Posted on 08/16/2005 1:14:15 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
WACO, Texas- Some of President Bush's Crawford neighbors asked county commissioners Tuesday to prevent future demonstrations like the makeshift anti-war campsite near his ranch.
Residents submitted a petition of more than 60 signatures seeking to amend an ordinance by extending the no parking zone on the road leading to Bush's ranch, which now prohibits cars from stopping within a few hundred feet.
Several complained of road blockages and traffic jams in the last week, since dozens of war protesters started pitching tents off the winding, two-lane Prairie Chapel Road leading to the Western White House.
Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville, Calif., started the vigil Aug. 6 to honor her son who died in Iraq last year. Sheehan vows to stay there through Bush's monthlong ranch visit unless he meets with her and other grieving families.
Bush, who said he sympathizes with Sheehan, has made no indication that he will meet with her.
"I'm not opposed to having a demonstration, but this location is inappropriate," John Laufenberg told one of the anti-war demonstrators after the meeting.
The commission now will publicize the petition and advertise a public hearing, to be held in about four weeks. Then, county commissioners will vote on the ordinance.
Sheehan's group would be gone by then, but she has promised to return to the area whenever Bush goes to his ranch. If the ordinance passes, demonstrators probably would have to stay in the city, which is 7 miles from the ranch.
Did Michael Moore show up?
Why do they need a new ordinance to keep people from blocking roads or spilling onto private property?
So much for freedom of speech...in certain neighborhoods.
Not sure freedom of speech extends to disturbing other people's lives. How'd you like if someone went to exercise their right of "freedom of speech" in the middle of the highway in rush hour blocking people from going about their lives ? Just because it's a rural road doesn't mean its any less incovenient to the locals to have constant circus blocking it.
Takes four weeks to have a hearing on the matter. That's absurd. Why should these people have to suffer from traffic, noise and all these idiots for at least that long.
My guess is that eventually, people will get tired of Cindy and her ilk...maybe they'll be outta there by then. She did say she was going to follow the President back to the White House when he returns from vacation.
How is it that the hate-America crowd gets to set up camp on the road to Bush's ranch? What gives?
Freedom of speech doesn't give me the right to stand on the road in front of your house and block traffic while I shriek at you and call you a murderer.
cindy and her fellow twits have a legal right to peaceably assemble....but that right doesn't guarantee they can do it anywhere they want.
What in the world does some goofball hanging out on the side of the road making a nuisance out of herself have to do with freedom of speech? Even her husband is done with this kook. She is a foolish pawn of anti-war groups. She better go home before she gets mistaken for a duck.
Of course the left wants something bad to happen to her so they can build it up into a large hullabaloo. Dying would be ideal for them. I wonder if she realizes what the Dems really want out of her?
If you'd like a visual that you can grasp, you are certainly free to shout "Fire!" but you are not free to shout it in a crowded theater.
This isn't about freedom of speech. For one thing, it's about the safety of the residents. This weekend, they said they would be unable to get emergency vehicles down the road. They were concerned with school starting this week, that they couldn't get school buses down the road.
If they want to protest, they need to find a way that doesn't block the road. Since it's out in the country, that might not be possible. They can always demonstrate (and exercise their 1st Amendment) all they want in Washington DC.
Maybe the "hate America" crowd is more equal than the FR crowd?
From - Abu
To - Ahmed
Ahmed,
I am so happy that I finally got to stay in a safe house with a satellite dish. I spent the entire night watching Al Jazeera, and saw an amazing story about an American woman who hates Bush!
This was exactly the morale booster I needed! I confess that I had just about given up on our struggle. It was depressing - hiding out all the time, looking to the sky every time we heard an aircraft, nervously living among all these explosives. In fact, just last week, I went to plant an IED, and I just didn't have the wherewithal to go through with it. I threw it in the river and went home to play dominos.
But now, now that I've seen this woman, my faith in jihad is renewed and I can dedicate my self to becoming shaheed, inshallah.
Whichever of our brothers is responsible for the death of this woman's son has saved me and my chance for paradise.
Abu
Right on, freedom of speech, like all of our freedoms and rights, come with a price, and that price is responsibility. You can be sued for slander by saying the wrong thing about someone. You can be shot for sedition also but they don't seem to do that much anymore:)
If these pukes were parked on a road by my ranch, I'd set up a PA and point the speakers at them playing the Star Spangled Banner 24/7 just as loud the system would go.
"war protesters started pitching tents"
Did Michael Moore show up?
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Yes...and the protesters then had to guard their tents. Moore kept mistaking them for his pants.
What gives?
The difference between FReepers and anarchists?
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