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
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!
Counter protest report coming up soon on Hanity and Colmes. Tune in NOW.
Sorry - not FReepers, but Mike Gallagher, radio talk show host.
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:')
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!
Awesome work guys. You guys are truley a credit to America and Free Republic.
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.
Great report and great job Texas FReepers and all those who made the trip for a just cause!
AWWW thanks:') I think you guys are wonderful.
Excellent job! Thank you for the post/report.
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...
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.
..and responded by coming all the way to Crawford to remove their hero son's name from Cindy's photo op.
WOW!
Texas FReepers get some reinforcements from back East in Crawford Counter-FReep.
Beautiful!
America and Americans the Beautiful.
Dirty Commie hippies
If I had a bug, I'd get it in red and put large black dots on it...
I hope more families come to Crawford and tell Cindy "Not in my child's name!"
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