Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

[Cindy}Sheehan criticizes Charlotte police (Gathering of Eagles "Neo-Nazi, pro-war fascist group")
The Charlotte Observer ^ | July 19, 2007 | CLEVE R. WOOTSON JR.

Posted on 07/22/2007 2:26:31 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

A blog written by antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan and posted on MichaelMoore.com criticizes Charlotte police for allowing counter-protesters to "try to intimidate us" during Sheehan's antiwar rally Tuesday in Bryant Park.

But in a memo to top police administrators, one captain said officers had no issues during the two-hour event and expressed surprise at the complaints.

"At the School of the Assassins in Columbus, GA, and in Charlotte, NC, we ran into similar problems: police presence that seemed to be there to foster violence. At both places the neo-Nazi, pro-war fascist group "Gathering of Eagles" came out to mostly try to intimidate us from our mission," Sheehan writes in her blog.

"At Ft. Benning, after we complained, the police kept them separate from us, but in Charlotte, the police refused saying that the Eagles had their rights to `freedom of speech.' "

Sheehan, one of the best-known opponents of the war in Iraq, stayed in her car during the antiwar rally at Bryant Park that drew about 125 people.

Instead of addressing the crowd -- some of her supporters said there was concern about her safety -- Sheehan moved to Talley's Green Grocery in Dilworth.

In a police memo dated July 19, Capt. Doug Gallant, who reviewed and evaluated the event in Bryant Park, said he was "quite frankly, surprised there have been complaints...."

The police memo says the 14 officers on hand noticed no displays that violated North Carolina law. One protester began using profanity, the memo says, and an officer asked the person to stop cursing.

The memo also says that police didn't have to bring in physical barriers, like bike racks, to keep the groups away from each other. At one point, Sheehan's security advisor said she had concerns about the Gathering of Eagles, and officers asked the group to move back, creating a buffer of at least 25 feet.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Georgia; US: North Carolina; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 21stcenturyjanefonda; anarchists; answer; antimilitary; army; bush; caseysheehan; cheney; cindysheehan; communists; counterdemonstration; counterprotest; crawfordtexas; cutandrun; defeatocrats; democrats; dhimmicrats; ditchwitch; doyouknowwhoiam; gatheringofeagles; georgesoros; goe; hippies; hugosgirlfriend; impeachment; infinitefreep; insanity; iraq; jihadcindy; lawenforcement; leftists; michaelmoore; military; moonbats; mothermoonbat; nakedcommunist; nodissent; offherrocker; peacecreeps; pelosi; police; rally; rubberroomforone; starkravingsocialist; unitedforpeace; usarmy; veterans; vietnamveterans; worldcantwait; wot; your15minutesareup
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-68 next last
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Interesting take Sheehan has on the First Amendment. Evidently wants to ban speech that she disagrees with. She especially wants to ban the speech of "neocons." I have no doubt that she would have wanted to ban Churchill's speaches that denounced Hitler because mean old Churchill was not talking nice to Hitler.

I don't believe that the First Amendment protects violent speech, especially if it is one of the neocons or their media supporters calling for increased violence in the Middle East.

41 posted on 07/22/2007 6:48:58 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

FINALLY Charlotte police get some good press.


42 posted on 07/22/2007 6:51:23 AM PDT by gitmo (From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

So Sheehan has a problem with protesters? She believes dissenting speech should be squashed? Sheehan believes everyone should bow to the beliefs of the speaker? How ironic.


43 posted on 07/22/2007 6:58:57 AM PDT by gitmo (From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another irony: Apparently Sheehan has no faith that words and negotiations are effective. She believes that violence (in this case armed police action) is the only answer to conflict. Does this make her pro-war?


44 posted on 07/22/2007 7:01:10 AM PDT by gitmo (From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
Also love that she feels GOE, which is almost all Vietnam vets, is a "Neo-Nazi, pro-war fascist group". What does that make her son, Specialist Casey Sheehan, who made the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq?

Her meal ticket?

45 posted on 07/22/2007 7:03:44 AM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Has George W. Bush been taking Carter's Little Pills?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sheehan: "I don’t believe that the First Amendment protects violent speech, especially if it is one of the neocons or their media supporters ..."

