LIVE Report From Crawford (3,000 folks now and STILL COMING!)

Basil in Crawford | 8-27-05 | TxBubba

[nopardons]

What in the world is THAT a picture of?

[Earthdweller]

For those of you who missed my earlier post there is an anti-war protest supposedly planned in Martinsville, IN tomorrow during a soldier's funeral. The townspeople are said to be ready and waiting for them and plan on not letting them into the town at all. (Passing on word heard in a chat room) Forgive the repost of info, but this thread is moving fast. (o;

What time???!!!! Let me at 'em. I'm there!!!

[f zero]

Thanks for the photo essay! Keep up the good work. Perhaps if they drive north to DC via NC I can get my shot.

[snugs]

Also I am sure she was sensitive to the fact his son was killed whilst hers is still alive I think she said he had done one or 2 tours and was going back for a third but I am not sure as it was on whilst I was helping dad to bed.

[tgslTakoma]

I loved those hands. Mine are down in the basement, awaiting September 24th. See you then!

[newzjunkey]

What is *that*??

[Chena]

During the Fox News break at the top of the hour, they reported on Crawford! They reported that 3,000 supporters of Bush and our troops (my words, not theirs) showed up. I have a feeling our voices HAVE been heard, thanks to plenty of e-mails, and hopefully more coverage will be coming soon.

[Indy Pendance]

You should post that info as it's own thread. It's absolutely disgusting.

[tgslTakoma]

That's what I was thinking, too. Oops.

[LibertyRocks]

I don't know Earthdweller... he didn't give specifics and I couldn't find any news items about the funeral.

[krunkygirl]

Please let me add the thanks of my family to all FReepers, and others, in Crawford showing America's support for our troops and our President/their Commander-in-Chief, President Bush.

You did a fabulous job!

[lormand]

Tonkawa Park

[LibertyRocks]

What should it go under? It's just heard info - not a news story...

[AmericanInTokyo]

They should be tied to Cindy Sheehan, and that story of such low tactics, should be spread around the US and through the media--each and every time they try that stunt at a servicemember's funeral. They are, those demonstrators and Cindy, in fact, soul mates, when you come to think about it.

[snugs]

Nice to put another face to name by the way this is me

[Chena]

I didn't mean to imply that it was our e-mails that allowed us to be heard! YIKES! We all know that it was our true American patriots who made it possible by their presence in Crawford. Those of us who couldn't be with them did our part by e-mailing the MSM and demanding that they cover this story as much as they have covered Ms. Sheehan and her supporters.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Woohoo! This is terrific, Julie. Thanks sooo much for the update.

Hi there, Cindy, hehe.

[Indy Pendance]

Indiana for sure.... Maybe others will have suggestions.

[The Phantom FReeper]

For those of you who missed my earlier post there is an anti-war protest supposedly planned in Martinsville, IN tomorrow during a soldier's funeral.

Are the people doing this the members of the Phelps family? Or some other group of leftists with no sense of taste?

[mylife]

I was over at Protest warriors website and there seem to be more DUmmys on their forum than Warriors.

They are a clever group but they just dont seem to have the numbers necessary to be effective.

Their low numbers and infiltration tactics( and God Bless it! I'll say it.."conservatives are fed up") resulted in the situation we had today. Freepers went on Red Alert.

The bottomline is it was an unfortunate misunderstanding and no one was hurt.