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THE NAKED TRUTH: Strip-search law suspended The arrest of Angela Swagler and other pro-life protesters is the subject of a multiple-county civil rights lawsuit filed against police and other officials A county in Maryland has agreed to halt enforcement of a sign ordinance cited when members of a team of pro-life protesters were arrested, shackled and strip-searched while expressing their opposition to abortion. According to a statement from the Alliance Defense Fund, a consent agreement has been reached that will halt enforcement of the ordinance while its constitutionality is argued in federal court. "It is unconstitutional to require small groups...

LONDON (AFP) - A climate change protester unsuccessfully tried to superglue himself to Prime Minister Gordon Brown at an event in the leader's residence, a government spokesman said Tuesday. Dan Glass, a 24-year-old member of Plane Stupid, which campaigns against airport expansion, tried to attach himself to Brown's suit as he was about to shake hands with the premier at his Downing Street residence. --snip-- Brown can be heard laughing as Glass began his demonstration, in an audio recording of the protest. Glass assured the prime minister he was carrying out a "non-violent protest" and told Brown that "we cannot...

OMAHA, Neb. - A member of the Kansas group that has drawn criticism for protesting at soldiers' funerals has been arrested for letting her 10-year-old son stomp on a U.S. flag during a demonstration. She promised Wednesday to challenge the state's flag desecration law in court. Shirley Phelps-Roper, 49, will be charged with flag mutilation, disturbing the peace and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, Sarpy County Attorney Lee Polikov said Wednesday. Phelps-Roper, a member of the Westboro Baptist Church, acknowledged that she allowed her son Jonah to stand on the flag Tuesday — something she says is protected...

Many antiwar activists are so cut off from reality that they imagine America's defeat in the Middle East without consequence. Even when the root causes of terrorism clearly lie in that region of the world, those nostalgic for the 1970s continue to undermine our efforts there and to search for ways to "blame America" for its barbarism. Even a few days after 9/11, leftist icon Susan Sontag wrote about "the self-righteous drivel" of public figures and TV commentators responding to the atrocity. She called it an "attack on 'civilization'" rather than on the United States and she said it was...

Doctor who spoke out against China's organ-harvesting will not be prosecuted WASHINGTON — Dr. Wenyi Wang reached an agreement with prosecutors in which all charges against her will be dropped, she said on June 14. Dr. Wang protested at the White House during a visit by Hu Jintao, head of the Chinese communist regime, on April 20. Under the deal, charges against Dr. Wang will be postponed until April 2007. If she does not commit any crimes during that time period—including confronting foreign officials—the charges will then be dropped. On April 20, after Hu began speaking, Wang, 47, stood up...

The Tucson Police Department is asking for the public's help in identifying a female protester who kicked an officer in the face during the April 10 pro-immigration rally. After closely reviewing video footage from the rally, police have been able to single out the female who they say intentionally kicked Officer Nathan A. Tullgren, 26, as he was on the ground making an arrest, said Tucson police Chief of Staff Capt. Brett Klein on Friday. Police say she could face a charge of aggravated assault on a peace officer. According to Klein, Tullgren had just pulled a male off of...

Chinese regime destroys facilities COURAGE: Dr. Wenyi Wang, left, faces six months in prison for outburst. "Annie" the anonomous ex-wife of surgeon who transplanted "living donor" organs of Falun Gong practitioners, tells of death threats. They sit under photos of dead Falun Gong practitioners who had their organs removed. (Lisa Fan/The Epoch Times)Dr. Wenyi Wang, the Epoch Times journalist who made headlines last week for interrupting a speech at the White House by Chinese leader Hu Jintao, defended her actions during a press conference Wednesday, saying that thousands of lives hang in the balance as the Chinese communist regime prepares...

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq (April 4, 2006) -- Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Andras T.S. Eder carried protest signs denouncing the Operation Desert Shield in 1991. Fifteen years later, he was promoted for his performance in combat. The 36-year-old Hungarian immigrant was promoted at the beginning of the month for his performance under fire while serving alongside his Marines from C Company, 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 5. It’s just one phase of a multi-faceted man who constantly reinvents himself, taking on the next great adventure in his life. “I try to be even-keeled,” Eder said. “It seems like...

Report: Pennsylvania 'patriot' tried to blow up oil pipelines Federal agents think American sought to wreck U.S. economy with al-Qaida Posted: February 12, 2006 5:49 p.m. Eastern © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com Is he an American patriot, or a terrorist trying to kill the U.S. economy? That's the question surrounding Michael Curtis Reynolds, a 47-year-old unemployed resident of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., who federal agents say worked with al-Qaida in a plot to blow up the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, a Pennsylvania pipeline, and a New Jersey refinery. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Reynolds is not publicly charged with terrorism, but a federal prosecutor said in...

