What Happened in Dallas TX?

What do you expect, the democratic party is no longer standing up for our citizens, our freedom and our rights.
Remember what Harold Ford, Jr. said with a arrogant overtone, we can not let the democrats talk about issues on the war, we have to stop them. He also is condemning Dean which pulled our party together last year.
I know we are living in a dictatorship, but I must have missed the announcement.
But, he have to be nuts, not to know we are in one....

Leslie Harris recounted her experience at the World Affairs Council and that of Doreen (Geiger) during the Cheney visit. She asked if anyone knew who the other protester was. I would like to acquaint your readers with another, starker, perspective. I was the other heckler - although the term heckler (used by CBS in their media clip) is inaccurate, I prefer the title Accuser. I had spoken to Hadi (Shawad)of my plan with Joan (Killelea). My plan was too complicated for the security situation so I bade my time during the luncheon and the Cheney prepared speech - I wore an orange shirt and and brown cap, intending not alarm anyone since it was my intent to sit as close to the Vice President as possible. Unfortunately, as a new member of the World Affairs Council the best I could do was a red table at the very front but off to the far left side of the podium.
We each have our own approach to protesting government criminals and mine is individual - I waited during the lies of Cheney's pablum (no doubt penned for him by one of speechwriters) to the adoring crowd of a thousand conservatives. I heard Doreen at the back but could not see her nor make out her words - but I knew it was a protest. Yet I waited and chatted briefly with the three others at my table, elderly folks, a retired chemical engineer, his wife a retired high-school teacher, and one lady who smiled at me but did not speak - but they all applauded like everyone else around us, heartily when Cheney arrived and at every opportune moment during his speil - I kept my hands on the table. There were Secret Service agents stationed quite close to us, and looking everywhere, since we were just short of the red velvet rope separating our table #93 from the path to the podium. My time came when a student asked the right question on a Q and A card about the U.S. direction toward Iran. The VP began by saying that diplomacy was the path they taking, yet just three days before, at a Republican fundraiser he raised the spectre of a strike against Iran to destroy nuclear facilities - I briefly and quietly said to my tablemates that I apologize for embarassing them but now it is my turn, then I stood up facing the chairman's table where Lynn Cheney sat and pointing directly at Dick Cheney, I shouted, as loudly as I could, MR. CHAIRMAN, I OBJECT! THE VICE PRESIDENT IS A WAR CRIMINAL FOR THREATENING TO ATTACK THE STATE OF IRAN! The Vice President stopped talking and looked at me - you could hear a pin drop in that room - but two people grabbed me by the shoulders and one, the agent I had knew had been standing two steps and a velvet rope from me, said in my ear, Sir, you must leave now, if you resist we will have to arrest you. I had a choice, to complete my protest - "The President, George W. Bush, and the Vice President, Richard Cheney, have violated their sacred oath of office by violating Article Six, Section Two of the United States Constitution, by treaty, of the United Nations Charter, Article Two, Section Four, and hence the Supreme Law of the Land, that no signatory shall threaten another nation with attack, an act of war criminality." I did not complete what I meant to say - to my shame - I chickened out. And I was forcefully escorted out, past a lady who said as I walked by "shame on you", yes shame on me for not being willing to finish what I started - but I had no moral support around me unlike those having fun outside in the park protest. Near the back of the room I passed Joan, she saw me but I did not see her, only later by phone did she tell me that she heard my protest, saw me escorted out right by her and later saw and heard me on CBS local news. I went home discouraged. - Yesterday I saw a short note by JHarris (related?) in which he stated on the codepinkgreaterdallas news group that "The Cheney protest was effective, meaningful and fun. I'm very proud to be in all of your company. Thanks, peaceniks!" I wonder, given that there were empty tables in that room and many empty seats at tables, particularly near the sides, why, oh why, could not some of the partying protestors outside not have foregone the safety of the park, chatting safely with other peaceniks, to bait the lion in his den, like the few, very few, of us, what a disruption we could have caused, and maybe, just maybe, with a few other like minds around me, I would have had the heart the finish what I started. I too stand at protest lines, but when the opportunity arises to face the perpetrators of this Administration, or risk arrest (like my lone protest in June at the CBS Early Show live from Dallas at ATT Plaza) so few others seem to have the stomach anything except safety at a distance. I have been banned from CODEPINKGREATERDALLAS by Nancy Cunningham for speaking my conscience (and banned also from AirAmerica), my messages are DENIED by the servers. Authoritarianism is alive and well in Dallas.
Ken Fowler