Crawford authorities arrest five in Bush protest

[icymist]

Crawford authorities arrest five in Bush protest
Submitted by davidswanson on Sun, 2005-08-07 23:26. Media
By MIKE ANDERSON Tribune-Herald staff writer

CRAWFORD — Authorities arrested five protesters Saturday who were among a group of about 100 in Crawford attempting to demonstrate on the road leading to the Western White House. President Bush and Australian Prime Minister John Howard had spent Friday and Saturday in meetings and relaxing at the ranch.

The group had traveled to Central Texas in a caravan of about 30 vehicles after an Austin rally protesting the policies of the Bush administration. The group was a conglomeration of several smaller groups with disparate beefs with the federal government on issues from workers' rights to the environment. All, though, were set to protest the recent war in Iraq.

The caravan arrived in Crawford about 7 p.m., coming to a stop when it reached a line of about 35 officers blocking Prairie Chapel Road at the city limits. Though Bush was at the ranch at the time, Howard had left hours earlier.

The group parked its vehicles and got out, carrying signs with such slogans as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Impeach Bush." Some participants carried coffins fashioned out of black-painted cardboard, filled with stuffed animals, covered in red dye to simulate blood.

Though most of the protesters appeared to be in their 20s, a few of them were old enough to have participated in the demonstrations of the 1960s.

Across the intersection stood officers with the McLennan County Sheriff's Department, the Texas Department of Public Safety and Crawford police. Many of the officers held plastic restraints used to bind wrists during arrests.

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[Maat]

1. Uh-oh.

Cindy wasn't taken into custody, was she?

[yorkiemommie1]

2. the chimp is chortling

n/t

[ailsagirl]

9. "you can run, but you can't hide..."

Like it or not, whatever we put out there, comes back to
us in spades. That's one law the repugs can't change.

:evilgrin:

[ailsagirl]

3. What, only five?? These guys are dragging their feet!!

:sarcasm:

[icymist]

4. Apparently arrested last night in Crawford proper.

I don't believe Cindy was one of them.

[Bluebear]

5. "in meetings and relaxing"

Ratio?

[Erika]

6. So much for free speech

Most appeared to be in their 20's! Way to go!

[tridim]

7. Wait.. It's now illegal to protest within Crawford city limits?

I guess I'm not surprised.

[rodeodance]

8. saying they dress like bums--making a bad impression.

....Sheriff Larry Lynch said the three women and two men would be charged with demonstrating without a permit, and would be held at the jail until they paid a fine. Tidmore said the fine for the offense is $310.

Freddi Yasinkosky, who watched the spectacle from her front porch, said her son was in basic training in the Army and that colored her opinion of the protesters.

"I think they could find a better way to get their message across," she said. "They dress like bums, which undermines their cause. It defeats the purpose. A lot of them seemed to not be taking it very seriously, and if they are not going to take their message seriously, neither am I."

After they dispersed, many of the protesters reconvened across the town at the Crawford Peace House, which was bought recently by a member of the Dallas Peace Center...

[in_cog_ni_to]

13. Yeah. They should have worn their Sunday best to Crawford, Texas.

:eyes: Sheesh. What an IGNORANT thing to say!

[Union Thug]

34. ...And teased their hair to gigantic proportions, and caked on make-up..

It's the Crawford way, after all.

[AuntiBush]

15. So, Now One Can't Get the Message of Dead Sons Across

Less they're dressed like, what (?) their evening news talking, spinning heads news BS'ers!?! That $310 fine might have bought a real nice "down on the ranch" dude outfit.

Would that have pleased that person on the Crawford porch? Quite frankly, if anyone caught Michael Moore and Truthout.org's videos while visiting Crawford not so long ago, I seen no one lookin' all that good either in those parts.

Did I mention most of us are not part of the 1-2 or 2-5 per-centers glorified with all the wealth in this country. Nerve. But there you go, these folks judge books by their covers.

[LiberalFighter]

19. How about carrying a cross?

[The Magistrate]

21. Demonstrating In Business Attire, Ma'am

Is probably a pretty good idea....

[karlrschneider]

10. Demonstrating without a permit? I smell a rat...

I don't believe that one-horse shitburg has any such ordinance...

[Literate Tar Heel]

12. I bet they do

but I'd be interested to know when it went on the books

[in_cog_ni_to]

14. August 6, 2005.

:grr: That would be my guess.

[Literate Tar Heel]

18. I was thinking

around January 20, 2001, but that's possible too ... I wonder if there's any way of finding out

[karlrschneider]

47. Yeah...when and why...

:grr:

[in_cog_ni_to]

11. Bastards. I swear to g-d

these fascist bastards have got to go.

Now I'm afraid to go there. :scared:

[texanwitch]

16. I think that was the point, the bastards are trying to stop the protest

before it gets organized. We know where the police are getting their marching orders.

[in_cog_ni_to]

23. KKKRove is working overtime.

:grr:

[txindy]

48. Nothing to be afraid of, this article is from 2003

;) Even KKKarl isn't stupid enough to arrest Cindy or her supporters. Although I do agree he's working overtime. He just can't figure out an effective countermove or he'd have made one by now. Poor baby. :evilgrin:

[Cleita]

17. Telephone and email campaign.

That will keep them overwhelmed. Hit them all. The city hall, the mayor, the city attorney, any public official. They probably are all one guy. :-) You can shut down a small town without even entering. Keep calling and emailing.

[MichiganVote]

20. Somebody is going to get killed by a taser one day

[BeTheChange]

22. Did this happen yesterday or today?

Im totally confused by this article. We were there today and heard nothing about this. Maybe everyone knew but just didnt say anything.

I do remember hearing about some people headed towards Crawford from Austin... did this happen today, instead of Saturday? It would have been just after we left, if so...

[icymist]

25. The article says it happened yesterday at 7:23pm.

<snip>
The caravan arrived in Crawford about 7 p.m., coming to a stop when it reached a line of about 35 officers blocking Prairie Chapel Road at the city limits. Though Bush was at the ranch at the time, Howard had left hours earlier.

<snip>
About 7:20 p.m. Crawford Police Chief Donnie Tidmore used a loudspeaker in his patrol car to warn the protesters they were in violation of a city ordinance against demonstrating without a permit.

"You have three minutes to get back in your cars and leave, or we are going to start making arrests," he said over the loud speaker.

<snip>
Sheriff's deputies began arresting the handful of demonstrators who had not left the scene. They were placed in a Sheriff's department van, in which they were later taken to the McLennan County Jail.

[BeTheChange]

31. I know..

I was just surprised that nobody mentioned it today when we were there...

[icymist]

36. Maybe nobody knew after the 'brown shirts' wisked them away so fast?

eom

[TexasLady]

41. Just wanted to say hey!!!

Hey yall!!!!!!

[LiberalFighter]

24. Is the ranch within city limits?

If it isn't then why would Crawford ordinances be valid?

According to one source road signs were posted by the county commissioners.

Others sources state that the ranch is 7 miles outside of Crawford.


Notice how it was the county bimbo sheriffs that took the protesters into custody? Why? Because the Crawford didn't have jurisdiction.

[in_cog_ni_to]

27. That fake 'ranch' is out in the middle of NOWHERE.

I can't imagine it would be within city limits. Have you seen the aerial shots of it? It's deserted. NOTHING around it for MILES.

[Cleita]

28. Rural Texas makes their own rules and they

get away with it. It would seem to me though that some kind of weird federal laws would apply around a President. I'm not a lawyer so I wouldn't know, but I'm sure there is some king laws for * they can enforce.

[Bozita]

26. Wow! Texas town of 400 has 35 cops on duty, yet Bush pays under $3000 ...

... in property taxes on a million dollar plus parcel.

Why can't my city do the same thing? Sure would be a help on my car insurance rates.

[icymist]

29. Link to the same story in the Waco Tribune-Herald:

http://www.wacotrib.com/news/newsfd/auto/feed/news/2003/05/04/1052025091.00303.7022.4002.html

[BeTheChange]

32. That doesnt have a date on it..

but the URL wouldnt make it seem recent.

Are you guys sure this is recent? Why doesnt it mention anything about Cindy?

[BeTheChange]

35. This is an OLD article

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/30645.htm

May 1-3, 2003
Prime Minister John Howard
Australia
Official select visit at Crawford, Texas.


Notice the date in the URL? 5/04/2003

[AuntPatsy]

37. hmmm we"ve been hoodwinked?

[icymist]

39. Okay. Something weird here. DSM just posted this tonight.

Check the first link. Do you think this reporter intentionally fed DSM dated material?

[AuntPatsy]

40. Anything is possible these days...

[BeTheChange]

42. Depends on why the poster...

mikeswanson submitted it :)

[AuntPatsy]

43. True, perhaps to get a reaction believing such would garner more publicity

[in_cog_ni_to]

44. I wonder if someone can find out who Mike Swanson is?

Something STINKS...again.

[texanwitch]

30. Will the cops be stopping cars at the city limits to check for

protesters now?

[fujiyama]

33. Bastards! The authorities there are obviously fascists!

Remind me never to set foot in Crawford.

Bush is a heartless piece of shit. He sends people off to die in some unjistified war and then goes on vacation for a month! Shouldn't the fucker be visiting those families of people he basically put to death?

[txindy]

38. Didn't this happen on Friday night?

I know the article says it was Saturday, but I thought I read this article yesterday BEFORE Cindy and everyone arrived in Crawford.

This is confusing.

Adding: Oh, now I see. The article is over two years old. :eyes: No one has been arrested this year at this protest. And they won't dare arrest anyone, not with Cindy as the primary spokesperson. Arrest the supporters of a grieving mother of a dead soldier? Even rural Texans and crooked politicians aren't that stupid.

[txindy]

45. Article is from May 4, 2003. No one has been arrested this year.

That's why no one is aware of this happening.

[in_cog_ni_to]

46. Hmmmm. I wonder why Mike Swanson posted that on DSM?

With YESTERDAY'S date. It was meant to deliberately mislead. :grr: Paid operative? Geez......those people are everywhere.

[AuntPatsy]

50. lol, no big deal if you think about it, it actually helps people

to check out her story...now if it were something like men from mars have finally been discovered living in Tacoma washington for the last thirty years and have inter bred with earthlings and we believed it, well, that might not exactly lend credence to this sites believability, as it stands, this story being off does not exactly hurt us.

[icymist]

54. What?! There aren't inter-bred aliens living in Tacoma?

Man! Is this one devestating night or what!

[txindy]

51. It certainly had a slight chilling effect, didn't it? Even here.

Made people a bit more wary. I'd say that was the motive. Either that or he googled "Crawford" and "protestors" and got what he thought was a current article. :shrug:

[in_cog_ni_to]

53. Yeah. Chilling is a good word for it.

I was ready to stop planning my trip. I'm still not too sure about driving through Texas with a car that has about 7 anti-Bush bumper stickers on it. :scared: I don't think its a good idea. :scared: If my husband would be with me, I wouldn't care, but it would be me with my 12 year old son. :scared: Texas scares me. ;)

I'm going to sleep on this. I'd LOVE to be there.

[icymist]

49. OKAY FOLKS! I MADE A MISTAKE. this is old news, please disregard.

The posting at the Downing Street Memo site looked as if this story just broke. Why nobody else had posted here by now should've raised a red flag to me, but my emotions got the better of me. This whole thing smells of some dirty trick.... old story in a related setting where legitimate breaking news that embaresses king George is happening.....The time and the day this story is presented to a new Lib site (DSM).... I should've looked closer.

[AuntPatsy]

52. It's okay, no harm no foul.

[BeTheChange]

55. Cointelpro?

:tinfoil:

It is pretty weird, usually articles on news paper websites have the date near the byline so this wouldnt have been an issue. Nobody would think they had to analyze every link they get :)

I think it's more than a little odd.

[Technowitch]

56. Locking

Locked at original poster's request, as this isn't recent news.