Help out the uninformed...why wasn't she arrested?

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

Sorry, haven't followed this as closely as you guys but I was sure I heard Cindy was suppose to be arrested as a national security threat if still there come Thursday. Did they figure out that was an extremely bad PR move or did she move to an approved local.

[Not_Giving_Up]

1. Cindy hasn't moved

They never came to get her. They sent Health Inspectors instead.

[AllyCat]

2. I'd read somewhere on DU that big trucks with spotlights

drove by around midnight but seemed to just be intimidating them. Nothing ever happened. Was that WillPitt who blogged that?

[Not_Giving_Up]

6. It was Will

A caravan of vehicles went through late last night, possibly Condi and Rummy.

Prior to that, the there were constant drive bys and lights shining. Apparently just to freak them out. It didn't work.

[madeline_con]

16. GEEZ, the epitome of paranoia....

rolling up to check out the "subversives". :eyes:

[madeline_con]

4. Health inspectors?

What were they afraid was spreading?

[Not_Giving_Up]

5. They went through all of the tents

Obviously they didn't find anything.

[madeline_con]

13. They were looking for bongs and weed....

and other "cotraband". Anything to try and discredit the whole bunch.

[KarenS]

20. TRUTH,,,, they are afraid that truth is spreading.

They cannot allow that to happen.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Bad PR

the BBC is there, as well as CBC, you DON'T want foreign cameras for that... insteand they sent health insperctors

[Not_Giving_Up]

7. I wouldn't think that they want to handcuff a Goldstar Mom in front of ANY

camera, foreign or domestic.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Domestic they control

foreign they don't

Moreover they have handcuffed a gold star mother already, and it was in local news, during the campaign

[Not_Giving_Up]

12. They don't control the individuals with cameras

Who can go home and upload it for the world to see. Eventually, the so-called news channels would have to report it.

True, they have done it before, but more people are looking now.

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. Taht is why they won't do it

look, wehther it was a rumor or not, they won't becasue I suspect you have the BBC there

[FreedomAngel82]

17. Exactly

I think that's why. Foreign reporters would get to the story really fast I'm sure. It wouldn't look good if they found out that they planted something or something like that.

[Maddy McCall]

8. Exactly.

Either way, whether he meets with her (he won't) or not, he's lost this PR battle.

[Not_Giving_Up]

10. Yes he has

If he had met with her the first day, the PR blunder might have been avoided. Now, he's screwed either way.

[Journeyman]

11. Ah, yes. The old Chicago Demarche . . .

"The Whole World Is Watching"

[uppityperson]

14. It was a rumor. Will's blog says they won't arrest her

[radwriter0555]

15. Well, she's not breaking any laws. There is nothing to charge her with,

and with a national spotlight upon them, nothing can be done. I hope they're careful about infiltrators though.

[ScrappyDem]

19. I think it was partly the camping thing

and when they got porta potties the sheriff cooled off:

Heres a link I found that seems to be the best set of directions and what-not

http://headtocrawford.tripod.com/

[TexasLady]

23. Potty up the road, pic

a fewhundred feet from where the people are at the Camp

[zbdent]

21. Because the right-wingers notified her in advance of the arrest - we were

able to put a spotlight on the cockroaches. We as the collective (small but growing) "liberal media" (the real liberal media), not "we" as DU alone.

Once the spotlight shone on the area, they were unable to pull the fascist tactics that they were going to do. If they just did it with no warning, the spotlight would not have been there.

This could have been an incident of "eminent domain" - "You can't protest at this point, it's private property." "Oh, okay. I'll move over here." "That's fine. It's not private property." Next day: "Okay you're under arrest for trespassing on private property!" "What do you mean? It's public land." "No, it's now private property. Get in the paddy wagon . . ."

[pointblank]

22. On a simliar note...

yesterday mroning/early afternoon, Will posted a thread that something big was going to happen, but didn't say exactly what at the time but I wasn't around to find out what it was...

Anyone know?

[laylah]

24. I am thinking he was

referring to a group of Iraq vets that planned to walk to the pig farm. Because of the health inspectors and news conference, they decided yesterday wasn't the time.

Jenn

[pointblank]

25. Thanks