Posted on 08/19/2006 10:06:25 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
AUSTIN, Texas - Chanting "Try Rove for treason," Cindy Sheehan and more than 50 other war protesters disrupted a reception before President Bush's top adviser Karl Rove spoke at a fundraiser Saturday.
One woman was arrested during a scuffle with police after Sheehan and the anti-war demonstrators rushed toward the closed doors and kept chanting loudly after the guests went into the dinner.
Rove was speaking to the Associated Republicans of Texas, and ticket prices started at $200. He was not in the Renaissance Hotel lobby during the reception.
"I want him arrested. He planned the war that killed my son," Sheehan told officers guarding the door. Sheehan's oldest son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004.
Police then ordered the group to leave, but some protesters had paid for rooms for the night. Those protesters went upstairs, including Sheehan.
Earlier, wearing shorts and T-shirts while guests of the lobby reception walked past in sequined dresses and expensive suits, anti-war demonstrators carried American flags and signs, including one that read "Check your conscience." A few protesters unfurled a large banner from a sixth-floor hotel balcony that read "Rove v. Truth: No Contest. Pink slip Rove."
Those at the reception sipped their drinks and largely ignored the protesters before they started chanting. One man looked at the group and said, "Go Bush!"
Earlier Saturday, the group of more than 70 gathered at the hotel entrance, carrying a large banner that read, "Rove: Guilty of crimes against humanity." Ann Wright, a former U.S. diplomat who resigned in 2003 in protest over the war, yelled through a bullhorn, "Karl Rove, you are a criminal!"
After about 30 minutes, Austin police made them move onto grass at the edge of the property about a block away. Dozens remained later Saturday, holding signs as cars drove by, honking their horns.
Sheehan and the group left their campsite in Crawford near Bush's ranch, where they have held vigil the past two weeks, and drove about 100 miles south to Austin.
The war protest will continue until early September, although Bush's ranch 10-day ranch vacation ended last weekend. Sheehan's 26-day protest last August drew more than 10,000 people to her campsite in ditches off the rural road leading to the ranch, but she recently bought land near downtown for the group to camp on.
Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan, center, and her sister Dede Miller, left, are caught in the middle as police arrest Tiffany Burns during a protest outside the doors of the ballroom where President Bush's top advisor Karl Rove was speaking at an Associated Republicans of Texas dinner Saturday, Aug. 19, 2006, in Austin, Texas. Sheehan and more than 50 other war protesters ambushed the reception chanting 'Try Rove for treason.' (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Rodolfo Gonzalez)
Dede Miller, sister of anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan, is knocked to the ground after being caught in the middle of a scuffle with police as they arrested Tiffany Burns during a protest outside the doors of the ballroom where President Bush's top advisor Karl Rove was speaking at an Associated Republicans of Texas dinner Saturday, Aug. 19, 2006, in Austin, Texas. Sheehan and more than 50 other war protesters ambushed the reception chanting 'Try Rove for treason.' (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Rodolfo Gonzalez)
Just kidding :)
Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan, center, is caught in the middle as police arrest Tiffany Burns during a protest outside the doors of the ballroom where President Bush's top advisor Karl Rove was speaking at an Associated Republicans of Texas dinner Saturday, Aug. 19, 2006, in Austin, Texas. Sheehan and more than 50 other war protesters ambushed the reception chanting 'Try Rove for treason.' (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Rodolfo Gonzalez)
She's just another creepy stalker now.
Raving lunatics.
.She's really roughing it, huh?
Well there goes the theory that weebles wobble, but they don't fall down.
Anti-war protesters unveil a large banner protesting in the lobby where President Bush's top advisor Karl Rove was speaking at an Associated Republicans of Texas dinner Saturday, Aug. 19, 2006, in Austin, Texas. Cindy Sheehan and more than 50 other war protesters ambushed the reception chanting 'Try Rove for treason.' (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Rodolfo Gonzalez)
She still wearing those hospital ID bands?
Totally losing it now....just as expected
You have mail.... my posting history....lol.
I don't understand how the hotel would let them stay there after they were a part of this disruption. That makes no sense.
Dropping that banner out to be an automatic eviction IMO
whatever happen Hanging people? Ohhhh yeah thats right its not good to do that we have talk to her and understand her mind and all that bull shit. I mean after all she is poor mother who lost her son yeah thats right he did't even live with her! he lived with his father!
What's Sis doing on the floor?
"I want him arrested. He planned the war that killed my son,"
Enough, already. I know how cold this will sound, but I really don't care--Cindy, the whole world is not about you, or your loss. It is tragic your son, a hero, died so young. It was a result of a choice he made in life. Apparently, before his unfortunate death, your son grew up a lot more than you ever have, and appreciated that nothing, not even his own life, was all about him.
So get over it. This WOT was not cooked up as an insult to you personally. And you are aiding those who will make other mothers lose their children. Does that mean anything to you? No, I didn't think so.
Stop behaving as if the planet Earth has to be tailor made to your specifications.
Cindy and her wacky group have gone past the protest stage, all they do now is harass.
Somebody needs to get Dede Miller a J-O-B, so she doesn't have to hang around her sister......
Somebody should fax or e-mail the pic that Norm posted to Vince McMahon.....
She's smiling like a loon in this photo. Improper response to stimulus.
The way she's spending money on a new car, the land in Texas, back taxes, constant trips from one end of the country to the other, all her trips abroad etc., she has to be coming close to the end of Casey's insurance money soon. I wonder how many delusional followers she'll have when that day comes?
Last time I looked....Cindy was unemployed and I'm guessing that Dede is unemployed as well. So....you might wonder how they can travel around and stay at nice hotels...unless you were CNN or ABC or NBC or CBS. There are lots of funny details about these people and where their cash support comes from.
Darth Rove probably had a big laugh after he saw the pics of these moonbats.
Soros is funding her. That money she got when her brave son gave his life for this country, ran out yonks ago.
I would say that she is not spending any of her own money. She plenty of sponsors around. She is one sick individual.
The one with tha gal down
I'd caption "Cow down Cow down" ...
We all finally need to get this straight!
Cindy is plenty bad enough without the need for spreading misinformation about her.
Last summer, Cindy was to appear on a talk show. She cancelled. ANOTHER woman who lost a son in the war and became a protester appeared in Cindy's place. It was THAT WOMAN who, it was found, did not raise her son.
Sheehan Strikes Again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZMtNafYXNM&feature=PlayList&p=F14589E5D2D805F4&index=31
Ther's a lot of ugly in that family...
Cindy's the perfect poster-child for the too-many-drugs-not-enough-responsibility generation of the late '60s and early '70s.
Things will only get worse until that sector of humanity gets old and keels over.
These nuts think that GWB is simultaneously the most brilliant and the dumbest man on the planet. No wonder they voted for Kerry.
It's more than that. Kerry's one of 'em.
"Kerry's one of 'em."
No doubt! They'll never win another election, regardless the ineptness of the republicans, if they can't make up their minds.
Ugly runs in the family.
What a drama queen.
If society ever breaks down into warring mobs, her ilk would be the first against the wall.
Err...okay.
She's skirting dangerously close to Squeaky Fromme territory.
That was some film....thanks for posting the link. It was stomach churning, but something everyone should see.
its people like you which gives this country a bad name Bush dosent have to asnwer to her or to anyone els and if you dont like it then Leave!
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