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Sheehan's rally disrupts Rove reception (one arrest)
AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/19/06 | Angela K. Brown - ap

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: annwright; blackshirts; crawfordstockii; dedemiller; disrupts; joanofcrawford; moonbats; rally; reception; refugeesfromthe60s; rove; sheehan; stunt; tiffanyburns; toomanydonuts
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To: NormsRevenge

Is that Arabic on Sheehan's t-shirt?


21 posted on 08/19/2006 10:15:15 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Hey, Genius! If YOU aren't a Muslim fascist, Bush wasn't talking to you! So why are you offended?)
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To: NormsRevenge
Look at that picture. She's grinning.

"I want him arrested. He planned the war that killed my son,"

Enough, already. I know how cold this will sound, but I really don't care--Cindy, the whole world is not about you, or your loss. It is tragic your son, a hero, died so young. It was a result of a choice he made in life. Apparently, before his unfortunate death, your son grew up a lot more than you ever have, and appreciated that nothing, not even his own life, was all about him.

So get over it. This WOT was not cooked up as an insult to you personally. And you are aiding those who will make other mothers lose their children. Does that mean anything to you? No, I didn't think so.

Stop behaving as if the planet Earth has to be tailor made to your specifications.

22 posted on 08/19/2006 10:15:43 PM PDT by Darkwolf377
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To: NormsRevenge

Cindy and her wacky group have gone past the protest stage, all they do now is harass.


23 posted on 08/19/2006 10:15:51 PM PDT by jazusamo (DIANA IREY for Congress, PA 12th District: Retire murtha.)
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To: NormsRevenge; All

Somebody needs to get Dede Miller a J-O-B, so she doesn't have to hang around her sister......

Somebody should fax or e-mail the pic that Norm posted to Vince McMahon.....


24 posted on 08/19/2006 10:16:10 PM PDT by musicman
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To: NormsRevenge

She's smiling like a loon in this photo. Improper response to stimulus.


25 posted on 08/19/2006 10:17:56 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: NormsRevenge

The way she's spending money on a new car, the land in Texas, back taxes, constant trips from one end of the country to the other, all her trips abroad etc., she has to be coming close to the end of Casey's insurance money soon. I wonder how many delusional followers she'll have when that day comes?


26 posted on 08/19/2006 10:19:34 PM PDT by AmeriBrit (Spreading the truth - Doing the job the MSM won't do!)
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To: L.N. Smithee; Angry in the Great White North
I dunno, but she seems pretty damn active for someone who was allegedly on the verge of death yesterday.
27 posted on 08/19/2006 10:19:38 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Islam delenda est)
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To: musicman

Last time I looked....Cindy was unemployed and I'm guessing that Dede is unemployed as well. So....you might wonder how they can travel around and stay at nice hotels...unless you were CNN or ABC or NBC or CBS. There are lots of funny details about these people and where their cash support comes from.


28 posted on 08/19/2006 10:20:33 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: NormsRevenge

Darth Rove probably had a big laugh after he saw the pics of these moonbats.


29 posted on 08/19/2006 10:20:39 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative (Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.)
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To: AmeriBrit

Soros is funding her. That money she got when her brave son gave his life for this country, ran out yonks ago.


30 posted on 08/19/2006 10:21:03 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: AmeriBrit

I would say that she is not spending any of her own money. She plenty of sponsors around. She is one sick individual.


31 posted on 08/19/2006 10:21:47 PM PDT by tomh68
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To: West Coast Conservative

The one with tha gal down
I'd caption "Cow down Cow down" ...


32 posted on 08/19/2006 10:23:18 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ......Help the "Pendleton 8' and families -- http://www.freerepublic.com/~normsrevenge/)
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To: StoneWall Brigade; All

We all finally need to get this straight!

Cindy is plenty bad enough without the need for spreading misinformation about her.

Last summer, Cindy was to appear on a talk show. She cancelled. ANOTHER woman who lost a son in the war and became a protester appeared in Cindy's place. It was THAT WOMAN who, it was found, did not raise her son.


33 posted on 08/19/2006 10:23:28 PM PDT by JennysCool (Roll out the Canarble Wagon!)
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To: pepsionice; All
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34 posted on 08/19/2006 10:24:56 PM PDT by musicman
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To: nopardons

Sheehan Strikes Again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZMtNafYXNM&feature=PlayList&p=F14589E5D2D805F4&index=31


35 posted on 08/19/2006 10:25:18 PM PDT by MaineVoter2002 (http://www.cafenetamerica.com)
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To: NormsRevenge

Ther's a lot of ugly in that family...


36 posted on 08/19/2006 10:27:25 PM PDT by Libertina
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To: Darkwolf377

Cindy's the perfect poster-child for the too-many-drugs-not-enough-responsibility generation of the late '60s and early '70s.

Things will only get worse until that sector of humanity gets old and keels over.


37 posted on 08/19/2006 10:27:45 PM PDT by JennysCool (Roll out the Canarble Wagon!)
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To: NormsRevenge

These nuts think that GWB is simultaneously the most brilliant and the dumbest man on the planet. No wonder they voted for Kerry.


38 posted on 08/19/2006 10:28:43 PM PDT by REDWOOD99
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To: REDWOOD99
No wonder they voted for Kerry.

It's more than that. Kerry's one of 'em.

39 posted on 08/19/2006 10:30:16 PM PDT by JennysCool (Roll out the Canarble Wagon!)
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To: NormsRevenge
"I want him arrested. He planned the war that killed my son," Sheehan told officers guarding the door.


That can be said about all the wars that made America free and secure. If that ignorant selfish beast Sheehan has her way then there would be no more wars... and no more freedom and security.

And then society would breakdown and be acting like her, warring mobs of abusive thugs pushing, shoving, screaming demands, and whoever has the bigger fists would dominate... that is until the Muslims arrive.
40 posted on 08/19/2006 10:32:49 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (ETERNAL SHAME on the Treasonous and Immoral Democrats!)
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