Posted on 01/31/2006 5:45:38 PM PST by NapkinUser
Edited on 02/01/2006 3:43:42 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Just in.
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Reuters Additional Information
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Police at the U.S. Capitol arrested anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan on Tuesday, shortly before President Bush was to give his annual State of the Union speech, a police spokeswoman said.
The spokeswoman, Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, said she had no immediate details.
Sheehan had been invited to be a guest at the address to a joint session of Congress by U.S. Rep. Lynn Woolsey, a California Democrat.
Sheehan, who became a central figure for the U.S. anti-war movement after her soldier son Casey was killed in the Iraq war, won wide attention with an anti-war vigil outside Bush's Texas ranch.
CNN said Sheehan was arrested after unveiling a banner and was being held on Capitol Hill for about an hour, which would keep her away from the address, which was set to start at 9 p.m. EST.
Sheehan and other activists were arrested in September for protesting outside the White House without a permit, a misdemeanor that carriers a $50 fine.
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"..Posted at 09:55 PM
SHEEHAN [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
A newsroom type shares notes:
This from Sgt. Kimberly Schneider of U-S Capitol Police.... Cindy Sheehan was arrested in the gallery of the house floor tonight and charged with demonstrating in the Capitol--a misdemeanor. ...Sgt. Schneider says she was wearing a T-shirt with a slogan on it and was asked to cover it up. Sheehan did not cover it up and she was arrested. ....She is being processed at Capital Police hd and is expected to be released at some point tonight. The misdemeanor charge carries one year in jail. .."
Some California dimwit House rep. Can't recall which (there are SO MANY California dimwits).
How did an "Anti war banner" escape the attention of the security types? Shouldn't they be screening the "guests" particularly the moonbats upon entry?
I'm surprised it wasn't Baghdad Jim McDoofus from the upper left coast.
here comes Alito!
Lynn Woolsey - D- Petaluma/Santa Rosa CA
A NUTCASE!
Couldn't she have waited to make an a$$ out of herself so we could all see it. They ought to arrest Lynn Woosley, too.
sw
Grooooooooooooosssssss!!!!!!!
She is such a moron.
The best thing she could have done was just sit there and get her ugly mug on the news for the next 24 hours and probably for another month here and there.
Absolute idiocy.
Congresswoman from San Franciso woosley or something.
Yes!
She unfurled an anti-war banner, FGS.
She's hoping to have that cute cop pick her up with his hand between her, uh, I have to go throw up!
I hope it's a Capital Offense, no pun intended
I want to know how Sheehan got the sign in in the first place.
She was probably trying to get into the gallery.
Watta genius.
I love the smell of cuffed socialist agitators in the morning.
She was probably trying to get into the gallery.
Watta genius.
I love the smell of cuffed socialist agitators in the morning.
I wouldn't search her if she had a million-dollar bill tucked somewhere.
LOL!!!
That is so funny!!!
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