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Title: War protesters arrested near Bush ranch
Source:
Boston Globe
URL Source: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/w ... ters_arrested_near_bush_ranch/
Published: Nov 24, 2005
Author: Rosalind S. Helderman
Post Date: 2005-11-25 01:31:50 by NOLAJBS
Keywords: protesters, arrested, ranch
Views: 58
Comments: 5
CRAWFORD, Texas -- About a dozen war protesters, including Daniel Ellsberg and the sister of Cindy Sheehan, were arrested yesterday morning while camping on a roadside near President Bush's ranch in violation of a new county ordinance. The group returned to Texas this week as Bush arrived at his Texas home to celebrate Thanksgiving with his family. They came in hopes of reigniting the international attention they attracted in August, when hundreds came to join Sheehan as she camped outside Bush's ranch for 26 days. Sheehan's son, a soldier, was killed in Iraq. Since August, however, the antiwar movement has expanded beyond Sheehan and her protesters, focusing in recent weeks on Washington and rising discontent in Congress. Protests in Crawford so far have been smaller than in August, when demonstrators from around the country came to the tiny Texas town where Bush spends his vacations. At that time, Sheehan and her supporters represented the most pointed voices of the antiwar movement. They have been joined in recent weeks by leading Democratic politicians, including Senator Barack Obama, Democrat of Illinois, who Tuesday called for Bush to admit errors in how he has waged the war, and Representative John Murtha, Democrat of Pennsylvania and a former Marine, who has called for an immediate drawdown in troops. If Sheehan's supporters do not attract the same level of interest this time around, it will not be for lack of trying. Protesters have events planned for each day this week, including serving an Iraqi meal on Thanksgiving. Sheehan herself, who has not yet arrived in Crawford, is scheduled to lead a rally Saturday. After the August protests, McLennan County commissioners passed new ordinances that prohibited parking or camping in the ditches along the winding two-lane roads leading to Bush's ranch. The protesters have been invited by a local rancher to camp on his land, where they have erected a large white tent and hung a banner that reads ''No Pardon for Crawford's Turkey." But they have also challenged the constitutionality of the county's new rules. Early yesterday, a small group set up tents on the same small patch of public land they used in August. McLennan sheriff's deputies gave the protesters two warnings before arresting the group, including Ellsberg. A former Department of Defense official, Ellsberg became famous for leaking the Pentagon Papers files to the media in 1971 that revealed that the United States was expanding its involvement in Vietnam War. The White House declined to comment on the arrests.
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#1. To: NOLAJBS (#0)
I dont see the antiwar movement getting much support until the war hits Americans between the eyes so to speak.. if and when they begin the draft then it will change.. I see them postponing a draft as long as possible.. but if they begin to attack as it's predicted, Iran and Syria I dont see any other way for them to achieve it..
Do you honestly think the the antiwar movement is sincere? Recall the Protocols and just who is behind every movement. You are right in that the draft is not in their favor ... yet. Expect another 9/11 of some sort. They may even sacrifice on of their own. You never know whith these devils.
Hmm good question.. I think many of the people in the antiwar movement are sincere but the leadership is always questionable.. always infilitrated in some way.. I dont know how the people will fall for more BS .. I really dont if something does happen it will have to be monumental in order for the people to be duped again.. but then again people do have short memories.
Anti war movements historically are insincere. What they seek isn't peace, but rather complacency. Nothing is worth fighting for. Nothing is worth dying for. Let us just run every bit of your life and you can live in peace forever, blah blah blah...
Do I hear a fat lady singing?
State sponsored Zionist/JUDEO-Christian international terrorist war of aggression supporters would never have faced a police state kidnapping.
#2. To: Zipporah (#1)
"What is this JEWS thing. You sound like a Nazi." -- Mekons4 posted on 2005-06-02 23:41:48 ET
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