"Down with the dictator".. 250 protested Cheney on vacation in Jackson Hole WY

[SoCalDem]

Too funny.. click the pic to watch the snippet of video & see the other signs







Jackson Hole, Wyo.-As many as 250 people gathered Saturday afternoon at the corner of Hwy. 22 and the Village Road to protest the war in Iraq and to decry Vice President Dick Cheney’s role in the four-and-a-half-year conflict.

Organized by Jackson Hole residents Jim Stanford, Walt Farmer and Karen Hogan, the event featured speeches by State Rep. Pete Jorgensen (D-Jackson), author Alexandra Fuller, attorney Kent Spence, and veteran war medic Nick Rowley, along with protest music by Phil Round, Derrik Hufsmith, Peter “Chanman” Chandler, Dick Barker and Carolyn Groves. Afterwards, demonstrators marched 1.4 miles down the Village Road pathway to the gates of the Teton Pines Country Club, where the Vice President owns a house and is currently vacationing.

“In this day and age it’s very easy to be jaded about politics,” said Stanford in his opening speech. “We don’t feel we can really trust the people that we send to Washington, D.C., to do the people’s business.”

He noted one local exception – State Rep. Pete Jorgensen. In his speech, Jorgensen told the crowd that, while attending that morning’s dedication of Grand Teton National Park’s new Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center, where Cheney was the keynote speaker, he heard the Vice President used the word “humility.” The name Cheney drew boos from the crowd.

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Attorney Kent Spence declared the event an exercise in the fundamental American rights of association and free speech. “When the leaders of your country are out of step with you, when they are no longer representing the people, when they have become tyrannical, when they have become tyrants, you have the right to remove them under the Constitution. That’s not radical, that’s American. It’s our duty.”

Finally, Air Force veteran Nick Rowley spoke. Rowley had served as a medic in Bosnia and his brother recently returned from Iraq. “What you are doing here, is supporting our troops. We need more of that,” he said. “If we found out that we went over to Iraq based on a lie, then why are we still there? We’re there for money. We’re there for oil. We’re there for Halliburton. We’re there for every single reason that isn’t American, that isn’t a reason for freedom.”

After the impassioned speeches, the demonstrators took to the pathway and marched to Teton Pines country club with an effigy of Dick Cheney, which was mounted on top of a wooden box with wheels. The life-sized, papier-mâché statue showed the V.P holding a spouting oil derrick in one arm and a fishing pole in the other. A smaller, horned bust of George Bush was featured blindfolded at Cheney’s feet. When protesters reached their final destination a rope was slung around Cheney’s head and he was then pulled to the ground – echoing the notorious footage of Iraqis pulling down a statue of Saddam Hussein in 2003 in Baghdad. For the protesters: mission accomplished.

[whistle]

1. What's that...Cheney fell into Jackson Hole?

:woohoo: :applause:

[napi21]

2. Holy Shit! And THIS was WY!!!! What in the world are they gonna do

in the BLUE States????