Posted on 09/21/2005 10:38:12 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Washington, D.C.—At just past noon on Wednesday, anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan and the rest of the Bring Them Home Now tour were stopped by a pair of squad cars two blocks from the U.S. Capitol by members of the Capitol police force. Officers explained that they wanted to use bomb-sniffing dogs to inspect the caravan of three RVs and several cars.
The officers said it was standard practice to inspect large vehicles in the area. “RVs aren’t allowed on Capitol Hill,” one said. “That’s standard procedure. Any trucks that come on Capitol Hill are stopped and turned around.” Campers aren’t allowed at all, the officer said, “unless they’ve been previously authorized.”
Officers told the peace activists they couldn’t park at the Capitol because they don’t have the proper permits. Sheehan and company then began preparing to make the rest of the trek on foot. Awaiting them near the Capitol steps were a crowd of television cameras for a scheduled noon press conference.
Earlier this week in New York City’s Union Square park, police officers unplugged Sheehan’s microphone, saying she didn’t have a proper permit for that either.
People with Bring Them Home Now seemed unfazed. “It’s always something,” said Stacy Bannerman of Military Families Speak Out, whose husband spent a year fighting in the Sunni Triangle. “It’s just part of the deal.
The conference is being held by Sheehan and the others to announce their arrival in Washington and to kick off a weekend of resistance that is expected to include a march of 100,000 people and mass civil disobedience.
At 1:30 p.m., Sheehan and her allies plan to head to the White House, where they’ll attempt to give President Bush a letter asking him to answer the question, “What noble cause are our loved ones dying for?”
Pity the poor dogs that had to sniff the crap in that "caravan"..
Karl Rove has that weather machine perfected!
Someone got a call from the Jr Senator of NY.
is ugly illegal in DC?
Cindy Sheehan. Cinnnnnnndy Sheeeehan. Hmm. The name sounds familiar. Wasn't she in the news a few years ago?
LOL although I pray that it misses the good people of Texas and stays out at sea, I hope the MSM is doing all Rita all the time on that day.
"That’s standard procedure"
OFFICER.... DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? I'M CINDY SHEEHAN. SO LET US THRU!
How about the freedom to live, free from fear, of those savage Islamic perverts that think nothing of sawing off the heads of anyone who doesn't worship their pedophile allah.
You forgot that Saturday is also COLLEGE FOOTBALL DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oops!
If ugly were illegal in D.C. then there would be a lot of Congressmen (Hitlerly, Kennedy, Boxer, Pelousi, etc, etc, etc) not allowed within city limits.
Hmmmmm?? That's what I was thinking too .. LOL!
Poor Cindy .. she has no idea who she has just tangled with.
Didn't she used to play Laverne on "Laverne and Shirley"?
How nice that these people don't have normal lives to deal with, and can afford to cruise around the country being a pain in the ass to everyone.
Exactly my kind of 'Blue Light Special'!!
LOL. No. You're thinking of Penny Williams Reiner. Or Rob Williams Reiner. I get those two confused.
I agree. Who is supporting this witch? She's must be living off of her husband's child support payments.
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