Old North State FReepers head to Crawford, TX to FReep the Commies (After-action Report)

August 14, 2005 | Taxrelief

[TaxRelief]

The residents of Crawford, TX thought things were bad last week, but many of them were ill-prepared for what was to come Saturday, August 13, 2005. The crowds had been slowly swelling in response to the notorius stalking of President Bush by Cindy Sheehan, the woman so obsessed with her own emotional needs, that she was willing to disrupt the lives of an entire town.

It is tempting to blame Sheehan's therapy group for joining her on her emotional journey, but in actual fact, Sheehan herself strongly encouraged the reinforcements.

On Saturday, (and Friday) the whole event suddenly swelled to bursting when supporters of President Bush, the Armed Services and the effort in Iraq, put down their collective foot and declared, "Enough!"

     
Pro-American rallies sprang up all over town, encircling these hippies of yesteryear with a variety of themes. There were clusters of Bush supporters; Rolling Thunder staked out the town center with "Support the Troops" signs; a prayer vigil for the troops commenced across from the ranch at high noon; Support the troops rallies came to life spontaneously throughout the "war zone";




And a lone shopkeeper stood outside with his microphone, attracting a steady audience to his display of the ten commandments and Liberty Bell.

     

As the crowds increased and the volume of traffic on the roads neared peak capacity, the hippies decided to launch a caravan of gas-guzzling cars from the Crawford Peace House on a five mile journey to the bottom of the road that leads to the Bush Ranch. They held their aging, gnarly, two-fingered peace signs pompously up to mostly closed car windows, refusing eye-contact. A few of the younger, less-embittered ones sarcastically mouthed "I love you" at the Americans waving flags on the roadside.



Unfortunately, this convoy of gas-wasting, anti-American activists brought the roads in Crawford to a grinding halt. They further exacerbated the problem by parking their environmentally-unfriendly pickup trucks on both sides of this already narrow, rural highway, reducing the width of the passage available for through traffic.

A simple trip to the grocery store for a local resident now had become a two hour ordeal.



The hippies who made the trip from the Crawford "Peace" House to the Sheehan Camp at the ranch were in for a boring surprise. After being bombarded with roadside "Support the Troops" displays, they had arrived at their final destination expecting to now have the opportunity to do "something" that would "make a difference." Instead they discovered there was nothing at the base of the ranch but people trying to figure out where they were supposed to be. "Which rally is this?" was probably the most frequent topic of conversation for the entire event.

Many in the crowds did eventually determine in which camp they belonged and late in the afternoon the traffic eased. For the sake of the Town of Crawford, though, we can only hope that President Bush cuts his holiday short or heads over to Camp David where they're used to dealing with these kinds of situations.

Copyright 2005

[Alia]

This is well-done and wonderful, TaxRelief! Thank you (and Huber and Tax-Chick) so much for representing North Carolina!

[mathluv]

Rush has a picture on Club Gitmo - mentioned FReepers.

[TaxRelief]

And here is the "overrun" version of Prairie Chapel Road:

[TaxRelief]

I just gave up trying to upload photos after a freep one day and started serving my own pictures from my own web space. I pay about $110 per year for 200MB. If I reduce the resolution on the shots, I have plenty of space and plenty of bandwidth.

[basil]

I'm happy to learn that my car lead you to the right place. It was great having y'all there.

[2nd amendment mama]

You mean this car...LOL. Yup, that's the "official SASmobile"

[2nd amendment mama]

Meant to ping ya.....LOL

[TaxRelief]

I think some competent mental health counselors are needed at the "Peace House."

Maybe we really need to get some Christians to witness to them.

[peacebaby]

So i guess when you venture into enemy territory, you need to walk softly and carry a big stick, eh?

[BufordP]

Thanks for the ping TR. And...

A BIG KUDOS TO THE TEXAS FREEPERS!

[USAFJeeper]

Texas, NC, Oklahoma BBQ, lets just all get along and send me some!

You would think Louisiana would have some good BBQ places but in New Orleans you can get every food but decent BBQ! Man I miss Oklahoma sometimes.

[CindyDawg]

I think the town was ok with us being there, don't you?

[BillF]

Super FReep, report, and photos.

Thanks to basil, TaxRelief, Drews Dad, The Bat Lady, Doctor Raoul, TheSarce and all others who helped pull this off on short notice. (Sorry if I left anyone out.)

Thanks also to all who attended.

[DrewsDad]

It was great to meet you. Thanks for coming down and helping us out.

You do have a good pizza place in Charlotte. If I remember correctly, it was on the 2nd story of a strip mall across from a bowling alley and sounded like one of the Mario Brothers. Of course, that was at least 10 years ago.

[processing please hold]

I avoid N.O. like the plague. Wouldn't be caught dead there.

[Guenevere]

bttt

[abner]

On the phone with Doctor Raoul and he wanted me to tell everyone that he will be back online when he can, and he wanted me to tell everyone that he appreciates the goodwill and communication but will not be able to answer personally until he is back . .

[TaxRelief]

You do have a good pizza place in Charlotte.

We do? Holy Moly! (Let me know if you remember the name of it.)

[TaxRelief]

Tell him we love him!

[abner]

I will..

I think he is pretty cool too..