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9/20 Anti-war mother's speech cut short" ... "An organizer was arrested and charged with using a loudspeaker without a permit." So if the city wants to ban protests, just don't issue permit? I guess freedom of gathering in this country is not as free as I thought. http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/20/sheehan.protest.ap/index.html \_ Feel free to gather, but your freedom to gather should not impinge on my freedom to have a quiet day at home away from peacenik numbnuts. There is no other country that protects individual freedoms to the extent that the USA does. None. \_ Are you 100% sure about that after the Patriot act? -- born in a country where gay marriage is legal, pot is legal, prostitution is legal, porn is freely displayed in stores, you have a right to die if you want, etc. \_ Yeah, but I bet you don't have a right to buy an enormous automobile and get cheap groceries at Walmart in whatever Communist hell you're from! |
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www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/20/sheehan.protest.ap/index.html jpg Cindy Sheehan speaks Friday at a rally held at Independence Hall, in Phil adelphia. NEW YORK (AP) -- Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan said Tuesday she was hur t slightly in a scuffle that erupted when police broke up a rally as she was at the microphone. An organizer was arrested and charged with using a loudspeaker without a permit. "I was speaking and someone grabbed my backpack and pulled me back pretty roughly," Sheehan said, describing the scene at Manhattan's Union Squar e on Monday. Sheehan, the grieving mother whose vigil near President Bush's Texas ranc h sparked anti-war protests around the country, said she wasn't roughed up by police, but was jostled when officers broke up the rally and arres ted organizer Paul Zulkowitz. "I think their use of force was pretty excessive for someone that didn't have a permit," Sheehan said. Paul Browne, spokesman for the New York Police Department, said Sheehan h ad finished speaking when officers arrested Zulkowitz, who had been repe atedly warned that he didn't have a permit. Zulkowitz was charged with unauthorized use of a sound device and disorde rly conduct. Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq last year, is calling for the immed iate return of troops from the region. Her 25-state tour is set to culmi nate Saturday with an anti-war march in Washington. She gained prominence when she staged a 26-day protest near Bush's ranch outside Crawford, Texas. |