[Iran Press TV] Some 135 anti-war protesters have been jugged in front of the White House in one of the largest mass detentions in the United States.
| Arrested by Barack Obama's White House? I may faint from the shock. |
A Missouri-based veterans group
| Real veterans or, you know, "veterans"? |
organized the protesters, who marched up to the White House gates on Thursday and refused to disperse.
Among those jugged was a famous whistleblower of the Vietnam-era war, Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers as an act of protest in 1971.
| Reliving youthful glory, poor man. |
Although the arrests were appropriately peaceful,
| Quite unlike the arrests of protesters in the homeland of our Iran PressTV journalist, but never mind that. |
some protesters went limp, forcing police to carry them to the loaned Metrobuses waiting to take them to a booking facility. A protester attached himself to the gate with a bicycle lock.
| One wonders how the Iranian police would have separated the protester, the lock and the gate ... |
All were charged with failure to obey lawful order, a misdemeanor, said Park Police front man David Schlosser.
Schlosser said the protesters would be released after either forfeiting USD 100 or accepting an assigned court date. |