Cindy Sheehan Found Guilty of Misdemeanor

[Mr.LaBella]

WASHINGTON - Iraq (http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=Iraq) War protester Cindy Sheehan and 26 other peace activists were found guilty Thursday of protesting without a permit near the White House.
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They were each ordered to pay $75 in fines and court costs, but Sheehan's lawyer said he plans to appeal the verdict.

"We weren't demonstrating," Sheehan told reporters after the trial.
All the defendants contended they were trying to deliver petitions to the White House calling for an end to the war in Iraq on Sept. 26, but found no one willing to accept them.

"Our petitions were rejected like every request I have made of the president has been rejected," Sheehan said.
Sheehan, 48, of Berkeley, Calif., has tried repeatedly to meet with President Bush (http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=President+Bush) since her 24-year-old son, Casey, was killed in Iraq last year. She spent several weeks near the president's Crawford, Texas, ranch this summer, and plans to return there Thanksgiving week.

"I absolutely believe he has an obligation to meet with me," Sheehan said.
The defendants were among 300 people arrested by U.S. Park Police after they spent more than an hour on the Pennsylvania Avenue sidewalk north of the Executive Mansion. While some sat on the sidewalk, others chanted and sang songs. They were taken into custody after refusing police orders to leave.

"The actions they were taking were designed to attract attention," said U.S. District Magistrate Judge Alan Kay.
A federal regulation prohibits demonstrations without a required permit outside the White House by groups larger than 25 people.

"They were consciously violating the law for publicizing their case," Kay said.

Sheehan said she plans to take her peace activist message to Europe next month with stops in London and Madrid.

[Fenlore]

they should whip her in public view, that'll stop her.:flasher:

[swampwolf]

Cindy who? :idunno: Your 15 minutes are up beotch! :lolol:

[BIG-TARGET]

OK. So she started the anti-war movement over the death of her son,,,,,fair enough. I may not agree, but I must respect her motives.
She leave the anti war movement cause she felt betrayed/used by the democrats(democrats exploiting victims,,,,SHOCKING!!!:devilzeek ). Now she wants to run against Nancy Pelosi, since Pelosi won't impeach the EVIL BUSH!!!

Isn't it a little late in the game to impeach Bush now??? And if he was impeached,How would Sheehan feel about President Cheney???:madaddy: :devilzeek

From cause-celeb to attention whore in one year,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,sad:cry:



Sheehan May Challenge Pelosi in Election


By ANGELA K. BROWN,
AP
Posted: 2007-07-08 17:51:22
Filed Under: Politics (http://news.aol.com/politics)
CRAWFORD, Texas (July 8) - Six weeks after announcing her departure from the peace movement, Cindy Sheehan said Sunday that she plans to run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unless she introduces articles of impeachment against President Bush in the next two weeks.

Sheehan said she will run against the San Francisco Democrat in 2008 as an independent if Pelosi does not seek by July 23 to impeach Bush. That's when Sheehan and her supporters are to arrive in Washington, D.C., after a 13-day caravan and walking tour starting next week from the group's war protest site near Bush's Crawford ranch.

"Democrats and Americans feel betrayed by the Democratic leadership," Sheehan told The Associated Press. "We hired them to bring an end to the war. I'm not too far from San Francisco, so it wouldn't be too big of a move for me. I would give her a run for her money."

Messages left with Pelosi's staff were not immediately returned.

Sheehan announced in May that she was leaving the anti-war movement and selling her 5-acre Crawford lot. She said that she felt her efforts had been in vain and that she had endured smear tactics and hatred from the left, as well as the right.

She plans to make her official announcement Tuesday after what is expected to be her final weekend at the Crawford lot, which she sold to California radio talk show host Bree Walker.

Sheehan first came to Crawford in August 2005 during a Bush vacation, demanding to talk to him about the war that killed her son Casey in 2004.

She became the face of the anti-war movement during her 26-day roadside vigil, which was joined by thousands. But it also drew counterprotests of Bush supporters, many who said she was hurting troop morale.

Sheehan, who has never held political office, recently said that she was leaving the Democratic Party because it "caved" in to the president. Last week, she announced her caravan to Washington, D.C., which she calls the "people's accountability movement."

"I didn't expect to be back so soon, but the focus is different than it was before," Sheehan said Sunday. "Instead of talking and making accusations, we're going into communities and talking to the people who've been hurt by the Bush regime. We're finding out how we can help people."

Sheehan said she lives in a suburb of Sacramento but declined to disclose the city, citing safety reasons.


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2007-07-08 17:50:43

[Bruce]

I think just about everyone realizes that Cindy Sheehan is not mentaly balanced. Yes, she lost her son and she has my condolences over this, but he was a soldier and he did his duty. From what her husband and others said, she was always on the edge of mental instability and her sond death drove her over the edge. Her rantings and ravings caught the eye of the liberal media and they decided to make her a newsworthy media star. After a while she began to enjoy the spotlight and attention. verywhere she went she was followed by the media and liberal faithful. I began to think that the whole thing was a set up when she visited Hugo Chavez, after all what is he to her, except they both hate President Bush. Cindy Sheehan announced her "retirement" recently from her "quest", I think she was hoping that this would bring new attention to her. She failed to rekindle the success of her previous celebrity. People have begun to look at her as a joke. I think her latest "Announcement" is her way of saying "I'm Still Here".

[Once and Always]

...I think her latest "Announcement" is her way of saying "I'm Still Here".

Nothing brings more :ron: edit media attention that a wife/mother of a shooting victim or in this case a young man dying in what they preceive as an unjust war. The free publicity and attention often is exploited by policticos with some degree of success. See Carolyn McCarthy, Sarah Brady and others.
:hairpull:

[Danbo]

She needs to shut her fucking cock locker.

Also, is there an uglier female on the Planet? I'm thinking not. She/it looks like she fell out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch on the way down.

Oh yeah, she needs to shut up too.

[mack1]

It would seem she's forgotten that her son, like everyone currently in the Military, volunteered!
She, like many, may feel it's "an unjust war", but her son did his duty!

I, too, am sorry for her loss. But this seems to reek of blackmail and, perhaps, if she were arrested for it, she might get the psycological help she needs.:signhere: :jdwink2:

[Umberto]

She's sassy.
I like her.

[Gonz]

ain't that thing dead yet?


I'm losing all faith in natural selection. :cry:

[denofearth]

Unfortunately, there are only two rules to war:
1. Young men and women die.
2. Nobody can change rule #1.

Very Best (albeit saddened) Regards,
Den

[TacoMan5000]

They neglected to mention the little vacation she took with the money she received from her son's death. Anyone have that particular article?

[RLS]

Sheehan and Pelosi are two of the most worthless women on earth , except for Hillary. I dont hate women ,just politically motivated ones.

[BIG-TARGET]

Cindy Sheehan's new election posters:
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