Posted on 08/16/2005 9:03:08 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Crosses vandalized at antiwar mom's Texas camp site
6 minutes ago
A pickup truck ran over wooden crosses erected at anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan's campsite on Monday night, in the latest sign of tension over the peace vigil outside vacationing President George W. Bush's Texas ranch.
Larry Northern, 46, of nearby Waco, Texas, was arrested and charged with criminal mischief in connection with the incident, Crawford Police Chief Donnie Tidmore said.
Sheehan has pitched a tent on Prairie Chapel Road, which leads to Bush's ranch, and calls her site "Camp Casey," after her 24-year-old son, who was killed in combat in Iraq in April 2004.
The small, white wooden crosses erected at the site are hand-painted with the names of soldiers killed in Iraq.
Sheehan, of Vacaville, California, has demanded a meeting with Bush at which she said she wants to call for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq.
While Bush has expressed sympathy for Sheehan's grief, the White House has declined a meeting. Sheehan previously met with Bush in 2004 but wants another meeting.
Michelle Mulkey, a spokeswoman for Sheehan, said protesters were still awake on Monday night when a truck dragging a pipe and chains drove over a portion of the area where the crosses were standing.
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And speaking as a 22-year veteran, Mr. 4-years-and-out-never-heard-a-shot-fired-in-anger-REMF-clerk, you are way effing off base.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1464124/posts?page=204#204
Just checked the thread above and it seems this was a set-up by Sheehan. Wonder how long it will take the cops to work it out?
Just as the DUmmies finally found crosses they liked, some FReepers finally found some they don't.
Who are you to make such blanket statements???? Get thee hence, Troll. DU is only a few key strokes away. Lot's of cockroaches over there, you'll feel right at home...
I'm afraid somebody is suffering from a case of selective memory.
As to the above topic, there are idjits everywhere. This incident proves it!
You can always tell a loser cockroach liberal in conservative clothing... You do not know me nor my experiences, do you... Nope, you just want to paint me with your little brush so all this fits with your world view... As I said, get thee hence Troll... Or, send me your address & I'll come & speak with you one on one about this...
OK, then take it from a Gold Star Mom, oh wise one.
Link here Einstein.
Premium gas is nearly $3.00 a gallon today; the bone-headed demonstration posters of the left two years ago read: 'No blood for oil!'.
Now another lefty shibboleth--'Not In Our Names!"--comes to mind: I'd be curious to know how many of the brave young men on this woman's crosses shared her peculiar notions of patriotism--none, I would wager.
Or how the families of these fallen young people feel about moveon.com using their names in this manner to advance their craven political goals.
Since you are here only a few weeks, how is it you are commenting on the Schaivo matter?
Exactly. I use to heckle Atrios over at his site everytime he put up an article about troops getting killed and putting on another performance of "outrage" or crocodile tears. I started calling him "Atrios the Ghoul". Needless to say, he started banning me fast as that little barb hit home.
Vacaville. Heh-heh. Cowville. Heh-heh.
That was a very,very uncool move.
I am against doing this if only for the symbolic value it has for the other side. But as I wrote in another thread, tearing down anti-war performance art is a political statement, not grave desecration.
Who here is praising this or saying it accomplished anything positive? No one. It was wrong and the guy should be punished for wrecking a tribute to soldiers--I would wager we're all in agreement on that.
But all this actualy accomplishes is it gives Sheehan and company what they want--a reason to portray themselves as victims, and one more day in the news. So they benefited quite nicely from this guy's stupidity.
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It was hardly a tribute. It was, like everything else from these moonbats, an insult -- this time to Christianity and Christians. And as someone pointed out, not every soldier who has died in this conflict is Christian.
It's a mockery...something to further their sick agenda.
"Since you are here only a few weeks, how is it you are commenting on the Schaivo matter?"
Hard though it is to believe, I did have a life before registering as a Freeper. Do I have to have been registered at the time to make a reference?
Those are anything but tributes that trash has littered the Texas countryside with.....
You mean like the "piss Christ" NEA "art" several years back where some animal with a government grant placed the crucifix in a jar of urine?
Yes, some Freepers have seen some crosses they don't like.
I'm guessing the reason you don't do what you threaten is because you are full of, uhhh, bluster.
They had a camera ready to shoot the downed crosses but not the truck? Not tags on that truck either? Oh well, just stand them back up. It's not like a firebombed Creche in Cambride MA that can't be replaced.
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