During the base closings of the 90's, the historic Long Beach base was included and closed. The ChiComs wanted to lease that land to expand their shipping capabilities from the Long Beach port.
At the time, China was still hard-core communist and many Patriots did not want to see the ChiComs take over that sacred land. We organized; we fought with letters, faxes, and phone calls (Internet was infant). We were out on the streets with bullhorns and signs telling people not to allow what Clinton wanted. We did it all before anyone here at Free Republic had the chance to make a statement.
I worked with Senator Inhofe's chief of staff on a daily basis. All together, we got an amendment to the defense appropriation bill to stop the ChiComs from buying that property. Bill Clinton had to sign the entire bill, much to his chagrin...being the traitor he was with his cash for tech that was widely known at the time.
For those who are not aware, Bill Clinton took cash from Chinese campaign bundlers named Riady and Wong (sp). He then gave the Chinese the technology to fix their third stage rocket problems. Loral and Hughes (as in Howard Hughes) were the biggest campaign contributors to his election. If not for those companies and Bill Clinton, we would not have inter-continental ballistic missiles facing us right now from China.
Anyway, we shut down Billyboy's efforts to let China Overseas Shipping Company (COSTCO) buy the historic Long Beach Naval Station property.
It was a success and my first introduction to street activism and Senator Inhofe was the lead. Say what you will, but in 1998, he and us street activists lead the way. Old FR names like A Navy Vet (me), Clinton's a Liar, Bob J and I think K9kid were on the streets way before anyone else.
It was one of the few success stories from FR activists. Of course, for the old timers, we also once had something called, "The March for Justice". It was THE first Internet organized event. It also was a success in bringing attention to Clinton's Impeachment hearings. Unfortunately, we couldn't get the Senate to convict. So, for you newbies, there's some history about Senator Inhofe.