Doctor Margaret Flowers Arrested at Senate Hearing on Kunduz

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Not really a 1st Amendment issue; interrupt a Senate hearing

and an arrest is likely, and courts are fine with that.

Anti-war protesters sat in the front row of the hearing with red coloring on their faces. They carried signs that read: “Health care not warfare” and “Kunduz victims: RIP.”

Dr. Margaret Flowers shouted “Bombing hospitals is a war crime! Stop the bombing now!” She was escorted from the room and then brought to the Capitol Hill jail.

http://www.talkradionews.com/world-news/2015/10/06/top-u-s-commander-in-afghanistan-hospital-mistakenly-struck.html

Maryland Green Party U.S. Senate candidate Margaret Flowers was arrested Tuesday morning at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on instruction of committee chairman Sen. John McCain. Flowers and several CODEPINK activists attended the hearing to protest the U.S. bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan Saturday that killed at least 22 people including patients and children.

http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2015/10/06/flowers-arrested-while-protesting-kunduz-bombing-at-senate-hearing/comment-page-1/

Getting arrested is rather the point.