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SHOTS FIRED! (Property owner reported to have fired gun in air near Camp Cindy)
Lone Star Iconoclast ^ | 10:15am (Central) August 14, 2005 | Deborah Mathews - reporting for The Iconoclast

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bang; banglist; cindysheehan
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To: CheneyChick
I have a sign posted like that on my NC property....

No Tresspassing
Violaters will be shot
Survivors will be eaten

NeverGore :^)

61 posted on 08/14/2005 10:06:40 AM PDT by nevergore (“It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.”)
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To: McLynnan
Imagine if Cindy went across the highway to Ted Nugent's place. Think he'd put up with this?

I would love to see that happen!

62 posted on 08/14/2005 10:06:55 AM PDT by Terriergal (What is the meaning of life?? Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever.)
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. Daily Updates from the Iconoclast

Local weekly with a few people in the field following the events... Pictures, quotes, etc.

63 posted on 08/14/2005 10:07:10 AM PDT by deport (If you want something bad enough, there's someone who will sell it to you. Even the truth your way.)
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To: PeteB570

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..


64 posted on 08/14/2005 10:07:28 AM PDT by joesnuffy (Save the whales. Redeem them for valuable prizes.)
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To: OXENinFLA
I don't think what he did was illegal, unless he was firing it AT them of course, I just don't think it was a good idea.

Yeah, it was a waste of lead. But like I suggested, maybe he thought ahead and used blanks.

65 posted on 08/14/2005 10:07:54 AM PDT by Terriergal (What is the meaning of life?? Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever.)
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To: tsmith130; Hildy
Any crop dusting done around there? ;o)

LOL! A little itching powder... etc...

66 posted on 08/14/2005 10:08:46 AM PDT by Terriergal (What is the meaning of life?? Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever.)
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To: tgslTakoma

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.


67 posted on 08/14/2005 10:09:10 AM PDT by vetvetdoug (Shiloh, Corinth, Iuka, Brices Crossroads, Harrisburg, Britton Lane, Holly Springs, Hatchie Bridge,)
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To: OXENinFLA

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.


68 posted on 08/14/2005 10:09:20 AM PDT by PeteB570
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To: tgslTakoma

Hehehe... Ya gotta love Texas!


69 posted on 08/14/2005 10:10:07 AM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Stegall Tx

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 :^)


70 posted on 08/14/2005 10:10:20 AM PDT by nevergore (“It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.”)
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To: CheneyChick
Found it myself.


71 posted on 08/14/2005 10:10:56 AM PDT by Gumlegs
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To: Eaker; humblegunner; Squantos

Bang!


72 posted on 08/14/2005 10:11:54 AM PDT by Flyer ( * Post Grad - University of Google *)
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To: RadioAstronomer

No kidding. . .we had a shooting team (.22 rifles) in my Junior High School. . .range was inside the school.

Try and imagine that today.


73 posted on 08/14/2005 10:12:04 AM PDT by Gunrunner2
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To: Terriergal

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.


74 posted on 08/14/2005 10:12:09 AM PDT by McLynnan
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To: PeteB570

No such thing as private property anymore.


75 posted on 08/14/2005 10:12:11 AM PDT by satchmodog9 (Murder and weather are our only news)
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To: tgslTakoma
I was over at democraticunderground, and saw some photos of the events.. ONE WAS A SIGN STATING: George W. Bush Does Not Live Here.. This was next to a no trespassing sign.

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..

76 posted on 08/14/2005 10:12:12 AM PDT by Experiment 6-2-6 (When the disbeliever sees this, he will say, 'How nice if I was also turned into sand.')
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To: deport

No update since 10:00AM?

Shoddy, Shoddy work. I'll call you right back was 2 hours ago.


77 posted on 08/14/2005 10:13:02 AM PDT by PeteB570
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To: Terriergal
A little itching powder... etc...

Most of em would never even notice it.

78 posted on 08/14/2005 10:14:34 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: Terriergal
 Any crop dusting done around there? ;o)

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. ;-)

 


79 posted on 08/14/2005 10:16:23 AM PDT by timpad (The Wizard Tim - Keeper of the Holy Hand Grenade, Finder of Obscurata)
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To: BenLurkin
Well, it looks like Editor & Publisher lurks on FR.

They posted a reprint of the Iconoclast story at 12:55pm.

80 posted on 08/14/2005 10:16:45 AM PDT by tgslTakoma
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