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.
I suggest that you calm down, stop posting such drivel, and go back to DU. Your methods, here, aren't working.
Yes, it's a troll.
Remain clam! He's drunk. Check his history.
you make a very Strong Point very good point
Thought so!
I knew several.
It doesn't do you a lick of good, to lash out at people you don't know; especially when they've been here a very long time...something I suspect you won't.
So, answer me this.................why are you going nuts over the fact that you were corrected, after you posted an error?
..only way that her death..
Cindy Sheehan will not die at the hands of terrorist. She will die by her own hand. When she gets dumped by her financial supportors and the attention goes away, she will commit suicide. The woman is obviously a pawn and an emotional train wreck being used by the lefties and MSM. The only thing she has to live for is to bad mouth our country and the WOT.
Du Give me a break please like i said America has made its own BagDad Bob this is just like Rome was before it fell never in the hsitory of this country have you had people who would do anything to Undermind this Country or its leader just to get back power and if you dont see that then ur dumbass a real dumbass
In reply to a local yokel who made some unflattering comments to a US Marine on a local Talk Radio Blogsite(Victoria Taft), I penned the following, posting it on her blog and my own;
To Our Modern War Protesters
I sit back and watch as you protest, as you proclaim, “I support the troops, but not the war.” I see you bashing the President over every little thing he does. I’ve watched as you set up fake coffins outside of Walter Reed Hospital, where recovering troops are. I see you as you encourage young troops to desert the military, to flee to Canada or anywhere else. I hear you as you yell Bush will be drafting kids soon, even though the only draft proposal has been coming out of Democrats. I listen, as you demand an immediate withdrawal of all troops from Iraq. “Leave it to the Iraqis,” you yell. “Bring the troops home now,” you scream. I even see you sneering at our brave young men and women as they return to America and hear you as you whisper what losers they are, unable to find decent paying jobs in civilian life. I even remember moonbats as you when I returned from Viet Nam and have run across too many of you in the ensuing 36 years.
Little do you realize that if Iraq goes the way Viet Nam did, it will not be because of brave young people in uniform lost their will or couldn’t hack it (nice of you to always remind us of stories implicating atrocities of a very minor small handful as if all committed them), but will be due to the efforts of leftist Bush bashers, again, like you.
We were continually undermined in Viet Nam and forced by the left to leave. We agreed to a Peace Plan that ensured a free country we would reenter and protect them if the oppressive communist North attacked them. Due to the efforts of a mostly Democrat Congress, a bill was passed prohibiting any future aid or help to South Viet Nam.
Then, for over 30 years, those of us who served and sacrificed our youth to protect freedom and liberty around the globe, as stated by Democrat President, John F. Kennedy, have been bombarded with messages from television, movies, politicians, book authors, school teachers and college professors and the socialistic left leaning banker types with tales of what losers we were, what a danger we posed to society (it was no less that John 'F'in Kerry that stated "The country doesn't know it yet, but it has created a monster, a monster in the form of millions of men who have been taught to deal and to trade in violence…..,") and looked upon us as deranged, potentially violent hair triggered war criminals. We are called "baby killers," even though we may not support abortions (who do you think really kills more babies?).
No, I've seen your type over and over for many years now. In your egotistical hatred of George Bush and Republicans, you sit in your self-proclaimed ivory towers of self-righteousness and try to portray an image of caring about the troops when you actually despise them, probably out of jealousy. Jealousy that they have the guts to stand for something and desire to see others free to live as we do. You think bashing Bush and the WoT to the U.S. Service men and women fighting it will make others think you care enough to not want to see him hurt or injured when you couldn't care less that your defeatist rhetoric will cause many more deaths of Americans in harm's way than save.
Just like from back in the 70s, if you succeed in forcing an American abandonment of Iraq, you will puff out your chest bragging at how you "stopped a war." In fact, the leftist anti-war protesters did no such thing. They prolonged it by 5 years at a cost of nearly 40,000 more American lives on the battlefield.
You remind me of a slick banker slyly talking a farmer into a loan, knowing the terms will end up making the farmer lose their farm and the bank to take possession of it with the intent to make a profit off the sale of the land.
People like you, Cindy Sheehan, Ned Lamont, John Kerry and so many more couldn't hold a candle to the men and women volunteering for our Armed Services today. You can only be jealous that they have their values and the intestinal fortitude to stand up for them.
You should thank God (or whatever you may believe in) that there are still people young people willing to stand and protect you in your ivory tower, just so you can trash them.
To any Service member if you read this, pay no mind to the latest moonbat war protesters. Whether they ever served or not, they have forgotten what it means to stand for something that is worthwhile standing for.
Lew
http://rightinaleftworld.blogspot.com/
http://victoriataftkpam.blogspot.com/2006/08/marine-responds-to-nsa-ruling.html
I almost never look up a person's posting history, but after being told, twice now, to do so, I think I shall.
Is she still fasting?
How old are you..........12?
this war is not for weak and heart like i said in WWII all you got was a letter thats it no more no less the facts are people like this mad woman could care less about our war they want power they want the spot light and the people on the news gives it to them. Now this war is not being fought on the battlefield but in the living room never before in our own history have we had to fight such storng movement such as is Iran Syira and many other countrys are united in common casue to bring this country and our freedoms down if we as Americans can not stand up as one we will fall.
Probably not... we all know she's feasting off her own puppet-zombie brain.
Are these two more friendly than we know??
ohhhh really you need to check your history books the people of Rome would no longer fight for there country the people of Rome where not united as one if you dont like my postings so be it dont read them
again is right, the fall gal.
I wonder if the DeaNC pays them by the arrest and disruption of events..
Its all for the spot light thats it nothing more
i'd say so these wacko people will do anything for power and the spot light
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