LAT: Crawford Protesters Don't Find Many Welcome Mats

[DeepModem Mom]

It appears this is the entirety of the LAT coverage of the mowing down of the crosses --


Protesters Don't Find Many Welcome Mats
By Warren Vieth, Times Staff Writer

CRAWFORD, Texas -- Melissa Harrison thought she was just being neighborly when she let a group of antiwar activists hold a news conference on her property. Then her father, who lives just down the road, began calling her Hanoi Jane.

Even in Crawford, which prides itself on its laid-back lifestyle and friendly people, the good-neighbor thing has its limits....

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As the town nearest to President Bush's ranch has gone from being a media outpost to an antiwar encampment, frictions between the outsiders and the local population have begun to intensify.

A man from nearby Waco drove to the protest camp in his pickup truck and deliberately ran over small crosses planted along the road to honor the Iraq war dead. Larry Northern, 46, was arrested and charged with criminal mischief.

A sheep rancher whose property is across the road fired a shotgun in the air to protest the protests. Some residents have called on the county commission to do something about the crowd....

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-neighbors17aug17,0,250994.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[daleo]

1. Laid back lifestyle and friendly people

As long as you agree with their politics, is the way it sounds.

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[Justyce]

22. As a Texas democrat

living in a blue county, I don't think that's a very fair remark. Democrats in Texas believe in the same things as Democrats in other states, and Republicans in other states are just as much assholes as ours... I think it's a Dem/Repub thing rather than a state thing. And no, it's not a shithole. peace :hippie:

[TX-RAT]

26. The Dem's in TX are proud of you too. What a insulting post.

[TX-RAT]

29. Thank you Mods

[shraby]

2. She brought her own welcome mat

and is laying out for others.

[merwin]

5. Very good way to put it!

[RSchewe]

3. Who said they were shopping for welcome mats? n/t

[saigon68]

9. Latest right wing hate Photo shop of Sheehan

[Olney Blue]

10. Looks like the elephant stepped in its own dung.

[bemildred]

4. Tough shit. People are dying in Iraq. nt

[anitar1]

6. Obvious that anti war protestors are rather evil, according to this.

Sounds like they are hoping to write future smear articles.Just MSM crap.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

7. The real nuisance is their belligerent neighbor

blame him..

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. Who would want to go in some shitty freeper house anyway.

I'd rather sleep in the mud.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

11. I wonder how much money they are bringing into the town?

They are buying food, renting hotels and patronizing the local business' while they are there. Any increase in purchasing in a town that size would have to be noticeable.

This town welcomes ** being a resident because he brought in tourist they didn't have before and increased their property values. As one person in the article said they are "pleased that the proximity of the Bush ranch has revitalized what was once a dying farm town."

This is the other side of that coin and like it or not the people of Crawford will have to accept it.

[Buns_of_Fire]

18. Got some sad news for them. It's gonna be a "dying farm town" AGAIN.

As soon as Commander Chickenshit is no longer in office, do they REALLY think he intends to settle down there? He'll vamoose back to his gated community in Austin before the dust settles on the 2009 inauguration.

(On edit: It's really hard to misspell a two-letter word, but I somehow manage to do it!)

[DeepModem Mom]

21. I think the report is that he and Laura will vamoose to Big D --

a lot more big money there (and he will have made rich Dallasites even richer).

[cornermouse]

12. Her father called her Hanoi Jane?

Doesn't sound like much of a father to me.

[pecwae]

13. And that he did

is somehow the fault of the anti war protesters? At least that's how the article sounds.

[leesa]

20. I agree. Basically the article is saying the locals are behaving like

assholes but it is the protestors fault. Sheesh!

[ChickMagic]

28. My father called me that as well

as traitor, hanging out with crazies, you name it. Republican family values splitting families apart.

[AtomicKitten]

15. Sound likes these hayseeds

are begging to be invaded. They need to take a good look at a grieving mother up close and personal. They need to experience an in-your-face different point of view. It's time to assert ourselves.

[sattahipdeep]

17. The desendents of who? (Prescott Bush?)

"Theirs is an important issue, but they need to move.
We are a strong, German family community.
We'll weather this. We're not saying stop; we're saying move."

Deborah Mathews reporting at the courthouse in Waco.

http://198.65.14.85/News/2005/31-40/33news11.htm

[LeftyElvis]

19. I hate

rednecks. They are the real traitors.

[ernstbass]

23. They hate us for our freedom

[formercia]

24. Freedom begins at Home

just remember that, Mr. President.

Also remember that you're just a hired hand, and when this roundup is over, it's over.

[GoldenOldie]

25. Someone should show the Locals the photo's of our troops

searching the Iraqi civilian homes.

Cindi is not invading their homes, she is just asking what all Americans are asking. WHY?

If President Bush cannot answer this simple question from "WE THE PEOPLE," then he should not ask for the lives of our sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, and yes even grandparents.

[Beausoir]

27. On ABC World News Tonight..they interviewed one resident

He was young...able bodied, driving the required pick-up truck..and he was so freaking SCARED that his lips were shaking.

He drawled a bunch of dribble about "This is George Bush country" and "They's not from here..they's outSIDERS!" and all the typical nonsense.

But what struck me was how he was trying to look mad. And in reality he was fucking TERRIFIED!

They are so frightened. Scared stiff.

It was freaky.

[genieroze]

31. If he's so young able bodied, and pro Bush why isn't he enlisted in his

Gods war?

[riverwalker]

30. which is why Larry's cousin is so courageous

for offering space to Cindy. The town ain't gonna make it nice for him. This guys deserves more credit.

[LibDemAlways]

32. Typical that the crosses incident is downplayed.

Where are the headlines that scream: "BUSH SUPPORTER DESECRATES MEMORIAL TO FALLEN SOLDIERS"?

Two lines buried in the middle of a negative story about the protest?
No wonder I cancelled my subscription to this whoring excuse for a newspaper years ago.