the problem, doesn't it?

Because "several thousand more of us" won't. Oh yeah, we'll bitch and fret and scream bloody murder on this side of the keyboard, but how many of us are truly willing to make the sacrifice? How many are standing with her now? All the well wishes in the world won't keep her out of jail, but thousands of Americans standing shoulder to shoulder with her would.

It just won't happen unless we walk the walk.

I've stayed out of the Sheehan threads because to be honest, unless I'm willing to make the sacrifice and put my ass on the line with her, I feel like a hypocrite.

I'm sorry if these comes off harsh, fellow DUers, but let's take a good look in the mirror and ask ourselves if we are really doing all we could do to support her. I know I haven't. Talk is cheap.

If we truly want change, we have to be prepared to make the sacrifices, just like Mrs Sheehan.

[senseandsensibility]

44. Well, the truth is painful

and sometimes it needs to be said. I certainly am not feeling superior to you in any way, and I find myself thinking "if only all the TEXAS DUers would go...they can't expect us who live thousands of miles away to do it...just a cop out. I understand exactly what you're saying.

[theHandpuppet]

45. Thanks

It grieves me to make such a post, but I couldn't stay silent any longer.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

51. I'm leaving in the morning for a 900+ miles road trip.

Putting together what little money I have, to put the rest of me where my mouth is.

MKJ

[SwimmerFilms]

47. I'm going there Wednesday

...and I have a really nice video camera.

What are YOU doing?

[theHandpuppet]

61. That's fair

So far you're in selective company. I salute you for standing up for your beliefs when it really counts.

Like most of us here, I probably will not be joining you. By hook or by crook I SHOULD be there but I doubt that will happen. I was also pointing that finger at myself, you know. I'm just as guilty as a lot of other folks here.

[union_maid]

55. Fair enough, but...

We also serve who sit and blog. I hope a lot more people show up. I can't go. I really, really can't go. I'm still home recovering from a course of radiation and I have to start maintenance treatments this week. I'm doing what I can do add to the blogswarm. That's all I can do right now. It's not enough, but it's not nothing. Cindy Sheehan needs the light of publicity shone on what she's doing for it to be effective. Every post here at DU, every blog post, especially ones that link to other posts or articles, help a little. Another helpful thing is to do searches on it at technorati. At least some of the mainstream media go there to see what's hot.

The media is already not ignoring the story and it's a pretty busy news day in the US. I don't know what she's going to decide to do, but all I can really do is be behind her from here. Thanks to the internets, that means more than it once did. And keep in mind that if thousands and thousands of people do descend on Crawford, it's going to be much easier to justify arrests and even violence than it is now.

[Peace Patriot]

97. Please, let's leave guilt out of it, okay? Democracy is each of us doing

our part. That's what it's all about. So if you're sick, or caring for the sick, the old, or the very young, or have other responsibilities that you can't abandon, or you're poor, or can't lose your job, or for whatever reason you can't just drop everything and drive or fly to Crawford, THERE IS MUCH THAT YOU CAN DO, of equal importance. Publicity and fundraising are two things that spring to mind. Or just writing one letter, or making one phone call--if that's all you can do. Every expression of support contributes to Cindy's well-being and to the success of her protest.

For the able-bodied and the free, GO, if you can! The more people around her, the better. But do beware of agents provocateurs--and I'm sure you know what I mean. Be peaceful, be organized, establish heightened awareness and a strong, strong peaceful spirit in everything you do. This is a very important moment in the movement against the Iraq war--and a potentially crucial one. Don't give the bad guys any excuses to disrupt or discredit it.

There have been many crises and opportunities for protest already in this fascist coup--and there will be more. And there have been many heroes who needed our help, and there will be more. We need to remain steady on our feet, and determined to recover our country and restore democracy. There are several things that are must-do's.

One of them is the critically important work of election reform at the state/local level--to get rid of these Bushite electronic voting machine companies who are controlling the vote tabulation with "trade secret," proprietary software. Above all, we need transparent, verifiable elections.