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"Do you agree with the decision by Capitol Police to remove activist Cindy Sheehan from the gallery at the president's State of the Union speech because she was wearing a T-shirt with an antiwar slogan?" -------------------------------------------- Actually was alerted to this on Daily Chaos, where someone said "Freep this poll!" What's the old cliche? "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"? ;-)

As those thinking of becoming soldiers arrive on the slushy doorstep of the U.S. Army recruiting station here, they cannot miss the message posted in bold black letters on the storefront right next door. "Remember the Fallen Heroes," the sign reads, and then it ticks off numbers: the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq, the number wounded, the number of days gone by since the war began. The sign, put up by Scott Cameron, a former soldier, has stirred intense debate, though always polite, in this city along the western edge of Lake Superior. In a way, many of...

Tuesday, August 23, 2005 Cindy Sheehan, the 48-year-old California mom whose anti-war protest has sparked international interest and plenty of controversy, will likely return to her post near President Bush's Central Texas ranch late Wednesday afternoon after a week-long absence. Michelle Mulkey, a spokeswoman for the peace movement that Sheehan triggered just outside the town of Crawford, said Tuesday afternoon that Sheehan was expected to be back at her makeshift campsite near the Bush ranch sometime after 5 p.m. Sheehan, whose son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, 24, died in the Iraq war in April 2004, began her protest on Aug....

LA protesters call for the release of Iranian political prisoners - Sunday, August 14, 2005 Los Angeles (AP) -- Hundreds of demonstrators called for the release of student leaders held since 1999 by the Iranian government during a rally Sunday at the Federal Building in West Los Angeles. The protesters marched in support of Manoucher Mohammadi and Akbar Ganji, who were arrested in a crackdown on anti-government protests at Tehran University in July 1999 and who have recently embarked on a hunger strike. The government jailed about 1,200 people during the crackdown. Most were freed soon after, but Iranian authorities...

A woman lost her son in Iraq and won't leave George W. Bush alone until he sees her. Who is she, and why is she stirring such emotion? Cindy Sheehan, 48, is not a natural-born revolutionary. She speaks in a high, almost childlike voice. She says like as often as any teenager, as in, "This whole thing was like so freaking spur of the moment." When her supporters gather to discuss strategy, Sheehan is not to be found in the circle of beach chairs; she is 50 yards up the road, doing yet another interview, hugging yet another stranger....

ProtestWarrior Kentucky will demonstrate against a leftist fundraiser tomorrow, Saturday June 18, 2005, from approx 9 am to noon at the Louisville intersection of Douglas Blvd and Bardstown Rd. The Leftists of L-PAC (Louisville Peace Action Community) will be holding a fundraiser yard/bake sale in order to raise money for their stupid "Peace Takes Courage" media blitz. The whole point of their "Peace Takes Courage" program is to insinuate that peace takes courage and our soldiers don't have any. Bullshit, not in my town ladies. We will be there with signs supporting America, the President, our Troops, the War and...

SAN FRANCISCO - Law enforcement officers from two northern California counties were found liable Thursday for using excessive force by swabbing pepper spray in the eyes of logging protesters in 1997. A jury awarded eight plaintiffs $1 each. It was the third trial in the case; the first two ended in deadlocked juries in 1998 and 2004. The plaintiffs laughed and hugged outside the courtroom — and applauded when jurors left their chambers. "They did the right thing," said Terri Slanetz, a 42-year-old naturalist from Oakland. "We've been trying all along to get a statement that this was illegal. It's...

Rita Preckshot went to a peace rally, and a fight broke out. It started out as a typical Wednesday for Preckshot, a 49-year-old who stands about 5-foot-2 and has hearing aids in both ears. She was standing on her normal spot on Providence Road, holding her signs in support of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. For nearly four years now, this has been Preckshot’s life from about 4:15 to about 5:45 in the afternoon once a week. She started her solo troop-support effort to counteract the peace protesters who stand a couple of blocks away at the intersection of...

Protester on indecent exposure charge arrives at court naked 17.02.05 1.00pm An environmental protester charged with indecent exposure arrived for his appearance at Auckland District Court today naked. Simon Oosterman, 24, a computer technician, was charged during the Auckland Naked Bike Ride last Sunday, an event he organised to protest against society's dependence on the car. After Oosterman was stopped by police, the rest of the riders covered up the lower parts of their bodies to avoid arrest. Today, Oosterman and three supporters, two males and a female, stood outside the couthouse naked and bearing a banner that read: "Stop...

