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"About a dozen antiwar protesters, including Daniel Ellsberg and the sister of Cindy Sheehan, were arrested Wednesday morning while camping on a roadside near President Bush's ranch" in Crawford, Texas, reports Rosalind S. Helderman. The activists ran afoul of a new county law that was passed following this summer's protests to prohibit parking and camping on public lands near Bush's property. "The ordinance was very plainly meant to prevent people from protesting in front of Bush's ranch," said Dave Jensen, a former Marine and a protester who witnessed the arrests. "We feel that's a First Amendment issue. It's intentionally designed to curtail freedom of speech and freedom of assembly."
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