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."
PUKE ALERT!!!
The more she crows, the better it is for us, IMHO.
Laura should throw her the neck and gizzards.
Awwwwww. Ain't that sweet?
They should go protest Nancy Pelosi's house for allowing the Dems to vote against withdrawing the troops.
Sheehan's farce of a vigil rang hollow before; after Friday's vote it now seems comical. She is protesting the wrong party.
Why did Cindy Sheestain fail to chain herself to the WH fence?
A.N.T.S.Again
Oh, you're right; I should have added that!
"chain herself to the WH fence?"
Chain herself to the bumper (ala Vacation)
Did she say she was going to do that?
I wonder if this has anything to do with her book that is coming out tomorrow.
Thought there was a local ordinance passed against this activity now?
She can't be there because of a "family emergency" but her sister can????
While sane people are planning to have a nice Thanksgiving with family these lOoney's plan on getting arrested and keeping the Crawford police from their families. The way to stop this is to arrest them on Wednesday and hold them over the weekend. Feed them Balogna sandwiches and refried baens for Turkey day.
Methinks that's another trip to the woodshed.
I hope that "we" do the opposite as last time...and ignore them.
I hope no one goes out to counterprotest...it just legitimizes these idiots that need to just find a life.
*Prays for driving snow and freezing temperatures*
Who's paying these people? How do they eat? How do they pay for the weed they're smoking?
I'm serious - can anyone here afford to take time off for a month long protest?
They did:
Enforcing the Ordinance will make the weekend more entertaining.
Hope the locals plan to make it stick.
They'll probably find an activist judge to set the ordinance aside.
The lamestream media "legitimizes" them, giving the other side no choice but to counter protest if other views are to be heard.
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