Vigils for Cindy SheehanCamp Casey, Sheehan's increasingly crowded roadside encampment named after her son, will move soon to a large property even closer to the president's ranch, she said.
"A kind gentleman from down the road offered us the use of his property," Sheehan told reporters Tuesday night. She identified the man as Fred Mattlage, whom she described as a distant cousin of Larry Mattlage, a local resident who fired a shotgun across the road from the encampment on Sunday afternoon.
Sheehan said the property, near a Secret Service checkpoint close to Bush's ranch, would have plenty of space for the parked cars that have jammed the roadside, irritating local residents.
Fred Mattlage, an Army veteran, said that he sympathizes with the demonstrators and that the group will be safer on his corner 1-acre lot.
"I just think people should have a right to protest without being harassed," Mattlage said. "And I'm against the war. I don't think it's a war we need to be in."
Demonstrators said they would start moving their tents, anti-war banners and portable toilets to the new site today and hope to have the new camp set up in time for a dusk candlelight vigil.
The vigil will be one of about 1,000 held tonight across the country, an effort organized by liberal advocacy groups MoveOn.org Political Action, TrueMajority and Democracy for America.
7:30 PM :: Wednesday, August 17, 2005
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