Capital Building or Reichstag? Cindy's arrest will backfire ...

[NoAmericanTaliban]

on the right. The capital police was probably waiting for her to do something so she could be removed. Wearing a t-shirt with the number of troops killed (including her son) in Iraq is a first amendment right. This may work in her favor, big news item tonight & on all the scrolls including CSPAN- just had a big segment on CNN about it. This is making huge news. Biggest story right after the State of the Onion propaganda speech. :boring:

Cindy will make the talk show circuit & be interviewed wearing the shirt. I can see her on Larry King now. Sales of shirt will go up. If anyone should be arrested its the war criminal giving the speech. Remember when Chalibi was present in the special visitor box behind Laura a few years ago. Now there is someone who should have been arrested.

The Right will try to demonize her & make her into a major criminal, but all they will do is give her more attention for her to get the pro-peace message out. The more they hate & respond to her the more effect she is having. This arrest is energizing her base & may win some folks over. An act of civil disobedience on the day of King's death is American as apple pie.

Go Cindy!!! :patriot:

edited to add - Cindy is a brave women & arresting her is a cowardly act.

[NanceGreggs]

1. Backfire?

BIG TIME!!!!

Memo to Capitol Police & Repugs:

"Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[efhmc]

2. So there was no banner, only her t-shirt?

Been on the road so looking to DU as usual for the FACTS!!!

[NoAmericanTaliban]

3. No Banner. Wearing a shirt with # of US troops killed in Iraq

arrested while trying to take her seat. see photo at

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060131204009990009&ncid=NWS00010000000001

[Neil Lisst]

4. She so OWNS them now. What a screw up by the Bushies.

They just bought her complete coverage on all the TV news tomorrow, where we will see the T shirt and hear the what really happened.

Once again, she's kicking Bush's ass.

[fasttense]

5. God love her for remembering the dead soldiers.

Something the bushies don't want to think about or even acknowledge. The truth has a way of slipping through the cracks doesn't it?

[NoAmericanTaliban]

6. Bush supports the troops by trying to sweep the fallen under a rug

[Extend a Hand]

7. hope someone in the protest shooting video

so this has a chance to get out. It's probably to much to hope for Coporate media coverage but the web coverage would be great.

[fooj]

9. From what I understand, all the news organizations were swarming the place

Someone MUST have footage.

Peace.

[fooj]

8. Little Lord Pissypants made a bad move. A very bad move.

She was dressed respectably (with a black sweater on)...couldn't see the t-shirt in the Reuters pics that I saw. Shameful. They fucked up. Big.

Peace.

[Blue_In_AK]

10. Have you all seen this thread?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x290678

If this is true, it's worse than we thought.

[KakistocracyHater]

11. I consider what she did a diagnostic test to see if our freedoms are still

real, or if they have been reduced to Potempkin style charades. It would seem the freedoms our soldiers are said to be defending(says Bush) are in fact becoming more of a mirage rather than a working reality.

[Neil Lisst]

12. CNN story on her arrest, and the disinformation originally spread.

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.

"She was asked to cover it up. She did not," said Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman, adding that Sheehan was arrested for unlawful conduct, a misdemeanor. The charge carries a maximum penalty of one year in jail, Schneider said.

Schneider said shortly after the State of the Union speech that Sheehan was still being held but should be "out sometime tonight."

An early report from a senior House official indicated that Sheehan was arrested for unfurling an anti-war banner, but that was later found not to be the case. Schneider said she didn't know what Sheehan's T-shirt said.

[Festivito]

13. Media will have their spin ready. They asked her?!

Hmmm. THE FUTURE:
CC You knew it wasn't legal to have slogans inside the gallery?
CS Yes, they told me. Others were allowed to have shirts saying: "Just do it." Over a swoosh.
CC Does this honor your son.
CS He did not give his life so his mother could be arrested for wearing a T-shirt.
CC Did you embarass the person who gave you a ticket?
CS No. She fights for freedom.
CC You say you were roughed up.
CS Aw, it wasn't as bad as when Dr. Dean let you know your information about Abramoff giving money to Democrats was backwards.
CC That's all we have time for today. Thank you. Nice to see you. We're moving on to the weather. NOW!

[pberq]

14. What really happened - Cindy's own words

http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php?id=594

<snip>
I had just sat down and I was warm from climbing 3 flights of stairs back up from the bathroom so I unzipped my jacket. I turned to the right to take my left arm out, when the same officer saw my shirt and yelled, "Protester." He then ran over to me, hauled me out of my seat and roughly (with my hands behind my back) shoved me up the stairs. I said something like, "I'm going, do you have to be so rough?" By the way, his name is Mike Weight.

The officer ran with me to the elevators yelling at everyone to move out of the way. When we got to the elevators, he cuffed me and took me outside to await a squad car. On the way out, someone behind me said, "That's Cindy Sheehan." At which point the officer who arrested me said, "Take these steps slowly." I said, "You didn't care about being careful when you were dragging me up the other steps." He said, "That's because you were protesting." Wow, I get hauled out of the People's House because I was, "Protesting."

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."

[Boo_Radley]

15. New America

Freedomm of speech was for Old America. In New America, you can be arrested for asking illegal questions, wearing illegal shirts, or promoting illegal thoughts.

I hope she gets a punative reward.