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.
"Kerry's one of 'em."
No doubt! They'll never win another election, regardless the ineptness of the republicans, if they can't make up their minds.
Ugly runs in the family.
What a drama queen.
If society ever breaks down into warring mobs, her ilk would be the first against the wall.
Err...okay.
She's skirting dangerously close to Squeaky Fromme territory.
That was some film....thanks for posting the link. It was stomach churning, but something everyone should see.
its people like you which gives this country a bad name Bush dosent have to asnwer to her or to anyone els and if you dont like it then Leave!
How long is a yonk? LOOOOOL
Look, you haven't been here long, so I'll give you a valuable head's up about Free Republic: misinformation is corrected, quickly, whatever it may be.
i herd he lived with his Father
outrageos.
From the looks of her... maybe one too many doughnuts?
just image in WWII all you got was a letter thats it
And you're right about the insurance money.
that bitch is REALLY drinking up all that adulation & glory from the press.
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