Tina Richards Arrested outside of Pelosi's office 4/16/07

Marine Mom Arrested at Speaker Pelosi's
Washington, DC Office

VIDEO OF THE ARREST AVAILABLE FROM WHYNOTNews. Contact Alex Zeese www.WHYNotNews.org

Washington, DC: Today, Monday, April 16, 2007, Marine Mom Tina Richards was arrested at Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office. She was seeking to deliver a letter on behalf of a "Women's Delegation for Peace" (see letter below with bios of the delegation members).

Richards was joined by members of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Vets for Peace, Voters For Peace, Iraqi Voices for Peace, Democracy Rising, Code Pink, Washington Peace Center, Grassroots America (Tina Richard's educational organization) and other organizations and individuals.

The arrest occurred in the hallway outside of the Speaker's office as the delegation was protesting the media being forced to leave the Speaker's office. Advocates reacted by reading the First Amendment of the Constitution, "Congress shall make no law abridging the Freedom of the Press," and were shouting that phrase as well as urging an end to the war.

As she was being arrested Tina Richards said: "The Democrats should not buy Bush's war. They should fulfill the mandate the voters gave them in November 2006 to end the war and not extend it."

Her fellow anti-war advocates urged the police not to arrest the Marine mom, whose son, Cloy has served two tours of duty in Iraq and has been found by the VA to be 80% disabled. They described the arrest as "un-American" and urged the police to not arrest someone who was merely speaking out against the war within her rights under the Constitution.

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[Yelena335]

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[sanddemon51]

how many of these knuckeheads voted for Obama........dummies, you get more war, more and more of war......go home and do some gardening for your peace of mind

[autopsi]

Unfortunately, you can't exercise your First Amendment Rights on private property. Civil disobedience is still disobedience. She was clearly breaking the law. Disturbing the peace is a crime generally defined as the unsettling of proper order in a public space through one's actions. This can include creating loud noise by fighting or challenging to fight, disturbing others by loud and unreasonable noise, or using offensive words or insults likely to incite violence. She just had to be peaceful..

[samiemma]

Impeach Pelosi. She failed to fulfill her oath to defend the Constitution. Sat on her hands while Dubya and his clowns shredded our sacred document.

[flibbitygibet]

Most police are pigs. Oink oink oink. :3

[flibbitygibet]

You might have a point if there weren't Iraqi war vets there.

[bunnyluv41]

Point #1 - I agree that Tina Richards should not have been arrested for exercising her rights to free speech. But, there is a right way and a wrong way to go about it.

Point #2 - Did she write letters to her representatives and the Speaker of the House expressing her views on the war and her concerns for her son?

Point #3 - Whatever your views are about these issues, please write letters to your representatives on the Hill and send petitions - over and over.

[micahhope]

We have a volunteer military. Please ask you cowardly children who fear fighting to leave the military. As a military mom, you disgrace the brave men and women who knew what was involved when they willingly signed up.

[fukapple]

In you go! Nicely handcuffed behind, and off to a nice strip-search in jail.

[wowstcmoves]

Unconstitutional. This is the saddest case of crap I have ever seen. I am dissapointed in this country on so many levels.