Oddly Enough - Reuters NYC Sued by Protester Arrested While Dressed as Hummer Wed Feb 16, 7:18 AM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) - A woman who was arrested while dressed as a gas guzzling Hummer sued New York City on Tuesday for putting the brakes on her one-person protest in front of an SUV dealership during the Republican National Convention. Georgianna Page, who spent eight hours creating her large cardboard box costume, charged the city violated her civil rights when she was arrested and detained for several hours on Aug. 31. No charges were ever filed...

At one point, a demonstrator made a snowball about the size of an orange and tossed it behind him into a crowd of police and Bush supporters. Within seconds, two large men jumped him, pushed him down to the ground and punched him in the face repeatedly. A crowd quickly gathered, and women screamed for the beating to stop. Blood was visible on the young man's face and on the pavement. He was then led away by police.

Voters in this woodsy mountain village will decide soon whether to recall a member of the town's Board of Trustees who refuses to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. David Habecker, a two-term member of the board, faces a Feb. 15 recall vote after drawing the community's ire for refusing to stand because he objects to the phrase "under God." He said the wording violates Article VI of the U.S. Constitution, which states that "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States." "This makes the Pledge a religious...

ATTENTION EDITORS: REPEATING WITH ADDITIONAL CAPTION INFORMATION - Adam Eidinger, a protestor against funding for a new baseball stadium in Washington, is grabbed by team officials before a ceremony unveiling the new Washington DC Major League Baseball team logo and name for the 'Washington Nationals' in the Union Station, November 22, 2004. The Nationals moniker has served two other Washington franchises during the 1800's and during the first-half of the 20th Century. Eidinger, who is not opposed to having a team in Washington, is against public financing to build the stadium. REUTERS/Larry Downing

Baseball's big party got thrown a curveball before it even began. Officials from the sports world and the city government were in Union Station today to confirm what was already widely known -- that the Expos are being re-named the Washington Nationals. But before the media event got underway, D-C Statehood Green Party member Adam Eidinger jumped onto the stage holding a sign protesting Mayor Tony Williams' planned stadium deal. Eidinger was jumped by several men, including former Washington Senators announcer Charlie Brotman. A tussle ensued, and the podium nearly fell over, before security managed to drag Eidinger off stage....

WASHINGTON — Is this another John Kerry flip-flop? Less than three weeks after vowing in defeat to sweep aside partisan bickering, Kerry is slamming the White House for "a right-wing assault on values and ideals that we hold most deeply." In a new four-minute Internet ad on his campaign Web site, Kerry paints a doomsday future based on Bush's recent nods to fill vacated Cabinet posts. "The Cabinet is being remade to rubber-stamp policies that will undermine Social Security, balloon the deficit, avoid real reform in health care and education, weaken homeland security and walk away from critical allies...

I will post the location and the event of this photo later.This is exactly what the dem radicals need!Discipline!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1049673Vote_Clark_In_WI (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-13-04 10:35 AM Original message BAD news from one of the local Sinclair advertisers I got this response this morning... Dear ****, Would like to know who directed you to send e-mail to this address. Our buildings have been shot at the last two nights and police are investgating. I am forwarding this to them so you can expect a follow up from them. This was my letter, by the way, Good Afternoon, As a life-long Madison resident, I am very concerned to find that your business advertises on Fox47, which is a Sinclair Company. As...

1035549, DNC Press Release: Sinclair Broadcasting Group Posted by Skinner on Mon Oct-11-04 02:15 PM For Immediate Release October 11, 2004 SINCLAIR BROADCASTING GROUP The Sinclair Broadcasting Group is a conservative broadcasting network that controls television airwaves in dozens of major television markets, including markets in battleground states such as Florida and Ohio. Recently, it has banned shows that are critical of the war on terror, ordered its stations not to air a tribute to our fallen U.S. soldiers, and now plans to air an anti-Kerry movie days before election day. The Sinclair Broadcasting Group has historically contributed thousands of...

On the eve of President Bush's address to the nation, the Daily News has uncovered alarming breaches in security at the Republican National Convention. The News learned yesterday that delegates and guests were freely handing out unused passes. A News reporter investigated - and within five hours he was inside Madison Square Garden to catch Vice President Cheney's speech. Even more shocking, the pass was obtained without anyone asking for or checking on the reporter's identity.

