Posted on 12/29/2006 6:47:35 AM PST by LA Woman3
CRAWFORD — Minutes before the “Peace Mom” was arrested Thursday for blocking a road near President Bush’s ranch, Cindy Sheehan said she plans to become more “confrontational” and that it’s time to “ramp up” peace efforts.
“We’re the only people that can stop Bush now,” she said, standing with about 30 other peace protesters at a barricaded Secret Service checkpoint outside the Crawford-area ranch.
Bush was meeting with top advisers to consider strategy in the Iraq war, including a possible surge in troop levels.
About 20 minutes after talking about her new plan, called a “peace surge” as a poke at Bush, Sheehan, 49, and four other protesters lay down in front of Secret Service barricades and refused to move. Texas Department of Public Safety troopers carried each one off the roadway and to a ditch along the side of the road — their hands tied with flexible nylon ties, a gentler handcuff police often use during protests.
It was Sheehan’s first arrest at the Bush ranch in McLennan County.
The five protesters, including Dede Miller, Sheehan’s sister; Gerry Fonsecca, Sheehan’s boyfriend; Carl Rising-Moore; and Jeri Reed, were arrested on misdemeanor charges of obstructing a roadway. The group is expected to be bonded out of the McLennan County Jail today.
Among those at the ranch with Bush were Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Vice President Dick Cheney.
The protest briefly delayed state troopers who were to serve in escort motorcades for government officials meeting with Bush, Texas Department of Public Safety Lt. R.T. King said.
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...and lots of air fresheners. (She looks like she really stinks.)
Meanwhile, the only people who seem to be paying any attention at all is the left wing media.
"Peace surge" - is that a going problem, or a growing problem?
She should just be ignored until she leaves, or croaks from exposure.
Not that I've been following her much lately, but a boyfriend? I can just imagine what he's like (and it ain't pretty).
Gerry Fonsecca Sheehan's boyfriend???I'd like to get a gander at him.....
Gerry Fonsecca, Sheehan’s boyfriend
That's one of the most frightening things I can remember reading about this woman........
Cindy's 15 minutes are over, and she can't stand being out of the limelight.
Too bad the ditch wasn't full of mosquito infested water.
That's kind of like an oxymoron. I always laugh when *peace activists* get more obnoxious. I guess they really don't believe in peace.
This could be a good thing. More likely to get her arrested.
Here ya go...
I've been debating whether it is worth the effort to put something together and go over there today--but it's going to be very rainy in these parts, and besides that--her 15 minutes ARE over, and I don't have any more minutes left to devote to this POS!
Sorry, Sindy--it's your loss--LOL!
Are you freakishly obsessed with the daily casualty count in Iraq? Do you find yourself disappointed when a day or two goes by and no American soldiers die? 
Have you ever been at a cocktail party and said, "How can we be so damn jovial when George Bush is responsible for a death toll in Iraq that is approaching one-tenth the total of British dead in the Second Boer War?"
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Is that a "Veterans for Peace" hat he's wearing?
Where did he serve? Pushing paper somewhere, no doubt.
This means she's in violation of her parole...
Sheehan needs locking up....bad. Will no one rid us of this pest?
I guess she had to turn somewhere after getting booted out of Lew Rockwell's bed...
"More violence for peace!"
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