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A recapitulation of last week's FreeRepublic/Protest Warrior counterdemo demo.
September 6, 2004 | Tony Pauline

Posted on 09/05/2004 8:45:37 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid

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I know, it's long and cumbersome.

C'est la vie.

1 posted on 09/05/2004 8:45:38 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid
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To: cyborg; Kashei64; NYC GOP Chick; LaserLock; Yehuda; Happygal; God luvs America; Darksheare; ...
Ooh, Gerard's posted a new thread, let's go see what it's about.

Ooh, Look At That!

-good times, G.J.P.(Jr.)

2 posted on 09/05/2004 8:49:15 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid (This tag-line paid for by "Friends of Paul Rodriguez.")
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To: The Scourge of Yazid

Are there any pictures of you guys out there? both Freepers and Protestwarriors, outside the RNC you are legends. I've been helping GW Bush's campaign up in NH by doing Lit drops, and have seen him speak twice this summer, I am from MA.


3 posted on 09/05/2004 8:52:38 PM PDT by guinnessboy
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To: The Scourge of Yazid

ROFLOLOLOL! That's so great,and so heartening to hear that real people support the President.

Maybe when the commies/libs/rats offer signs,you could accept them and then sneak around the corner and dump or destroy them. LOL!


4 posted on 09/05/2004 8:58:06 PM PDT by mrsmel
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To: The Scourge of Yazid

Thanks so much, really good report!!!!!


5 posted on 09/05/2004 8:58:06 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: guinnessboy; LaserLock; NYC GOP Chick
"Laserlock" has some great photos-mostly of him, but including a few others in the frame-on another thread.

He really did an amazing job this past week.

He was our freeper on the inside, even though FR did not organize any official activities to counter the Rep. Nat'l Con. demonstrations.

6 posted on 09/05/2004 8:58:20 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid (This tag-line paid for by "Friends of Paul Rodriguez.")
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To: mrsmel; bentfeather; clyde260
Yeah, it was a great feeling.

Though I have to admit, generally, it was long periods of torpor and inactivity, followed rapidly by huge outbursts of energy and emotion.

It made for a very interesting week.

7 posted on 09/05/2004 9:01:01 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid (This tag-line paid for by "Friends of Paul Rodriguez.")
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To: The Scourge of Yazid

Thanks Scourge...and Thanks God Loves America. Good AA.


8 posted on 09/05/2004 9:03:35 PM PDT by Khurkris (Proud Scottish/HillBilly - We perfected "The Art of the Grudge")
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To: The Scourge of Yazid

Thank you.

That was fun.


9 posted on 09/05/2004 9:03:41 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: The Scourge of Yazid

What did GLA do to get his posting priviliges removed?


10 posted on 09/05/2004 9:05:47 PM PDT by Bob J (Rightalk.com...coming soon!)
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To: Khurkris; SmithL
Yup, it was a sight to behold.

Hundreds of conservatives making a ruckus in the heart of this socialist utopia known as New York City.

11 posted on 09/05/2004 9:09:53 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid (This tag-line paid for by "Friends of Paul Rodriguez.")
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To: The Scourge of Yazid

Great job Patriot Warriors!


12 posted on 09/05/2004 9:12:58 PM PDT by taxesareforever
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To: taxesareforever; God luvs America; Kashei64
I'm not-technically speaking-a Protest Warrior.

Though I must admit, they did a spectacular job this past week.

Kudos to them!

13 posted on 09/05/2004 9:21:29 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid (This tag-line paid for by "Friends of Paul Rodriguez.")
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To: The Scourge of Yazid

Excellent job. Debating lib'rals is kinda like fishing with dynamite, eh?


14 posted on 09/05/2004 9:34:48 PM PDT by randog (What the....?!)
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To: randog; cyborg; Cacique; Clemenza; PARodrig; SirLurkedalot; GVgirl; nopardons
Heh, heh.

I loved that remark-made unfortunately, on a thread that was ultimately pulled-about being a "Pinochet Republican."

I think that there are several people on FR who fit that description nicely.

Personally, I bludgeoned three Marxists to death just on my way to the bathroom.

It would have been four, but I had to make a sudden detour to the kitchen to pop a few antihistamines.

Very bad allergy day I'm having here.

15 posted on 09/05/2004 9:47:21 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid (This tag-line paid for by "Friends of Paul Rodriguez.")
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To: guinnessboy

"I've been helping GW Bush's campaign up in NH by doing Lit drops, and have seen him speak twice this summer"

I saw him in Stratham and Nashua. Doing some work for the Strafford County office in Dover.


16 posted on 09/05/2004 9:50:28 PM PDT by calenel (The Democratic Party is the Socialist Mafia. It is a Criminal Enterprise.)
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To: The Mayor; Darksheare; kphockey2
The hardcore left eating their young?

