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.
Young Hezbollah, Yankee style
Apparently the hunger strike wasn't successful.
we need to hang her sorry ass
Hey Wall.......you're 100% incorrect about "Mother Sheehan" not raising her kids.
Stop carrying on so....newbie.
Don't YOU know? It is, after all, an English term. hehehehehehe
Punctuated sentences are our friends
Just because you think people have to be ignorant and illiterate to be conservative doesn't make it so.
What JennysCool said was nothing but the simple truth.
Miller is down on the floor like a hog rolls in the mud. I wonder if she squeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllllled real good.
please you know what I Could care less why dont you go over there and help her out i'm sick and tired of people kissing her sorry ass you know what America has made itself into another bagdad bob 9/11 what 9/11? its Americans like you that wants to bring this country down
Great film. Thanks for the link. Super editing job by Red Square Eye at The Peoples Cube.
Its posting history makes me suspect troll attempting to make FR look bad.
you know what Ameierca is at the Crossroads in this war on Evil your either for America or your not I take it your not.
I don't want cindy to be a martyr. I want her confuted. The only way that her death would do our nation good is if she was killed by terrorists.
thats good point you know my sisters Husband was killed in iraq in 04 i dont see her Bush Bashing or anything els to that nature that woman is just selfish worthless human who could care less about our country or our freedoms
That is 300 pounds of thud.
The liberals fear the republicans more than the terrorists...that's a fact. They know that the conservatives will protect this nation, no matter how the liberals act. Therefore, they're favoring the enemy because they perceive no threat from them, yet understand that they will have a political gain if they oppose the republicans.
In an effort to make themselves appear as victims of the Bush regeime, they put themselves in the seat of terrorists. "They're monitoring our phone calls!"
"We're losing our freedoms!"
They, in all actuality, have nothing to fear from our nation's defenders.
I'm going to post this again: Sheehan is the leader of the dim party. She gets more press coverage than any other dim. She's at the helm of the sinking ship. Seriously, who is running the show? It has to be her! No one else is in charge, that's evident.
Funny that hitlery supposedly put out the word on Sheehan last year, and the media continues to churn out these stupid reports, ignoring queen hitlery. Every week, it's cindy-cindy-cindy. A couple of plugs for the knuckleheads by their fawning, adoring media. hitlery must be ready to have a cow.
It's just unbelievable how bad the dims have gotten. I can't wait for another GOP blowout win this November.
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