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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mephisto who wrote (2511)	4/14/2001 4:23:07 PM
From: zonkie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

I was reading the headlines at the Houston newspaper's website and I think I ran across what you are talking about. "Y'all come down now and bring your sign with you," LOL _________ April 13, 2001, 10:17PM Tiny Crawford hit with a towering protest Greenpeace banner rebukes Bush on environment issues By JOHN C. HENRY Copyright 2001 Houston Chronicle CRAWFORD -- The international protest group Greenpeace brought its campaign against President Bush's environmental record to Crawford on Friday, awakening the sleepy Central Texas hamlet to another downside of having the leader of the free world as a neighbor. For more than two hours, the town water tower -- at 86 feet, it's the tallest structure for miles -- was commandeered by three Greenpeace activists, who unfurled a yellow and black banner branding Bush a "Toxic Texan." Although Bush never saw the sign, it drew the attention of three dozen reporters and photographers who work out of a school gymnasium whenever the president is staying at his 1,500-acre retreat about five miles away. The massive banner read: "Bush The Toxic Texan. Don't Mess With Earth." On the ground, Greenpeace spokeswoman Andrea Durbin circulated among reporters. "This is to draw attention to the president's policies on the environment," she said, adding that it was only the first of several demonstrations planned before April 22, Earth Day. Bush has drawn criticism from environmentalists and some foreign leaders for backing away from a campaign promise to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, blocking new standards to reduce arsenic levels in drinking water and pulling back from a global climate change treaty. Shortly after 10 a.m., the three activists -- identified later as Melissa Riber, 28, and Rani Riber, 24, both of Washington, D.C., and Kelly Osborn, 31, of Flower Mound -- scaled a 6-foot fence, then climbed up the water tower. Crawford officials were caught off guard by the assault on their structure by the group best known for often-reckless efforts around the world to save whales, block oil exploration and stop nuclear testing. "Nothing like this has ever happened before," moaned Mayor Robert Campbell, who was about to mow his lawn when the call came about the protesters. Campbell and a police officer yelled at the trio, telling them they were trespassing on city property. "They don't have a permit," Campbell said. "Y'all come down now and bring your sign with you," the officer shouted. Dozens of the town's 705 residents gathered under shady trees and on front porches. Secret Service agents from the Bush ranch arrived, followed soon by an extension-ladder truck from the Waco Fire Department about 30 miles to the east. The standoff ended when police Chief Donny Tidmore, with television cameras running, used his car bullhorn to tell the activists they were trespassing and were under arrest. "We're going to start getting down, yes, sir," Osborn shouted as he and his two companions lowered their banner, then started down. They were handcuffed and taken to Waco, where they were charged with criminal trespassing. Campbell said the town was growing accustomed to television crews, satellite trucks and the media entourage that accompanies Bush. The prospect of protesters is something else, he said. "This is the kind of stuff that happens irregardless of who's in office," Campbell said. "It just comes with having a famous guy in the neighborhood." White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said he was unsure whether Bush was told of the protesters. Asked for a White House reaction, Fleischer said: "It's a free country." chron.com

To: Mephisto who wrote (2511)	4/14/2001 6:20:56 PM
From: zonkie	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93284

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To: Mephisto who wrote (2511)	4/16/2001 4:09:46 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 93284

Hey Mehissyfit, I bet you didn't bash the Clinton Administration for their "anti enviromental" policy highlighted below: www.mediaresearch.org After highlighting how some people hung a sign near President Bush’s Texas ranch which called him "the toxic Texan," ABC’s Peter Jennings warned that "Mr. Bush wants to severely restrict the ability of environmental groups to get rare plants and animals put on the endangered species list." In the subsequent story, Barry Serafin acknowledged how the Clinton administration had stopped adding species to the list years ago and how the Bush team says "lawsuits are swamping science," but he nonetheless concluded: "The proposal to change the rules on vanishing species has given critics one more reason to brand the Bush administration as anti-environment." On the April 13 show, Jennings explained over video of a banner hanging off a water tower: "Now some of the national news today. Environmental activists from Greenpeace hung a banner from a water tower near the President's ranch in Texas. It said, ‘Bush, the Toxic Texan -- Don't Mess with Earth.’" Jennings used that as a launching point: "We also learned this week that Mr. Bush wants to severely restrict the ability of environmental groups to get rare plants and animals put on the endangered species list." Barry Serafin began his relatively brief story which did not feature any soundbites: "Most of the more than 1,200 species on the endangered list got there because of legal pressure by outside groups. But the Bush administration says lawsuits are swamping science, that biologists, not judges, should be setting priorities for protecting endangered species. The Fish and Wildlife Service faces 75 lawsuits involving 400 species. Officials say as of now, every cent of the service's $6.3 million endangered species budget this year will be spent on dealing with such suits. "The same concerns were expressed within the Clinton administration, which stopped adding species to the list last year because of the time and money needed to address legal challenges. "Environmental organizations say the change sought by the Bush administration would gut the Endangered Species Act and leave compliance to Interior Secretary Gale Norton, who has argued in the past that the act was unconstitutional. The proposal to change the rules on vanishing species has given critics one more reason to brand the Bush administration as anti-environment. Barry Serafin, ABC News, Washington." Maybe the left-wing environmentalists wouldn’t be so successful at branding Bush as "anti-environment" if ABC News refrained from publicizing their gimmicks and thus having viewers see Bush being labeled "toxic" before a story on a very rational policy decision.