Rumsfeld Protester Injured, Gives Insider Account

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Rumsfeld Protester Injured, Gives Insider Account
This article courtesy of Atlanta Progressive News.

(APN) ATLANTA – Protester Gloria Tatum, 62, was injured at a protest against Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense, today, from when she was shouting at Rumsfeld, and has a bruise on her back, Tatum says. The noted local activist gave her first hand account of the heckling of Rummy to Atlanta Progressive News.

“I had a bruise and I thought someone hit at me from behind. When I look at the tape, the woman was pulling me down, but I don’t know if she was in the crowd or with security. At the time, it felt I had been hit from behind and I do have a bruise on my body. It sure felt like someone hit me. Someone said that they saw a woman hitting me, I think Wendy said that. Maybe I just got injured being drug out,” of the auditorium, she said.

She didn’t file a police report because she said it all happened very fast and she was worried about getting arrested herself for shouting at Rumsfeld.

About 10 activists from the peace community were inside the auditorium where Rumsfeld had come to speak to an audience of 400, Tatum said, adding that there were an additional 30 outside. The audience consisted of mostly “very elderly, White, prosperous people,” she said.

Anti-war protester Gloria Tatum, left, is restrained by an unidentified woman after she disrupted a speech by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, Thursday, May 4, 2006, in Atlanta. Anti-war protesters interrupted Rumsfeld's speech and one of them grilled Rumsfeld afterward about the Bush administration's Iraq policy. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

[Hubert Flottz]

1. Where have I seen that face before?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

2. That's EERIE.

But "The Bitch of Atlanta" doesn't have the same ring.

[MadMaddie]

3. I think Americans are getting sick and tired of citizens getting

dragged out by goons....these * cabal bastards can send our men and women into war but they can't take heckling.....

I hope they find out who the hell this women is and press assault charges against her...

[tulsakatz]

4. I bet people are getting tired of that........

...but to be fair though, it seems that they haven't really dragged anyone out of a speech yet (at least none that I can recall at this moment), they just make it look like they're going to drag someone out! Which then gives Bush (or whoever is speaking) the opportunity to say, let them speak.........like they really value free speech.........NOT! But it makes it look like they are defending free speech!!

Remember back in the good ole days when Clinton was President? I don't remember stuff like this happening then. Of course, what did Clinton ever do that made anyone that mad? Yeah, right..........he got a blow job but that didn't affect anyone's lives personally the way this criminal administration does!

Sure, the BJ was good for Clinton at the time but it did nothing for me personally...........

[American liberal]

5. I think everyone who has lost their jobs in the past 5 years are not too

happy about the Free Trade Agreement (Clinton's watch), but, lest I be considered a Clinton basher, which I am not (I voted for him twice), I do know what you mean. And, frankly, protesters have NEVER been treated so shabbily (including the so-called First Amendment Zones--pshaw!) under Democratic regimes since the turn of the 20th century!!! :mad: