Posted on 08/19/2006 7:28:17 PM PDT by WestTexasWend
AUSTIN — Chanting "Try Rove for treason," Cindy Sheehan and more than 50 other war protesters ambushed a reception before President Bush's top adviser Karl Rove spoke at a fundraiser at a hotel 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 at an Associated Republicans of Texas dinner, where ticket prices started at $200 per person. He was not in the Renaissance Hotel lobby during the reception.
"I want him arrested. He planned the war that killed my son," Sheehan, referring to Rove, told the 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." Former U.S. Diplomat Ann Wright, 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.
On Saturday afternoon 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 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.
Seriously... does anyone give a rats ass what she has to say or think?
She's lost her mind.
Rove Derangement Syndrome Bump!
Hmmmmm...guess they couldn't stand that 100+ degree temperatures, no running water, and no air conditioning at Camp Casey II, that they were complaining about earlier, eh?
Who protested?
Is that a real sentence? I suspect the lack of MSM coverage means there was slightly less than 10,000 this year.... as if there was really 10,000 last year.
Did Angela K. Brown make the Honor roll this 9 weeks? Was it her turn at the byline in the School paper?
This juvenile writing by the AP never ceases to amaze
One day we're gonna find out that Cindy Sheehan is really an undercover republican sent into the media to portray democrats as maniacally stupid.
The woman is mentally ill and needs to be arrested on stalking charges. She shouldn't be released until she's received the professional mental help she so desperately needs.
Just when you think that Sheehan cannot possibly say anything more stupid, she always manages to pull another one out of the hat. She has really gone off the deep end. She needs to be placed in a straightjacket and locked in a rubber room.
Would this have happen in WWII?
I gotta tell ya, it must have been a BIG meeting when they planned this war. So far, Geroge W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice, the ghost of Richard Nixon, Napolean Dynamite, Rush Limbaugh, George Bush 41, Rupert Murdoch, and former child-star Gary Coleman have all been accused of planning this war.
She can seriously bark and crap at the moon.
i see that this Angela Brown is still writing about these nutcases...its always her following these kooks and giving them coverage...this aint the 60's honey, quit tryin to bring it back, nobody gives a shit
Probably not without the people involved getting arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned for treason.
What a terrible woman. Does she have little else to do other than to create a media opportunity (for herself) where there is none?
>Napolean Dynamite
I like him.
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