Cindy photos (Reuters)

[deminks]

Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan (C), whose son was killed serving as a U.S. serviceman in Iraq, is escorted by security personnel into the House of Representatives chamber for the State of the Union address by President Bush on Capitol Hill in Washington January 31, 2006. REUTERS/Jason Reed



Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan (L, blonde hair), whose son was killed serving as a U.S. serviceman in Iraq, is rushed out of the U.S. House of Representatives chamber by security personnel after arriving for the State of the Union address by U.S. President George W. Bush on Capitol Hill in Washington January 31, 2006. There were unconfirmed reports that Sheehan had been arrested. REUTERS/Jason Reed

http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=sheehan&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&datesort=1&c=news_photos

[bleever]

1. I thought she refused to cover up her t-shirt?!

WTF?

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. Yeah. WTF?

[Maestro]

2. Boy she sure seems scary.

I'd arrest her too. :sarcasm:

[FreedomAngel82]

39. If you look when they are arresting her

her jacket is unzipped. Can't have desent now can we? Ugh.

[dysfunctional press]

43. desent? don't you mean "dissent"?

des(c)ent is when we stoop to their level.

[merbex]

3. Thanks for posting these

A banner?

I don't think so

Probably was a tee shirt based on photos

[babylonsister]

4. No T-shirt, no banner, so why was she led away? I'm happy

they mentioned her stake as far as her son. I hope this gets LOADS of attention!

[LittleClarkie]

5. Where's the tshirt?

She looks like she got dressed up, actually.

[DesertRat]

6. What did she do wrong?

:shrug:

[otohara]

9. See The Tiny Bit of White

it's the dredded anti-war t-shirt

[SmokingJacket]

15. Actually that's a bit of the chubby guy's shirt.

Look closely...

[FreedomAngel82]

40. Really?

Hmm. It looks like her jacket is unzipped. :shrug:

[FreedomAngel82]

41. Nevermind I see it now

It is the other guy's shirt. You can see the buttons of the shirt. She's just wearing a jacket. So why was she arrested?

[AlCzervik]

8. Wow she's obviously out of control, i mean look at her!!!

i can totally see why they remoed her.:sarcasm:

[maveric]

10. She's not wearing a T-shirt!

Why was she arrested?

[AlCzervik]

12. she's wearing a zipper hoodie, it's most likely underneath

we ladies like to layer you know.:D

[Zen Democrat]

11. Cindy took off her jacket. She was told to put it back on and refused.

That's enough to get you arrested in the U.S. Capitol these days.

[dogday]

17. Does it look like her jacket is off in these pictures?

[Cults4Bush]

13. Look at her!!! She is a... light.. a gosh damned beacon of peace!

and we arrest her!

I hate these fuckers, I mean I really hate them!

I feel they are messing with my own mother!! I am infuriated!!!

[bleever]

14. She wouldn't cover the t-shirt? Looks covered to me...

"Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said Sheehan had worn a T-shirt with an antiwar slogan to the speech and covered it up until she took her seat. Police warned her that such displays were not allowed, but she did not respond, the spokeswoman said."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11120353/

[IndyOp]

27. At least MSNBC is getting the story right... (nt)

:kick:

[FreedomAngel82]

42. So why did the republicans have their purple fingers?

So they can have purple fingers?

[LiberalAndProud]

16. Cindy Sheehan unmasked Bush tonight.

I am tired of the hero-worship turned to scorn turned to hero-worship claptrap that has gone on DU. Elsewhere, unmitigated scorn.

This is not a publicity stunt. The American people now know that we have lost the freedom of speech in the House of Representatives. What we have become is no longer hidden if you have eyes to see and ears to hear.

[Jeanette in FL]

18. "Every picture tells a story, don't it"

Wow, very different from the earlier posts. Earlier Lynn put up a post that we are number 47 in freedom of the press. I suppose it is true.

[Gregorian]

19. That's a hell of a way to support the mother of a deceased troop.

It's only going to strengthen our cause. It's going to work in OUR favor. Bush is going to go down. Sooner or later. And his little bouncers can't stop that.

Bless you Cindy!

[bigwillq]

20. Thank you for fighting for us, Cindy.

:yourock:

[me b zola]

21. Cindy looks so sad in these pics

BTW, I spit on anyone who trashes Cindy. If you don't agree with her, let her be. I do not harass repuke women whom have lost their children to bush*, I show them enough respect to leave them alone.



I STAND WITH CINDY.

[Pirate Smile]

46. That is what I thought. Those pictures make me so sad. She isn't

angry and "out of control" or anything.

:(

[MelissaB]

22. Damn! Look at those big numbers on her shirt.

How did they even know she had one on?

[BuyingThyme]

23. Holy smokes! That's a HUGH banner!

[Skip Intro]

24. BUSH IS A F***ING COWARD.

Who doesn't give one DAMN about freedom.

That's all there is to this.

Damn this pisses me off.

[Ilsa]

28. ITA. That says it all: Bush is a coward. They are afraid of

a middle-aged woman who lost her son in Bush's oil wars.

[rush07]

33. Did * make the arrest? n/t

[Skip Intro]

51. no, his goons did

[fooj]

36. Freedom is on the march...unless you have a dissenting opinion.

The rat bastard is morally bankrupt. He is a shameless coward!

