Wednesday, July 28th, 2004
Medea Benjamin Dragged Off DNC Floor in Handcuffs For Unfurling "End the Occupation of Iraq" Banner

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/28/1327236
As Teresa Heinz Kerry gave her prime-time address that never mentioned Iraq, Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin attemped to bring an anti-war message onto the floor of the convention. Moments later police were dragging her out of the Fleet Center. As Teresa Heinz Kerry spoke last night, on the floor of the convention, Medea Benjamin from Global Exchange and CodePink unfurled a pink colored banner that read "End the Occupation of Iraq." That apparently was not one of the DNC-approved messages of the night because within moments of the banner being unfurled, police were called in to remove Medea Benjamin.

Benjamin was dragged off the convention floor and thrown out of the FleetCenter. She said that the DNC was asked whether they wanted her arrested and that they decided that would not look good.

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Well, I don't know. I suppose they can't allow delegates to start bringing in signs and banners to trumpet their pet causes. Imagine a convention floor with all these banners flying as the keynote speakers gave their addresses:

End the Occupation of Iraq
Keep Jobs in America Where they Belong
Fire the Supreme Court Five
Al Gore is My President
Abortion Rights Now!
No War for Oil
You Need Two Johns to Relieve a Dick and a Bush
Patriotic Americans Don't Get Over the Theft of an Election
Help Stop Global Warming--Sell Your SUV
Give the Village of Crawford Back its Idiot
Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?
George W. Bush--The Great Misleader
Not Iraq--It's al Qaeda, Stupid!

Oh, what a mess it would be. :rolleyes:

And what a wonderful mess it would be!
Sure they have rules but to drag someone off in handcuffs? What a brutal society we have become.

There are always two sides of a story and perhaps they asked her nicely to put the sign down and she refused..perhaps she got belligerant toward the officers so they handcuffed her. Or maybe not.

Either way it is disturbing that the party of freedom would stoop to the Nazi tactics of those in power. I guess it has become accepted in this society to squash any dissent with brutal force.