Cindy Sheehan arrested at protest
The anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan was arrested yesterday after she and hundreds of others demonstrated outside the White House.
Mrs Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, was among the first protesters to be arrested after about 200 of them sat in circles on the pavement outside the White House, close to Lafayette Park, in a act designed to provoke the police to act. The demonstrators, who had earlier swarmed around Mrs Sheehan in support, booed the police as they took protesters away and chanted: "The whole world's watching."
The demonstrators were charged with demonstrating without a permit, an offence which carries a $50 (\ufffd28) fine.
Personally I think this was a mistake on her part. She gains nothing and looses some respect by getting herself arrested this way. But I don't think it's a big deal either, despite what some extremists at either end are trying to make of it.
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The rumors are true this time. I was arrested in front of the White House today. It was my first time ever being arrested.
We proceeded from Lafayette Park to the Guard House at the White House.
I, my sister, and other Gold Star Families for Peace members and some Military Families requested to meet with the President again. We again wanted to know: What is the Noble Cause? Our request was, to our immense shock and surprise, denied. They wouldn't even deliver any letters or pictures of our killed loved ones to the White House.
The events in Sheehan's words.
Jay
