Posted on 08/16/2005 3:38:24 PM PDT by QQQQQ
CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - Antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, is moving her camp closer to President George W. Bush's Texas ranch.
The piece of private property was offered by a relative of a man who had a fired shotgun in frustration over the protests, a source in the Sheehan camp said. The property owner is also a veteran.
"A neighbour of President Bush's has offered us his land," the source said. "It's got plenty of acreage for us, it's private land, we would have legal permission to be on it, it's much closer to the ranch -- in fact it's across the street from his (Bush's) church."
"We have taken him up on his offer," the source added.
Sheehan was not immediately available for comment.
Sheehan was expected to begin moving as early as Wednesday morning.
She is in the 10th day of her vigil on Prairie Chapel Road, which leads to Bush's 1,600-acre (647.5-hectare) ranch. She calls her site "Camp Casey," after her 24-year-old son who was killed in combat in Iraq.
According to the source, the land offered to Sheehan is owned by Fred Mattlage, who is a distant cousin of Larry Mattlage, a man who fired a shotgun over the weekend in frustration over the commotion caused by the vigil.
The source said Fred Mattlage made the offer saying "I'm a veteran, I support what you all are doing and I want to offer you my land."
Sheehan, of Vacaville, California, has demanded a meeting with Bush at which she said she wants to call for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq.
While Bush has expressed sympathy for Sheehan's grief, the White House has declined a meeting. Sheehan previously met with Bush in 2004 but wants to talk to him face-to-face again.
Sheehan's vigil has attracted anti-war activists from across the United States -- many of them also relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq -- who arrived to offer support, share a hug with Sheehan and join in her daily media events.
But in this quiet farming town of just over 700 people, many residents have found the activity disruptive.
In the latest sign of tension, a man in a pickup trunk on Monday night ran over crosses at Sheehan's campsite.
Some 800 white wooden crosses, bearing the names of soldiers killed in Iraq have lined the road near the area where Sheehan has pitched a tent. Witnesses said they saw a lorry dragging a pipe and chains drive over some of the crosses.
Larry Northern, 46, of nearby Waco, Texas, was arrested and charged with criminal mischief in connection with the incident.
Earlier on Tuesday, a group of residents showed up at a hearing of county officials to complain about the traffic caused by activists and reporters who shuttle back and forth to the camp site.
They brought a petition seeking to ban parking and camping along Prairie Chapel Road.
Displayed in front of one resident's house was a big sign that read, "We support our commander-in-chief."
Oh no! I don't mean anything bad. I was looking ahead at what could happen if tempers were to flair between the antiwar nuts and patriots who would go there to stand up for our President, our Troops and America.
I wondered, would the property owner be held liable for paying for injury's?
What's with the All Stars these days? Juan (AKA Rat sTalking Points) Williams and Jeff (AKA Wash ComPost Splainer Man) Birnbaum outnumber Charles Krauthammer two to one? Where's "Fair and Balanced" Fox?
Where is Sheehan's toilet? This is my question. Is she going to leave her crap behind? I suggest that she take it with her.
yep, Fox WAS my channel of choice.....but, I have had it with their coverage of Ms. Sheehan. I called FNC's NY office and emailed Brit Hume that I am thoroughly fed up with the significant coverage of Ms. Sheehan and I will no longer be watching FNC. FNC has not been fair and balanced in this case.
I bet even money that he was offered money by DNC types and Soros to do this.
they're going to try to turn this into a new millenium woodstock. rock singers will show up and perform protest songs. michael moore is probably shooting footage for his next epic. the woman will get a movie contract. there will ample merchandising opportunities. maybe it will rain for a week...or hail...eek...what a horrible train of thoughts. Someone please wake me up! Auntie Em! Auntie Em! This is not Kansas!!
Great. They can get all their cars off the side of the road as well and haul them onto his property. After they park all the SUVs, there won't be a lot of space left for the "camp".
They could end up staying there for months ... good luck to the owners!
She doesn't have to. She's handing it out to the media and they are just lapping it up.
Okay, that's a pretty sick image, now that I re-read it.
There goes the neighborhood!
"Show some respect you morons!!!!!!!!"
Another fine example of intelligent discourse...
"Do yall have any intelligent discourse..."
Yes, just not with trolls who pretend to be veterans.
Here IH, take this. It's a wonderful new invention. We call it ... dcecaf. =)
That must have been one heck of a weekend!!
SIck image, but true. The media is fawning all over this woman, and they will do anything to get a moment of her time.
From all the things she has been saying I would say her toilet is in her mouth. I just wish she would close the lid on that toilet mouth of hers and go the heck away.
So they got themselves a camp off the road.
Time for a fun game of capture the fag.
errrrrr or was that flag ?
;-)
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