Bush Neighbor Lets War Protesters Use Land (Fred Mattlage, an Army veteran)

APNews.com ^ | 8/16/2005 | ANGELA K. BROWN

[ladyjane]

Don't these people have jobs? Who is supporting them?

[bboop]

MoveOn.org $$ I'll bet. George Soros throwing his money away again at some stupid thing.

[mercy]

Fred,

You stupid jerk.

[Mr Cobol]

Gee, I think I've heard that before somewhere or is that your own thoughts. I agree with you, let them keep protesting and show their anti-american leftist leanings.

[DJ MacWoW]

They have a right to protest. This is America and a lot of men and women are risking their lives every day to give them that right. Don't begrudge them the right.

Yes they do. And we have the right to tell them their views hurt America during a war. Sheehan has become the darling of Al Jazeera and the Iraqi terrorists. What they DON'T have the right to do is disrupt a whole town in order to push their leftist ideology.

[Cobra64]

My brother wants to fly a Cobra over this guy's ranch and... Too bad he's a civie now. No, he would not commit a crime, but he'd love to light up the rancher's mentality. On the other hand F-16's would take him out due to the proximity to W, as it should be.

Where is common sense in this country??! It is absolutely mind-friggin-boggling!

[DJ MacWoW]

Don't these people have jobs? Who is supporting them?

Sheehan lost her job when she became an activist. She has said she's using her sons insurance money to fund her protest. Her husband has claimed half of the insurance in the divorce papers. Wonder if she's spent it all?

[mercy]

Problem is he probably owns his land free and clear (for generations) lives in a $25k house and pays taxes only on the house. The land is all agriculture exempted. His taxes are probably about $500 a year.

Texas is great that way.

[rdcorso]

I wonder how much grease was needed to flip this guy.I wouldn't be surprised at anything the morons do to keep Momma Sheehan AKA Peppermint Patty in the spotlight.They are in such a pathetic state right now that a buffoon like Cindy Sheehan is their only hope.

[lepton]

"I just think people should have a right to protest without being harassed,"

People have the right to protest, and if he'd stopped there, he'd be fine...but protesting in this fashion IS harrassment, and thus his statement is stupid.

[Boazo]

[brushcop]

I was thinking the exact same thing. VERY easy to call oneself an "Army veteran".

[lepton]

Audit his terrorist militant butt (yeah militant. This goes beyond terrorist sympathizer) to hell and back. Then if somehow he manages not to have become a street beggar -- apply some creative accounting and try again.

Now that, I'd protest.

[lepton]

They have a right to protest. This is America and a lot of men and women are risking their lives every day to give them that right. Don't begrudge them the right.

They have a right to protest - but not to publicly lie - and no right to protest unopposed.

[Cobra64]

One has to wonder why some folks don't go to work.

Then again, most of these ass-breaths are probably on welfare. IMOHO

[nopardons]

Damn him !

[OkiMusashi]

Hey, look at the bright side. Maybe this move by Fred will get those crosses bearing the names of our soldiers out of that dirty bar ditch.

[BitDrifter]

This man is going to regret his desision, Lib protestors are very disgusting people. They don't pick up after themselves. He is going to have a yard filled with trash after a few days and if he has a lawn he won't for very long.

I love when the libs make their marches and scream and yell about the enviroment and yet they waste hundrededs of thousands sheets of paper on flyers which they throw on the ground and not in the trash.

Anyways, hopes he enjoys the company.

[nopardons]

Too young to remember the late '60s and the '70s, are you?

Too blinkered to understand that this group are subversives and that this freak show is NOT in any way, just a simple " protest"?