Protesting Mother Arrested, Crowd Callous About Her Dead Son

Published on September 17, 2004 By blogic In Politics

A woman wearing a T-shirt with the words "President Bush You Killed My Son" and a picture of a soldier killed in Iraq was detained Thursday after she interrupted a campaign speech by first lady Laura Bush.

As shouts of "Four More Years" subsided, Niederer, standing in the middle of a crowd of some 700, continued to shout about the killing of her son. Local police escorted her from the event, handcuffed her and put her in the back of a police van.

I think what I find really creepy about this was that the Bush supporters kept shouting "Four More Years" to drown out this poor woman. Laura Bush could have expressed her sympathy and said why the war had to be fought -- a common way to handle hecklers -- but instead she ignored the mother, and the crowd moved into a sort of mindless chant that replaces reason with unquestioning loyalty to their leader.

Comments

Deference

on Sep 17, 2004

Yeah! Drag away those unpatriotic dissenters, they don't have any babies left to fight for us, so they're worthless anyway!

jesusstayscrunchy

on Sep 17, 2004

We are the Republicans. Lower your shields and surrender your children. Their biological distinctiveness will be used to furthur our Imperial Cause. Dissent will be crushed. Resistance is futile.

ShoZan

on Sep 17, 2004

Problem is, this sort of protesting and taking away is done on both sides.

ShoZan

on Sep 17, 2004

Not to mention both sides will send you to war when it suits there cause.

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