Protesting Mother Arrested, Crowd Callous About Her Dead Son
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From the Associated Press:
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.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.
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.