Bad move, Little Lord Pissypants! Bad move!

:grr:

peace

[peekaloo]

25. Foul Demon Be Gone sayeth the Bu$h-Hybrid. nt

[FarLeftRage]

26. WOW!

Mike is talking about this now!!

[suffragette]

29. escorted in?

How many other attendees were "escorted by security personnel into the House of Representatives chamber"?
If they hadn't dragged her out for the t-shirt (if that, in fact, is the final reason given) they would have booted her for something else.
Coughing, sneezing, opening a piece of candy.

[bpilgrim]

30. added to the gallery

http://GlobalFreePress.com

thanks for sharing :toast:

peace

[orleans]

31. we'll find out from her later what was going on

what she was wearing or carrying if anything...

i'm sure that they just had to figure out some way to get her out of there. if bush looked out into the audience and saw her he probably would have peed his pants

also, it would look TERRIBLE if any of the networks did cutaway shots to cindy while the fu*ker was trying to speak.

it would have been played out like how bush percieves the abramoff photos will--for political purposes.

as it is, this should be played out anyway against the repukes.

FASCISM: http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm

[WiseButAngrySara]

32. Thanks so much for posting. I don't see a banner, nor an "offensive"

tee-shirt? What is going on? I'm infuriated that Cindy was treated in this manner.

[BuyingThyme]

34. Unlike the escort incidents in previous Bush rallies,

this time we have photos of the Brownshirts who did the escorting.

[sam sarrha]

35. did they cuff her.???

[truth2power]

37. Thank you, cindy!

:yourock:

[Beelzebud]

38. SEE, she isn't even wearing a fucking T-Shirt!

The naysayers, like the fucking jackass that posted his little "you don't speak for me" bullshit, take good fucking look at those pictures and tell me something. Do you believe the fucking pro-war, neo-con BASTARDS, or do you believe your own lieing eyes?

[FreedomAngel82]

44. I think it's under her shirt

She has a zipped hoodie and I think it's under her shirt.

[meunier33]

45. Please see Cohen v California (1971)

"T-shirts regardless of slogan are protected speech.

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/cohen.html

HARLAN writing for the majority;

"Appellant was convicted of violating that part of Cal. Penal Code § 415 which prohibits "maliciously and willfully disturb the peace or quiet of any neighborhood or person . . . by . . . offensive conduct," for wearing a jacket bearing the words "Fuck the Draft" in a corridor of the Los Angeles Courthouse. The Court of Appeal held that "offensive conduct" means "behavior which has a tendency to provoke others to acts of violence or to in turn disturb the peace," and affirmed the conviction. Held: Absent a more particularized and compelling reason for its actions, the State may not, consistently with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, make the simple public display of this single four-letter expletive a criminal offense."

"The defendant testified that he wore the jacket knowing that the words were on the jacket as a means of informing the public of the depth of his feelings against the Vietnam War and the draft. The defendant did not engage in, nor threaten to engage in, nor did anyone as the result of his conduct <17> in fact commit or threaten to commit any act of violence. The defendant did not make any loud or unusual noise, nor was there any evidence that he uttered any sound prior to his arrest. Further, the State certainly lacks power to punish Cohen for the underlying content of the message the inscription conveyed. At least so long as there is no showing of an intent to incite disobedience to or disruption of the draft, Cohen could not, consistently with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, be punished for asserting the evident position on the inutility or immorality of the draft his jacket reflected."

"Finally, and in the same vein, we cannot indulge the facile assumption that one can forbid particular words without also running a substantial risk of suppressing ideas in the process. Indeed, governments might soon seize upon the censorship of particular words as a convenient guise for banning the expression of unpopular views. We have been able, as noted above, to discern little social benefit that might result from running the risk of opening the door to such grave results."

[scarface2004]

47. dammit...bush killed her son!

what is wrong the hybrid president!! he s the one that should be led away!!

[Straight Shooter]

48. She can't wear her T-shirt, but bush can wink at the dead soldier's family

How fucked up is that? x(

[file83]

49. Looks like the "Ministry of Truth" was just doing their job. So. 1984.

[Sydnie]

50. I want to hear from that young guy sitting there in the tan suit

He obviously saw everything and probably heard everything too.

[Maru Kitteh]

52. Love the PURE HATE in their eyes

Lapdog brownshirts.

[faithnotgreed]

53. thank you everyone for the sanity in this thread

we should all weep and rage on behalf of cindys son & all the victims and their families of this fascist government
i stand with cindy. this incident non violently "spoke" all the absurdity and destruction we are ALL suffering

peace and love.....

[Scooter24]

54. This photo was taken as she was being escorted...

As you can see, she did have the t-shirt on. However, I don't think that the t-shirt alone was enough to justify arrest. They did this solely to save Jr. from embarrassment.

[Caoimhe]

55. God Bless Cindy Sheehan

She has more cajones than the entire crowd there, our patsy government!

[WinkyDink]

56. Oddly enough, there are NO photos of the alleged ejection of a Republican

woman with a "Support the Troops" shirt.
Did it happen at all? Oh, sure, there are quotes, but anybody on the same team can say anything.