I think the Protest Warrior/Freep counter protest was finally conducted on 8th Ave. and 28th Street where they put the protest warriors in the corral, at that time, I was with the commies in their corral on 8th and 27th, the police had every block corralled for the commie group for a number of blocks to accommodate the mass of people there. While I was there, I took some pictures of their signs and talked to some of the people protesting the republicans. Many flew in from other states and when I asked them who paid the airfare none would answer. As GodLuvsAmerica said they were smelly and dirty. I don't think many had proper lodgings. Some would stay in shelters and churches as the minister in this article stated in an unrelated story (red print). I presume they housed these people illegally in church basements?
I noticed that many were dirty, disheveled, rude, immoral, unpatriotic, cursed President Bush, the GOP, the Cops and anyone else they could think of. They weren't too happy; I feet sorry for them. Most could not properly discuss the issues in any rational manner and were very misinformed on most of these issues. I think communist and secular humanist brainwashing in the schools and universities is working for the dumbing down of education which is proven with the likes of those who were there. Many of them were just airhead and little minions who were told where to go and what to say. It was pretty pathetic.
After much walking, I finally found a way to get close enough and enter the warrior's corral. Once in, I joined in the chants and took some pictures. I asked the guy wearing the "Fags for Bush" tee-shirt why he was for President Bush who gave a rather pragmatic answer stating that if ever the terrorists would win, he, as a "fag" would be the first to go, then the Jews, then the Christians. He knew how Clinton and the Democrats were so weak with the terrorists over the 8 yrs. they were in office so he would rather have President Bush and the Republicans win the election so they can continue the fight against the war on terrorism.
(these events are to the best on my recollection and may not be in order, once the video is posted you can see it as it happened)
Once the protest was over we began to head back to the home base. On our way we passed a police trailer where a female PO stuck her head out the door, I guess she heard our "4 more Years" chant, and once she saw her signs and realized who we were, she stuck out her hand where most of us "high fived" her as we walked by. During this time we were followed by a small group of anarchists.
I think it was near herald square while we were attempting to cross the street, we were "headed off at the pass" by the NYPD. Remember, because of the President being in town and on high security alerts, many streets were on lockdown and groups seen by the helicopters above were under surveillance. We were all told to stop and asked who we were, what we were doing and where we were going. We were let go and as we arrived at another street corner, we were surrounded by about 30 cops on motor scooters where we met a one-star NYPD chief with a bull horn who told us to put our signs down, that we had our fun and the rally was over. He finally let us cross the street 10 at a time followed with a bicycle cop, once we arrived a home base, we took apart the signs then went to the New Yorker Hotel to watch the remaining of the President's speech at the hospitality room. I did a lot of PR work for the Free Republic, many have heard of the site, read the posts and just never registered, I hope they come on board.
We then left on foot to a get together sponsored by the Young Republicans at the Bedford Hotel where low and behold we walk in and are greeted by 4 other freepers, PARodrig (running for Congress), cacique, Oschisms and rmlew. After a while Roy and Niger Innis from CORE came in and talked for a bit then left. I left around 2 AM. It was a loooooong day and a long 4 days of protesting and counter protesting.
The first few pics were taken while I was with the anarchist commie slobs, I took some pics of their signs and then of the warriors who were about a half block down, the rest are from within the pen. I would like to say that I had a terrific time with the protest warriors and freepers and glad they made this all possible. The NYPD did a great job. The anarchists weren't given the opportunity to pillage and destroy the city as they did in Seattle and Philadelphia; the NYPD kept the city both safe and civil giving everyone the opportunity to protest and to have a good time.
