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Pro-Troop Group Wants Sheehan's Land
Days after Cindy Sheehan announced she was stepping down as the face of the anti-war movement, a pro-troop organization said Friday it plans to buy her protest site outside President Bush's ranch.But Sheehan doesn't want to sell to just anyone. "It'll be a cold day in hell before she sells it to them," her sister, Dede Miller, told The Associated Press. "She'll sell it to them for $5 million." Move America Forward wants to place a monument to the troops on the 5-acre site in Crawford, about 100 miles south of Fort Worth. "There's definitely symbolism behind being able to take that land and being able to put up a monument that supports our troops," said Robert Dixon, executive director of the Sacramento, Calif.-based group. "It's purely symbolic. We're not going to be holding any rallies there." Sheehan, who was unavailable for comment, plans to sell the land on eBay as early as next week with a starting bid of $80,000, Miller said. Since buying the property last year for $52,500, Sheehan's group has made many improvements, including putting in gravel roads, clearing brush and planting gardens, Miller said. Dixon said that after Sheehan's announcement Monday, he was flooded with e-mails from Move America Forward members who thought the group should buy the land. The nonprofit organization had planned to erect a monument to honor U.S. troops who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, possibly in Crawford, so "we figured this is the perfect thing to do," he said... Sheehan probably doesn't know, but it is highly illegal to refuse to sell land for sale in the US to someone with the money to buy it. The Fair Housing Act includes vacant land, and is viciously enforced by HUD. And no matter what reason she might give, such as "politics", the legal *assumption* would be that she is doing it because of race, religion, or other such illegal reasons. Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-06-01 |
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