Posted on 08/13/2005 6:55:59 AM PDT by kristinn
The Heart of Texas Chapter of FreeRepublic.com is holding a rally in Crawford, Texas today to show America's support for our troops, President Bush and the war on terrorists in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world.
The rally will be held at noon at the Crawford Civic Center at 1000 4th Street.
Freepers are coming from near and far to join the H.O.T. Chapter in Crawford. If you live within four hours drive of Crawford, it's not too late to hit the road and get on down there.
Folks in attendance will be calling in to me, Brad's Gramma and Jeff Head with live updates from the scene. I am told that cellphone coverage in Crawford is spotty. However, it may have gotten better of late.
We'll see.
Hat's off to Basil, Doctor Raoul, The Sarce and 2ndAmendmentMama (and anyone else) who've been scrambling the past two days to make this happen. Good luck!
This priest doesn't kow the facts.
Cindy Sheehan had already met with President Bush, and praied his efforts.
Pictures of her giving a consoling kiss are on the Free Republic.
She has since lied through her teeth about that meeting.
She has continued to denounce his character, calling him a liar and killer.
I will ping you the things I have.
As a Catholic I am incensed at this priest for not knowing the facts, and then speaking from the pulpit as if he does.
And this one too:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14893
Bump to find later
When I read her quote, I had to wonder where she was on the day her class studied Dec 7, 41. I am afraid that I cannot be compassionate to evil people like her.
Is with KLIF in Dallas/Ft. Worth, not with the Waco/Killeen stations that bailed. I don't think he even knew of their sponsorship, at least not before he committed to being there himself.
how'd you do that?
later
I accidentally drove by the rally point for the anti's (I always make a few wrong turns the first time in a new place. especially when I've got no navigator) I'd say that number looks about right. However both they and we had people coming in for quite some time. So who knows.
Headline News has some video of the freeper rally in it's rotation--about 20 past the half hour.
We went down to the rally but it was already wrapping up when we arrived.
We drove out to the circus--there was a group of soldiers--I believe from 1st Cav-protesting quietly across the street.
We hollered out "good job"to them and they smiled.
I have absolutely no idea. Honest to gosh.
I pasted yours into my window, opened it, copied it LIKE YOU DID, back here...and it worked.
I'm a Gramma? My GrammaMagicDust?
bttt
Amazing Magic Dust indeed.
Thanks.
The radical Left owes a great debt of gratitude to David Fenton. He has mixed Neo-Marxist ideology with junk science, trial lawyers, labor, progressive millionaires, politicians, and radical policy wonks to construct a complex, moneymaking left-wing advocacy empire. Fenton Communications reported billing $6 million dollars in 2002, and will likely make much more this year with high profile clients like The Heinz Family Foundation, the aforementioned Open Society Institute and Moveon.org.
GrammaMagicDust!!!!!!!!!!!
Who dupped this woman Mother Sheehan?
Not me Dog. I have my own special name for her. ;)
Protest building at Bush ranch
Cindy Sheehan, center, walks with supporter as dozens of cars drive on the road leading to President Bush's ranch near Crawford, Texas, Saturday. A grieving mother's anti-war protest entered its second week, gaining momentum and spurring counter rallies, as hundreds of people with conflicting opinions about the war in Iraq descended Saturday on a road leading to the Western White House. Photo: APCrawford, Texas — A grieving mother's anti-war protest entered its second week, gaining momentum and spurring counter-rallies, as hundreds of people with conflicting opinions about the war in Iraq descended on a road leading to President George W. Bush's ranch.
More than 350 anti-war demonstrators gathered at a park near downtown Saturday, then moved the rally several kilometres away to the peace vigil's makeshift campsite along the road to Mr. Bush's ranch.
“Who knew that the beginning of the end of the occupation in Iraq was going to start last Saturday in Crawford, Texas?” said Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville, Calif., who started the protest Aug. 6 in memory of her 24-year-old son Casey, killed in Iraq last year. “We're here to change the world.”
As about a dozen Bush supporters stood across the street holding signs, down from more than 250 who gathered there Saturday morning, one exchange became heated. A Bush supporter approached an anti-war veteran, and they stood chest to chest as deputies tried to separate them.
When the veteran shouted about his wartime experiences and yelled, “I earned the right to be here!” several of his fellow protesters subdued him, moving him away as he sobbed and his knees buckled.
Sheriff's deputies and secret service agents otherwise kept the groups on opposite sides of the road, and no one was arrested.
The morning pro-Bush rally at the site was organized by Darrell Ankarlo, a conservative radio talk show host for KLIF in Dallas, who said “in my heart of hearts I believe that we're trying to do the right thing” in Iraq.
He also asked to meet with Ms. Sheehan, but she only agreed to meet privately Saturday evening with Bush supporters whose relatives have died in Iraq.
The 250-plus Bush supporters stood in the blazing sun for a few hours in a ditch across the street from the campsite. Most waved American flags and held signs, including “Help! I'm surrounded by America hating idiots!” and “Thank you, Mr. President.”
“I feel sorry for Cindy, but I think she went about this the wrong way,” said Bill Garrett, of Dallas, a member of Protest Warrior, a group that frequently holds counter protests to anti-war rallies. “Somebody's got to stand up to them.”
The first counter-rally was Friday night, organized by another conservative radio talk show host, Mike Gallagher. He brought many of the 100 Bush supporters by bus to the anti-war group's campsite, and the pro-Bush side waved flags, sang patriotic songs and chanted, “Go, George, go!”
But Tim Origer, who lost his left leg above the knee when he was a 19-year-old marine fighting in Vietnam, said Saturday that believing the war with Iraq is wrong does not diminish their support for the soldiers.
“When Iraqi Freedom started, it looked so much like Vietnam that I couldn't be quiet,” said Mr. Origer, who lives in Santa Fe, N.M., and is a member of Veterans for Peace. “It's real easy to say war is good when you don't have to be in it.”
The campsite of tents and anti-war banners has swelled to several hundred people some days but has a core group of about 100. They sing songs, chat and plan strategy each day on the shoulders of two intersecting side roads that form a triangle with Prairie Chapel Road, which leads to Mr. Bush's ranch. Others stay at the Crawford Peace House several kilometres away near downtown.
They vow to remain until Mr. Bush meets with Ms. Sheehan and the group's other grieving parents or until the end of his month-long ranch visit.
Mr. Bush has said that he sympathizes with Ms. Sheehan but hasn't said whether he will talk to her. Two administration officials met with her last weekend.
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