A teenager who allegedly beat a police officer unconscious during a protest outside Madison Square Garden was arrested at another demonstration in Union Square Tuesday. Jamal Holiday, 19, was identified using a videotape of Monday night’s incident. As protestors clashed with police, Detective William Sample was pulled off his scooter and was repeatedly punched and kicked. Sample has since been released from the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery. Holiday is charged with second-degree assault on a police officer.

A suspect was arrested last night in the vicious beating of a cop at a protest Monday, a law-enforcement source said. Jamal Holiday of Manhattan, who turns 20 today, will likely be spending his birthday in jail for assaulting Detective William Sample Jr., according to the source. Sample, meanwhile, was on the mend at home. The 10-year veteran who usually investigates taxi-business crimes, was badly bruised and suffered internal injuries in the attack that Mayor Bloomberg called "outrageous."

In one of the most bizarre maneuvers in recent political history, John Kerry has decided that in order to be elected president he must present himself to the American people as a war hero. In doing so, he has poured fuel on the smoldering fire of concerns surrounding his abbreviated service in Vietnam, turning it into a raging controversy. Veterans opposed to Kerry as well as those that support him are finally getting wide exposure in the media, despite the initial reluctance of the mainstream media to touch the issue. What is missing is the perspective of Vietnam Era antiwar...

I need a history lesson. Although I just turned 42 years of age, my memory of Vietnam is - well - elementary - as in that is the school I was attending when it took place. I have heard over the years the well deserved scorn from my elders against Hanoi Jane. In fact, I was able to even see the film clip of her in the AA battery in North Vietnam - where she was jokingly aiming the AA in the sky - like she was preparing to shoot down an American plane. (The film clip was in documentary...

A hooded protester shoots a firework into the Defense Ministry during anti-war demonstrations in Rome, June 4, 2004. Pope John Paul (news - web sites) piled pressure on George W. Bush over Iraq (news - web sites) when they met while beyond the walls of the Vatican (news - web sites) City more rowdy anti-war protesters attempted to disrupt the U.S. president's visit to Rome. (Dylan Martinez/Reuters) Story

Harass the Republicans? Yes By DAVID A. LYNN As Web master of Shadow Protest I am urging people to volunteer for the Republican National Convention, attend all the volunteer orientation sessions but not show up for their assigned volunteer shift. Dishonest? Absolutely. Please consider, however: We are asked to believe that the war in Iraq was not preordained but was planned carefully by men and women whose true intent was the search for weapons of mass destruction. We are asked to believe the invasion was launched only after all other measures failed. The Iraqi invasion has netted no such weapons,...

John Kerry: Further Left Than He Lets On By John Perazzo FrontPageMagazine.com | February 17, 2004 When analysts look back on the moments that catapulted Sen. John Kerry to frontrunner status in his quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, they will acknowledge that one of the biggest turns of the campaign occurred on January 25. On that day, Kerry campaign strategists whisked Jim Rassmann from Florence, Oregon, straight to Iowa for an emotional, “surprise” public reunion with Kerry. As Rassmann’s fellow soldier in the Vietnam War, Kerry saved Rassmann’s life by dodging a hail of enemy gunfire to drag him...

Iraqis Riot in Basra; One Protester Dead Sun Aug 10,10:12 AM ET By Joseph Logan BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqis enraged by fuel shortages rioted in Basra Sunday, forcing British troops to fire warning shots for a second day in an effort to quell some of the worst unrest seen since the fall of Saddam Hussein At least one Iraqi involved in protests was killed and two others were wounded, but it was not clear who had fired the shots which struck them, reporters in the city said. Hundreds of young men barricaded roads in the second city with blazing...

Anti-war protester Brett Bursey's contention the Secret Service denied his freedom of speech to protest President Bush's plan to attack Iraq will be tested in court this week. The case, which has drawn national attention, opens Tuesday in Columbia before federal Magistrate Bristow Marchant. The trial is expected to last no more than two days. Marchant rejected a jury trial, saying the case involves a minor offense. Bursey concedes the Secret Service has the right to determine protection zones for the president, said Bill Nettles, one of Bursey's lawyers. But during Bush's Oct. 24 trip to Columbia to stump for...

