they're liberals,
What else would you expect?
They can't even read a map.
Posted on 08/14/2005 9:36:45 AM PDT by 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
Can anyone read teh posts at DU, and if so, do you have a link to the thread? Posting personal information is a big no no.
Agreed. Apparently he was able to account for the shots he fired, so he's on solid ground. Still, I can't help but think that this is just escalating and it's playing into the hands of the protestors.
Was born and raised here, don't know any different. Didn't know what a/c was until I went to college.
Thanks and thanks for your service!
If I remember correctly, most of the victims were shot at extreme distance. I'll look it up and get back to you.
Texas Angus Association
McLennan County Angus Breeders
Mattlage, Larry, Mattlage's High Prairie Acres. Crawford, Texas
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August 29, 2002
Larry Mattlage, who permits NBC to use his 90-acre spread
Mr. Mattlage called it small recompense for the hassle of living next to a president.
"I figured, 'Well, if you've got to put up with this stuff, you might as well make a little money off of it,' " he said.
Ive only heard the first file so far.
Thanks for the great unvarnished truth
The line being violence? Uh....when and where?
It was a tragedy Melas.
To the credit of the gaurd, they saw the tragedy and stood down.
By E&P Staff
Published: August 14, 2005 12:55 PM ET
NEW YORK Showing the value of its nearly round-the-clock coverage, the Lone Star Iconoclast, a weekly in Crawford, Texas, reported this morning from the scene that shots had been fired near the Cindy Sheehan antiwar encampment near the Bush ranch, which has drawn national attention.
Apparently they were fired by a local landowner none too pleased with the protest in his neighborhood.
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Interviewed afterward, protest leader Cindy Sheehan said it was okay if the man fired his gun on his own property, so long as the bullets remained on his property as well.
Here is a link to his interview......"resident Bush has more porta poties and if I was a betting man I would bet on him."
http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=mattlage1
they're liberals,
What else would you expect?
They can't even read a map.
Aha, I see Cindy has a lawyer in her camp somewhere. I assumed the farmer fired into the air, and I don't have a good reason for the assumption. He could have easily fired into his own ground and stayed well within his legal rights.
I heard the reporters asking him to spell his name.
He aint skeered and he seems to know his rights. he does sound rattled, he knows there is a legal fight brewing
An idea!
Perhaps the good citizen of Crawford will use eminent domain to take the "peace house".
Yes I saw that.
Mattledge seems to be a trusting soul and a good nieghbor who has just had enough of being in the middle.
Its a shame he was human and succumbed to angling for profit in the matter. This will be his biggest obstacle to overcome
I was talking to my very liberal father yesterday about Cindy. He defened her. I told him about her anti-Israel speeches. At the end of the conversation he said o.k. I still think she has the right to speak even though she's a no good g-d damn anti-semetic bassturd. Today my mom, also very liberal, said to me, she's a Nut!
The women in pink schedule every minute of Sheehan's day, allowing most reporters only five-minute interviews in order to squeeze in as many as possible. "She did 20 hours of interviews yesterday," one said Wednesday.
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Meanwhile, California. members of Veterans for Peace began erecting white crosses near Sheehan's tent and along the country lane to honor the fallen soldiers of the Iraq war.
Sheehan's camp, situated in a shallow roadside ditch, has grown almost by the hour. Her tent is flanked by those of two quiet-spoken war protestors: Ann Wright, a former State Department official who resigned in protest when Bush launched the Iraqi invasion in March, 2003, and Jim Goodnow, a Coast Guard veteran from Terlingua who favors tie-dyed shirts and doesn't mind washing his feet in muddy rain puddles.
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Her next-door neighbor, Larry Mattlage, spent part of Wednesday afternoon on his four-wheeler trying to prevent protestors from parking cars on the grassy easement in front of his goat farm (It's a 90-acre Angus farm).
"I understand these people's cause. I appreciate that," he said. But, he added, "Everybody just wants to know when it's going to be over. Are we going to have to put up with this all summer?" As the sun began to set, a red Coast Guard helicopter circled low near the encampment. But there wasn't much to see. Most protestors had gone to Crawford to eat or find a place to stay overnight.
Thanks for the link. I feel for the guy. He's just feeling boxxed in. I can relate. I was living in Jasper, Texas when James Byrd was drug to death and the media, lawyers, law enforcement, celebrities, Black Panters, Ku Klux Klansman and various entourages descended on the town. It sucks to live under those conditions for more than a day.
I was thinking it's a good time to repave the roads.
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