Sheehan Arrested
Moderator: S2k Moderators
- fwbbreeze
- S2K Supporter
- Posts: 896
- Joined: Sun Mar 21, 2004 10:09 pm
- Location: Fort Walton Beach, FL
alicia-w wrote:i dont have time to look for it but can someone find where that is against the rules? Seems like a peaceful and public demonstration is what we're all about!
Every news article I have read quotes Capitol Police as stating that this form of protest is against House Rules....that is enough for me!!!!
fwbbreeze
0 likes
- fwbbreeze
- S2K Supporter
- Posts: 896
- Joined: Sun Mar 21, 2004 10:09 pm
- Location: Fort Walton Beach, FL
gtalum wrote:Yet strangely, no one can produce evidence of such rules. I hope Ms. Sheehan takes this to court.
whatever man, btw a war supporter was removed also!!!
http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article ... 0000000001
T-Shirts Get Women Kicked Out of State of the Union
Cindy Sheehan Arrested; Wife of GOP Congressman Asked to Leave
BY LAURIE KELLMAN, AP
WASHINGTON (Feb. 1) -- Cindy Sheehan, mother of a fallen soldier in Iraq, wasn't the only one ejected from the House of Representatives gallery for wearing a T-shirt with a war-related slogan that violated the rules.
Beverly Young, wife of Rep. C.W. Bill Young, R-Fla., was removed from the gallery because she was wearing a T-shirt that read, "Support the Troops - Defending Our Freedom."
She was sitting about six rows from Laura Bush and asked to leave. She argued with police in the hallway outside the House chamber.
"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."'
They told her she was being treated the same as Sheehan, a protester ejected before the speech Tuesday night for wearing a T-shirt with an antiwar slogan. Sheehan wrote in her blog Wednesday that she intends to file a freedom of speech lawsuit.
"I don't want to live in a country that prohibits any person, whether he/she has paid the ulitmate price for that country, from wearing, saying, writing, or telephoning any negative statements about the government," Sheehan wrote.
Capitol Police took Sheehan, invited as a guest of Rep. Lynn Woolsey, a Democrat, away in handcuffs and charged her with unlawful conduct, a misdemeanor. She later was released on her own recognizance.
Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said police warned her that such displays were not allowed in the House chamber, but Sheehan did not respond.
Woolsey gave Sheehan her only ticket earlier in the day -- Gallery 5, seat 7, row A -- while Sheehan was attending an "alternative state of the union" news conference by CODEPINK, a group pushing for an end to the Iraq war.
02-01-06 11:03 EST
fwbbreeze
0 likes
-
- Category 5
- Posts: 3772
- Joined: Thu Sep 11, 2003 8:34 pm
- Location: Surfside Beach/Freeport Tx
- Contact:
-
- Category 5
- Posts: 3772
- Joined: Thu Sep 11, 2003 8:34 pm
- Location: Surfside Beach/Freeport Tx
- Contact:
gtalum wrote:So you support fascism?
How you would derive that I would "support fascism" is beyond me. Sheehan is IMO a very disturbed woman. With that in mind and her open support of someone who has in their own feeble way announced that they would like to get rid of us, is enough to consider her a possible threat. IMO the capitol police could have deemed her as such.
It has nothing to do with her right to protest, she did plenty of that right before entering.
0 likes
-
- Category 5
- Posts: 15941
- Age: 57
- Joined: Fri Oct 11, 2002 8:11 am
- Location: Galveston, oh Galveston (And yeah, it's a barrier island. Wanna make something of it?)
-
- S2K Supporter
- Posts: 38111
- Age: 37
- Joined: Sun May 16, 2004 10:30 pm
- Location: Tulsa Oklahoma
- Contact:
Stratosphere747 wrote:I would not even give her the credit of being a protester. As far as I'm concerned the capitol police could have considered her a threat. Visions of her arm draped around Hugo Chavez and giving the thumbs up comes to mind.
I agree. Let us not forget she basically "stalked" the President during the summer by hanging out next to his ranch while he was there. I think she's a danger to anyone who supports the war.

Oh and FWIW... I have no problem with her protesting. It's her right. But this was AGAINST House rules to do it.

0 likes
#neversummer
OMG, please.. that's extreme. the woman asked a question and deserved an answer. since he's an elected official paid by taxpayer dollars, he should give her one.
Brent, you're not even old enough to JOIN the military.
I read the House Rules and cant find one mention of a rule prohibiting demonstrations in the gallery.
http://www.rules.house.gov/archives/109 ... s_text.htm
Brent, you're not even old enough to JOIN the military.
I read the House Rules and cant find one mention of a rule prohibiting demonstrations in the gallery.
http://www.rules.house.gov/archives/109 ... s_text.htm
Last edited by alicia-w on Wed Feb 01, 2006 3:46 pm, edited 1 time in total.
0 likes
-
- Category 5
- Posts: 15941
- Age: 57
- Joined: Fri Oct 11, 2002 8:11 am
- Location: Galveston, oh Galveston (And yeah, it's a barrier island. Wanna make something of it?)
gtalum wrote:I don't think RObert's Rules of Order qualifies a t-shirt as a "protest". A t-shirt in no way disrupts a meeting.
I guess it's hard to agree on what is and what isn't a form of protest. After all, some people think the act of burning a national symbol is a form of protest. I, on the other hand, figure those who do are just incapable of voicing their opinions with words. In Sheehan's case, there was the wearing the t-shirt, which is just an act, like burning a flag. However, there were words emblazoned on the t-shirt, which was her form of voicing her opinion. Probably the same as if she had a sign or banner.
So, in my opinion, she was out of order.
0 likes
-
- Category 5
- Posts: 3772
- Joined: Thu Sep 11, 2003 8:34 pm
- Location: Surfside Beach/Freeport Tx
- Contact:
-
- Category 5
- Posts: 15941
- Age: 57
- Joined: Fri Oct 11, 2002 8:11 am
- Location: Galveston, oh Galveston (And yeah, it's a barrier island. Wanna make something of it?)
alicia-w wrote:OMG, please.. that's extreme. the woman asked a question and deserved an answer. since he's an elected official paid by taxpayer dollars, he should give her one.
Brent, you're not even old enough to JOIN the military.
I read the House Rules and cant find one mention of a rule prohibiting demonstrations in the gallery.
http://www.rules.house.gov/archives/109 ... s_text.htm
Preservation of order
2. The Speaker shall preserve order and decorum and, in case of disturbance or disorderly conduct in the galleries or in the lobby, may cause the same to be cleared.
0 likes
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 10 guests