4um: Camp Casey Attacked

Title: Camp Casey Attacked
Source: Antiwar.com
URL Source: http://www.antiwar.com/blog/index.php?id=P2291
Published: Aug 15, 2005
Author: Justin Raimondo
Post Date: 2005-08-16 12:18:04 by robin
Keywords: Attacked, Casey, Camp
Views: 786
Comments: 24

Mon Aug 15, 2005

Camp Casey Attacked

The hate campaign conducted by the War Party against Cindy Sheehan has finally culminated in an attack on "Camp Casey," the site of a growing protest against the Iraq war in Crawford, Texas, according to this report. Apparently, a man in a pick-up truck barreled into Camp Casey, and, wielding a chain, knocked down 150 road-side crosses

representing the Iraq war dead. The truck then suffered a blown-out tire, and law enforcement, we hear, have the man in custody.

Sheehan has alerted her supporters that the Secret Service is pressuring her to leave Crawford. According to this report, Thursday morning the residents of Camp Casey were jolted awake by a fourteen-car convoy of Secret Service SUVs, as the drivers leaned on their horns as they passed the camp at high speed. Earlier, a local resident, Larry Mattlage, fired his gun in the air in the vicinity, and, when asked why, replied:

“We're going to start doing our war and it's going to be underneath the law. Whatever it takes.”

A more accurate description of the War Party's agenda and methodology could hardly be articulated.

Stay tuned to http://Antiwar.com for updates ....

You know what I'm sick of? I'm fucking sick of the intellectually bankrupt beating on the table to make a "point"

Here we have members of an elite group of law enforcement officers, the Secret Service. Ostensibly the best of the best. Proven men who can, and should, be held to a higher standard, harassing innocent citizens and generally acting like nincompoops. I know sixth graders with more grace.

In addition we have Mr. "Real American" who is probably convinced in his tiny mind that he is a "Patriot" with a "cause"

And what’s our all American superhero in waiting doing to serve his beloved nation? He's driving around terrorizing women who dared to put up a makeshift war memorial, destroying private property and generally being a dick.

These people could write books, give press conferences, start a counter protest, engage the "evil doers" in the Sheehan Camp in debate, write letters to the editor, rent a billboard or just go any one of hundreds of legitimate routes to counter her point and expose her as the fool they believe her to be.

You may be thinking: Well, duh. If it's that fucking easy.. why don't they do it?

There's a problem. In order to succeed, they would have to be able to convince others that they are right. This of course means, winning the debate on the strength of their arguments.

Since they don't HAVE any legitimate bitch, aside from her "making the President look bad" and equally vacant nonsense, they're beating on the table.

It's sad. It’s sad to see folks reduced to that and, if anyone doesn't think so, that's too bad.

It doesn't matter what you think of Cindy Sheehan and Dubya, there's plenty of similar examples from the Clinton's reign of terror.

Regardless which side of the isle it serves in any particular instance, beating on the table is a tactic reserved for those who must silence the opposition because they can't put on a convincing case of their own.