Posted on 11/22/2005 12:14:31 PM PST by Howlin
CRAWFORD, Texas -- War opponents say their protest near President Bush's ranch will resume this week although the fallen soldier's mother who led a 26-day vigil this summer will arrive later than planned.
Cindy Sheehan of Berkeley, Calif., has a family emergency and is scheduled to arrive Friday in time for the dedication of the Camp Casey Memorial Garden at the Crawford Peace House. It is named for her 24-year-old son who died in Iraq last year.
Other peace activists have been arriving in Crawford and plan to return Wednesday to the roadside where Sheehan set up camp in August. They say they expect to be arrested, because in September county commissioners enacted two ordinances banning roadside parking within a 7-mile radius of Bush's ranch and prohibiting camping in any county ditch.
On Monday, three protesters filed a federal lawsuit against McLennan County, claiming the ordinances limit their free speech rights.
The demonstrators say they are returning to protest the war with Iraq to coincide with Bush's Thanksgiving ranch visit and that the county ordinances will not stop them.
"Our holidays will never be the same, so we want him to remember that," Sheehan's sister Dede Miller, who has already arrived in Crawford, told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Protesters will hold a Thanksgiving meal and other activities on the same private 1-acre lot that a sympathetic landowner let them use for several weeks of the August protest. An anti-war rally is planned for Saturday in a downtown Crawford park and an interfaith service is planned for Sunday.
Sheehan's summer protest drew thousands but also spurred counter-protests of Bush supporters who said she was hurting troop morale. Bill Johnson, who started a pro-Bush camp beside his downtown Crawford souvenir shop in August, said he will hold a pro-Bush rally at the same site Saturday.
"Our goal is to get our story out because she'll get her story out," Johnson said Tuesday. "We see things differently than she does."
"family emergency" = gotta get her brain washed.
Ah...good point...someone needs to find out if there is any sighting of Cindy in a bookstore anywhere.
I like the idea. They could be charged with disturbing the peace. After all, it's not just the President who has to put up with the yo-yos when they come to Crawford.
"Family emergency", like a date with Probate Court?
"...County commissioners enacted two ordinances banning roadside parking within a 7-mile radius of Bush's ranch and prohibiting camping in any county ditch..."
It figures that looney moonbats need to have laws written to prevent them from camping in ditches. We learned that basic outdoor lesson as young children out in the country with wise ancestors.
~ Blue Jays ~
Does she have another son? Maybe he wants to enlist in the army to get away from his mother and she's going to try to talk him out of it.
Their Momma was protester, and her Momma was a protester, and her Momma was a protester, and they were born on the DC Mall in the back of a psychodelic VW bus back in 1973. Protesting is what they do. Oh, yeah and Grateful Dead concerts. They don't really need another 'occupation'.
Arrest their mangy butts and lock 'em up!
"Who's paying these people? How do they eat? How do they pay for the weed they're smoking?"
I have been asking myself those same questions! Soros? Moveon.org? Kerry? Dean? DNC? Inquiring minds........
It's good to be queen (of the moonbats)! -- with Dr. FrankenDean as her lackey!
She does have another son. I think he may be too young to enlist just yet, but wouldn't that be rich. Actually, I very much doubt the "family emergency" excuse. I would be curious to know what the real deal is.
She has to get back to fight for justice and peace for son's memory; as soon as she stops to sell some books to capitalize on her loss.
Thanksgiving would be an appropriate time for the long-suffering citizens of Crawford to shoot these turkeys.
"Cindy Sheehan of Berkeley, Calif., has a family emergency and is scheduled to arrive Friday in time for the dedication of the Camp Casey Memorial Garden at the Crawford Peace House."
They probably have her tied up, and if not, why?
Month off from what? I think Food Stamps and other Gubmint assistance are direct deposit now.
When you arrest someone and take them before a magistrate and let them pay a $5.00 fine and go home that isnt a deterrent. Jail time is. Give them all 15 days of picking up trash in an Orange jump suit. Most wont come back.
>>>Thought there was a local ordinance passed against this activity now?>>>
They did. The article states they 'plan to be arrested'. Sheehan just wants some cop to put his hand up her panties again. Closest she's had to a man in a while I'll bet.
I'm serious - can anyone here afford to take time off for a month long protest?
I recall they collected something like 600k for 'katrina victims' that they have stashed in a VW bus somewhere.
Closest she's had to a man in a while I'll bet.
I don't know, she was pretty close to Jessie the race whore, as I recall.
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