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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

Young Hezbollah, Yankee style


61 posted on 08/19/2006 10:58:14 PM PDT by Loud Mime (An undefeated enemy is still an enemy.......war has a purpose.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Apparently the hunger strike wasn't successful.


62 posted on 08/19/2006 10:58:55 PM PDT by drierice
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To: Loud Mime

we need to hang her sorry ass


63 posted on 08/19/2006 10:59:15 PM PDT by StoneWall Brigade (AMERICA LAND OF THE FREE BECASUE OF THE BRAVE!)
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To: JennysCool; StoneWall Brigade
Jenny, your are correct.

Hey Wall.......you're 100% incorrect about "Mother Sheehan" not raising her kids.

64 posted on 08/19/2006 10:59:59 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: StoneWall Brigade

Stop carrying on so....newbie.


65 posted on 08/19/2006 11:01:30 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: AmeriBrit
Years?

Don't YOU know? It is, after all, an English term. hehehehehehe

66 posted on 08/19/2006 11:02:43 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: StoneWall Brigade; JennysCool
take your leftest ideas to moveon.org or something I could care less about her she needs her sorry ass hanged and 2nd off she wants meet to Bush you know what in WWII all you got was Dam letter if you where lucky

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.

67 posted on 08/19/2006 11:02:48 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("You can either accept science and face reality, or live in a childish dream world" - Lisa Simpson)
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To: StoneWall Brigade
Then you "heard" wrdong! Where did you "hear" it from"...the fillings in your teeth?
68 posted on 08/19/2006 11:03:38 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: The Iceman Cometh

Miller is down on the floor like a hog rolls in the mud. I wonder if she squeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllllled real good.


69 posted on 08/19/2006 11:04:36 PM PDT by jonrick46
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To: nopardons

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


70 posted on 08/19/2006 11:04:51 PM PDT by StoneWall Brigade (AMERICA LAND OF THE FREE BECASUE OF THE BRAVE!)
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To: MaineVoter2002

Great film. Thanks for the link. Super editing job by Red Square Eye at The Peoples Cube.


71 posted on 08/19/2006 11:05:02 PM PDT by dancusa (For liberals there is no end to their rights and no beginning to their responsibilities.)
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To: Oztrich Boy; nopardons

Its posting history makes me suspect troll attempting to make FR look bad.


72 posted on 08/19/2006 11:06:00 PM PDT by JennysCool (Roll out the Canarble Wagon!)
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To: nopardons

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.


73 posted on 08/19/2006 11:08:12 PM PDT by StoneWall Brigade (AMERICA LAND OF THE FREE BECASUE OF THE BRAVE!)
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To: StoneWall Brigade

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.


74 posted on 08/19/2006 11:09:10 PM PDT by Loud Mime (An undefeated enemy is still an enemy.......war has a purpose.)
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To: Loud Mime

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


75 posted on 08/19/2006 11:12:03 PM PDT by StoneWall Brigade (AMERICA LAND OF THE FREE BECASUE OF THE BRAVE!)
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To: JennysCool
I'll confirm that. IIRC it was almost two years ago. Sheehan was scheduled to appear on the "O'Reilly Factor", but cancelled at the last minute. The man who replaced her also had a son killed in Iraq was of the same mindset as the silly witch, but not as annoying or moronic. It was this guest who raised his son without his mother.
76 posted on 08/19/2006 11:13:45 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: The Iceman Cometh
Dede Miller, member of the Gold Star Families for Peace, and younger sister of Cindy Sheehan has been a constant traveler in the Sheehan odyssey.
77 posted on 08/19/2006 11:15:48 PM PDT by jonrick46
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To: The Iceman Cometh

That is 300 pounds of thud.


78 posted on 08/19/2006 11:16:06 PM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: StoneWall Brigade

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.


79 posted on 08/19/2006 11:17:13 PM PDT by Loud Mime (An undefeated enemy is still an enemy.......war has a purpose.)
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To: NormsRevenge

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.


80 posted on 08/19/2006 11:17:14 PM PDT by goresalooza (Nurses Rock!)
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