Cindy Sheehan just got arrested @ the WH...just on CNN

[JohnnyBoots]

[Catherine Vincent]

1. I just saw.

Why did they arrest her if she was outside the gate like everyone else?

[HereSince1628]

2. Can you expand on the details? Some of us don't have cable

[JohnnyBoots]

9. Sorry just caught the tail end, will let you know when I do.

[Fridays Child]

12. Per CNN: go outside the "lanes" for protestors, three times...

...and you're arrested. This is what she must have done. They were showing Code Pink protestors, during the announcement of Cindy's arrest.

[HereSince1628]

20. Thanks.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

29. this is but the start

i wonder, do we need to set up DU contacts in various geographic areas, in case the net becomes nationalized? China is doing it already, with the willing participation of the US and US corpserations.

[Mabus]

Not a lot of details at this time

it is pretty much a breaking story. There were also arrests at the Pentagon for civil disobedience today.

[bertha katzenengel]

22. I didn't know anyone could get close enough TO the Pentagon to be

arrested for civil disobedience! Good for them, but damn, that is way dangerous.

[Mabus]

26. Link to the Pentagon arrest thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1806263

[bertha katzenengel]

31. thank you! n/t

[doublethink]

17. No link yet , just reported on CNN ....

the reporter said something like the group was told to stay in some sort of 'marching zone' path or something and they deviated from it so the arrests came. Fascist BS. Peace.

[Fridays Child]

3. I guess that was the plan.

[MaggieSwanson]

4. I just saw that too. Cindy - we stand with you!

I love that woman.

[ChiciB1]

5. Yeah Was Just Going To Post It!

Yahoo, may have a link soon if anyone knows how to copy it to the DU! I don't!

[medeak]

6. MSNBC also confirming n/t

[Karenca]

7. For supposedly

stepping outside of some boundary.
This sucks.

[Webster Green]

18. Why does it suck?

Sounds like she wanted to get arrested.

[Karenca]

35. I thought it did

I FELT BAD FOR CINDY.

But, now, after reading more, I realize it's alright.

[Fridays Child]

30. It was intentional, from what I understand.

[Deja Q]

8. Lots of people who go to the WH get arrested...

The media reports these incidents all the time

[dretceterini]

14. How about a citizen's arrest

against Bush for treason against the American people?

[SammyWinstonJack]

34. I doubt that's possible but to bad though.

[rainy]

16. What?

[Karenca]

23. ? ..... NT

[jackster]

10. civil disobedience can be a GOOD thing!

n/t

[tatertop]

15. if it rallies the people, yes

[rainy]

32. especially when all else has failed, hundreds of thousands protest

and can't even get on the news. This leads to the next step, civil dosobedience. The people will be heard, no matter what. There is no giving up and going home.

[rainy]

33. especially when all else has failed, hundreds of thousands protest

and can't even get on the news. This leads to the next step, civil dosobedience. The people will be heard, no matter what. There is no giving up and going home.

[qanda]

11. This is what it will take

Acts of civil disobedience that won't let the people stay asleep.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

13. I just heard that too (cnn)... I smell more bad press for the WH

The Charge??? Pissing off Karl and W??

[Quakerfriend]

19. They don't want her to be able to dominate the networks

cvg as she did before Katrina.

[ChiciB1]

27. She JUST DID....

Dominate, that is!!

THEEEYY SOOOOOO STUUUUUPID! They've been waiting for their chance, but they just don't get it! Just makes her all the more POPULAR!!!

And she's getting more coverage, EVEN NOW!

[G_j]

46. I don't think they are putting any importance on this story

the snippet I saw couldn't have been more than 30 seconds long.

[buff2]

21. Fascist nazis at work!

Gee....I wonder who could have told the authorities to arrest Cindy? Could it have been that little whimp as pussie who thinks he's president??? The little pansy ass bastard won't meet with her. He sure is a president for us all,isn't he? :sarcasm:

[OhioChick]

24. Cindy arrested?

I think they got the wrong person. He's "inside" the WH.

[LisaM]

25. Has she got * trapped in the White House?

Since he can never be where she is, my guess is that he wants to leave (if he's there at all; it seems as if he never is) and he can't do it while she is there.

[SteppingRazor]

28. Mass arrests and civil disobediance were PLANNED for today...

Don't panic. Cindy is one of many who will be arrested today, and the vast majority were counting on it.

On edit: Here's a link -- http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=3087

[Old Mouse]

36. They are now going to work on discrediting her

prepare for extreme swift boating.

[Melinda]

43. *they* have already started to discredit Sheehan here on DU

What a shocker, eh?

:eyes:

[Old Mouse]

49. Here?

I haven't noticed...

[RebelOne]

37. Drudge has it on his website with his flashing beacon.

[Alamom]

38. It's on MSNBC now.

[progressoid]

39. Well, of course. She's a threat to national security.

Do I have to add this?

:sarcasm:

[Mr_Spock]

40. Yay!! Go Cindy Go!! Just announced on CNN radio news on AAR!!

She's doing the right thing - we have a right to peacefully petition our government for a change. The government is asking for trouble by arresting people excercising their civil rights.

[Contrary1]

41. "blocking a Metro stop"

:eyes: How inflated will the fine be?

[Cleita]

42. Civil disobedience is appropriate when it's necessary to

break laws that are contrary to the common good. Rosa Parks did it, Ghandi did it, Martin Luther King did it and now we must do it if we are going to get our country back. Remember what the Nazis did to the Jews in the thirties. At first they made it unlawful for Jews to shop, eat in restaurants or stay in hotels. They made it unlawful for them to have jobs. In order to survive the Jews had to break the law. This of course got them arrested.

The camps and wholesale rounding up of Jews happened in the later years of the Reich. At first it started with unreasonable laws against them. This business of free speech zones and not being able to voice dissent are unreasonable laws like the segregation laws of the south back before the civil rights movement.

I say break the laws that keep us from letting Bush know that we are not happy campers and that we think his government is a rogue government that doesn't belong in the White House.

I say go Cindy go.

[DemonFighterLives]

44. I saw her being led off on Msnbc

She seemed to be smiling.
Meanwhile in Iraq - 3 more dead today.
This stupid pres. and his war should be jailed.

[Glimmer of Hope]

45. It doesn't like anyone else was arrested. Why was she singled out?

[Hepburn]

47. BRAVO FOR CINDY!!

Here is a photo of her arrest:



According to the article, she was the FIRST ONE arrested!! Link to USAToday article:


http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-09-26-sheehanarrested_x.htm

[elehhhhna]

48. HOTDAMN I WISH IWAS BUSTED WITH HER.

Sorry for the caps. Just felt like one of those moments--ya know when the city employee who's got a secret gay crush on Corky in "Waiting For Guffman" says in his elated but angst-ridden voice:"GOD I WISH I WAS IN THE SHOW". Yeah. That kind of momment.