Woman Disrupts First Lady's Speech

[Guest]

to try and get some answers as to the death of her 24-year-old son in Iraq. (She was wearing a T-shirt that said "George Bush killed my son.")

Police removed her from the speech area. She wasn't dangerous, she wasn't threatening, she was a mom who wanted answers. Specifically, she wanted to know if the Senators who were voting to send these young men and women into harm's way were sending their own children, too.

When she continued to plead her case to a group of reporters (quite calmly and far removed from the First Lady) police officers cuffed her and put her in a police van.

The cuffed her!

She was eventually charged with defiant trespass and released.

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/st...ff/story/0001/20040916/2013578097.htm&sc=1131


I suppose she didn't sign her loyalty oath.


All joking aside, this makes me sick to my stomach.

 

[Edward Teach]

to try and get some answers as to the death of her 24-year-old son in Iraq. (She was wearing a T-shirt that said "George Bush killed my son.")

Police removed her from the speech area. She wasn't dangerous, she wasn't threatening, she was a mom who wanted answers. Specifically, she wanted to know if the Senators who were voting to send these young men and women into harm's way were sending their own children, too.

When she continued to plead her case to a group of reporters (quite calmly and far removed from the First Lady) police officers cuffed her and put her in a police van.

The cuffed her!

She was eventually charged with defiant trespass and released.

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/st...ff/story/0001/20040916/2013578097.htm&sc=1131


I suppose she didn't sign her loyalty oath.


All joking aside, this makes me sick to my stomach.

The article you cite ends with the following quote:

``Too many people here had a loved one that went to work in New York that day,'' Bush said. ``It's for our country, it's for our children, our grandchildren that we do the hard work of confronting terror.''


The Bush's are so dedicated to fighting terror. Why, I'll bet a big dog that Jenna and Barbara join the military any day now.

Ed

 

[cantdog]

Creepy stuff, but powerful people elicit this sort of thing from cops. They know who they are there to help.

I've been in both classes. Those whom they are there to help and defend (when they fucking well feel like it) and those whom they feel no obligation to assist in any way. I once associated with some ladies and gentlemen upon whom the cops preyed, but I never personally belonged to that class of people. They will leave you stranded on the road if you're scruffy and poor. They will beat you up if you're lower-class and loud. They will screw you over out of idleness if you're the wrong race or something. But they are very solicitous of the well-heeled and the powerful.

Tried to get a burglary investigated, but I wasn't well-to-do or well-connected: they didn't even come into the house. Mrs. Richbitch got broken into and they haul out the CSI equipment, and fawn all over her, making like they care.

They're armed, too, and no one is going to arrest them. I had to stand there under his partner's eye while a cop slammed a girl around for no particular reason except that he liked to beat women up.

The policeman is our friend.

And when I belonged to that class of people they do things for, they saved my butt from inconvenience over and over.

During a general emergency, like the hurricane aftermath, they are heroic and outstandingly good even to the poorest, but when it's business as usual, the poorest duck when they see one.

Who lines up to shoot the peaceful civil rights marchers? Who shouts and yells, threatens and spreadeagles on the ground my blind friend?

"He raised his stick in a threatening manner and he didn't respond to my orders."

Yeah. And he was young. And he was poor. And didn't the lawyer make mincemeat of them in court? Yeah, baby.

So they followed him around-- what the hell, he was blind, it wasn't hard-- and then hit him with a stupid misdemeanor charge. A girl said, "Hold this, would ya?" so he took the cigarette. She fixed her shoe and then took the cigarette back. They had the whole thing on video tape, dude. Video! Tell me they weren't laying for him. Providing tobacco to a minor-- 220 dollars, please fucking remit to the clerk.

Cops.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

...She was wearing a T-shirt that said "George Bush killed my son." ... She wasn't dangerous, she wasn't threatening ... police officers cuffed her and put her in a police van...

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[GingerV]

You know, I really want to feel more sick than I do about this woman. I hate the way she was treated.

But after the loyalty oath, there just isn't a lot of "more" for my sickness level to climb to.

Did ANY other president feel the need to have citizens write down on paper that they promised to support him before telling them what he thought and planned to do with the country? Really, I want to know.

G

 

[Guest]

Loyalty Oath -

There hasn't been a great deal made of the loyalty oath in the press, unfortunately. When Bush speech attendees have to sign their support before allowing to be in the audience?

I've heard Kerry discuss it in interviews, and I've heard Bush frontmen deny it. Over and over. (Just another lie, I suppose.)

But I'd really love to see that information broadcast far and wide.

 

[rgraham666]

Every time I read about Shrub II and his courtiers, that favourite saying of mine bounces around in my head.

What you resist, you become.

There's that damned sound again. The sound of people knitting.

 

[razor_nut]

Authoritarianism marches on in the name of defeating terror. Welcome to the New World Order.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Every time I read about Shrub II and his courtiers, that favourite saying of mine bounces around in my head.

What you resist, you become.

There's that damned sound again. The sound of people knitting.

You hit that nail square on the head, RG.

---dr.M.