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
No Tresspassing
Violaters will be shot
Survivors will be eaten
NeverGore :^)
I would love to see that happen!
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Local weekly with a few people in the field following the events... Pictures, quotes, etc.
Illegal aliens in the back yard and war protestors in the front yard...
Danger close...drop it on my poz...I say again drop it on my poz..
Yeah, it was a waste of lead. But like I suggested, maybe he thought ahead and used blanks.
LOL! A little itching powder... etc...
I don't think that's going to happen. The grass and the mesquite will welcome the moisture. That area is pretty dry most of the time.
He did not point it at "us" 'cause "us" is still talking.
I would think that if a Texan pointed a gun at somebody and fired that person would NOT be talking.
Hehehe... Ya gotta love Texas!
Great Idea....spread pig manure a 1/2 deep......this would absolutely drive them away....
Wait a tick....ever smell a "peace activist"? This may just attract more....
NeverGore :^)
Bang!
No kidding. . .we had a shooting team (.22 rifles) in my Junior High School. . .range was inside the school.
Try and imagine that today.
Me too. Ted bought that land because he loves to hunt and wants his privacy -- Cindy and her crew better not get in his crosshairs.
No such thing as private property anymore.
I think the peacenicks are starting to rub local residents the wrong way. The author might have parked on his property? I suspect the patience level is getting lower.
Secret Service got involved just to check out the gunshot, determining if it was a shotgun or rifle..
No update since 10:00AM?
Shoddy, Shoddy work. I'll call you right back was 2 hours ago.
Most of em would never even notice it.
LOL! A little itching powder... etc...
Just so y'all know, from the posts I've been reading at Lefty's web sites, our Texas Fire Ants have been "taking the war to the enemy" quite effectively. ;-)
They posted a reprint of the Iconoclast story at 12:55pm.
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