Cindy Sheehan may be the Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement. But that didn't stop members of the New York Police Department from marching into the crowd of about 150 people gathered in Union Square on Monday to hear her speak and yanking away the microphone, according to the alternative New York weekly The Village Voice.

The NYPD pulled the plug just as Sheehan was calling on the audience not to lose heart in the fight to end the war in Iraq, according to this story.

"We get up every morning, and every morning we see this enormous mountain in front of us," Sheehan said, speaking on behalf of the other parents and family members of fallen soldiers who have taken up the crusade to bring the troops home. "We can't go through it, we can't go under it, so we have to go over it," she continued, just as the cops rushed the makeshift podium.