Anti-Bush protest in Franklinton

I didn't hear about the Bush protest in Franklinton
in time to post the details here.  The Herald-Sun didn't
mention the protest in its coverage.  It was shown
briefly on some channels and the best coverage was by
Time-Warner's News 14 Carolina, online at:

http://www.news14charlotte.com/content/top%5Fstories/default.asp?ArID=134860

The event was organized by Chapel Hill activist Peggy Misch and
she wrote this summary:

President Bush took a helicopter from RDU to Novozymes, east of where we stood

on a bank on the NE cormer of the exit fromUS 1 into Fanklinton.  The media

(AP, N & O, NPR, NBC, CBS, ABC, Channels 11 and 14) were there with us

for a considerable time.  We made it clear that we did not expect President Bush

to see us, but we wanted media coverage.  I believe the point about torture was made

and the connection between NC's involvement with it via of the two CIA hangars

in the state (I remembered afterward I did not state Aero Contractors in my sound bites, just
CIA-operated hangars); many of us were interviewed and I gave out NC Stop Torture
Now and Bill of Rights Defense Committee brochures and information about
NC Stop Torture activities (letter to Governor Easley calling for an
investigation of Aero, etc).  We tried to make it clear that Dr. Sami Al-Arian had

been held four years with no credible charges, taken from his teaching post
in Florida, and was suffering in the Medical Center at Butner, just
down the road from Novozymes, another example of torture.
 

For two hours Roger Ehrlich and Joe McTaggart's  Lady Liberty stood proudly
with a sign to free Dr. Sami.  The First in Flight banner covered the bank.
Four of us wore orange jumpsuits and two visitors donned two more T-shirts. 
A few protestors against Bush, withdrawing the troops, and for preventing
war on Iran stood across the road.  Eight of us from  NC [Stop Torture Now]

stood with 6 others  who joined us.  No one from the private parking lot asked us to
leave. Only one police officer appeared, in a patrol car, and agreed we had
first amendment rights. 
 

NPR will broadcast interviews at 5 PM today and tomorrow morning; I did not
get the card from the reporter, since she left her card in her car.  ... Look for TV 
coverage.