Texas Highway 317 runs parallel to I35, a north/south US interstate that will take you to Laredo and further south if follow it. Driving to my Mom's house this weekend, I decided to detour to take a look at our former President's stomping grounds, Crawford, Texas. On 317, about 50 miles or so from Waco, Texas is a site where one of the most intense anti-war demonstrations took place several years ago. These demonstrations were unique in that they garnered extensive and mostly negative media coverage for the Iraq War. At Camp Casey in Crawford, Texas, groups from all over the US who were determined to end this war met to discuss how to do so. (The camp was named after Cindy Sheehan's son who died in the Iraq War.) She, along with thousands of other activists, gathered to attempt to pick a fight with W. in his supposed home-town. Now Crawford is like most any Texas-backwater--to the right of right politically where you might expect to see dusty roadsigns that read, "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition." Crawford barely tolerated this group and had little good to say about them, if you asked a local what he thought down at the corner gas station. I'm told the local utilities wouldn't even let the activists have water to drink or bathe in--this information from my brother-in-law who was trying to help them figure out how to set up some generators.
The pic at left, taken yesterday, reveals much. Ineffectual, hypocritical, anti-war polemic evaporated in November of 2008. Where are the protests now? Where is the ongoing demand for accountability for our current wars? Where are the activists (beyond the military families who actually have skin in the game) right now? So what was supposed to happen at Camp Casey? See here. You can look at the picture left to see what's actually going on. Nothing. Meantime, our MSM's preoccupation with Obama talking to school kids about studying harder continues--unchallenged.
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