Arresting

Cindy Sheehan, who had the gall to stage a protest in Washington DC at a time when our noble nation is [poorly] at war with ocean weather cycles, has been arrested.

Sheehan, carrying a photo of her son in his Army uniform, was among hundreds of protesters who marched around the White House and then down the two-block pedestrian walkway on Pennsylvania Avenue. When they reached the front of the White House, dozens sat down -- knowing they would be arrested -- and began singing and chanting "Stop the war now!"

Police warned them three times that they were breaking the law by failing to move along, then began making arrests. One man climbed over the White House fence and was quickly subdued by Secret Service agents.

Sheehan, 48, was the first taken into custody. She smiled as she was carried to the curb, then stood up and walked to a police vehicle while protesters chanted, "The whole world is watching."

The Whole World is Watching. It should be one of the key memes of the next election. The whole world has seen the US fail in the war on terror in Afghanistan, fail in the extension of the neo-con wet dream war by invading Iraq, and fail at protecting their own citizens, breaking the core contract of any society. The whole world has watched as this Administration has bankrupted the country while corroding the value of the simple democratic system of the single vote voiced; the world has seen The Administration walk all over our civil rights and scoff at equal legal protections, while pursuing obscene intervention in personal life decisions. The whole world has watched this country make foolish promises it could leave only unfulfilled; and fail to demonstrate the leadership needed at every juncture.

The Whole World has seen it. It's time that Americans see it for what it is.