2,245 Dead — How Many More??
Feb 1st, 2006 at 6:58 am by Susie
That’s what Cindy Sheehan’s T-shirt said. The picture above shows the response in the Capitol tonight. To very loosely paraphrase Norma Desmond, the shirt is clean, it’s the government that’s obscene.
Did you know that 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 now Alito’s on the court for 45 minutes and your civil liberties are already going down the toilet. You were warned.
Somebody at Daily Kos suggested that every American who’s appalled by what happened tonight should — on the same day — wear a T-shirt that reads “2,245 Dead — How Many More?? to work, school, church, court (by day’s end, perhaps) or wherever we need to be. It’s our right, after all.
We’re in. Maybe someone can use the T-shirt proceeds to buy some body armor for the troops.
Cindy’s “Rosa Parks” moment - on the national “bus” - captured on film. I won’t waste my words commenting on the overweight white guys in the photos I saw, but just to say that one woman has bigger balls than all of congress. Bigger than James Comey who left for a much more lucrative and less stressful job than to stay and fight the neocons. And “pro-life” is about what?
We need a plan, we need to be willing to make the sacrifices necessary, to take our “vacation” time and use it to go to DC or our own state capitols and to use our “spending, rainy day” money for airline and bus tickets and stand in front of our elected officials like Cindy Sheehan, and ask why? Gridlock, a human mass so deep that the overweight cops quake in their shoes and drop from exhaustion trying to arrest everyone. Wear a t-shirt with a simple message.
Oh, I don’t know, I’d say the day is coming that wearing such a t-shirt might require the donning of body armor stateside.
There are rules governing attire(written by the Senate & House) that were violated not only by Cindy, but also by Beverly Young, wife of FLA representative Bill Young(check out the St. Petersburg Times)
Take a look at US Code*Title 40* Subsection 2*part B*Chapter 51*Subsection 5104.
By the way, is all this Bush’s fault(as if I really need to ask?)
I saw that. I also saw someone was thrown out during a Clinton SOTU for the same thing, and I don’t care who did it. It’s unAmerican, not to allow citizens to express their opinions.
How extensively is the MSM covering this?