Cindy Sheehan to Be Declared "Threat to National Security"
Cindy Sheehan, the mother whose son Casey was killed in Iraq and who has been camped out at Crawford, Texas until the Idiot in Chief will meet with her has been told that as of Thursday she will be considered a threat to national security and will be arrested.
Coincidentally, Rice and Rummy arrive on Thursday, and on Friday the rich people arrive for a GOP fundraiser. It would be embarrassing to have cranky poor people littering the lawn, so the mother of a fallen American soldier is now equated with Osama Bin Laden and is being stripped of her right to protest and dissent.
I don't invoke Bubba a lot, but there is no way Bill Clinton would let these people go to jail when all it would take is a few minutes of his time to meet with her. I do believe that above all Bill really cared about people and would never act like a spoiled rich brat who calls the cops and tells them to get all those dirty homeless people off the frat house lawn in time for the beer bust.
From pb on Kos:
According to the Bush administration... what constitutes a threat to national security?Isn't it nice that terror alerts can now be turned on an off like tap water in time for the Friday news dump.
Letting Osama escape? No...
Outing a CIA operative? No....
Destabilizing the Middle East? No...
Potentially interfering with a GOP fundraiser? Yes!
If you haven't seen TruthOut's short documentary on demonstrations by military people against the war where they talk about their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan and what they risk for speaking out, you can watch it here. It features Cindy Sheehan, and if you can hear her talk about her son without tearing up you are made of stronger stuff than me.
posted by Jane Hamsher @ 8/08/2005 11:20:00 AM
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