Anti-war mom coming to the valley

Aspen Daily News ^ | August 19, 2005 | Thomas Watkins

[george76]

Bereaved anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan...is scheduled to come to the Roaring Fork Valley as part of a series of talks next month.

Sheehan is expected to speak at the First United Methodist Church in Glenwood Springs on Friday, Sept. 16 as part of a three-day tour of the area that will also take her to Grand Junction and Paonia.

Sheehan may also visit area schools to speak to students about military recruitment and the war in Iraq, said Gary Handschumacher, a Crawford, Colo.-based anti-war activist who arranged the visit.

"She's probably the most famous person on the planet," he said. "But I'm still hopeful (she's) planning to do it."

Jim Chenoweth, a member of the Roaring Fork Peace Coalition who will be looking after Sheehan when she is in Glenwood, said Yampah Mountain High School has agreed to host her for a talk.

"My understanding is she wants to do counter-recruiting in the schools as much as possible," he said, adding that he'd like to take Sheehan to other schools in the area as well.

Handschumacher met Sheehan about nine months ago when he interviewed her for his independently produced radio show "Speaking Freely," broadcast on community access radio station KVNF in Paonia and the North Fork Valley.

[camle]

isn't that a use of church property for political purposes? Why are they still tax-exempt?

[Rosemont]

She should be greeted with Protests for the Fonda like statements she has made wherever she goes.

[highlymotivated]

Aspen, HQ for the self-obsessed liberals in our society.

[babaloo]

Sheehan is "The most famous person on the planet"? They are crazy.

[SteveMcKing]

Where can I write a large check out to Cindy? I want to pay her to keep acting like an idiot.

[Doogle]

She's probably the most famous person on the planet,"

????

ya mean she actually passed Snoop Doggeydog?


Doogle

[beandog]

So now she's the most famous person on the planet? What a load of bull. 99.9999% of the people on this planet couldn't give a rats rear end about the ditch witch.

DUmmies sure are silly people.

[hombre_sincero]

in order not to distress the more refined on here, I won't described how this b*tch deserves to be treated - so ...

the "mother protestor" should be met at the "church" steps by a line of very irate SKUNKS facing away from her.

[lOKKI]

Sheehan is "The most famous person on the planet"? THEIR Planet....

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

I scratch my head when I see churches allowing the pulpit to be used for anything other than worship. Makes you wonder about the legitimacy of that church.

[Rosemont]

"isn't that a use of church property for political purposes? Why are they still tax-exempt?"

That rule only applies to Conservative believers.

[MizSterious]

I guess her mom isn't all THAT sick, after all...

[atomicpossum]

I guess she won't be talkin' at many synogogues.

[Mad Mammoth]

the "mother protestor" should be met at the "church" steps by a line of very irate SKUNKS facing away from her.

I'll see your skunks facing away from her, and raise you a line of bulldozers facing her.

She's an earth mother?

I'm all for it.

Let's start with six feet of earth.

[Cool Multiservice Soldier]

Sheehan may also visit area schools to speak to students about military recruitment and the war in Iraq

That is un-f--king-believeable. There needs to be a list of schools that she's plannning on attending and the need to be called so people can voice their displeasure of having their kids around this lunatic-bi--h! She has no-right to try to indoctrinate children with her hateful poison.

[Dallas59]

What kind of "schools"?

[highlymotivated]

She has no business going to a public school and speaking to the students. I do believe that the law prohibits that. God knows, as a parent, I'd be raising HELL over it!

[cubreporter]

"She's probably the most famous person on the planet,"




And what planet would THAT be?

[timtoews5292004]

thats why she's on her speaking tour. she's cashing in on her 15 minutes.