So the First Amendment is only for the left. Just for the sake of clarity, we need to rename it "Freedom of Liberal Speech".

gitmo

46 posted on 07/22/2007 7:06:51 AM PDT by gitmo (From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Eagles Up!


47 posted on 07/22/2007 7:07:30 AM PDT by windsorknot
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: gitmo

Hear, hear! Charlotte is a bad place, Cindy. So is the rest of the state. If I were you I would never come back.

And I thank God I’m not you.


48 posted on 07/22/2007 7:11:21 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
Instead of addressing the crowd -- some of her supporters said there was concern about her safety -- Sheehan moved to Talley's Green Grocery in Dilworth.

A liberal peace activist that there girl is.
Create an issue and fear for your well being because of the issue you created.

It should be a mandate that the picture of a box of rocks is shown at the start of all Sheehan threads.

49 posted on 07/22/2007 7:18:33 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Larry Lucido

Someone needs a hug.


50 posted on 07/22/2007 7:37:39 AM PDT by agent_delta (Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
WOW!
Just took the time to read this.
Ban-Sheehan is off her rocker.
A lot of people have commented on this passage, but they left out her half-baked conclusion.

Freedom of speech is one thing, but I don’t believe that the First Amendment protects violent speech, especially if it is one of the neocons or their media supporters calling for increased violence in the Middle East. Nothing about our movement promotes or calls for violence...

Cindy, I emphatically disagree.
If you are going to follow the rest of the Stalinists in The Left today and actively seek to silence speech that you and they do not agree with, and if you succeed in silencing that speech, I would argue that there is PLENTY in your movement that promotes AND calls for violence.
51 posted on 07/22/2007 8:21:50 AM PDT by ct_libertarian (Bolshevik Butch (Stalinist Slick Part 2): Coming to an Election Booth Near You!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why can't this twit go away?

52 posted on 07/22/2007 8:48:57 AM PDT by jws3sticks (Hillary can take a very long walk on a very short pier, anytime, and the sooner the better!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Sheehan, one of the best-known opponents of the war in Iraq, stayed in her car during the antiwar rally at Bryant Park that drew about 125 people."

Paranoid AND losing her draw.

53 posted on 07/22/2007 8:59:24 AM PDT by norton
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Cyclops08

That’s not a new tactic...

http://hq.protestwarrior.com/?page=/featured/Dallas/halliburton_defense_force.php


54 posted on 07/22/2007 9:43:06 AM PDT by Thunder90
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Somebody needs to tell Cindy that it is only her side that resorts to violence. Methinks she doth protest a bit too much.


55 posted on 07/22/2007 10:58:49 AM PDT by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LiteKeeper
I thought she retired or decided to go into hiding in a cave somewhere?
Sheehan is a very mentally disturbed person.Maybe that fat slob Michael Moore can help her. They can both go to Cuba for medical care.
56 posted on 07/22/2007 12:59:12 PM PDT by zoomie81 (God Bless Our Military.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 55 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
Proof Cindy is a lying sack of Sheehan.

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/13694862/detail.html

Click on the link, note the reporter at the end remarking how the rally was a nonthingburger. I believe the quote is "As you can see behind me, not much going on."

57 posted on 07/22/2007 2:03:09 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul (What's the difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic? The Free Clinic knows how to stop leaks.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
"What does that make her son, Specialist Casey Sheehan, who made the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq.........."

According to Cindy and her ilk, Cindy is the one who made the ultimate sacrifice. Casey? Oh yeah, him. He died for nothin ya know. Maybe she thinks he died to make her famous and rich.

These people are so sick so disgusting. How did such a bottom feeder like that spawn an honorable man and hero like Casey Sheehan?

58 posted on 07/22/2007 2:43:54 PM PDT by silver charm (Duncan Hunter '08)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: silver charm

[Specialist Casey] Sheehan’s father finds meaning amid grief (MUST READ!)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1861351/posts


59 posted on 07/22/2007 2:52:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 58 | View Replies]

To: devolve; 2ndDivisionVet; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; bitt
Thank you for the ping!



60 posted on 07/22/2007 5:11:23 PM PDT by potlatch (MIZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_MIKAZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_MAZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-68 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson