ANTI-AMERICAN ASSHAT MOWS DOWN CROSSES AT CAMP CASEY

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Monday August 15, 2005 · 8:38 PM PDT

2005/08/15 · 20:38

Late Monday night, a man, now confirmed by the media as Larry Northern, age 46, decided to run over the over crosses at Camp Casey that serve as a memorial to the soldiers who have died in the war in Iraq.

According to TexasLady at DemocraticUnderground as well as Ernest Hancock from Air America affilliate KXXT, the man was soon caught and arrested by the Crawford police. Hancock stated on Air America Radio's "Mike Malloy" program, "He had some crosses in the undercarriage of his pickup truck, and he's been arrested". Hear Hancock's audio blog about this incident and stay tuned for other audio blogs from affilliate KXXT. Another audio blog message as of 10:02 p.m.. Dylan Garcia reported at DemocraticUnderground that 500 crosses had been damaged and 100 were beyond repair.

The following pictures have come in from the lovely TexasLady (thank you for posting these on Democratic Underground) :

I have added contrast/brightness to make it easier to see. The coward did it late at night.

So much for caring about the flag, huh, right-wingers?

Earlier tonight, as the story broke, we heard from TruthOut's Scott Galindez. TruthOut.org is run by William Rivers Pitt. :

http://www.truthout.org/cindy.shtml
t r u t h o u t | One Mother's Stand
By Scott Galindez

Monday 15 August 2005
9:50 PM

Reality Hits Camp Casey

The last 10 minutes have been very difficult here. I am at the Peace House editing video. First came a phone call that someone drove their vehicle over the Arlington West Crosses at the camp. I will head out to the camp now to get more details.

Within minutes one of the volunteers logged on to a website and learned that her friend was killed in Iraq. She burst into tears, Cindy was sitting across the room and immediately moved over to comfort her. What a reality check.

Here is more reporting on it, courtesy Japhet Els and Emily Sharpe at Crawford Update :

"About an hour ago, we got a phone call from our friends up at Camp Casey saying that the line of gravemarkers along the road (Arlington West) had been run over. People there said that as they were talking to a few members of the press, a pick-up truck came down the road and stopped at the fork by the edge of the tents. The driver then jumped out and attached a pipe to the undercarriage with a chain and began to "swerve into the line of crosses," said Tammara Rosenleaf from Montana. "Then we heard the pipe being dragged over the gravemarkers and the pick-up's wheels crushing them." "

Out of the 800 crosses, 500 were knocked down and 100 are irreperable. However, the driver was arrested by the local authorities. This is a prime example of how the Crawford sheriff's department has helped to protect us and our freedom of speech over the past week and a half. A big thank you to them!

Regardless of who did this, the fact is that respect for this country's dead is not a partisan issue. Putting up memorials of our country's fallen is not a "liberal" act. It is an American act. Even a group of counter-protestors from Dallas last week draped flags and flowers over many of the gravemarkers, and many were moved to tears at the sight of the long line of dead soldiers. It's too bad that someone else who disagrees with Cindy felt they needed to wipe out the memory of our fallen in such an obscene manner."

Unfortunately, this despicable action tonight only proves how low the supporters of this administration will go. They will not put their skin or blood into the war in Iraq. Now we know they meant it when they chanted, "We don't care". The right-wingers don't care. The people who support George W. Bush and went out to protest Cindy Sheehan and her cause do not care about the troops. They just don't care at all.