I started the book at my Camp Casey on Hollywood beach while she was in Crawford last August. I took the book with me to DC for the September protest. I walked around for hours having people sign. It was wonderful to talk to so many people, all different kinds, but all the same. I knew I would never see Cindy to give her the book. Carlos was on the bus tour With Cindy so when I ran into him I had asked him to give it to her. He never saw her to give it to her. They had seen each other several times but the well wishes never made it to her. I'm very happy Cindy receive all of the thoughts people put in the book for her at Camp Casey. There are so many good people out there. It gives me hope. But it takes 10 peaceful souls to undo all the hate that has been put out there..and continues to be released.
I spoke with Cindy for a few minutes. She sounded very happy to be back with all the peaceful warriors at Camp Casey. Her and Carlos had an energy about them, a feeling we should all experience and carry with us. An energy of love, of togetherness. I wish I was there but receiving the phone call brought me there, if only for a few minutes. Thanks for the call Carlos (big hugs)
And now for the Camp Casey news: I don't understand how people can be pro-war and so willing to kill. I really don't understand how people think they are fighting for our freedom and it really pisses me off when they use 9/11 to justify going to Iraq. The truth will set us all free.....
Fed-up war widow confronts Sheehan
Flies to Texas to crash activist's Crawford protest
After deciding she'd had enough of critics, a war widow from New York state flew to Texas to confront activist Cindy Sheehan, who had launched her third protest near President Bush's residence in Crawford.
Pregnant at the time, Laura Youngblood lost her husband Travis July 21 to wounds from an improvised explosive device outside Fallujah, the Waco Tribune-Herald reported.
Before dying, however, Travis Youngblood sent a letter home asking his wife to take care of his fellow soldiers in Iraq.
Laura Youngblood arrived in Waco from South Hempstead, N.Y., Wednesday.
"I heard that Cindy was coming down again to protest, and I had enough," Youngblood said.
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14 are arrested in Crawford
Anti-war group challenges camping ban near Bush's ranch, gathers on private lot
CRAWFORD - Taking turns climbing into small tents, 14 war protesters were arrested Friday near President Bush's ranch, once again challenging a county roadside camping ban.
Eleven of them were among the 12 arrested in November in the same ditches where the makeshift anti-war campsite sprung up in August off the winding, two-lane road leading to the ranch.
Commissioners enacted the ordinance — and another banning some roadside parking — a month later after neighbors complained of traffic congestion from the monthlong rally that drew thousands to the 700-resident town.
Misdemeanor charges still have not been filed against the demonstrators arrested five months ago during the Thanksgiving week protest. McLennan County District Attorney John Segrest has refused to comment on whether their cases will proceed.
"If they keep arresting us without charging us, then they are doing nothing other than restricting our freedom of speech," said Daniel Ellsberg, who was arrested both times. "This needs to be challenged, and if we're arrested again, we'll have a stronger case."
Ellsberg is a former high-level Pentagon analyst who in 1969 copied and leaked the Pentagon Papers — the 7,000-page study of U.S. decision-making in Vietnam — to Congress and the media.
Cindy Sheehan, the fallen soldier's mother who started the August protest, was not at the roadside campsite at the planned "civil disobedience" events and was not arrested either time.
Sheehan and about 100 protesters so far have returned to the larger campsite on a private lot for another peace vigil through this weekend, although Bush is spending Easter at Camp David.
The 14 remained jailed Friday afternoon, awaiting a judge to set bail.
They were expected to be released on personal recognizance bonds Friday evening on misdemeanor charges of criminal trespassing and obstructing a highway passageway.
Each charge carries a maximum penalty of 180 days in jail and a $2,000 fine.
War protestor Cindy Sheehan carries a cross on the road leading to President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, Friday, April 14, 2006. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
War protestor Cindy Sheehan, left, comfronts Tammara Rosenleaf as she talks on her cell phone to her husband serving in U.S. Army in Iraq before the women march toward President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, Friday, April 14, 2006. At right is Geoffrey Millard.
*************************************************************‘Prairie Dog 12’ Want Day In Court
 P FOR PROTEST — A man in a mask resembling Vice President Dick Cheney who would only identify himself as “V” — a reference to the film V for Vendetta was a part of a 30 person peace demonstration outside the Waco Hilton where the vice president appeared Monday at a fund-raiser for a GOP candidate running for office in U.S. District 17. — Staff Photo By Nathan Diebenow |
 CINDY SHEEHAN, the mother of a slain soldier in Iraq, on Thursday at the county courthouse threw her support behind the Prairie Dog 12, a group of peace activists who were arrested for apparently violated a new McLennan County ordinance prohibiting camping along country roads. Sheehan has returned to the Crawford area for Easter weekend for several anti-war events and rallies organized in part by the Crawford Peace House. — Staff Photo By Nathan Diebenow |
Associate Editor WACO — About 50 demonstrators Thursday urged the McLennan County District Attorney to immediately charge and try 12 peace activists for violating a county ordinance prohibiting camping alongside county roads.
The peace activists, including Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst who leaked documents that caused President Richard Nixon to resign from office, were arrested during a Thanksgiving protest near President Bush’s vacation ranch in the Prairie Chapel community.
“We want our day in court because we feel this is a very unconstitutional ordinance. It needs to be challenged in the courts not only for us who are here for legitimate peaceful protests against government policies but also for the citizens of this county here because it restricts their ability to live in their own county,” said Ann Wright, one of the organizers of the demonstration on the steps of the McLennan County Courthouse.
The trial of the so-called “Prairie Dog 12” could decide the fate of a new county ordinance that limits freedom of speech for the sake of safety on county roads.
“As American citizens it is our right to petition our government for redress of wrongs, and what’s going on in Iraq is wrong on anybody’s standard. You know, some things are black and white, and an illegal and immoral war is wrong. We have the right to be out here. We peacefully assemble,” said Cindy Sheehan, who arrived in Central Texas yesterday. “Out of three weeks and over 12,000 people, we had not one incident. We keep people safe. We keep them secure. It’s our right to be doing what we are doing.”
Ellsberg said that the county has not yet filed any charges against the 12 activists because “they clearly don’t want to test [the new ordinance] in court. They so clearly violate the Constitution.”
The demonstrators — who were comprised of a number of anti-war groups such as Gold Star Families for Peace, Veterans For Peace, Iraq Veterans Against War, and CodePink — carried signs that read, “Trial?,” “Let the Jury Decide,” “In America We Expect Due Process,” and “A Speedy Trial Is 60 Days, Not 6 Months.”
As the demonstrators prepared to confront McLennan County Criminal District Attorney John W. Segrest in his office, they were angrily confronted themselves by a handful of supporters of the wife of a U.S. Navy corpsman who died in Iraq.
Laura Youngblood of New York explained that all she wanted from the group of demonstrators was more outward signs of support for the troops.
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