WP: They Are Stardust, And in Texas (Cindy's crowd)

[kskiska]

At the Crawford Protest Camp, Growing Echoes of Woodstock

CRAWFORD, Tex., Aug. 21 -- Camp Casey, which started with one mom and a grievance, mushroomed over the weekend into a massive settlement with a party tent for 2,000, a shuttle-bus service and an elaborate catering operation that deposited a 26-foot-long refrigerator truck, generators, and restaurant-quality ranges and warming ovens in a field next to President Bush's ranch.

The hippie crowd that originally was drawn to Cindy Sheehan's protest is still in town -- activists from Food Not Bombs are sleeping in an old school bus that has been painted sky blue and can be started only with jumper cables. But now they have been joined by liberals from throughout the West who are double-parking their hybrid-fueled cars to take part in a peace protest with a budget that is $120,000 and rising.

The grassy field is so close to the president's property that he and his entourage were photographed from there as he bicycled last week before the hordes arrived. Parking attendants wear reflectorized orange vests.

"It's kind of like if Woodstock was really organized," said Chris Voigt, 51, an architect from Fort Worth who was volunteering in the spacious kitchen tent, scraping a frittata pan. "The war's over. Somebody needs to tell Bush."

Voigt was surrounded by pallets of Ozarka bottled water, cases of Sterno gel chafing warmers, 52-ounce tubs of Folgers coffee and six-pound cans of Bush's Best pinto beans. Green-pepper trimmings were composting nearby, and recycling boxes were overflowing with discarded plastic.

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[katinmn]

1. I was sitting at the table when that turd was interviewing Rowley

and Lourey.

What a jerk. This reads like he is still trying to marginalize those who oppose Bushit.

Well, he's failing. We are much more mainstream than the RW extremists and that is scaring the hell out of them!

[fishwax]

5. damn right he's failing

and damn right we're mainstream! :yourock: This war (and this administration) has got to be stopped, and the general public is waking up to that fact

[Cha]

2. Is this word necessary?..

"82 Troops Killed While Bush Goes Fishing," jeers a sign on the side of a U-Haul truck parked by the camp's organizers near Crawford's main crossroads.

[radfringe]

7. 5 more died while he was

blathing away in Idaho...

suggestion: for a backdrop at smirk-boy's speeches there should be a "counter" ... 'xxxx' dead in Iraq....

[progressivebydesign]

3. Why do they always try to paint those that oppose the war as freaks?

It really pisses me off. Does that guy even read his OWN words? Yeah.. a bunch of latte swiling hybrid car-driving yuppies? That's NOT what I saw in the photos!

[Booster]

4. Well, who ya gonna believe - this turd or your lying eyes?

[kath]

6. Hey, Mike Allen, FUCK YOU!

with a ten foot pole!

that story really made me want to :puke:

[Shallah Kali]

8. They aren't just liberals they are Recyclists! RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!

What a load of hooey.