Reply #35: Absolutely F for sure!!

[anarchy1999]

Helping to organize and want to help to make it be huge success!

Care to join in?

There is every intention to make this be as big an event as Feb 15th, 2003, nationwide and worldwide. I'm committed. Make it happen wherever you can! Please come and join with us in Crawford. What a statement to make. And only one month after the Dallas City Council passes the BORDC resolution against the Patriot Act.

The more the far merrier. More details to come on all that will be happening.

Two more fun links:

http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2003/08/18/build/local/45-mishler.inc

August 18, 2003

Last modified August 18, 2003 - 12:47 am

Horseman rides to Texas to talk hunger with Bush
By JENNIFER McKEE
Gazette State Bureau

HELENA - Doc Mishler, a Gospel-quoting itinerant horseman from Choteau, must have cut an odd figure last weekend as he hung out outside an exclusive barbecue in Crawford, Texas, thrown for the president's top fund-raisers.

Mishler, 67, who hasn't raised a penny for President George W. Bush's re-election efforts and had no invitation to the shin-dig, never got his chance to talk to the president, but he said that's OK.

Mishler spent the past year riding his trusty mare Faith and his stallion Chief Spirit from Choteau to Crawford, raising money and awareness about global children's hunger. He wore out four pairs of Wrangler jeans and three pair of cowboy boots on his long journey. Now that he's in Crawford - home to Bush's ranch known as the "Western White House" - Mishler has no intention of leaving before he gets his chance to chat with the president.

"I'd tell him, 'You can't love God and not feed the hungry children, Mr. President,'" Mishler said. "We all need to graduate from the Old Testament, where kings run around killing people because they think God told them to."


Mishler's journey, which he's writing up in a memoir tentatively titled "Living in the Saddle and Sleeping at the Foot of the Cross," began in June of 2002. The Indiana native and former Michigan philosophy professor decided to divest all his possessions and leave his Choteau home of three years to ride his horse to Mill Valley, Calif., home of "Bread for the Journey," a California-based charity.


http://www.democracycaravan.org/crawford_texas.htm

The Prince and the Pauper

Crawford, Texas - Weird things happen in these parts. Secret Service agents gather around white vans discussing the redneck, conservative bikers who just blasted through town. Sirens flash on the dust-blown horizon. God-fearing souls hobble towards the Coffee Station, where you can find cardboard cutouts of George W. Bush and his parents propped in a corner like a toss-away from last week's county fair. Buckets of coca-cola cost 90 cents. About the closest thing to reality are the poverty-stricken shacks on the other side of the railroad tracks, where families of all race and religion stand in their yards like starving peasants awaiting the next arrival of the king, hoping to catch a stray coin and a glint of gold.

I wonder if George W. Bush ever walked to this side of the railroad tracks. It would take him about five minutes from the Coffee Station, which is the only restaurant in town and George's favorite place to grab some grub and chat it up with the locals before heading up to the Ranch for a spell of chopping wood. On his way to Poverty Row he'd find the Crawford Peace House, with its "War is Not the Answer" signs stuck into the ground. He could sit on the porch and enjoy a swing. If he had visited the house just a few weeks ago, he'd have met Doc Mishler, who is traveling with his horses Chief Spirit and Faith and his dog Czar Bear to address Congress in the Spring regarding the world's hungry children. Read about how Mishler got shut out from speaking with Bush back in August while Bush was throwing a fundraiser/barbeque for his top donors. The Crawford residents also gave Mishler the cold shoulder once they found out he was staying at the Peace House.