AP Runs Story on Protest Warriors! (and gets jmstein7's head in the story)

ABC News ^ | 7-18-04 | SARA KUGLER

[cmsgop]

Right On!, I Love You Guys!

[Valin]

free pot or sex with cheap girls

Back in my salad days that's why I went.

[earlyamerican]

Got to love those Protest Warriors! Keep on fighting!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I saw a clip someone linked to from Foxnews's -- John Gibson's show.

Very well done, and very positive!

[MeekOneGOP]

ABC News is NOT on the MUST EXCERPT list.

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Conservatives to Protest Anti-GOP Protest Conservative Group to Protest Protests at Republican National Convention in New York The Associated Press

NEW YORK July 18, 2004 — Groups planning to demonstrate against the upcoming Republican National Convention will have some unfriendly company on the asphalt and concrete outside Madison Square Garden. Members of a new group of young GOP conservatives plan to protest the protesters.

Tom Paladino, who leads the New York chapter of Protest Warriors, a nationwide organization, said members want to show the protesters that "there are Republicans that will protest them right back."

Added Jason Sager, a member from Brooklyn: "We are the right-wing freedom fighters. We are out there and are just as animated as the protesters can be."

Protest Warriors, which claims about 3,000 members nationwide, expects about 200 in New York for the four-day convention, which begins Aug. 30 and is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of opponents of President Bush.

Leaders say they know they won't have equal representation, but hope the contrast helps them stand out. They will be armed with their own picket signs and T-shirts, even video cameras to capture their mission.

"It's going to be the protest Olympics. They're all going to be trying to outdo each other," said Kfir Alfia, of Austin, Texas, who formed the group last year with Alan Lipton after they crashed anti-war demonstrations in San Francisco, carrying signs that said: "Except for Ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism and Communism, War Has Never Solved Anything."

Activists hurled signs at them and hissed "Fascists!" as they marched along, Alfia and Lipton said. They said they were surprised to encounter animosity at a peace rally, and decided to publicize their experience.

They posted videos of their counterprotests on the Internet and began coordinating more actions. The movement attracted young conservatives from across the country, as well as stalwarts like Rush Limbaugh, who has hailed them.

This spring, the group protested anti-war rallies in several cities, including New York.

For now, Protest Warriors' convention plans are unclear because they depend on the anti-Bush groups. Some of those groups are still awaiting police permits for their demonstrations.

On the Net:

Protest Warriors:

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photo credit and caption:

ProtestWarrior members meet in New York, Monday, July 12, 2004. The conservative political demonstration group plans to protest the protesters who will gather in New York to battle the GOP convention this summer. (AP Photo/John Marshall Mantel)

Copyright 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

[MeekOneGOP]

Way to go PW and FR !!

[asgardshill]

free pot or sex with cheap girls

In my experience, one is never free and the other is never cheap.

[Porterville]

What? No mention of the FReeper protesters? Oh well; what you all have in the Santa Barbara area for a rabid anti liberal socialist-hating, commie bashing, anti Louis Capps/Bab Boxer, type like myself?

[jmstein7]

Join a California chapter.

[Dec31,1999]

Thanks for posting the great essay you wrote the other day. Great stuff! And the thread yesterday about the High school kid was fascinating and exactly what we need right now. Great work! Keep it up.

[GailA]

Jim ya'll be real careful and keep those cameras handy to film evidence. And make sure the sticks/poles you use for the signs can be turned into weapons of defense.

[GailA]

Did you see this front page mag article 1 kool kid

[blackie]

We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!

~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~

[Grampa Dave]

Our Volunteer Protest Warriors versus the renta mob of Kerrorists = no contest for our side.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[deadhead]

Very cool, jmstein7. I have signed up at the Protest Warriors website to receive updates. Keep up the excellent work, all

[Kaslin]

[Valin]

You obviously moved in the wrong circles. :-)

[Happy2BMe]

This won't be your everday FReep-A-Thon, jm.

Better go with plan(s) B, C, D, and E and loaded for bear.

No telling what kind of maggots you are going to run into, or what they are prepared to do to silence FReepers.

I know you're planning now, but start planning now.

:~)

[Happy2BMe]

Plimpton is .. well, he's dead.