Equality [?] At first, considering the headlines, it sounds as if the DC cops were pretty even-handed. After reading a bit further, though, i wonder:

Police Remove Sheehan From Bush Speech

By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer

Cindy Sheehan finally got her invitation to see President Bush again, but before she set eyes on him at the State of the Union address, Capitol Police removed her from the gallery overlooking the House chamber.

The offense: her shirt, bearing an anti-war message and other "unlawful conduct," police said.

Sheehan, the mother of a fallen soldier in Iraq who reinvigorated the anti-war movement, was handcuffed and charged with unlawful conduct, according to Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider. The charge was a misdemeanor and Sheehan was being released on her own recognizance, Schneider said.

Schneider said Sheehan had worn a T-shirt with an anti-war slogan to Tuesday night's speech and covered it up until she took her seat. Police warned her that such displays were not allowed in the House chamber, but she did not respond, the spokeswoman said.

Meanwhile:

Lawmaker's Wife Told to Leave During Bush Speech

[Reuters]

The wife of a senior House of Representatives Republican was told to leave the House chamber during President George W. Bush's State of the Union speech for wearing a shirt bearing words of support for U.S. troops.

...

Young said a guard at the House chamber called her "a demonstrator and a protester."

Her shirt said "Support the Troops Defending Our Freedom."

Which troops would those be?

I am unaware of any US troops currently defending my freedom. (Or the Congressman's wife's freedom, for that matter.)

I am aware that i have a son-in-law on active duty and getting shot at.

The only troops we cuurently have engaged in action are waging a badly-run follow-up to the wrongheaded invasion of a sovereign nation, an invasion not justified by the known facts at the time, and even less so as more evidence of the lies that got us into it has come to light.

Anyway.

Note that the Congressman's wife is "told to leave", but "Police Remove" Sheehan.

And what "unlawful conduct" did Sheehan engage in that the Congressman's lady didn't, that Sheehan was handcuffed and charged with a misdemeanor, but Mrs. Young was not.

I didn't know that lese majeste was even a misdemeanor in the US, and that's about all the woman has actually done.

'Twould appear that Georgie doesn't like people pointing out that he's a bit lightly dressed, or, as someone once said of Brigitte Bardot, barefoot right up to his neck.

And the sad part -- and it would be funny if more than 2400 of our troops and Lord knows how many Iraqis hadn't died in the war he started -- is that he didn't buy this suit from a bunch of con men...

He made it himself, loudly insisting all along that he knew what he was doing.
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