Posted on 09/03/2005 6:04:08 PM PDT by CO Gal
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan has canceled three visits to Colorado after emotions over her protest outside President Bush's ranch boiled over at a church and college campus. A Glenwood Springs church voted Thursday not to allow Sheehan to give a speech scheduled for later this month after some members threatened to leave the church if she came.
Church member Mo Barz said he thinks it is inappropriate for the church to host a political speaker.
"I was definitely against having her," he said. "I felt all along the church should rescind any agreement they had to have her be there."
Sheehan has gained notoriety for her month-long protest outside Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas and her demands to meet with him to discuss her 24-year-old son Casey's death in Iraq. Detractors have said she is demoralizing the troops and using her son's death to push a liberal platform.
The day after the church called off her visit there, Sheehan canceled other visits to the state, citing "more pressing needs elsewhere in the country," according to Karen Sjoberg, director of Grand Valley Peace and Justice, which had arranged for one of the visits.
Sheehan was scheduled to speak at Mesa State College in Grand Junction on Sept. 15. After the school received complaints that she would be appearing on campus, the school issued a statement saying it did not support or sponsor Sheehan's visit. Sheehan's camp then canceled the visit.
She also canceled a stop in Paonia.
I was there in Sept. 62 till Apr. 63 electronics school. Right you are about the ladies, WOW. I remember a bar just off base I think the name of it was 'The Happy Cat'.
I was a FANG and we got to eat at the officers mess. But we also spent a lot of time at the park next to the zoo. What memories.
Hey, I was there too.
Not meaning to hijack the thread, but July-Nov 1964 duty at Lowry and what a great time to be there. AF Intel school, then back again in 1966 just before Nam.
What a great, great, great location. I miss it still.
The Blue Angels can use her and her left wing wacko friends as target practice.
I'm happy to see that Gr Jct got smart and turned Sheehan down.
I was sorry they shut the base down. It was a great place.
No thanks. How about Cuba?
God Bless them for standing up for what is morally right
Cindy who?
I knew a Billy Sheehan, was Cindy his mom?
That's a little self important.
I'm surprised that Boulder didn't jump in and offer her the red carpet. I guess this really does mean she's yesterday's news. LOL
Proud member of American Legion Post 97. They were probably in the process of building a gallows when the advance crew came through to find a ditch to set up shop on the western slope.
(Just kidding.)
This is some of the best news I've ever heard; thank you so much for posting it!
Oh, drat. There goes her big chance to whelp Ward Churchill's love spawn. :)
She can keep her anti-American tantrums out of my state! Colorado rules!
The party's over, it's time to call it a day
Time has burst your balloon and taken your game away
It's time to wind up the masquerade
Just make your mind up, the piper must be paid
The party's over, the reefers flicker and dim
You sobbed and emoted each day
It was going okay till Katrina blew you away
Now you must wake up, all farces must end
Take off your runny make-up, the party's over my friend
Leni
Louisiana needs help, not protesters!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
I wish she would come to New Mexico. I've always wanted to preside over an Ol' Fashioned Tar and Feathering:
Painted with good hot tar and covered in feathers and chicken $h!%; driven out into the desert tied backwards on an ass....
Perfect.
That Billie, you couldn't take him anywhere.
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