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Topic: Local vet arrested at Bush's ranch
A local war veteran who spent more than a year battling loyalists to Saddam Hussein in Iraq now finds himself in the hotbed of anti-war politics.
Geoffrey E. Millard of Lockport was arrested on trespassing charges Friday, while protesting outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas. Daniel Ellsberg, the government analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War, was among the dozen other anti-war demonstrators arrested. The protesters were charged with violating an ordinance that bans roadside camping but were released late Friday after posting bail. That law, according to Millard, was principally enacted to keep out anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan, who started her weeks-long camp-out near the Bush ranch last August. Her son, Casey, was killed in Iraq in 2004. "After Cindy left [Crawford] . . . they started this county ordinance that no one could be on the side of a public highway," Millard said in a telephone interview. "We thought it was unconstitutional. The only purpose for the ordinance is to keep us from protesting outside of President Bush's ranch." Millard joined the Army National Guard shortly after graduating from Lockport High School in 1998. He said his anti-war activities are motivated by injustices he witnessed in Iraq. http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial...16/1009288.asp |
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