A Bucks County couple had the honor of
escorting
Gold Star Mom, Cindy Sheehan, to George Dubya's
ranch in Crawford, Texas.
Bill and Terry Perry were
attending the 20th Annual
Texas.
Veterans For
Peace convention was addressed by
Cindy Sheehan, mom of KIA Casey Sheehan, on Friday
nite, Aug 5.
Cindy made it quite clear
that she was ready to camp
out at Crawford until she got some answers from
Dubya
Bush on why Bush killed her son.
organization, NOT looking for an IRS battle on
whether a
Crawford Demo was "political", or "policy",
so our VFP battallion
gathered in Dallas could not
endorse Cindy's action, but a
PLATOON of hard core anti-war activists
volunteered to
escort ( read run interference
) for Cindy.
Our caravan included the
VFP IMPEACHMENT TOUR BUS,
and a dozen other vehicles.
We crossed the Crawford RR
tracks, went thru the only light
in town ( a flashing Red light ), then drove
another 3.5 miles
into the countryside, on Prairie
Chapel Road. Fans of the
Patriot Act should note that after
passing the Tonk Creek,
then the North Tonk Creek, we passed the Bluff Creek, then
Old Buelah Rd.
There is a Gummint Motor
Pool on the North side, w/ lotsa
Black Chevy Suburbans, and GMC Envoys, and Lord
knows
what sort of armored vehicles in the barns and
corrugated
metal sheds.
A few hundred yards further
up North Prairie Rd., @ the
"tee" of County Route 450-A, which seems to be a
staging
area for Secret Service, Texas Rangers, and the
County
Sheriff Dep't., they've paved an equilateral
triangle, designed
to impede "outsider" traffic.
We were told we had to
dismount our vehicles, and walk
the final mile. It was 98 degrees on
Saturday, and trees
are few and far between. Cindy and her
Marauders traipsed
about halfway the final mile, when the Texas
Rangers made their
stand.
We broke thru their ranks
twice, then they got plenty
reinforcements, and it was obviously we had better
play nice.
Cindy, and the rest of us
plopped down between the
road, and the fence of the next door neighbor of
Dubya.
The neighbor had a 4'
wooden fence that the Gummint
made into a 6' barbed wire fence, and he drove out
to
talk with us in his 6 wheel "dualie" Ford
F-350. He has 2
sons who have been "stop lossed" back to Iraq a
second
time, and he hates his neighbor, the Prez.
He said Cindy and her
sister, DeDe, and others could camp
on his property. About
50 of us hugged Cindy, and went the
110 miles back to
Dallas. About 10 stayed to pitch tents, and
set up a support system.
We went back to our
Convention, and syndicated radio
personality & author Jim Hightower ( picture
Molly Ivins
w/ moustashe & cowboy
hat ), and the True Majority peeps
pledged $$$ support, and our own SUE NEIDERER,
the
Mom of KIA Seth Dvoran, and
Philly's Celeste Zappalla,
Mom of KIA Sherwood Baker,
are on their way to join Cindy,
as I type.
The
network news teams that broadcast from nearby
haystacks were all slumbering, because it was about
1:20 pm,
well between their noon and 6:30pm "live" shots.
They missed
all the initial action. Seems they didn't
even want to have their
camera crews cover us, 'cuz it "might
jeopardize our access"
Agency France-Press, and
Rueters got the story, and
"Indy-Media" sold their limited film & stills
to the Big Boys.
We did this without any media
heads up , because we'd
never have gotten as far as we did if we had
contacted the networks.
The Texas Rangers, and the
Sheriff's Deputies were
visibly moved by our chants of "Bush killed her
son, Bush
killed her son", but the Secret Service had heard
it all before.
The story is ongoing, and
my wife & I just drove the 1,700
miles back home ( we got in @ 6pm, Tues, and it's
8:11 pm
now.) Here's some background...
Cindy co-founded:
and this saga can be
followed @:
AND VETS FROM ALL ERAS
, AND OUR FELLOW
ANTI-WAR ACTIVISTS OF ALL STRIPES ARE WELCOME.
If you don't see the value
of this historic moment, with
Gold Star moms explaining that it's racist,
arrogant elitists
who think that Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
educated Iraqi's
can't put Iraq together again w/o U.S. help, then
you need
to register REPUBLICAN, OR DLC, with the rest of
the racist,
arrogant, elitists who want to "STAY THE COURSE"
Oooops, sorry 'bout the
rant. Been with so many lefties
lately, the truth just spills out.
I gotta tell ya, it was
mighty encouraging to pick up the
newspapers on the way back home. When you see
good
coverage in the Shreeveport, Louisianna Times,
the
Jackson, Mississippi Clarion-Ledger, and
assorted BLURBS
in Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina, ya know ya
reached
a lotta peeps with the RIGHT message.
MUST be backed in BOTH House Foreign Relations
Committee, and Rep John Conyers Judiciary
Committee.
THIS IS HOW WE ENDED THE VIET NAM WAR.
Tell Mike Fitzpatrick to
support Barbara Lee's Res # 375
Follow the links, especially
ALSO, JOIN CINDY & us on September 24, 25,
& 26 in D.C.
AIN'T 1,838 DEAD, ENOUGH?
bill perry