To our English friends: Please HELP

[eauclaireliberal]

I'm sure you have all heard of Cindy Sheehan. She is going to be arrested for reasons of "national security."

I have tried to find a BBC contact, to no avail.

If you can, please demand that the BBC send reporters to Texas and D.C. to show the world what a bunch of lying, murdering thugs the Bush administration is, and that they would arrest a greiving mother for practicing her right to free speech.

http://dailykos.com/story/2005/8/8/124941/6758

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. I haven't been following the story

Have they given a reason why they intend to arrest her on Thursday, and not now? It seems like an invitation to get as many news crews there as possible (which I think the BBC would be interested in). Or am I missing something obvious? I can't see how they can predict when someone will turn into a threat to national security, to the day.

[eauclaireliberal]

3. I wondered about that myself,

and came up with the following conclusion: The Bush administration needs time to prepare themselves and their whore media (FOX, CNN, etc.) for what is sure to become a major event to distract every American idiot from Karl Rove's acts of treason and the war on Iraq.

Hence the reason that the BBC and other foreign media sources are the only way that folks like us can get something resembling the truth about our own nation. Sad, isin't it?

Land of the free, my ass.

[T_i_B]

5. The grieving mother who took on George Bush

I think this is the first time I've seen this story covered in the UK press.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article306158.ece

Something strange is taking place deep in the heart of Texas, where the President of the United States is holed up at his Prairie Chapel ranch, a few miles from the town of Crawford. There, in the space of a few days, a middle-aged Californian, whose soldier son died in Iraq, has become arguably the best-known woman in the US.

On one level, the attention generated by 48-year-old Cindy Sheehan - from the hitherto obscure town of Vacaville, an hour's drive north-east of San Francisco - merely proves the old adage that, like nature, the news business cannot tolerate a vacuum.

Obedient to the tradition that an American President must be covered 24 hours a day, 365 days a year (including holidays) dozens of White House reporters are having to spend this sweltering August on the plains of central Texas as George Bush takes his customary extended summer vacation.

Three days after Haditha, Cindy Sheehan set up camp at a junction in the road three miles south of the President's ranch - as near as the Secret Service would permit. As the national media latched on to the story, "Camp Casey" grew. By Sunday evening more than 100 people were camped there, including some who had driven 1,000 miles or more. A few leave, but others arrive to take their place. For several hours during the day, their numbers were swollen by hundreds of anti-war protesters.

[Kipling]

2. I'd be surprised if they didn't...

Sounds pretty newsworthy to me.

[supernova]

4. They plan to do a fundraising event over the weekend

So it would make sense they would want to get rid of the "rabble" before the weekend.