CRAWFORD RALLY TO SUPPORT OUR TROOPS LOCATION UPDATE

me ^ | Aug 12, 2005 | basil

[basil]

CRAWFORD RALLY TO SUPPORT OUR TROOPS LOCATION UPDATE

The Crawford Police have just notified me that our location for the Support the Troops rally has been changed.

Please congregate at the Crawford Civic Center, which is located in the 1000 block of East 4th Street.

Start time remains 12 Noon.

The new site is very near the first site we were assigned, so people going there by mistake should be able to see us and come on over.

Sorry about the last minute changes.

[freema]

Trying to come up with a response, but don't know if I should touch it with a ten foot pole. lol.

[freema]

Godspeed Freepers.
Goodnight.

[Humidston]

;-D

Spring Branch been berry berry good to me!

[processing please hold]

Forgive me, welcome to FR.

And a very good night to you. Sleep well.

[Humidston]

BB, do you suppose any of the moms that were featured on Ch 11 are some of the group you know?

I called the station but as usual, they wouldn't give me any information. I did get the reporter's voice mail and asked Mzzzzzz Edwards to call me - up till 12/1:00AM so I can try to get FReepers and Moms connected for tomorrow.

I've done about all I can do at this point. BB, hopefully you know someone who knows them. (BTW, their last names - given out on TV - are Muskiet, Blott, and Terrell. I'm not giving anything away since that was broadcast all over Houston this evening.)

[Jeff Head]

BIG MEGA BUMP for the effort in Crawford tomorrow. I only wish I could be there...but hope some on this ping list can get there to assist.

Please get a lot of pics and make your normal outstanding report Texas Freepers! Godspeed!

[Howlin]

How about handing out this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461879/posts

[Jeff Head]

Or...THIS

But seriously, I know that Basil is making this about the troops and their support and not confronting Mrs. Sheehan. If enough people come in support of the troops...the message to Mrs. Sheehan will be clear without the need to ever personally confront her.

[Howlin]

I know, Jeff; it's probably just as well that we aren't close enough to get there, isn't it? :-)

Restraint has never been one of my top five characteristics.

[WalterSkinner]

This proves that the Left is clueless.

The last place they should try to pull some shenanigans like this is TEXAS!

Godspeed on the rally -- we're with you.

[Humidston]

ROFLOL!! You're bad to the bone, sister!

I can't go either so that makes me doubly frustrated. I'm hoping the HAT group can cover another weekend up there. It looks to me like 2-3 hours drive from where I live so it's not that far.

[Howlin]

If she carries through with her threat to go to D.C., she's going to see my ugly face. BUT GOOD. :-)

[Humidston]

Most excellent news!!!

Ch 11 just showed that lame brain in Crawford, waving a cross (with her handlers behind her) as the presidential caravan passed on the road.

THEN they showed tons and TONS of people pouring off busses - coming in to counter the peaceniks! Tomorrow is going to be HUGE! This looks like a massive grassroots movement that will make those pinkos look like pikers, LOL!

[txrangerette]

With deep regret that I cannot be there. You guys knock 'em, rock 'em and sock 'em...figuratively, of course.

My mother is not doing well and I have her total care. Plus, I am overseeing a home painting job that has to get done, involving a deadine, for insurance purposes. Had already arranged painting help to come tomorrow at 9 a.m.

Not feeling too well myself, but that would not stop me from coming anyway. It's the rest of it that is stopping me.

I love you guys!

God bless America. God bless our Troops. God bless our CINC!

[HushTX]

I will be leaving from Fort Worth early in the morning. I hope to get to Crawford in time to join up with Ankarlo and is crew. If anyone is wanting to carpool, please contact me ASAP with some way to get ahold of you so I can make arrangements for us to ride together. All I ask is help with gas money. I have room for 3.

[southernerwithanattitude]

Please, anyone who can go, blow up a picture of The president meeting with this crazy woman the FIRST time and put it on a poster. It may be the only way to get it on the news!

[Humidston]

Surely with the expertise here, someone will use it!

[deport]

Maybe some others in town on Saturday.......

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Updates from The Lonestar Iconoclast

7:50 p.m. Report — PRO-BUSH GROUP ARRIVES AT CAMP CASEY
Iconoclast's Nathan Diebenow reporting from Camp Casey:
PHOTOS AT BOTTOM OF THIS SECTION

A group of about 50 pro-Bush demonstrators from the Metroplex armed with various sizes of American flags, as well as banners and posters, arrived directly across from Camp Casey on county right-of-way around 6:30 p.m. Radio personality Mike Gallagher, who organized the event, led the group in patriotic songs, a prayer, pro-Bush rhetoric, and thankfulness that they could openly express their beliefs in America.

The group, which traveled in a charter bus and several cars, stayed about 30 minutes and departed for Pirate Field in Crawford to see about another rally. There was no suggestion that they were going to camp the night.

The group was comprised of young and old, from elementary-school-age children to World War II veterans. The only time the group had much contact with the supporters of Cindy Sheehan was when it crossed a line of McLennan County Sheriff's Department vehicles to place American flags beside the crosses that were earlier placed in the ground by supporters of Veterans for Peace.

Sheehan's group held up a banner that said, "Support Our Troops, Bring Them Home Now," sang a song, but remained quiet and respectful during all the time Gallagher's people were there.

I asked Mike Gallagher if he was going to place a flag in front of Casey Sheehan's cross at Camp Casey. He said, "We wanted to. But the police said don't go over there, so we are placing flags over by the white crosses."

Lisa Fithian of the United Peace and Justice Organization said,"We're not going to stop it, you know. If they want to bring American flags, they can place American flags.They're honoring those that have died."

Chief Deputy Randy Plemons, after conversing with a supervisor, said, "No one was stopped or told not to go over there and place any flags or anything like that. That was not the case here today."

There were Secret Service present with Sheriff's Department deputies. As I am leaving, there are still at least 50 pro-Sheehan people out here. There are bouquets of flowers beside about 50 of the crosses and there's a ton of crosses lining the side of the road for about a quarter of a mile.

FATHER AND SON PRAY AT PRO-BUSH RALLY — World War II Veteran Bob Rogers of Branson, Mo. and his son, Scott, of Arlington, Texas, pray Friday evening at a pro-Bush, pro-U.S. soldiers rally across Prairie Chapel Road from Camp Casey, a few miles from President Bush’s ranch.
— Iconoclast Photo By Nathan Diebenow

BEATING DALLAS TRAFFIC on a charter bus, nationally syndicated radio talk show host Mike Gallagher (right, carrying the bullhorn) led over 50 people at a pro-Bush rally Friday evening for about 30 minutes near Camp Casey, the site where Cindy Sheehan has held a vigil for the past six days in order to meet with President Bush about the war in Iraq.
— Iconoclast Photo By Nathan Diebenow

MIKE GALLAGHER, a nationally syndicated radio talk show host who reportedly has 3.25 million weekly listeners, said during a pro-Bush rally near Crawford that he would have liked to place a flag in remembrance of Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, the late son of Cindy Sheehan who died in Iraq, but the police suggested he not do so. A spokesman for the McLennan County Sheriff’s Deparment said that no such suggestion was made and that each member of Gallagher’s group had access to every memorial cross in the area.
— Iconoclast Photo By Nathan Diebenow

OVER 50 SUPPORTERS OF PRESIDENT BUSH came out Friday evening from the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex across from Camp Casey, the site where Cindy Sheehan has held a vigil for the past six days in order to meet with President Bush about the war in Iraq.
— Iconoclast Photo By Nathan Diebenow

[Humidston]

AWESOME. Charter bus.... Great idea!