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!
Thanks tons for the screen caps, glock rocks. Our power went out yesterday afternoon (big thunder boomer) and I am just now getting to follow this thread to the end.
My mom took my 5-year-old to see "March of the Penguins." They both liked it very much, but it was a little bit long for a small child.
Their ice cream is okay, but after tasting Blue Bell, nothing is very good. Their ice cream tastes too heavy. Blue Bell is just right! ---made from contented cows!
Michael Moore’s' people have a way of using good people and turning them into anti-Americans. Cindy has become an embarrassment to most women, especially the Military wife now and past. She has become the enemy her son went to fight.
I am too far away to join you Freepers in Crawford, so sent my thanks - again via the White House comment line, to President Bush. And here is my thanks to you wonderful Freepers in Crawford!
"Teresa Heinz Kerry has financed the secretive Tides Foundation to the tune of more than $4 million over the years. The Tides Foundation, a “charity” established in 1976 by antiwar leftist activist Drummond Pike, distributes millions of dollars in grants every year to political organizations advocating far-Left causes. The Tides Foundation and its closely allied Tides Center, which was spun off from the Foundation in 1996 but run by Drummond Pike, distributed nearly $66 million in grants in 2002 alone. In all, Tides has distributed more than $300 million for the Left. These funds went to rabid antiwar demonstrators, anti-trade demonstrators, domestic Islamist organizations, pro-terrorists legal groups, environmentalists, abortion partisans, extremist homosexual activists and open borders advocates."
What ever made John and Teresa Kerry think America would put them in the White House.
That website is owned by David Swanson. Some info about him:
David Swanson is one of the co-founders of the AfterDowningStreet.org Coalition, a board member of Progressive Democrats of America, the Washington Director of Democrats.com, an Executive Council Member of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, CWA, AFL-CIO, a former Media Coordinator of the International Labor Communications Association, former Press Secretary of Dennis Kucinich for President, former Communications Coordinator for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), former labor writer at the Bureau of National Affairs, and generally mad as hell. His website is www.davidswanson.org
BUSH PROTESTING MOM CALLS FOR 'ISRAEL OUT
OF PALESTINE'; VOWS NOT TO PAY TAXES
What the left is saying...
The savaging of Cindy Sheehan
Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m14569&l=i&size=1&hd=0
August 12, 2005
The shameless savaging of Cindy Sheehan continues.
Bill O'Reilly says she's a tool of "far left elements."
The New York Sun echoes the charge, evidently reading the same rightwing talking points.
In an editorial on August 11, it says Sheehan "has put herself in league with some extreme groups and individuals."
This is old-style McCarthyism, straight on down to the red-baiting.
The editorial quotes Sheehan about some of the groups she's involved with, including Code Pink, Veterans for Peace, and Military Families Speak Out.
It then notes that these groups are on the steering committee of United for Peace and Justice, along with the Communist Party USA. (A person representing that party is one of the forty-one members who was voted onto the steering committee.)
This classic guilt-by-association trope just shows the reflexive response of the right: When your critic has credibility, and you can't find anything else on her, destroy her with the old standby: You're a communist dupe!
The Sun also points out that Sheehan is working with the Crawford Peace House, and it says that group's website "includes a photo depicting the entire state of Israel as Palestine." Actually, it depicts a protester holding a sign showing four maps of what is now Israel and the Occupied Territories, noting how Palestinians have been allowed less and less land over the past 60 years.
"Nobody is anti-Israel here," says John Wolf, one of the founders of the Crawford Peace House. "We're just asking for peace with justice and respect for international law."
But for the New York Sun, the Crawford Peace House's view of the Israel-Palestine conflict is convenient enough to tar Cindy Sheehan with.
Rightwing talk show host Phil Hendrie goes even lower, writing an article amazingly entitled "Anti-War Mom: Another Ignorant Cow," Hendrie called Sheehan a "self-righteous ignoramus," and then went into full mockery mode: "A mother grieving her loss. The inhumanity of war. Oh, the wickedness of it all."
I've seen callousness before, but this piece may top them all. And catch Hendrie's defense of the Iraq War: "This war was unavoidable, brought on by an historic clash of culture and ideal, powered by the American people themselves, rising to meet the future, pissing off the rag heads." Rag heads?
By the way, Hendrie's screed was posted on the website, freerepublic.com, which calls itself "the premier online gathering place for independent, grassroots conservatism on the web."
Sheehan responds to her critics: "Nothing you can say can hurt me or make me stop what we are doing. We are working for peace with justice. We are using peaceful means and the truth to do it."
(c) 2005 The Progressive.
I just got home from the airport--Doctor Raoul should by now be winging his way back to Pennsylvania. What a supurb job he did for us! I hope when he gets home that he will start a new thread--because there is so much that happened that we haven't been able to tell y'all about yet.
This was a fantastic day in Crawford. I can't say enough good things about the Crawford Police Dept (all 4 officers--LOL!). They couldn't have been nicer or more helpful. They kept all the disruptors out once we had to discharge a few ourselves, and let the officers know that we had had to do that. It sure made our rally go smoother---
Once again, thank JimRob and freepers everywhere. We must keep these rallies going on around the country---and make sure the troops both in the Middle East and here at home know that most Americans support and love them, and appreciate their sacrifices. We must not let the other side convince either the American public, nor our military that this is not a just war that must be fought to the end. We cannot let this turn into another Viet Nam situation where the "Peaceniks" are able to convince the politicians to pull out before the job is done.
ugh -- I wore a hat just like that yesterday. *L* I didn't know!
Nice pic!
Just found this on a lefty blog:
The Louisiana Activists Network has just issued a call to action for a mass rally to be held in Crawford, Texas the weekend of August 26th through the 28th. More details to follow as soon as they are available. Those interested in participating, endorsing or supporting this effort should visit the LAN website at http://www.newdemocracyrising.com/
Ah come on...did you guys REALLY not understand Blastus' rambling or were you just too tired to see the hypocricy of the left and the sarcasm in which his post was written? Just in case....they say we are distroying the world with global warming. They want everyone to ride bicycles. Were they riding them? The environmental rules apply to all but them. Does that make it more clear? TX
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