Posted on 08/14/2004 9:55:42 PM PDT by RonDog
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A Glimpse of What Life Might be Like Under a John Kerry Regime
August 14, 2004
by Ray Blumhorst
What would life be like under a John Kerry regime? Some aspects of policies under a Kerry administration appeared to be in clear display earlier this week in the behavior and words of his supporters on the streets of a little town in California called Santa Monica. Santa Monica is well known for its liberal politics and the predominately liberal lifestyles of its inhabitants. Thursday, August 12, 2004 President George W. Bush came to Santa Monica airport for a political fund raising event, and was greeted there by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and other Bush supporters. I did not personally see President Bush, although at one point, from my vantage point, I did see cars come to a stop on the inland bound side of Ocean Park Blvd. At the same time all the cars were absent from the ocean bound side of Ocean Park Blvd. A few minutes later an excited lady ran back to us saying, “I saw him,” and “He had his window down and waved to me.” It was our President she was referring to. That was pretty much the political highlight of the afternoon, but by no means was it the only political event worth noting.At 2:45 P.M. in the afternoon I arrived near the beginning of the re-elect President George W. Bush rally. There were already some people with signs on the street corner of Ocean Park and 31st so I drove a short block to pay parking and hurried back to join the throng of Bush supporters already there. There were some Kerry supporters across the street, but all in all things were polite and civil, that is, until some Kerry supporters decided to come to our location and start standing in front of our signs with their signs vilifying the president. The leader of the Bush supporters decided at that point to led us to the east, although I was not pleased that we had ceded the spot where traffic heading inland would first see the rally. As the afternoon wore on, the intolerant and abusive character of many of the Kerry supporters (and some people driving by) began to come out like exorcised demons out of the head of a possessed person. It was not an easy afternoon to be a Bush supporter, but I wouldn’t have missed the opportunity for the world.
Over the course of the afternoon Bush supporters in Santa Monica were spit at, jostled, cursed at, gestured to obscenely, heckled, bullied, shouted at, lied to, and otherwise abused. I did not observe anything like that from the Bush supporters. It struck me at one point, that for a city that so prides itself on tolerance there really wasn’t much just a tyranny expressed in irrational “Bush hating” contained in their own one sided views. There group certainly didn’t appear to be any kind of a tent, big or otherwise, that was welcome or inclusive to the people they were prejudging and excluding with a furious anger and hatred. Signs and placards vilifying President Bush where prominent among the Kerry supporters everywhere and in my opinion expressed there biased perception of reality more than an objective and factual assessment of all factors making up current and historical events in our world.
At one point, a lady standing next to me said, “You know, I don’t see a single American flag on their side, and we have hundreds over here.” Later, another lady bravely went to the other side and inquired about this. She came back and told us that one person had told her, “We are ashamed of America, and its role in the world under George W. Bush.” The answer didn’t surprise me much, because on the other side of the street (Kerry supporters) used hundreds and hundreds of square yards of material with “pink” as the background color for their banners. In fact, a huge pink banner hung on the store front of one of the buildings across the street, and I seem to recall it said something in protest to the war in Iraq. This on a day when our valiant military where very evidently in harms way in Iraq. The site sickened me as I thought, “That’s going to be a motivation and great aid and comfort to our enemy. My initial impression was that these people appeared to be the same type of people (war protesters) who motivated, aided and comforted the enemy when I was in Vietnam. Even though the pink color so evident in the Kerry supporter ranks may have been a color being used by some feminist group, I couldn’t help but wonder if the true colors of their ideology (communist/socialist) weren’t really coming out. A brave bicyclist had passed the entire assembly about an hour into the rally holding a sign that said, LIBERATE the People’s Republic of Santa Monica!”