It's become blatantly obvious that the Bush Cartel does not represent the majority of Americans. Let me remind you of this: 58% of the American people opposed the Iraq war BEFORE the invasion. I'll never forget that stat. Feb. '03. 58%!

The will of the majority is being thwarted. We have no "consent of the governed." One way back to democracy is to rescue our basic mechanism of power--our sovereignty as a people, our vote--and get it back into the public venue, where it belongs. No more private corporatized elections! Free and fair and open--that's what it has to be, or it ISN'T democracy.

Another must-do is public education and public expression--as Cindy is so eloquently and bravely exhibiting. This is essential, given the news monopoly connivance with the Bushites on the war. The only way around this logjam of lies in "the news" is with people-to-people communication, and dramatic protest.

Cindy is speaking and acting for MANY PEOPLE--for millions, indeed, for the great majority of the country, which is utterly disgusted with this regime. Many people are outraged at their lies, their lawlessness, their war profiteering and thievery, their horrendous abuse of the U.S. military, and at all the unnecessary suffering and death in Iraq. And that doesn't even begin to list the ways that Americans disapprove of Bush and his Cartel. (Read the issue polls--on torture policy, Social Security, the deficit, women's rights. You name it, 60% to 70% of Americans disapprove of the Bush policy. It's astonishing.)

Cindy's protest IS democracy. And if they arrest her, they will be arresting our democracy.

Free speech and the right to protest are our birthright--as precious as our right to vote. A "threat to national security"? Ha! We know full well whose "security" is "threatened" by Cindy Sheehan. And it is not our nation's security. It is the security of the criminals who have seized our government, and the sooner the lot of them are in prison for their crimes, the more secure we will be.

[Guaranteed]

37. Un. Freaking. Believable. nt

[union_maid]

39. We should go on heightened alert, don't you think?

You know - in times of a clear and present danger like Cindy Sheehan, we need to ratchet up security everywhere.

My question to God - why don't you strike this son of a bitch with lightening? If ever anyone was asking for it...

[fooj]

40. He's a shameless coward! So much for the "bullies for Christ"!!!

She is a brave, courageous woman who has more integrity in her little toe than the whole Shrub Cabal combined! They are pathetic.

Peace.

[ourbluenation]

46. Yes! Arrest her as a threat!!!!

The world will see how ridiculous these people are. I think it would be great!!!! You go Cindy!!!

[ClassWarrior]

49. My thought exactly. Meanwhile, we have work to do.

We need to get the buzz here in the rest of the country to a fever pitch... and get as many boots on the ground down there with Cindy as possible... so that it's the biggest media event in a generation when the thugs put her in handcuffs.

NGU.

[Catfight]

48. Cindy should do a starvation sit-in, stop eating until Bush talks to her.

[patrioticliberal]

50. They don't care, and all it would do would hurt her

[AzDar]

52. I've contacted (e-mail) two local stations, and newspaper (not much hope

there, it's the Arizona Republic..) about Cindy's threat of arrest on Thursday. If Bush is ACTUALLY stupid enough to have the grieving mother of a man he sent to die based on lies arrested (and we all know from the Niedermeyer(sp.?) incident that he IS), then EVERYONE should know about it. Could be the catalyst for the revolution. Bless this brave woman!!!!

[kodi]

53. once again George Bush is identifying himself as the State.

Where are the leaders of the Democratic Party on this? Are they so busy none could break away fron their own vacations and fly down to Crawford and stand with this mother of a slain soldier?

Then, let us see if the Secret Service arrests senators and congressmen.

[Skidmore]

64. Thank you.!!! My question exactly.

Where are the Dems? Standing behind their patriotic votes on the Patriot Act, no doubt. Has ANYONE heard one statement from any of them?

[NoFederales]

68. Well known Dem leaders standing with Ms. Sheehan would be excellent

strategy, not that others are less significant. But Dem leaders are recognized as part of the LEGAL process currently, and defying an arrest attempt for Ms. Sheehan ups the ante to a "double-dog dare." My presence, for example, would be of no deterrence for mass arrest, but would it happen to a well known politico?

