Posted on 08/19/2006 10:06:25 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
AUSTIN, Texas - Chanting "Try Rove for treason," Cindy Sheehan and more than 50 other war protesters disrupted a reception before President Bush's top adviser Karl Rove spoke at a fundraiser Saturday.
One woman was arrested during a scuffle with police after Sheehan and the anti-war demonstrators rushed toward the closed doors and kept chanting loudly after the guests went into the dinner.
Rove was speaking to the Associated Republicans of Texas, and ticket prices started at $200. He was not in the Renaissance Hotel lobby during the reception.
"I want him arrested. He planned the war that killed my son," Sheehan told officers guarding the door. Sheehan's oldest son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004.
Police then ordered the group to leave, but some protesters had paid for rooms for the night. Those protesters went upstairs, including Sheehan.
Earlier, wearing shorts and T-shirts while guests of the lobby reception walked past in sequined dresses and expensive suits, anti-war demonstrators carried American flags and signs, including one that read "Check your conscience." A few protesters unfurled a large banner from a sixth-floor hotel balcony that read "Rove v. Truth: No Contest. Pink slip Rove."
Those at the reception sipped their drinks and largely ignored the protesters before they started chanting. One man looked at the group and said, "Go Bush!"
Earlier Saturday, the group of more than 70 gathered at the hotel entrance, carrying a large banner that read, "Rove: Guilty of crimes against humanity." Ann Wright, a former U.S. diplomat who resigned in 2003 in protest over the war, yelled through a bullhorn, "Karl Rove, you are a criminal!"
After about 30 minutes, Austin police made them move onto grass at the edge of the property about a block away. Dozens remained later Saturday, holding signs as cars drove by, honking their horns.
Sheehan and the group left their campsite in Crawford near Bush's ranch, where they have held vigil the past two weeks, and drove about 100 miles south to Austin.
The war protest will continue until early September, although Bush's ranch 10-day ranch vacation ended last weekend. Sheehan's 26-day protest last August drew more than 10,000 people to her campsite in ditches off the rural road leading to the ranch, but she recently bought land near downtown for the group to camp on.
Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan, center, and her sister Dede Miller, left, are caught in the middle as police arrest Tiffany Burns during a protest outside the doors of the ballroom where President Bush's top advisor Karl Rove was speaking at an Associated Republicans of Texas dinner Saturday, Aug. 19, 2006, in Austin, Texas. Sheehan and more than 50 other war protesters ambushed the reception chanting 'Try Rove for treason.' (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Rodolfo Gonzalez)
Dede Miller, sister of anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan, is knocked to the ground after being caught in the middle of a scuffle with police as they arrested Tiffany Burns during a protest outside the doors of the ballroom where President Bush's top advisor Karl Rove was speaking at an Associated Republicans of Texas dinner Saturday, Aug. 19, 2006, in Austin, Texas. Sheehan and more than 50 other war protesters ambushed the reception chanting 'Try Rove for treason.' (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Rodolfo Gonzalez)
Just kidding :)
Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan, center, is caught in the middle as police arrest Tiffany Burns during a protest outside the doors of the ballroom where President Bush's top advisor Karl Rove was speaking at an Associated Republicans of Texas dinner Saturday, Aug. 19, 2006, in Austin, Texas. Sheehan and more than 50 other war protesters ambushed the reception chanting 'Try Rove for treason.' (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Rodolfo Gonzalez)
She's just another creepy stalker now.
Raving lunatics.
.She's really roughing it, huh?
Well there goes the theory that weebles wobble, but they don't fall down.
Anti-war protesters unveil a large banner protesting in the lobby where President Bush's top advisor Karl Rove was speaking at an Associated Republicans of Texas dinner Saturday, Aug. 19, 2006, in Austin, Texas. Cindy Sheehan and more than 50 other war protesters ambushed the reception chanting 'Try Rove for treason.' (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Rodolfo Gonzalez)
She still wearing those hospital ID bands?
Totally losing it now....just as expected
You have mail.... my posting history....lol.
I don't understand how the hotel would let them stay there after they were a part of this disruption. That makes no sense.
Dropping that banner out to be an automatic eviction IMO
whatever happen Hanging people? Ohhhh yeah thats right its not good to do that we have talk to her and understand her mind and all that bull shit. I mean after all she is poor mother who lost her son yeah thats right he did't even live with her! he lived with his father!
What's Sis doing on the floor?
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