Ooh, yummy.

Ooh, Look At That!

-good times, G.J.P.(Jr.)

17 posted on 09/05/2004 10:11:51 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid (This tag-line paid for by "Friends of Paul Rodriguez.")
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To: The Scourge of Yazid
Of course, the Kerry supporters threw traffic cones at us, as they coureageously ran in the opposite direction.

You guys in NYC get to have all the fun. Our leftists in Nashville are pathetically tame.

18 posted on 09/05/2004 10:12:31 PM PDT by NewRomeTacitus
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To: The Scourge of Yazid; God luvs America; 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; ..
Thanks for the post. I was there too! for the latter part of the protest, it was tough getting in.

Cops corral Prez protesters

 

Rowdies kept blocks from the Garden

Republicans in New York
Karen Baptiste, 14-years-old, in Union Square at the Vigil for the Fallen.
Protesters hoping to bid President Bush and the Republicans a rowdy goodbye were stymied last night by platoons of police who kept them away from Madison Square Garden. Thousands of demonstrators chanting "No! No!" were bottled up by cops determined to defuse whatever plans they had to disrupt the final night of the GOP convention as Bush addressed his followers.

"Stay back! Stay back!" cops yelled from behind barricades at the throngs massed on Eighth Ave. near W. 30th St.

When it became clear they would not get near the Garden, the demonstrators turned their backs on Bush - at the exact moment when the President began speaking - and began banging on drums, chanting, "No more war!"

It was their last hurrah after a week of convention upheaval that began when AIDS activists stripped near the Garden and United for Peace and Justice staged a massive march up Seventh Ave.

"It's been a long week," said demonstrator Sam Nolan, 37, of Queens, as he walked away from the protest. "The cops really wore us down. I guess people got intimidated."

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly dispatched thousands of cops last night to make sure there was no repeat of Tuesday's mayhem, when nearly 1,200 demonstrators were arrested around Manhattan.

While 29 rowdies were arrested yesterday,, the GOP delegates were not completely insulated from the rage in the streets. At least two protesters managed to get into the Garden and were dragged out during the President's speech.

Bush's arrival at the Garden was heralded by a pair of city garbage trucks, which blocked Seventh Ave. while the President's motorcade of Secret Service sedans and armored limousines raced down W. 34th St.

Clad in riot gear, packs of cops zoomed around on bikes and scooters and on horseback, while other officers searched people emerging from Penn Station, confiscating sticks and spray-paint cans and other potentially dangerous items.

"You're not going anywhere with that," an officer barked as he removed a ruler from one man's backpack.

Contained on Eighth Ave. between W. 30th and 28th Sts., several thousand protesters mustered by the group A.N.S.W.E.R. chanted, "No more years!"

At one point, police charged through the crowd when 50 members of a pro-Bush group called Protest Warrior waded into enemy territory. Cops quickly penned up the interlopers - for their safety.

"Go home! Go home!" the anti-Bush crowd chanted.

"It's only fascism," said pro-Bush activist Michael Austin, 41, a New York actor. "I'm here for self-preservation."

Later, cops sent the anti-Bush demonstrators south down Eighth Ave., and another group of about 5,000 that had held a candlelight vigil in Union Square marching north toward the Garden - apparently tuckering both groups out.v Mayor Bloomberg, who has praised the peaceful protesters, lashed out against the troublemakers and denied that the city mistreated any of the more than 1,825 people arrested since Sunday.

"A handful of people have tried to destroy our city by going up and yelling at visitors here because they don't agree with their views," he said.

Just before Bush spoke, a state judge ordered the city to release more than 500 protesters, and fined the city $1,000 for every demonstrator held past 5 p.m. Some had been held for as long as 67 hours. City officials denied any wrongdoing.

Bush began his big day with multifaith prayers at the Catholic Church of Our Savior on Park Ave. While his parents braved hecklers, Bush was whisked in through the side - disappointing the hundreds who came to cheer or boo.

"Shame! Shame! Shame!" the Bush-bashers cried.

"On you! On you! On you!" the Bush-backers shouted back.

Bush foes also poured red dye symbolizing the blood of U.S. soldiers slain in Iraq into the fountains around the city.

Early this morning, some demonstrators started clearing Eighth Ave. of protest debris. Sixteen others later sat down in the street and were arrested.

Center, the Brooklyn Museum and City Hall.


19 posted on 09/05/2004 10:22:02 PM PDT by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
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Yeah, I figured as much.

Some of the people who came to the rally from the Midwest and South have had similar experiences in their hometowns.

There's just something about an obnoxious, self-righteous jackass parading himself in front of the world.

Must be a New York thing.

20 posted on 09/05/2004 10:28:35 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid (This tag-line paid for by "Friends of Paul Rodriguez.")
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