When Dogs Get Better Treatment...

An unusual guest of tonight's State of the Union Address was a dog, Rex, a 5-year-old German shepherd, fit in with the other Iraq war veterans.

Shortly before the SOTU, peace activist Cindy Sheehan, was arrested by Capitol police and questioned in a separate House room for about an hour. Sheehan had been invited to be a guest at the speech by Rep. Lynn Woolsey, a Democrat from her home state of California. Reporters say that Sheehan was arrested and asked to leave the room because she refused to cover up a T-shirt bearing an anti-war slogan before President Bush’s State of the Union address. Freedom of the Speech oh yeah!.

Update:

"Capitol Police dropped a charge of unlawful conduct against antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan Wednesday and offered apologies to her as well as a congressman’s wife after they were ejected from President Bush’s State of the Union address for wearing T-shirts with war messages.

Police removed Sheehan and Beverly Young, the wife of Rep. C.W. “Bill” Young, R-Fla., from the visitors gallery Tuesday night. Sheehan was taken away in handcuffs before Bush’s arrival at the Capitol and charged with a misdemeanor, while Young was not arrested.

Capitol Police did not explain why Sheehan was arrested and Young was not. However the unlawful conduct charge against Sheehan was being dropped, according to Deputy House Sergeant of Arms Kerri Hanley. And in a private meeting Wednesday, Capitol Police Chief Terrance Gainer apologized and planned to issue a statement, Rep. Thomas told reporters.

“They were operating under the misguided impression that the T-shirt was not allowed,” Hanley said Wednesday. “The fact that she (Sheehan) was wearing a T-shirt is not enough reason to be asked to leave the gallery, or be removed from the gallery, or be arrested.”"

(Via bareknucklepolitics)

PS: Mmmm was it because of freedom of speech or because the other case was about the wife of a Republican lawmaker?