National Security at Risk (starting Thursday) - Start Rounding Up the Gold Star Mothers

David Swanson at dKos is reporting that Dear Leader is going to have Cindy Sheehan arrested because as of Thursday, she will be a threat to National Security.  via Susie:

Cindy Sheehan phoned me from Texas a few minutes ago to say that she's been informed that beginning Thursday, she and her companions will be considered a threat to national security and will be arrested.  Coincidentally, Thursday is the day that Rice and Rumsfeld visit the ranch, and Friday is a fundraiser event for the haves and the have mores.  Cindy said that she and others plan to be arrested.

I have to admit that I'm surprised by this decision.  We've seen protesters in Atlanta on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day  blocked from Dear Leader's view by buses.  We've seen tanks roll into peaceful anti-BushCo demonstrations.  We've seen GOP operatives impersonate Secret Service agents and deny access to a BushCo speech to three people who's crime was the bumper sticker on the car they rode to the rally in.  We've seen people hauled out of BushCo events for wearing NARAL t-shirts.   We've seen peaceful protesters kicked on the floor of the Republican National Convention.  We've seen peaceful protesters shot at with pepper spray guns.  We've seen peaceful protesters and innocent bystanders rounded up and held in for days in a toxic pen on Pier 57 during the Republican National Convention.  We've seen video tapes of their "crimes" doctored and presented as evidence during their trials. 

We've seen the President flip off protesters standing peacefully on the side of the road as his bus sped by.  We've seen him flip off the press that dared to ask him a question he didn't want to hear.  We've seen the campaign reporter for the NYT banned from Cheney's plane. 

But we've never seen a Gold Star mother arrested for craven political purposes.

Oh wait ... we have.

Comments

[liberal elite]

Great links. Fun writing. It's nice to know some of us out there can take all the bad news without losing our composure.

[DavidByron]

Oh, nice catch!
It's almost cheating to have a good memory in politics.