<p>A University of California-Berkeley student -- who spent nine days of anonymity in a San Jose jail as an act of civil disobedience -- was ordered Wednesday to pay restitution to a Sunnyvale company she had denounced as a war profiteer.</p>

Protester's signs, displays irk neighbors, CalTrans Graton man's anti-war banners, manure pile and casket turn heads along Highway 116 May 27, 2003 By MICHAEL COIT THE PRESS DEMOCRAT John Jenkel may find sympathy for anti-war messages he posts along a west Sonoma County highway, but his methods, including a manure pile and a casket, have antagonized neighbors and prompted CalTrans to intervene. . . . The war protest grew out of Jenkel's long-time obsession with San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. Jenkel's office is piled high with fliers and files he has produced expressing his belief that Brown played a role...

SANTA CLARA (BCN) -- The protests outside United Defense Industries ended peacefully with two arrests this morning, but the protesters themselves admit disappointment. "The war criminals got away despite our earnest attempts," said two San Francisco women who asked not to be named because, "there are too many stalkers out there." "We were trying to make a citizens arrest and they let them get away." By "they" the women were referring to the Santa Clara Police Department, which kept the group corralled across the street from United Defense Industries, well away from the presidential motorcade as it headed to...

<p>This unidentified woman was arrested in a recent anti-war protest. She has been in jail for about 10 days because she refuses to give police her real name, and police cannot release her until they know who she really is.</p>

EDMONTON - It's hard to imagine feeling let down when Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon is playing your character in a movie. But that's how Ice Bound reacts to her portrayal in the new tele movie, Ice Bound."I'm disappointed," says the 51-year-old doctor famous for the diagnosis and treatment of her own breast cancer while at the South Pole in 1999. "I wish they would have met me. I think it would have been nice to have had a chance to have them know me before they wrote about me or tried to play me."Based on the book Nielsen wrote about...

Hollywood Learns Political Hardball ...A little chin music for Tim Robbins Tom Adkins 4/17/03 Little Timmy Robbins is crying foul. The forever-whining co-star of "Bull Durham" was un-invited to the movie reunion by Baseball Hall of Fame President Dale Petroskey, who noted, "this institution should never be used as a platform for public pro-war sentiments - nor public anti-war sentiments." Wary of the minor-league antics of Robbins, nag Susan Sarandon, and the rest of "Team Left", Petroskey did what every good coach does: he stole the signs. Robbins and Sarandon will turn breakfast into a noxious political tirade if there's...

As Saddam's Statue Topples in Iraq The Swedes Retreat by Michael Moynihan (April 12, 2003) Summary: For wide swaths of anti-war Sweden—the ones who think Marx and Engels are a German boy band—the reality of grateful Iraqis and the rapidity of American and British military success, this war dealt a crushing blow. A lifeless calm has descended over Sweden. The wide streets, parks and Scandinavian-style piazzas that, just a month before, were crammed with fair-weather socialists, 60's leftovers and dreadlocked Aryans, all uncomfortably festooned in Palestinian scarves and "Nej Mot Krig" pins, have fallen conspicuously silent. The Friday night parties...

So can anyone help me out, here? What I'd like is a list of the most common anti-war groups like ANSWER and NOIN, among others, a list of those who support them, and if possible, links to stories and articles which prove just who it is that makes up the foundation of the anti-war movement. I'd really appreciate some help in this. Thanks.

Hollywood anti-war set needs some new lines April 8, 2003 BY RICHARD ROEPER SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST TO: Jennifer Aniston, George Clooney, Sheryl Crow, David Duchovny, Janeane Garofalo, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Woody Harrelson, Jessica Lange, Michael Moore, Edward Norton, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Martin Sheen, Eddie Vedder, et al. RE: Operation Iraqi Freedom Dear Celebrity Anti-War Activist: Over the last several weeks and months, you have used your status as a person of fame to tell the world you're against the war with Iraq, which you believe to be unwarranted, unethical, unconstitutional and un-American. Some of you have said you "hate"...

<p>Police open fired Monday morning with rubber bullets at an anti-war protest at the Port of Oakland, injuring several longshoremen standing nearby.</p> <p>Police were trying to clear protesters from an entrance to the docks when they opened fire and the longshoremen apparently were caught in the crossfire.</p>

Today Saturday was a great day for America and a very bad day for the pencil necked tofu eating gender challenged cowardly appeasenik terrorist lovers. At Veterans Park today the Pro America Rally was cancelled. It was a cold overcast ice-rainy slushy day, that had been preceeded by an even worse thunder and lightening ice storm night. So... the event was cancelled and it was annouced as cancelled on T.V. That my friends is the good news. Why? Because the park filled up ANYWAY!. Thats right! When I got there there were 3 former Marine vets. Thats all. I joined...