Controversy over Sheehan's shirt at SOTU

"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Peace activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Tuesday in the House gallery after refusing to cover up a T-shirt bearing an anti-war slogan before President Bush's State of the Union address."

By allowing the arrest of anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan to go unpunished, we are giving away the very freedom that our soldiers deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq are fighting to defend. Cindy is neither an opportunist nor a tool of any one individual or group. She is an American with a right to speak her mind.

When the right to free speech is limited to content that supports one idea over another, it is no longer free. Supporters of this administration who suggest that protests are un-American and/or that people who offer dissent should move to another country miss the point of our country's founding fathers (and mothers).

Freedom isn't free. Cindy knows this all too well. That's why she's fighting to be heard.