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A Glimpse of What Life Might be Like Under a John Kerry Regime [A.N.S.W.E.R. rally in Santa Monica]
www.mensnewsdaily.com ^ | August 14, 2004 | Ray Blumhorst

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


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.


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To: RonDog

Thanks for posting this article. The report was an excellent overview of the leftist protesters and their irrational hatred and non-tolerance of anyone else's right to express a differing opinion.


41 posted on 08/15/2004 8:56:11 AM PDT by Angelwood (FReepers are Everywhere! We Support Our Troops! (Hillary's Vast Rt Wg Conspiracy))
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To: ARepublicanForAllReasons

Stand tall. Don't let these hippies/Yippies shout you down. They can't stand Bush because there is no moral relevantism. They can't stand it. They still stuck back in the sixities and still rebelling against their parents.


42 posted on 08/15/2004 9:46:58 AM PDT by Milligan
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
I didn't know Jews resembled Vulcans.

Well they do only mate every 7 years...(Henny Yongman rimshot!)

43 posted on 08/15/2004 11:24:45 AM PDT by tophat9000
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To: Salamander

"Gives a whole new spin to "rabid liberals", doesn't it?"

Everybody knows the liberals did not get their rabies shots.


44 posted on 08/15/2004 11:25:54 AM PDT by punster
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To: montag813

The way those Kerry supporters are flaunting swastikas, you would think they are a bunch of NAZI's

45 posted on 08/15/2004 11:34:34 AM PDT by punster
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To: RonDog
Another good post and report RonDog, thanks.

Thanks for the links to the dfu thread, etc.

I'll check 'em out later. I think this computer was upgraded from a 486, open two windows and it groans...
46 posted on 08/15/2004 11:39:55 AM PDT by Syncro (There's a better one in the treehouse, but I gotta go offline....:>)
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To: RonDog

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JOHN KERRY was on the side of our Communist Terrorist Enemy HO CHI MINH and against American Soldiers fighting for Freedom all during the Vietnam War.

With our own Freedom now at risk in a new Century with an Enemy that is now just around the corner and up our streets this time around...

...NOTHING HAS CHANGED..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



JOHN KERRY = Enemy of Vietnam Vets

http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1320


Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer / Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965

http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set2.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set3.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm
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47 posted on 08/15/2004 11:40:20 AM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE
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To: IPWGOP
Boy are you in trouble.

Wait 'til Kerry finds out you have the flower from his ski jacket, he won't be able to find the zipper with out it!

LOL another fantaztic cartoon, thank.
48 posted on 08/15/2004 11:46:56 AM PDT by Syncro (SAP....good one)
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To: Syncro

Please add "s"


49 posted on 08/15/2004 11:48:08 AM PDT by Syncro
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
That picture says it all. They hate our country. They hate capitalism. They want their socialism thrust upon all of us. They hate anyone who dares disagree with them and hate what anyone else has to say. They won't leave and don't want to and wouldn't go if we paid their way. And they wouldn't last 10 minutes with their Pali friends if they did go, they'd be on their cellphones looking for a way to come back. And sadly, they vote. And they think they have the 'answer'. (Sadly shaking head...) Yeah, they claim we're the 'hateful' ones.
50 posted on 08/15/2004 11:56:41 AM PDT by fortunecookie (VOTE Bush-Cheney '04)
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To: RonDog; AnnaZ; feinswinesuksass; DoughtyOne; Cinnamon Girl; Tony in Hawaii; Bob J; diotima; ...

Here is what it will be like under Kerry.

From Insightmag.com on March 24, 2004, Scott Stanley Jr. wrote;

"The reason official confirmation that he [John Kerry] did not leave the group until after the Kansas City meeting is important, say specialists on radical activities during the Vietnam era, is that the FBI documents confirm earlier reports by those present that Kerry participated in a closed-door discussion of a proposal to assassinate seven U.S. senators who were special targets of Hanoi, with whose agents selected leaders of VVAW had been meeting.

Also appearing in the same article is the following:

NBC News reported on the evening of March 22 a controversy concerning Kerry's presence at a closed VVAW meeting where the assassination of the senators was discussed and concluded that records show Kerry was indeed present at that meeting."

Where the word "agents" appear please us the proper term, "SPYS".


51 posted on 08/15/2004 2:17:20 PM PDT by stockpirate (Kerry and The Taxocrates must be defeated! "Kerry wasn't in Cambodia before he was in Cambodia.")
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To: RonDog

The violent proclivities of the "peace advocates" have long been established so should surprise nobody. Their progenitors were the bomb-throwing Bolsheviks.


52 posted on 08/15/2004 2:25:18 PM PDT by luvbach1 (Leftists don't acknowledge that Reagan won the cold war because they rooted for the other side.)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Just goes to show what they`re really all about, which is anti-Semitism. No difference between them and a neo-Nazi rally.


53 posted on 08/15/2004 4:50:10 PM PDT by Imaverygooddriver (Never forget: "We will take things away from you for the benefit of the common good"-Hitlery Rodham)
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To: RonDog; Cincinatus' Wife; rdb3; Travis McGee; ALOHA RONNIE

Ron, you really represented us well. Thank you!


54 posted on 08/15/2004 8:43:29 PM PDT by risk
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To: RonDog
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!"

That, of course, would be the FReeper known as rockitz

...and he was on inline skates, not a bicycle.

55 posted on 08/15/2004 10:01:54 PM PDT by Rockitz (After all these years, it's still rocket science.)
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To: RonDog; risk

Thank you for standing in for so many of us who stand with you.


56 posted on 08/16/2004 12:38:26 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Thanks for the kind words. :o)

See also the NEW thread:

"Welcome Back, W!" HUNDREDS rally near Santa Monica airport to support President Bush
– new PHOTOS!

FREEP REPORT: FReepers defend America's honor from leftist scum in Santa Monica ^ | August 16, 2004 | RonDog [and FRiends]
Posted on 08/16/2004 10:27:53 PM PDT by RonDog

image courtesy of Chris Haas
Last Thursday afternoon, HUNDREDS of happy, smiling, flag-waving patriotic Americans gathered outside a "private, secret" fundraiser at the Santa Monica airport to welcome President Bush back to Los Angeles, for his first visit to southern California since March 2004.

Two very highly repected sources independently calculated that over FIFTEEN HUNDRED people overwhelmed the intersection of 31st Street and Ocean Park Boulevard in Santa Monica, just north of the hanger in which President Bush, Laura Bush and Governor Schwarzenegger appeared at a private fundraiser which had not been widely publicized until a few days before the event -- with the crowd outside roughly divided into half pro-Bush and half anti-Bush.

On a Thursday afternoon.
In Santa Monica...

CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread

57 posted on 08/17/2004 5:49:05 AM PDT by RonDog
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To: RonDog

58 posted on 08/17/2004 5:51:57 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Dolphy
didn't have tickets but stood by 3 Bush supporters who quietly stood to the edge of sidewalk with pro-Bush signs. Again, we were shrieked at.

We had several anti-Keyes demonstrators when Keyes announced his acceptance. They were on the street, although there was one woman holding a 'hypocrite' sign in the parking lot. No one bothered her or the other protesters. Whatta' difference...

59 posted on 08/17/2004 6:13:35 AM PDT by technochick99 (Sanctimonious prig, IL resident, Keyes supporter.)
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To: RonDog
NOTE: kerry and edwards voted to keep clinton in office.


NOTE: kerry and edwards voted to keep clinton in office.


60 posted on 08/17/2004 6:15:02 AM PDT by ChadGore (Vote Bush. He's Earned It.)
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