The spin on the news about our weekend in Crawford is wrong and very incomplete.
I was just watching a local news show that said our rally was "poorly" attended on Saturday. There were over 500 people that came in and out on Saturday. I don't call that poorly attended, especially for a holiday weekend. We feel so happy that we got that many people. People also came to Camp Casey instead of beating each other up at Wal-Mart. No word in the media about the 12 people who came out to Crawford to support the killers and the killing.
Not only did we have a good turnout, but we had a great time. Many old friends returned and we made a ton of new friends. It was a great weekend and I am not going to let the media ruin it for us. For a fundraiser for the Crawford Peace House, we sold over 100 copies of my new book and made the Peace House over $2000.00.
We had an interesting experience Saturday night. We walked down to the Prairie Chapel cemetery which is very close to Camp Casey. Fred Mattlage's father who just died in June is buried there and we were reading the old grave markers. Crawford was founded by German settlers and the cemetery was filled with their names. It must have been a cruel existence, because there were so many babies buried there. Anyway, a Secret Service agent came to see what we were doing! We are miles away from the Bush Green Zone! Then after we left, our people saw a couple of cars go back to the cemetery and check the place out with flashlights! How did they think we were going to harm George there? Interesting.
Yesterday morning a mighty wind blew up and our big tent started to come undone, so we had to scramble around to get everything secure before we got impaled by tent poles. After everything was put away we went down to the Peace House for our interfaith prayer service which started 3 hours late and most of our group was gone by then. People needed to get home to be at work on Monday.
Before we left Camp Casey 5, we let some mylar balloons go. We put a soldiers' name on each one and a little sticker that said to call the Crawford Peace House if the balloon was found. We got a call from Tennessee!! I told you the wind was blowing hard. I hope that Casey's balloon ended up on George Bush's porch.
Again, on Saturday, George said that the 2107 of our troops that have been killed by his murderous policies died for a "noble mission." Again, he didn't elaborate on the mission, just that it is "noble." Even if the reasons for going to war were the truth and noble (which we all know they weren't), the fact that this government condones torture and the use of chemical weapons is immoral and criminal. These people need to be stopped, and we in the Camp Casey Peace movement are doing everything in our power to do so. And we won't stop until they are.
We are so grateful that we have so many good friends and supporters from around the nation and the world and our support is only growing. People are setting up Camp Caseys every Friday in front of their Senator's offices around the country. I think there should be a Camp Casey, or a Camp Mike, or a Camp Lori, or a Camp David, or a Camp Eric in front of every Senator or Congressperson's office (Democrat or Republican) who supports this war. People at the Camp Casey in front of Kay Bailey Hutchinson's office have even been arrested for exercising their first amendment rights.
People all around our country are starting to vote with their "whole ticket." We don't need to have a Camp Casey in Crawford to work for peace. Do something close to you. If there is not a peace activity in your community: start one!
Make plans now to be at Camp Casey 6 at Easter Time. However, let's hope and pray that we will be getting together to celebrate this time. That will be a miracle.
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