CINDY SHEEHAN ARRESTED AT THE WHITE HOUSE

This weekend as many as 300,000 people showed up to protest Bush's illegal and disastrous occupation of Iraq. (And there was a very sad counter-demonstration by about 60 pro-war people, mostly young congressional staffers from Capitol Hill, the same kind of white collar hooligans who rioted while the Florida election commissioners were trying to count votes in 2000.) Today Cindy Sheehan, holding a photograph of Casey, was arrested and dragged away from the White House for leading the demonstration. According to the Associated Press, Scotty McClellan, Bush's press secretary and an employer of male prostitutes posing as journalists, mumbled that "it's the right of the American people to peacefully express their views. And that's what you're seeing here in Washington, D.C." There were too many people watching and too many television cameras (mostly from other countries) for Cindy to be roughed up or taken to Guantanamo for a little Rumsfeld torture. One of the criminals with whom Bush surrounds himself, Karl Rove, dismissed Cindy and called her "a clown." It's ironic that she's in prison for using the rights guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution and he's still not in prison for High Treason. But, then again, none of the Bush Crime Family associates-- from Kenny-boy Lay to Tom DeLay and Bob Ney-- are in prison yet.