Arrests, rhetoric highlight protests (FReeper vs. Beckerhead Crawford)

Arrests, rhetoric highlight protests
By Thaddeus DeJesus and J.B. Smith Tribune-Herald staff writers
Sunday, August 28, 2005

CRAWFORD -– With five days left until the end of anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan's vigil near President Bush's ranch, Crawford became protest central Saturday as supporters and opponents of the Iraq war rallied, marched and simmered in 101-degree heat.

A handful also got themselves arrested, including a protester whose anti-Sheehan sign was deemed unnecessarily offensive by organizers of a large pro-Bush rally. The man carrying the sign became violent when he was asked to put it down.

Ken Robinson, of Richardson, Texas, who described himself as a Vietnam veteran, was carrying a sign at a “You Don't Speak for Me, Cindy!” rally. The sign read, “How to wreck your family in 30 days by ‘b**** in the ditch' Cindy Sheehan.” [NOTE: The placard also promoted third-string hate radio host Glenn "Beckerhead" Beck -- with his name misspelled!]

Kristinn Taylor, an event organizer with FreeRepublic.com [NOTE: ...not to mention a hothead wingnut notorious himself for his hateful smears of many people to the left of Mussolini], heard about the sign and rushed up to Robinson.

"This is our rally and you can't do that here," he said, only for Robinson to insist he was within his rights.