Sometimes unexpected events happen in settings such as this so I would be remiss if I did not mention a moment when one of the leaders of the Republican rally came to me impromptu and said, “I need you to clear a path for the baby.” At first it struck me as an odd thing to say, but when I turned around, there before my eyes was a tiny little baby, being pushed in her stroller by her Father. My heart melted, and I was honored. I turned around, put my Bush/Chenny placard in front of me and said in a polite and assertive voice, “Make a hole; baby coming through.” I was happy to reach the Republican crowd, where people at least showed some respect for the rights of all others. I looked at the beautiful little darling in her pink outfit and thought, “Your safe now.” As I looked at the crowd across the street, raging in violent hatred, the thought also crossed my mind, “There’s the abortion crowd that’s contributed to the murders of millions and millions of innocent babies. Thank God this little baby has been completely born. They’ll have a lot more trouble murdering her now.”
Going on four hours into the rally, nerves were beginning to fray on both sides of the crowd, and given the unstable nature exhibited by the Kerry supporters to begin with, our leader decided, “We’ll soon be calling it for the night,” especially since one Kerry supporter was stalking around the assemblage of Bush supporters and repeatedly shouting, “F_ _ k Bush!” Several men pointed out to him that there were children present, and asked him to cease his profanity, but the raving Kerry supporter would not stop swearing(tolerance in action again). Finally, after terrorizing a number of women and children, the Santa Monica police held open the barricade tape, and ordered him to the Kerry supporter side.
It was near the end of the day that I had the distinguished honor of standing next to a Vietnam veteran who was also Vietnamese by birth. He spoke in broken English still. As I shook his hand and said welcome I felt a tinge of pride to be standing next to him.
By this time in the rally there were two lines of Santa Monica police between the Bush and Kerry supporters. It appeared to me that the Kerry supporters were being allowed to roam freely where they chose, walking and standing in the street at times, while the Bush supporters were ordered back further from the street and treated more assertively. It appears the Santa Monica police know the majority of the people in Santa Monica who pay their salaries are liberal Kerry supporters. ...so much for enforcing free speech equally in Santa Monica.
As I stood next to my newly found buddy wearing the little yellow and red striped flag (symbolizing the fallen nation of South Vietnam) I began to speak in the direction of the Kerry supporters across the street, separated only by the Santa Monica police lines.
I had three service ribbons and two service medals on my chest, but I pointed to the place where one was missing and said.
“I’ve lost this one somewhere over the years, and since it was awarded by the now fallen nation of South Vietnam, it’s irreplaceable. I was in the combat zone up by the DMZ serving on the USS Valley Forge, LPH-8 in December of 68 during the Tet offensive, when LBJ acquiesced to the war protesters in America and called a “cease fire” to the bombing of the Ho Chi Minh trail. Our dead and wounded doubled. On one occasion I may have saved the life of a Marine who was drowning in his own blood from his wounds, but I don’t know if he made it. Today as Americans are fighting and dying in Iraq, Hanoi John Kerry’s picture hangs in the war museum in Hanoi (Ho Chi Minh city) for his service to North Vietnam in defeating America. John Kerry disserved America then, but he especially disserved our military personnel who were then fighting and dying for their country. John Kerry worked hard to help America lose South Vietnam, motivate our enemy, and increase American casualties. Will some soldier, fighting today in Iraq, some day have to point to a missing medal on his/her chest and say, “Hanoi John Kerry lost Iraq after we won militarily, thereby, once again, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, just as he helped to do in Vietnam after the Tet offensive in 68? John Kerry and his war protesting ilk politically lost South Vietnam. If John Kerry is elected President, we’ll be lucky if we don’t lose America to Islamic fundamentalists who’ll bomb us in our sleep, or in our streets, or in our work places.”
At one point my friend next to me joined in, “John Kerry helped lose South Vietnam. John Kerry lost my home.”
