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Old North State FReepers head to Crawford, TX to FReep the Commies (After-action Report)
August 14, 2005 | Taxrelief

Posted on 08/15/2005 7:00:18 AM PDT by 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


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; US: North Carolina; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aar; cindysheehan; crawford; freep; hotchapter; northcarolina; oldnorthstate
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To: TaxRelief
FReeP Airlines bump
81 posted on 08/15/2005 6:01:58 PM PDT by clyde asbury (On a dark desert highway, Cool Whip in my hair.)
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To: TaxRelief

Thanks for the fantastic report and photos of the Crawford rally. You did a great job reporting and I loved seeing the "NO TEAR GAS NECESSARY . . . WE'RE CONSERVATIVES" sign -- it's been a long time since we first used that sign in DC.

Take care and thanks for being there!


82 posted on 08/15/2005 6:09:11 PM PDT by Angelwood (FReepers are Everywhere! We Support Our Troops! (Hillary's Vast Rt Wg Conspiracy))
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To: Angelwood

Counter protest report coming up soon on Hanity and Colmes. Tune in NOW.


83 posted on 08/15/2005 6:22:48 PM PDT by TailspinJim
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To: TailspinJim

Sorry - not FReepers, but Mike Gallagher, radio talk show host.


84 posted on 08/15/2005 6:45:41 PM PDT by TailspinJim
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To: decal

I haven't heard anything yet. I'm kind of a tag along. I used to be a member of H.O.T but it was just too far to participate like I felt I should. I just watch what they do and show up sometimes:')


85 posted on 08/15/2005 6:54:35 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: Angelwood; TaxRelief; darkwing104
I loved seeing the "NO TEAR GAS NECESSARY . . . WE'RE CONSERVATIVES" sign -- it's been a long time since we first used that sign in DC.

Of course the slogan was "borrowed" from the DC Chapter, we only swipe from the best!

There's actually a story about that sign: It's quite large, and was made especially for a Janet Reno FReep! The HOT Chapter had a huge sign-making party the Sunday before Reno was going to give a speech at Baylor University in WACO, if you can imagine that. We had dozens of great signs, we were SO ready for her!

Her speech was scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001. It's never been rescheduled, thank heavens.

But of course we haven't let the recyclable signs go to waste!

86 posted on 08/15/2005 7:40:31 PM PDT by TheSarce (Liberalism: The irrational, intolerant cult that dare not speak its name.)
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To: All

Awesome work guys. You guys are truley a credit to America and Free Republic.


87 posted on 08/15/2005 7:44:12 PM PDT by Xenophon450
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To: CindyDawg

CindyDawg, you're still one of the gang if you can put up with US! It was so great to see you Saturday, and to meet the next generation of FReepers you're shaping-- hope they got something out of the day. Wish we'd had more time to visit.


88 posted on 08/15/2005 7:52:30 PM PDT by TheSarce (Liberalism: The irrational, intolerant cult that dare not speak its name.)
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To: TaxRelief

Great report and great job Texas FReepers and all those who made the trip for a just cause!


89 posted on 08/15/2005 8:24:24 PM PDT by Apple Blossom (Michael Moore hunting party)
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To: TheSarce

AWWW thanks:') I think you guys are wonderful.


90 posted on 08/15/2005 8:39:09 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: TaxRelief

Excellent job! Thank you for the post/report.


91 posted on 08/15/2005 9:34:33 PM PDT by cgk (Keeper: Malkin/Ollie/Charen and Pro-life/pro-baby ping lists!)
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To: CindyDawg; pbrown; Leapfrog
Thought you might find this article interesting:

Bush neighbors to seek court order

92 posted on 08/16/2005 5:37:06 AM PDT by TaxRelief
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To: TaxRelief

Now that is a nice, nice car.

The bug deserves more respect than to have hippies taking it as their own. Not only is yours very nice, but on one of the scale model sites I frequent, one of the members has declared his attention to paint his vintage bug with accurate Luftwaffe camoflage from one of the Bf-109 aces...he's just ruminating on which one. The way he figures it, it's German and he builds WWII birds, so...


93 posted on 08/16/2005 9:37:59 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Terrorists started with the AK-rifle-monkey-pump...American snipers killed everybody with a weapon.)
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To: TaxRelief

Someone got arrested for running down a row of these FAKE crosses. We all know that the Socialists and Commies of the RAT party don't like REAL crosses.

I hope someone from the "good side" represents this guy in court. What he did was wrong but I did do a little chuckle imagining how the Lib Losers reacted.


94 posted on 08/16/2005 10:09:51 AM PDT by BushisTheMan
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To: TaxRelief
So this is how that one Marine family saw their son's name....

..and responded by coming all the way to Crawford to remove their hero son's name from Cindy's photo op.

WOW!

95 posted on 08/16/2005 10:53:16 AM PDT by Guenevere
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To: BellStar; MeekOneGOP; DrewsDad

Texas FReepers get some reinforcements from back East in Crawford Counter-FReep.


96 posted on 08/16/2005 11:56:51 AM PDT by anymouse
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To: ValerieUSA

Beautiful!

America and Americans the Beautiful.


97 posted on 08/16/2005 3:41:14 PM PDT by eleni121 (ual9fyiung for student aid nd taking clleg level course at the same time!)
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To: TaxRelief

Dirty Commie hippies


98 posted on 08/16/2005 3:42:52 PM PDT by trubluolyguy (Well, why did you pull a gun on me if you didn't want to have sex?)
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To: Mr. Silverback

If I had a bug, I'd get it in red and put large black dots on it...


99 posted on 08/16/2005 5:47:41 PM PDT by TaxRelief
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To: Guenevere

I hope more families come to Crawford and tell Cindy "Not in my child's name!"


100 posted on 08/16/2005 5:49:16 PM PDT by TaxRelief
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