Who knows political reps that would be willing?

NoFederales

[whatever4]

54. Cindy needs guards

Seriously. Those of you that care about Cindy? You had better be watching out for her, have her back, day and night, keep watch, and I mean literally. These people will do MUCH to the opposition. Please guard Cindy. Don't let any "accidents" happen to her. These people are murders, and she is standing in their way. Be aware of the danger she is in.

I'd say to her, if I could...Cindy? Get two or three large dogs, 70+ pounds. Now. And keep one of them with you at all times, everywhere you can.

[opihimoimoi]

57. So now its a THREAT to Nat Security?? Fuckin LAME EXCUSE if there

ever was one.....

[lala_rawraw]

65. A threat to national security? Are you fucking kidding me?

Oh boy, stiff drink needed or I shall throw my computer out the window. I can see the wingnuts running amok with joy. They support the troops, eh? Even dead ones? Fuckers... must step away from machine here.

[patrioticliberal]

67. Unforutunately its true

[Flying Dream Blues]

66. A threat to national security? Then so are we all...might as well

get arrested and get it over with!!! It will be hard to keep us all locked up, eh?

[NoFederales]

69. No, unfortunatly, it would not be hard. Let's

get some political reps down there--that would make it harder.

NoFederales

[tridim]

78. It would also be very profitable for the corporate prison system

They've already planned for it. Trust me.

[LeftNYC]

70. IMPEACH THIS ASSHOLE PLEASE!

Bush is a turd.

[Zhade]

72. That's absolute nonsense.

A peaceful vigil is a "threat to national security"?

Man, these fucking cowards REALLY can't face those they've harmed, can they?

[AbbyR]

76. Would it do any good to write...

e-mails to all of our congressional representatives? I CAN'T go to Crawford - I'm tending to a very ill husband and trying to keep my job, but I sure can write, and call, and raise holy hell.

[countingbluecars]

79. Sounds good to me!

[Generator]

77. Just do it

Just do it you pathetic coward scumbags. She can be the hero that we are never going to get from any politician. Yeah, arrest the mother of a dead soldier that died for your lies and your fiction. You guys will be so fucked..if the vets come together..and the rest...this could be the symbol of everything rotten the Bush creeps stand for. I know, I, tight with the dollar will send money LIKE THAT.

Why does it take this poor women getting arrested? Where are our leaders? I guess it takes a mom. It sums up the total absence of real leadership we have..it speaks on so many levels.

[patrioticliberal]

80. kick

[txindy]

81. Junior has a fundraiser on Friday, right?

Wouldn't want his patrons to be uncomfortable or anything. :eyes:

Thursday, itself, is when Condi and Rummy arrive in Crawford. Whoopee.

[Sparkman]

83. Cindy's son gave his all, she went all the way to TX, BUSH is AWOL again!

No ducking this campaign for the smirking chimp, now the entire world see just how his hypocracy comes from years of refusing to do his duty.
Cindy's my kind of American, not pres. Bush.

[OneTwentyoNine]

87. Dems need to get 10,000 or 100,000 people to Crawford by Thursday...

Go ahead Rove,arrest ALL of them on National TV,or would any Networks cover the event??

[rman]

88. On CNN she was subtitled "PEACE MOM"

I think it won't go down well with people if she gets arrested as a "threat to national security".

[Az_lefty]

89. Amazing how one woman can scare the hell out of l'il boots...

must be a mommy complex.

[AuntPatsy]

90. The simple thruth, he is not scared of her, he just doesn't care.

Which is worse?

[Enraged_Ape]

96. Make no mistake about it: he's terrified of her.

If he truly didn't care, he'd invite her in, give her a cute nickname, let her blast off for 15 minutes, then send her away. That would end the whole thing right there.

But he is too much of a coward to even do that. He is the biggest weak-kneed fraidy-cat on Planet Earth.

[meppie-meppie not]

98. she loses her son for your country's "national security" and now she's

to be arrested for "national security" :wtf:

edited for grammar