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."
I would laugh my butt off if the President and Laura Bush had plans to spend Thanksgiving somewhere other then Crawford.
That would be too funny! All the air would come out of sheehans protest balloon and they'd just be setting out there in the ditch, in the cold and looking like the fools that they are.
Sounds like her kids told her "If you don't spend Thanksgiving with us, we'll never speak to you again". How else would she know the emergency would be over the next day?
>>>I don't know, she was pretty close to Jessie the race whore, as I recall. >>>
This is true. Maybe they made a new rainbow baby.
Maybe they made a new rainbow baby.
Man, that would be one very ugly kid!
What an awful thought.
Moonbats do breed.........I'm starting to frighten myself.
When did Sheehan have time to write a book?
MoveON or Progress wrote the book. Just like they write these moonbat letters to the editor and have local loons submit them.
600k for 'katrina victims'..HUMMMM No THERE is something we need to look at ..Where IS that money ? This could be big I'd say . How can we find out?
Yeah, it's called Thanksgiving !!!!
Sheehan is a hatemonger.
The acronym means what?
I would love it, if, claiming the press of the nation's business, GWB suddenly announced he will have to stay close to DC this Thanksgiving and go to Camp David instead.
Thanks, I couldn't find the pic.
Like what you've done to it. She is hard up.
Jessie's face is beginning to look like a Botox treatment gone bad!
Jesse is the ultimate slim bag . I had the pleasure of refusing to shake his hand when I met him in NYC at an affair a few years ago. He was stunned that I wasen't impressed with the might JJ.Screw him that racist fraud.
Dirty filthy souless Darwinist chaff.
I'm looking for that picture named..."The women of the democraticunderground'. It's the picture where there are 5-6 women hefty, big, large women in two piece bathing suits. I had it months ago and have lost it. It must be floating in the netherworld. Sorry about off topic again. I want to give it to my sister.
There was some thread and blogs about the whole stinking mess a month or so ago. As I remember, Michael Moore had a link on his website to the sheehan site where funds were collected. Some was given to a commie commune for use as a 'shelter', they couldn't figure out how to shower themselves with the rest. It seems like some incriminating emails had surfaced.
Someone else will surely find the appropriate links.
Bush should go to Kennebunkport instead of Crawford at the last minute. *Snicker*
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