<p>“handles having a gay daughter” what should there be to “handle”</p>
<p>that phrase speaks volumes for the people in this country, that a father has to worry about having a gay daughter because people judge</p>
<p>yeah, soon carrying the wrong sign at a convention can get you arrested</p>
<p>yep, sign carriers are dangerous</p>
<p>Ok, laura. </p>
<p>At a formal event, such behavior is not tolerated.</p>
<p>citygirlsmom, it was the State of the Union address, one of the most frickin’ important speeches of the year. It was a formal event. At worst, she should have at least had some respect for the members of congress and other dignitaries who were there. She was clearly wearing the shirt to be inflammatory, not as an expression of “free speech.”</p>
<p>Fountainsiren: 0
SBmom: 1</p>
<p>I enjoy reading FS’s posts and consider myself somewhat conservative. However, SBmom’s post about shades of grey? Well I thought it was wonderful.</p>
<p>Protests aren’t allowed inside the capitol building. People get removed from the senate and house gallerys all the time, have for years. I’m sure Karl is personally waterboarding her right now.</p>
<p>thanks kyedor.</p>
<p>CGM, I said “handles” because it freaks out his base that he has a gay kid, but he’s matter of fact about it, so I admire that.</p>
<p>Why would you think that we don’t like his children? You really don’t get it, do you? None of us care what his daughter does in the bedroom…only people like you do. We don’t care. You do.</p>
<p>“Simple free speech can get you arrested now. Welcome to the police state.”</p>
<p>Nowadays? </p>
<p>The simple excercise of free speech has been getting people arrested in this country for at least two centuries. Do the names, Martin Luther King, Jr. and J. Edgar Hoover ring a bell? But it was the arrest of Cindy Sheehan at the Capital last night that heralded the advent of America as a “police state”? …okayyyy…</p>
<p>Cindy Sheehan has been “saying what she wants”, loudly and vociferously, leveraging her status as a “greiving mother” for personal aggrandizment for more than a year now. That she can get people to defend her rhetoric, while condemning the U.S. to police state status is a marvel I won’t soon forget.</p>
<p>A rule against demonstrative acts of protest (by the public) in the halls of congress might seem to be a contradiction. But there is a proper time and place for demonstrative dissent. The clouds have somewhat parted this morning, so we seem to have gotten more clarity as to what happed to Ms. Sheehan last night. If the latest news reports are true (the media is SO LAZY), Capitol Police probably overreacted with their initial charges against her (disrupting the event). I understand now that the initial charge has been withdrawn and that a citation was issued to her for simply “unlawful conduct,” whatever that means. Apparently there was no banner.</p>
<p>But arrested with no family contact, nolawyer and for however long they want</p>
<p>It is already going on</p>
<p>First they came for Cindy Sheehan, and I did not speak out–
because I was not a raving loon;
Then they came for Congressman Young’s wife, and I did not speak out–
Because I was not a flag-waving imperialist warmonger…</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.local6.com/news/6647094/detail.html[/url]”>http://www.local6.com/news/6647094/detail.html</a></p>
<p>Well we all know that Bush will not speak out in front of audiences that do not agree with him.
Poetsheart…I know what we had before, that’s why it seems like deju vous all over again. I lived through a lot of it.
If you can’t have the right to say your views…very quietly…on a tee shirt (which most people would probably not even had noticed without the big publicity!) in the Halls of Congress, where all views are supposed to be expressed and debated, where can you say it???
No other viewpoints allowed anymore…without arrest and wiretap. They forget the past, when you crush opposing voices, they just get louder…</p>
<p>Back to the topic of Cindys True Colors: They are certainly NOT red, white, and blue!</p>
<p>She has referred to insurgents as freedom fighters, basically sympathizing with the very people her son fought against.</p>
<p>She is cavorting with anti-American foreign leaders like Chavez.</p>
<p>She referred to the relief effort after Katrina as New Orleans being Occupied.</p>
<p>She questioned whether Bush is Three times the terrorist Osama Bin Laden is. </p>
<p>After comments like that, it was more than appropriate to uninvited her to the most important presidential speech of the year. This woman is incapable of conducting herself with proper behavior expected at a State Of The Union address. Even democratic senators, who vehemently disagree with Bush, show a certain amount of reverence at this formal event. </p>
<p>In our great country, Cindy Sheehan can exercise her freedom of speech to spew her hatred of Bush and America at a more appropriate venue.</p>
<p>“deju vous all over again”</p>
<p>LOL</p>
<p>SBmom, I loved your eloquent shades-of-grey post. You obviously understand grief. My parents had to deal with the deaths of both my teenage brothers. Some of the younger posters here have a lot to learn about life, death, and the grieving process.</p>
<p>I can only wonder what her son would think of his mother - I am sure he joined the military as a patriotic American and died fighting for what he believed in and so doing gives his mother the right to be free. She does have the right to speak her mind under our freedoms but I am pretty certain he would be embarrassed by her and her actions. I also, have the right to speak my mind and I find her offensive, unpatriotic and an egotistical idiot. She is not doing this out of grief - she is doing it for attention. Even her husband couldn’t stand her behavior and divorced her as a result - good for him!!! Perhaps she would benefit from some grief counseling. She has ruined her son’s memory and her marriage - what a shame .</p>
<p>browninfall, I am glad you are one of the Cheney/Bush supporters with a more libertarian view. </p>
<p>huntsman, thanks. I know neither of us would wish that lesson on anyone.</p>
<p>MarylandMom, I don’t think anyone thinks less of Casey because of Cindy’s comments or behavior. I certainly do not. As for the wrecked marriage-- marriages are common casualties of a child’s death, too. I feel sorry for her husband, who lost a child and also lost his ‘normal’ wife.</p>
<p>I recently read a report that said that marriages tend to stay together when a child is lost. I don’t think her failed marriage has nothing to do with their son’s death as much as it has to do with her crazy, idiotic, anti-American acting out. I agree with MarylandMom that this woman needs grief counseling not anti-war demonstrations.</p>
<p>huntsman - fyi, don’t assume you know that some of us posters are younger and haven’t experienced a similar tragedy.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.menningerclinic.com/resources/death_child.htm[/url]”>http://www.menningerclinic.com/resources/death_child.htm</a></p>
<p>She must have been a fruitcake before her son’s death. I’ll bet her behavior now is what broke the camel’s back for the husband.</p>
<p>interesting article, thanks for posting.</p>