[Marxism] Sheehan arrested during anti-war protest

["Charles Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

        Sheehan arrested during anti-war protest

        By JENNIFER C. KERR
        Associated Press Writer

                        
                
                WASHINGTON (AP) -- Cindy Sheehan, the California woman who
has used her son's death in Iraq to spur the anti-war movement, was arrested
Monday while protesting outside the White House.

        Sheehan and several dozen other protesters sat down on the sidewalk
after marching along the pedestrian walkway on Pennsylvania Avenue. Police
warned them three times that they were breaking the law by failing to move
along, then began making arrests.

        Sheehan, 48, was the first taken into custody. She stood up and was
handcuffed, then led to a police vehicle while protesters chanted, "The
whole world is watching."

        Others who were arrested also cooperated with police. Sgt. Scott
Fear, spokesman for the U.S. Park Police, said they would be charged with
demonstrating without a permit, which is a misdemeanor.

                 Park Police Sgt. L.J. McNally said Sheehan and the others
would be taken to a processing center where they would be fingerprinted and
photographed, then given a ticket and released. The process would take
several hours, he said.

        Sheehan's 24-year-old son, Casey, was killed in an ambush in Sadr
City, Iraq, last year. She attracted worldwide attention last month with her
26-day vigil outside President Bush's Texas ranch.

        Sheehan was among several hundred demonstrators who marched around
the White House on Monday and then stopped in front and began singing and
chanting "Stop the war now!" Organizers had said some planned to be
arrested.

        The demonstration is part of a broader anti-war effort on Capitol
Hill organized by United for Peace and Justice, an umbrella group.
Representatives from anti-war groups were meeting Monday with members of
Congress to urge them to work to end the war and bring home the troops.

                        Smith reports Sheehan was taken into custody after
she staged a sit-in at the White House.
                
                        
                

        The protest following a massive demonstration Saturday on the
National Mall that drew a crowd of 100,000 or more, the largest such
gathering in the capital since the war began in March 2003.

        On Sunday, a rally supporting the war drew roughly 500 participants.
Speakers included veterans of World War II and the war in Iraq, as well as
family members of soldiers killed in Iraq.

        "I would like to say to Cindy Sheehan and her supporters don't be a
group of unthinking lemmings. It's not pretty," said Mitzy Kenny of
Ridgeley, W.Va., whose husband died in Iraq last year. The anti-war
demonstrations "can affect the war in a really negative way. It gives the
enemy hope."

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        On the Net:

        United for Peace and Justice: http://www.unitedforpeace.org

        Families United for our Troops: http://www.unitedforourtroops.com

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