The headline for this post is misleading in two ways. First, it wasn't the real president. And second, he wasn't arrested. Huh? Martin Sheen who played President Jed Bartlet on the NBC series, the West Wing, has a reputation for getting himself arrested while protesting for various causes. "Good on ya," as the Aussies would say. One of the causes that he adopted (but never got arrested for - to my knowledge) was the effort to get the US Navy to stop using the Puerto Rican island of Vieques as a bombing target.
Here's a link to the Wikipedia article on Vieques: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vieques,_Puerto_Rico
And here's a link to the article about the US Navy protests: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy-Vieques_protests
So... that's where you might have heard about Vieques before. Stay tuned for more info on Vieques.
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