Fire Fly wrote:The entire event is being attended by almost every law maker of all the branches. You would think that wearing something a little more formal is common sense. And I reiterate again, there is a right time when to protest and a wrong time when to protest.
She was sitting quietly in chair. In other words she wasn't protesting, numbnuts. You claimed there's a dress code for the State of the Union. Prove it.
Son of the Suns wrote:Quite frankly she lost all credibility in my eyes once I saw her give a speech at an impeach Bush conference on C-SPAN. She admitted that she didn't really know awhole lot about anything, and then preceded (completely ignoring the question of the reporter) to give her viewpoint on just about everything in American politics. She spewed some of the most ultra-liberal nonsense that I've ever heard, crap that even Hillary and Kennedy would be embarressed to say. I listed to to the whole thing just to make sure that I hated her.
Nice red herring asshole. Explain how any of that justifies the arrest of someone who has not broken any laws. Then go fuck yourself.
I'm beginning to thing think that she's more of a liberal activist pimping her dead son for a cause rather than a grieving mother wanting to keep anyone elses kids from dying.
Yeah, I'm sure you're qualified to comment on how an
authentic grieving parent acts.
Stravo wrote:Personally she comes off as a shrill iritant now. Her message is completely lost in her theatrics. A huge point would have been made if she just sat there quietly during the speech and you just know cameras would have focussed on her during the Iraq parts of the speech stealing some of Bush's thunder and acting like a big elephant in the room of a counterpoint to his "evrything is progressing" bullshit.
Instead she had to be an annoying sneak and she got busted for it. I mean seriously, the T-Shirt idea is just plain stupid.
Busted for what? What law did she break when she was sitting quietly in a chair? If a man can wear a "FUCK THE DRAFT!" shirt in a courthouse, what's so bad about "2245 Dead -How Many More?" or "Support Our Troops" (which got the wife of a Congressman kicked out, though she wasn't arrested)?
Beverly Young wrote:“They said I was protesting,” she told the St. Petersburg Times. “I said, ‘Read my shirt, it is not a protest.’ They said, ‘We consider that a protest.’ I said, ‘Then you are an idiot.”
Good for you, Mrs. Young!
tharkûn wrote:The Capitol Police cannot do anything without reasonable cause. For all they know Sheehan planned to be the model of decorum during the speech itself, and slip off her blouse for the cameras after. Once she gave them probable cause that she was going to protest during the speech itself, she gets carted away. I have no idea if what she was wearing was all that disruptive, but until she reveals it - that which cannot be seen cannot be disruptive.
What probable cause? They had as much right to arrest her as they would have had arresting the late Coretta Scott King. I can't help but wonder when the CSI team is going to show up and dust your chin for Bush's ball prints.
Gil Hamilton wrote:Not that the Capitol Police probably wouldn't have hauled her off anyway. However, I do find it queer that the Capitol Police, who almost certainly searched her on entry, didn't find that shirt before she'd gotten to her seat. Weren't there searches?
She was wearing a sweatshirt or jacket (hard to tell) over it when she walked in. Once she was recognized, they were going to kick her out.
