CNN BREAKING: Cindy Sheehan arrested in Capital!

mentioned repubs not wanting a protest... wolf talking about it now

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BREAKING NEWS

Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan -- who was invited to attend President Bush's State of the Union speech -- has been arrested, Capitol police say.

http://www.cnn.com /

EDIT from CNN at 5:55: Already in chamber arrested in the house chamber! Took out a banner!

Us Democrats tend to be stuck in pre 9/11 thinking. YOu know like when we weren't a fascist dictatorship.

This is AWESOME! The mother of an American soldier who gave his life for his country being arrested for trying to see her president give the SOTU address on a perfectly legitimate guest pass given to her by a member of congress. Beautiful!!!

I was hoping for the "picture worth a thousand words" value of her quiet presence.

I think this will generate MUCH more coverage.

CNN made a big production out of where everyone would be seated, including Cindy, and where the cameras are placed. Cindy at the SOTU is high theater to the news whores. They would have had to show her or risk being scooped by the networks that did.

Just her presence would have been more than enough.

as "accepting" the "Olive Branch" from Bush. Nice try... clever. But Cindy was way ahead of them.

Good one Cindy!

but you really think they could have gotten
the wingnut bloggers, talkers, and hangers on to
go along with it?

This is exactly what we were waiting for, just surprising I guess.


Ladies and Gentlemen... May I present your civil liberties at work!

No details given. Now they're saying "may" have been arrested.

dumb asses

...

get off it. she's dedicated.

see my post above.

i removed it cause god forbid i disagree with people.
sorry but we dont need drama at this point do ya think?

didnt realise i was...

I have to catch myself here and there...it means more when I rein myself in.

Sorry for the unintended accusation and confusion.

no harm no foul

thanks
sorry i misunderstood too

just being there it makes US look bad(if in fact she is doing nothing wrong)? you would think it makes THEM look heavy handed and bad.

you make no sense. sorry.

Dedicated to the brotherhood of following a creed tht no other will look into the face of and know the truth of how to bow out in an unforseen elected official.

Jeez, at least wait until you find out what she was arrested for.

I guess it depends what is meant by "we". If we is the American people, for allowing a brave woman to be silenced by a dictator, I agree.

If not, well....

"They" do.
This is "action, not stunts". That's what you said you wanted before you deleted your whole post.

Welcome to DU.

Great, just great ... blame the victim.

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>> just great
now we look bad i think.
thanks.
i hope shes happy, she could have made a difference by going in and protesting silently.

if she did something outrageous to get arrested, im mad.


hate me if you want for saying that, but things are getting bad and we need action not stunts. <<

We do not know why Cindy Sheehan was arrested. You are really speculating. Who's side are you on anyway?

and it was stated as such. slow down and read what i said.

'if she did something outrageous'

i said that because nobody knows
if she got arrested for no reason, then it only helps our cause
but if she did something uncalled for then it doesnt

wouldnt u atleast agree with that?

i know which side im on thank you, dont question my intetions and where i stand on issues.

Even if she did unfurl a banner she's acting in the best traditions of non-violent civil disobedience. Go Cindy.

She's protesting. Her body language would have done enough. Bottom line is that bringing in signs and banners is not allowed in that chamber. Others have been removed before for similar behavior.

I belive all have been removed before for similar behavior.

I can think of a lot better action plan than this.

She was only wearing an anti-war tshirt, she didn't unfurl a banner.

Sure about that? That's what we're all about.

Welcome to DU.

yeah ive noticed.

i hate to give a disenting voice to anything, so i usually just dont say anything on here. mostly i dont disagree with things i see ...but i saw the headline and i went oh no!
im just scared i suppose.
they have to be stopped.
i may not have lost a son in the war, but im not happy either with things. AT ALL. but i know if I had the chance to go there and sit in that room, id simple wouldnt stand and i wouldnt clap.
i dunno
i didnt mean to over-react , so sorry if i did

Mainly by getting your opinions challenged.

You'll learn, soon enough, that the hearts of many of us are with Cindy.

i was happy when i heard what she was doing down at crawford
i have absolutely nothing against her
and i dont think people should just jump to the conclusion that i do

i mean i get acused of jumping to a conclusion only to have people do the same to me.
kinda hypocritical there.

anyways
fun times on du!


oh and btw
if it was because of a banner, they shoulda just taken it away n let her gone in.

Just part of the process. Welcome to the NFL. It's helpful to have a thick skin, especially when writing comments that look critical of one of our heroes.

but you're kinda swimming against the stream here in your opinion about Cindy Sheehan. Not alone, just in the minority. That's fine, but you have to realize that you need to make your argument with a little more finesse than a couple of not particularly well written lines dissing her. If you want to get your point across anyway.

i read ya loud n clear
but gosh
do people hafta be so vicious when they read something they dont like?

wasnt really expecting that.... i didnt get the impression everyone loved her so much by browsing the site a few times a week... musta missed something i suppose lol

Those are YOUR words. What is there to say? You refer to the DU as "YOU PEOPLE". Who are you?? Learn how to read/write/spell and punctuate btw!

stop over-reacting.
please.
theres no need for it.
i deleted for the simple reason of what you just did.
personal attacks against me.
i dont want them because i may have over-reacted with an opinion i formed very quickly.
excuse me for having my own mind.

please, dont push me away.

Take my hand..we'll all watch it together.

Rosa Parks did something 'outrageous'. It all depends who gets to make the definition. She's dedicated to ending the Iraq war and is willing to go to jail to draw attention to the cause.

maybe i consider those slightly different in nature.
maybe im crazy for doing that, i dunno.

i just dont put her and rosa parks in the same catagory.

i kinda dont like u comparing them at all to each other either, but thats just me.

in what ways do you think their actions are different?

i dunno,
i mean
she did get civil rights ultimately for a whole group of people....i guess i see the war and basic human civil rights of people in our country... *shrugs*

now u tell me how you think they are alike?

because they stand up for what they believed in ?
cause thats very true.

n bless them both for doing so

Freedom is never free.

She was working for the civil rights movement and deliberately chose to get arrested for her actions to draw national attention to an unjust situation. It would surprise me if there weren't even people who thought Rosa's actions were hurting the movement and that what she did was a 'stunt'.

today it doesnt work like that
not when there is massive poltical spin machines out there that people actually listen to
i have no doubt her intentions were good
and im in noway saying she shouldnt stand up for what she believes in at all
but these dirty lying bastards will spin it and make it into some big bad ordeal to try n paint democrats as bad again.
i just dont want them to have any ammo against us.

like i said, sorry i over re-acted in the first post.

the instant i saw the headline i thought 'oh no something for them to use against us(the democrats)'

sorry i was looking at the possible downside

(BTW, I'd bet posts are taken more seriously when they don't have a childish small "i" or lack of punctuation in contractions or "u"....Just sayin'.)

Was her lady friend waiting outside and not allowed to participate? That sucks.

It wouldn't have been outrageous if she'd screamed lier at him. He lied, her son died. What the hell is outrageous about calling the sniveling little dictator on it? Why the hell weren't the Democrats standing up and making a scene when she was removed....they've done something outrageous as far as I'm concerned. Sitting about acting "statesmanlike" while a dictator takes our country away isn't being proper it's being stupid and cowardly.

Stupid and Cowardly.

RC

That's battered woman/learned helplessness thinking.

Since WHEN did it matter whether the Republicans or any of their spokes persons looked "bad." They lokk "bad" all of the time. They're not afraid.

And look who's the majority party- and which party is now irrelevant in national politics.

Where is the rage?

RC
DAV

Now EVERYONE will realize that we are living in a police state.

You took the words right out of my mouth!

what the real situation is.

Sigh....

But at least they reported this on the news.

Seriously, are they REALLY this dumb?

just attending it. It will be broadcast ALL over the news and dim Bush's speech. It is happening already.

They will release her, of course, as soon as possible, but the damage will alrady be done.

Go Cindy!

When I heard she had a ticket, I knew she would not be let in the building.

and arrested inside the chamber.

n/t

She had a guest pass, and they had no evidence (at least reported so far) that she was planning to disrupt the speech!

I say let her in and let her sit through it.

