- The facts behind this week's arrest of
Cindy Sheehan are not completely clear, but it appears she was arrested
for merely standing outside a public building in peaceful protest, not
being a nuisance or acting in an offensive manner.
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- But in today's political climate offensive,
according to Bush minions, means anything contrary to the Bush party line,
a line Sheehan again crossed like she did when she was hauled out of the
House gallery at the State of the Union Address for wearing an anti-war
tee-shirt.
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- This time at a U.N. Tuesday protest in
New York, the official charges released were criminal trespassing and resisting
arrest, but from photos it looked like police were doing the roughhousing
in what seemed like a good old fashioned New York Police mugging, as Sheehan
was literally manhandled, according to the photos.
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- Not surprising, cried war and civil libertarians
after Sheehan's arrest, as the crackdown of freedom of speech rights is
now getting downright ugly while the Bush military machine marches on toward
eventual fascism.
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- However, other observers who were old
enough to remember Kent State and the actions of the Chicago Police force
during the heyday of the Vietnam war protests, remind Americans that this
type of barbaric military force is nothing new.
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- For example, many Americans forget how
students were killed at Kent State for protesting and how gestapo tactics
were used on peaceful protestors on Chicago streets during rallies held
during a political convention.
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- However, as America now is on the verge
of full-blown fascism, what's particularly disturbing about the treatment
used against Sheehan is that she's obviously being used as an example,
as police could have used more discretion in targeting a grieving mother
who lost her son in Iraq and who was no threat at disturbing the peace.
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