A Saturday rally led by anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan at Travis Air Force Base nearly ended in a brawl when a military veteran physically confronted the protesters.
Anti-war group Code Pink demonstrated at the military base Saturday morning in the first of six planned protests against unmanned military drones currently in use in overseas war zones. I guess Cindy would rather that we kill people up close and personal, which leads to more American casualties
Sheehan, a well-known and much ignored
anti-war activist whose son was killed while serving in Iraq in 2004, was leading the demonstration with a megaphone when a man dressed in a formal military uniform stepped up to her and berated her.
Videotape of the incident shows that Sheehan yelled "Get out of my face" through the megaphone at the man, with the megaphone literally in his face
who slapped the device away. Other protesters immediately joined Sheehan and traded insults with the man, and a shoving match broke out.
Military police quickly pulled the two sides apart.
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#1 Attention whore at Gate 1. Proceed with caution.
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#2 "When part of Code Pink's caravan paused in the middle of the road, Sheehan was given a ticket for impeding traffic. "I got assaulted by this old man and I'm the one given a ticket. So, yeah, it's bulls***," Sheehan said.Several members of Code Pink said they wanted charges filed against the man in uniform, but no arrests were made."
Er - so shoving a bullhorn in someone's face and screaming like a demented banshee isn't assault? Nice way to support the troops, beeyotch - damage their hearing!
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