Reply #49: See my response and link to back up the facts I am stating, to Whistler162 below. You are incorrect

[sabrina 1]

about what happened. Cindy Sheehan received an apology from the Chief of Police who stated that the arrest should never have happened, being that is was based on an antiquated, unwritten law which was wrongfully interpreted by his officers. Her rights were clearly violated, and at least the Police Chief in this case, acknowledged that.

She was not demonstrating and had no intention of doing so. The shirt she was wearing was worn for another event she had attended and had not had time to change. A simple explanation if we had been living in a rational world at the time.

She was arrested because of who she was. And that happened over and over again over the past eight years, to thousands of other people.

I did not agree with it then and I do not agree with it now.

But my point is to those who are rushing to defend the actions of authorities in cases like Cindy Sheehan's. You cannot defend ignoring a guy with a sign threatening Obama's family, or a guy with a gun, but condone what happened to Cindy Sheehan and so many others. Either what happened to her was wrong or what's happening now is wrong.

I believe what happened to her and so many others, was wrong and that those wrongs need to be addressed. When a story like this comes up, it reminds people of all the wrongful arrests and beatings of demonstrators and denial of rights and would like an acknowledgement that it was wrong. Otherwise, it will happen again, the next time we have a Republican in the WH whose policies we disagree with. I do not want to live in a country that has one set of rules for Democrats and another for Republicans.