SHOTS FIRED! (Property owner reported to have fired gun in air near Camp Cindy)

Lone Star Iconoclast ^ | 10:15am (Central) August 14, 2005 | Deborah Mathews - reporting for The Iconoclast

[tgslTakoma]

Camp Casey is becoming very organized, with how-to signs placed about. Ann Wright said, "That's what we are trying to do."

Let me read you the schedule posted on a tree: "9:15 camp meeting; 10 a.m. inter-faith service, 10:30 a.m., "Food-Not-Bombs Breakfast at Peace House," and....

"Wait! Someone is firing a gun. (pause). He fired it into the air about five times. He appears to be a local inside the fence line on private property. Now he has thrown what looks like a shotgun into the front seat of a pickup, and he's stomping off out of sight. I wonder where he went.

"Now he's coming back out. I'm out here standing on the road. He's got a no parking sign in his hand, walking toward his fence. I'm going to go try to talk to him. I've got to hang up."

(three minutes later)

I went over and talked to the man. He is Larry Mattlage, who says he is on his property and just posted a no-parking sign.

"We're going to start doing our war and it's going to be underneath the law," he told me. "Whatever it takes. So y'all go find another place to do whatever you do. 'Cause this is our front yard and back yard."

I asked, "Do you mean the protestors?"

Wait.....now there's some Secret Service and cops. I'm going to get closer to hear what they're saying. People in bullet-proof vests are here now. Two Secret Service agents are now walking up his driveway towards his house, with Mr. Mattlage. A member of the Sheriff's Department has arrived. Mr. Mattlage is waving his arms now. All of them are now walking back this way.

Now they are between the lane and the house. He's at the fence now. Let me record what they are saying. I'll call right back.

Editor's Note: Permission is granted to reprint the information and photographs appearing in this feature about Cindy Sheehan's visit to Crawford and activities at The Peace House. Attribution would be appreciated. — W. Leon Smith, publisher, The Lone Star Iconoclast

[ace2u_in_MD]

You are assuming that he was using shot rounds and not rifled slugs...

Either way, it was a STUPID thing to do. It goes against all firearms safety training.

I also find it ironic that he was using a second amendment right to instill fear in people exercising their first amendment rights...

[JCEccles]

In his interview Rancher Mattlage took pains to explain he's a taxpaying citizen.

As opposed to Cindy Sheehan.

Mattlage isn't about to let these aging hippies turn his property into an anti-Bush version of Yasgar's farm. God bless him.

[not_apathetic_anymore]

It might be wise for the President to cut short the vacation at Crawford, and go to Camp David for the remainder of the five weeks. I agree--why hand the moonbats this opportunity on a silver platter?

Yeah, but then the MSM says Bush ran away from Crawford because he couldn't deal with the Moonbats. He's presented as capitulating.

[mylife]

okey dokey

[fish hawk]

The Supreme Court will give them that piece of land in the name of eminent domain. They will call it Little Palestine.

[Palladin]

Ya think a Texan might just know the right direction in which to shoot his shotgun in the air?

Not like...say...idiots in Seattle on new Year's Eve.

[TexasTransplant]

He was using his Second Amendment Rights to protect his Fifth Amendment Rights they are Trespassing, in Texas it is not unheard of to SHOOT Trespassers.

[Not A Snowbird]

I defer to your knowledge on such matters. I've never fired anything other than 9mm or 5.56, so I wouldn't know about shotguns.

Did Fox every talk about it? All I'm getting is bomb threats and hurricanes.

[Not A Snowbird]

Not like...say...idiots in Seattle on new Year's Eve.

Actually I was thinking of Los Angeles. Seattlites don't own guns. :-)

[Palladin]

However MSM writes it, it is always bad for Bush. So I say, leave the moonbats in Crawford wallowing in their stinking sweaty clothes.

Go to the peaceful wide-perimetered Camp David to continue his working vacation, without the shrill distractions of Cindy Scream and her entourage of Gold Crescent Mother-(*****)s.

Karen Hughes--CALL HOME!

[Palladin]

Good retort!

[deport]

Because Peace House owns land on that road they have the logistics locked up.

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Really.... where did you get that tidbit of info?....

Peace House owns property in Crawford at 9142 5th Street Crawford, Tx. but the protestors at Camp Casey are on public row out on Prairie Chapel Road toward the President's ranch which is a few miles northwest of the Crawford city limits.

[Eaker]

You have touched a fully automatic weapon? Can I shake your hand? Then I'll never wash that hand again....

My little girl.....

[mylife]

Im no expert, Im just adding a little thought to the matter.

FNC is pulling our chain with the bomb threat crap L0L

Prolly because they know this is a non story.
I havent seen the segment they promised. Sorry If I wasted your time on the matter. ;)

[jennyjenny]

Well, she says she is going to follow him until he meets her demands with her.

[mylife]

Hehehe
I missed ya while I was gone Eaker.

Your Kid Rocks L0L

[jennyjenny]

Story on Fox now.

[mylife]

here is the segment now

[linn37]

To bad its not Dove season then he could really stir them up.

[mylife]

Thanks Jen