Bad Cindy!Follow

This was a footnote in all the hoopla surroundling the SotU address last night, but famous mom-of-a-fallen-soldier-and pissed-off-about-it-Bush-stalker Cindy Sheehan was invited to hear the address by her Congresswoman, and she was arrested and prevented from entering on her way in due to a t-shirt bearing anti-war slogans that she wouldn't remove. This was considered unlawful conduct.


I suppose she should have stuck to glaring at the President, refusing to clap for the Republicans, or applauding Administration failures. This, apparently, was permissible behavior.

I laughed when I heard, because it seemed ridiculous in the extreme. Did this woman pose any kind of real threat?

This is the same political party whose own symbol cruelly crushed a little Latino boy making an offering of peace.

Bush hates minorities

You are not allowed to wonder!

Sounds like they also asked a congressman's wife to leave for wearing a pro-troops t-shirt.

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/02/01/Worldandnation/T_shirt_earns_exit_fr.shtml

I see; so the real issue here is not that t-shirts themselves are not allowed, but that all slogans are protests.

Writing = bad, because it confuses and upsets the Neanderthals. Gotcha.

Sheehan's son: still dead.

No amount of media whoring will bring him back. She had her fifteen minutes and needs to retire to blissful obscurity. Maybe she can even find time to mourn.

A few years back during the Clinton impeachment trial, some nutjob school teacher was removed from the Senate Gallery by Capitol police for wearing a t-shirt that said "Clinton doesn't inhale, he sucks."

I only vaguely recollect the story, because he was a guest of Sen. pRick Santorum, and only because at the time I remember thinking it was a rather poorly conceived way to sling more mud at Clinton.

That and I'll be damned if can find a link to it.

Eh, just to add her side for the sake of argument:

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/06/02/con06043.html

As for the SOTU-chimeras?

Maybe you should read the thread

Maybe you should read it again.

It's always amazing to me that people honestly believe that their freedom of speech means that they can show up anywhere and say anything via any method they want, no matter how inappropriate the time or place.

Freedom of speech means that the government can't prevent you from speaking on your own time with people who want to hear what you have to say. Freedom of speech does *not* mean you can force your "message" on others any time you want.

And lest there be any confusion as to *why* she wore that shirt:




The SOTU speech does not exist and is not televised so that Cindy Sheehan can make a political statement. It exists (and is constitutionally mandated) so the President can give his report to Congress (and through that process to the people) on the state of the union. She's free to wear and say whatever she wants before and after the event, but while she's there she should be respectful of the process and the office, even if she doesn't respect the man. At some point in the future, it'll be a Democrat president giving a similar speech. The respect one pays to the office applies across the board and despite claims by Sheehan and others, has been fairly applied when it comes to controversal messages from the gallery during the speech.


She did something incredibly stupid, and incredibly disrespectful, not just to Bush, but to the entire country. She really needs to get off herself and get over it.