The Threat
Jan 31st, 2006 at 9:43 pm by Susie
Amazing, isn’t it? Anyone who criticizes Bubble Boy is a threat to the nation:
WASHINGTON Jan 31, 2006 — Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a fallen soldier in Iraq who reinvigorated the anti-war movement, was taken into custody by police in the House gallery Tuesday night just before President Bush’s State of the Union address.
Police escorted Sheehan from the visitors’ gallery above the House chamber after causing a disruption, said a Capitol Police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because details of the incident were sketchy.
Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., had invited Sheehan to the address as her guest.
Yeah, apparently she was wearing a protest T-shirt. I guess they thought her breasts would shoot evil liberal hollow-point bullets at the president, just like the fembots in “Austin Powers.”
Come on…there is a time a place for everything and the SOTU is not the time for protest. This time Ms. Sheehan stepped over the line. I’m sure the media would have shown her and noted why she was there and that would have gotten the message out. But I also think getting arrested is a media ploy it gets her message out to the faithful.
If she and her handlers realize that getting arrested while a nice way to get on the news is not the best way to sway the average person to your view she could be a very powerful force. Until then Joe Sixpack won’t buy the message.
Preview: State of the Union Address…
Renee Montagne talks to Senior Correspondent Juan Williams about some of the topics the president is…
If they outlaw T-Shirts, only Criminals will wear T-Shirts.
Or something like that.
http://www.allspinzone.com/blog/?itemid=2159
If the SOTU is not a time for protest, why is it a time for agreement? They are both political statements.
The next person who applauds should be arrested?
That said, I love the article’s second sentence: Police escorted Sheehan from the visitors’ gallery … after causing a disruption. Grammatically, it is saying the police caused a disruption and then arrested Sheehan. A nice touch of honesty.
As Will Bunch pointed out, in 1971, the Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional to arrest a man who wore a “F— the Draft” T-shirt into the courthouse? (Cohen v. California, you can look it up.)
So why is that legal, but not wearing a milder shirt (the number of wardead, no obscenities) to the Capitol?
Duh! Because everything changed after 9/11!
Seems like this wasn’t the first time someone was removed from the capital for wearing a protest T-shirt. A guy from central PA was removed from the Clinton inpeachment trial for an anti-Clinton shirt.
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashts.htm
I know this was probably setup and directed by Karl Rove as part of the whole master plan. But it seems that it is a non-partisan law to me.