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Aug. 10th, 2005 12:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingCindy Sheehan's son died in Iraq, in the military. She wanted to speak to Bush about this, as mothers of dead soldiers have asked to speak with presidents for more than 200 years.
Bush, who is on vacation, said no.
She decided to wait him out -- in Crawford, Texas. In the hot sun by the side of the road. Since last Saturday.
Cindy says she'll stay there all month if necessary, until she meets him face to face. However if she and the others with her don't leave by Thursday, they'll be arrested as they will be considered threats to national security.
Secret Service officers are reported to be telling her and the other protesters that if they come up on the road they "may be hit by Secret Service vehicles.". Aren't there laws in Texas about threatening vehicular homicide? Or are Secret Service officers immune from prosecution by local laws? I hadn't thought we'd gone that far down the road toward establishing a Praetorian Guard. Or, is it possible that these are more Republican National Committee goons impersonating Secret Service officers, as happened in Denver when three people were kicked out of a Bush speech by fake SS officers?
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Bush, who is on vacation, said no.
She decided to wait him out -- in Crawford, Texas. In the hot sun by the side of the road. Since last Saturday.
Cindy says she'll stay there all month if necessary, until she meets him face to face. However if she and the others with her don't leave by Thursday, they'll be arrested as they will be considered threats to national security.
Secret Service officers are reported to be telling her and the other protesters that if they come up on the road they "may be hit by Secret Service vehicles.". Aren't there laws in Texas about threatening vehicular homicide? Or are Secret Service officers immune from prosecution by local laws? I hadn't thought we'd gone that far down the road toward establishing a Praetorian Guard. Or, is it possible that these are more Republican National Committee goons impersonating Secret Service officers, as happened in Denver when three people were kicked out of a Bush speech by fake SS officers?
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