As I trailed our group heading back to our cars I hated to leave, but our leader told us that the Santa Monica police were going to start cuffing people (no doubt Republicans to protect them from the hostile Kerry supporters who as I mentioned before, predominantly pay their salaries). Near the end of the Republican lines stood another Vietnamese man finely and honorably dressed in his camouflage, ARVN uniform. Our eyes met momentarily. I pointed to my service ribbons and medals, and said, “Welcome, I’m happy you came today.” “I’m honored to be here,” was his reply. “It is an honor to support our great President, I replied.” Of such was the disparity between the Bush and Kerry supporters in Santa Monica, Thursday, 8-12-04. How much less tolerant will “the tyrannical tolerant” Kerry regime be if he is elected president 11-02-04? I cringe at the thought.
Ray Blumhorst is currently a Supervisor of Maintenance, and has worked in California public schools for over 30 years. In addition to his day job, he worked for 8 years as a part time teacher in California public schools in the evenings. Ray is a Vietnam Vet. Ray is also a victim of domestic violence and is currently the plaintiff in a civil rights lawsuit for an injunction against ten state funded domestic violence shelters that refuse to provide shelter or even motel vouchers to male victims. The action is currently on appeal before the 2nd District Court of Appeals of California.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. Where do these demons come from anyway? Who raised them?
one Kerry supporter was stalking around the assemblage of Bush supporters and repeatedly shouting, “F_ _ k Bush!”
WOW! He know how to swear, my how sophisticated.
Thanks for one of the best reports from a FR Rally ever written RonDogYou are welcome. :o)
For the record, though, I justed POSTED this FReep report......I did not WRITE it.
I **did** help out a little with the planning and execution of this event, though. :o)I plan to post a new MONSTER thread - soon - with MANY wonderful images of the "good guys" at this rally.
Two very reliable sources each told me that at its peak, we had a total of roughly FIFTEEN HUNDRED people at this event - counting both pro- and anti-Bush people.THIS time, however, the numbers on both sides were roughly equally matched.
In many of our PREVIOUS encounters with the "cancer from A.N.S.W.E.R." - it has been 1000 to 200, in favor of them.We really surprised them (and US) with our massive numbers this time.
Kerry encourages this type of behavior. The way he portrayed our soldiers in front of that committee after Viet Nam just feeds into these lunatics. It really is kind of scary. It sounds like some of the Kerry supporters might have been high on something. Could it be possible this was normal behavior not drug enhanced?
:o( I wish I'd been there; it looks like you guys had a lot of fun. Call me crazy, but watching all those wacky kerry supporters going around in circles like headless chickens is part of the fun. I hope I will be able to be there the next time President Bush is in town (I already made my "W" signs). Thanks for the report RonDog!
Hope Dope is on the way
The "tyrannically tolerant"...that could catch on.
At one point my friend next to me joined in, “John Kerry helped lose South Vietnam. John Kerry lost my home.”
John Kerry the traitor besides what he did to our warriors, help the vicious communists to take over S Viet Nam. Hundreds of thousands lost their homes, lives and families so the serial liar from Boston could set up his foundation for his future political life.
Netanyahu's stilll looking damned hot for a fellah his age, don't you think? Damned hot! :)
That's beautiful, ya gotta love their deep grasp of the issues and their ability to express their views so eloquently!
With friends like this, the Dems are TOAST in November.
I remember Nov 2002-- the press was predicting Republican losses in both the House and Senate. But I was very motivated to vote and many of my conservative friends were too! I wouldn't be surprised to see heavy Republican turnout this year, too.
Just for the record, "Ho Chi Minh City" was formerly known as Saigon, not Hanoi.
Thanks for posting.
Speaks volumes.
Kerry's kind apparently haven't learned anything (you'd figure a few million dead in Indochina right after we pulled out might've been the final piece of the puzzle, but I guess not for them...), because IMHO, they're trying to do the same thing TODAY with IRAQ.
Can you say USSSA (United Soviet Socialist States of America)?
US Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-CA, in Santa Monica, Ca, February, 2004. Feinstein is a chief sponsor of a a bill to create a position to oversee all US intelligence.
What can you say about a town , that named Monica a Saint? Saint Monica?
I love this post. It epitomizes for me the differences between the malignant leftists and the right.
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