If they can't handle a little opposition they need to rethink their policies. Maybe there's a reason people hate thier lying, rethuglican guts...

If we can attack a sovereign nation pre-emptively, surely we can arrest a potentially disruptive person pre-emptively.

How fucking rude.

No dissent within how many miles of the Prime Weasel?

Ooh, crack that whip. Punk ass skunk junkie.

thang god I am not hasty

Excuse me, I think I'm gonna scream and decimate my TV.

:the_emoticon_that_expresses_my_rage_does_not_exist:

Cindy founded the Gold Star Families for Peace organization.
http://www.goldstarmoms.com/agsm/WhoWeAre/History/Histo...

This is different than the original organization founded in 1928.
http://www.goldstarmoms.com/agsm/WhoWeAre/History/Histo...

I never thought I'd see the day.

This is against House rules.

Arrested for a publicty stunt.

CNN is roasting Sheehan right now.

...she shouldn't have done that.

Doesnt make sense to me

Crawford was fine, especially at first. But I think she jumped the shark when she got arrested at the White House. Since then she has been a cartoon character.

she had gone in quietly and just turned her back. MSM would surely have zeroed in on that.

one was cleverly inside someone's coat. The turn your back is a good idea. Weren't the Dems supposed to do that? I love Cindy for taking action. Couldn't watch * at all but someone had it on and it sounded like he got too much applause. I was hoping the Dems would do something. Did they dare to clap...any of them?

I think she would have done more for the cause by just being there, now the cause will be forgotten, and she will be painted as a disrupter.

I got flamed badly yesterday for suggesting that when she met with Chavez the other day, that would do more to hurt the cause than help it.

She has played right into their hands, and this will be used in their propaganda machine

The turning point was when Murtha came forward against the war. They tried to swift boat Murtha, but it didn't work.

We were making progress, and gaining support against the Iraq war, I am pretty sure all the progress made will now be undone

Look for at least 5 more years in Iraq, and a lot more deaths

I don't care what your politics are. If you are invited to attend a state of the union address, you damn well be on your best behavior. That goes for Republican guests under a Democratic president as well as Democratic guests under a Republican president.

The Democratic Party stopped being the majority party when the public began identifying the party with war protesters instead of the hard working, blue collar types who used to be the heart and soul of the party.

The fact is that Cindy Sheehan only undermines herself when she engages in these pathetic stunts.

Bush got "elected".

The Democratic Party is comprised of many different groups, some of which happen to be war protesters. We don't fall in line like the Republicans do.

The Democratic Party used to be the dominant party -- not just in Congress, but from the White House all the way down to the state house. The Democrats won 7 of 9 presidential elections between 1932-1964. They won in the North, the South, the East and the West.

The Democratic Party started to fracture around 1966-1968 over Vietnam and the culture wars. And George McGovern and his draft dodging supporters damned near killed the party off. The Democrats lost six of seven presidential elections between 1968 and 1988. The image of the Democrats being anti-defense and weak on moral issues was fixed in the eyes of the public, and continues to dog the part to this day.

dodger.

Your intemperate remarks are not appreciated.

then you clearly made a deliberate choice to live outside the realm of the rational. Cheers.

Our majority was lost in the House in 1994.

If you look at the seats that went Republican and have remained Republican, these are districts that had been voting Republican for president for decades. You had conservative voters voting for Republican presidential candidates and then voting for Democrats for Congress. A lot of these were conservative Democrats. When the Democratic incumbents retired (and many conservative Democrats retired in the early 1990s), they were replaced by conservative Republicans.

Another factor was redistricting. The first Bush administration used the Voting Rights Act as a political weapon, forcing Southern states to draw majority black districts that drew Democratic votes away from more suburbans districts that had, up to that point, remained competitive.

The DU'ers who believe that everything was just fine for the Democratic Party until the DLC came along as simply living in a fantasy world. They completely ignore the fact that the Democratic Party has been getting clobbered at the presidential level for over two decades before the 1994 election, that the Republicans first took over in the Senate in 1980, and that Democratic strength had been steadily eroding at the local level. The only thing that should be surprising is that it took the Republicans so long to take control of the House. If it weren't for Watergate, the House probably would have changed hands in 1978 or 1980.