Ted Hayes is the Real Deal bump
-- snip --Zealots on Parade
- Leftist-Degenerate LA Weakly Write-up of Santa Monica Freep
LA Weakly ^ | 8-19-04 | Howard Blume
Posted on 08/20/2004 7:34:17 AM PDT by tallhappy
This is a write up in the newest issue of the LA Weakly on the pro-W demontration freep that occurred in Santa Monica -- described and pictured in these two great threads: "Welcome Back, W!" HUNDREDS rally near Santa Monica airport to support President Bush – new PHOTOS! and FREEP REPORT: FReepers defend America's honor from leftist scum in Santa Monica
Zealots on Parade
Bush backers stare down their nemesis in Santa Monica
by Howard Blume
Okay, so what if Los Angeles lacks the swing-voter clout of Davenport, Iowa? Last week, Southern California, too, got the same-day treatment from the candidates, which sparked a first-rate mano a mano between the faithful.
While John Kerry appeared unchallenged at Cal State Dominguez Hills, zealots faced off at the intersection of Ocean Park Boulevard and 31st Street in Santa Monica, just one block north of Santa Monica airport, where George W. Bush was appearing at a dinner that put a cool $3 million in his war chest.
And political artifice mirrored political reality: The outcome was too close to call, though it seemed more impressive somehow for more than 500 Bushies to turn out in this left-coast bastion, even if at least as many anti-Bushes had gathered, too.
Bush man Ron Smith had been preparing since early July, arriving at noon to stake out the intersection. "We had both corners," said the white-haired Smith, who sells cars on the Internet. When the enemy arrived, "There was a confrontation. And I personally went over there and got all of our people off that side, because that was our deal with the police. They have one side; we have the other."
Facing north, it was Bush people to the right, anti-Bushes to the left. The veritable standoff had Genevieve Peters beaming. The 41-year-old teacher and Beverly Hills resident founded L.A. for Bush. "It started out with eight people around a table, and it’s grown to hundreds — hundreds and hundreds," said Peters. Democrats, she explained, “stand for hate and for vengeance and a globalization that has no strength or character or anything that’s for America. America, from the beginning of time, had an identity and culture. And they’re trying to decimate our identity and culture . . . to some melting pot like Europe."
She added, "Democrats have gone in and said, ‘We’re just all one. Every culture has a place here.’ No! We’re an American culture."
It was hard to hear over the amplified voice of a Bushie in a black hat. "On the other corner, I see dreadlocks and hippies,” he said mockingly, "and I see girlie men." That started a chant of "girlie men, girlie men" from the street’s right wing. Next to Black Hat stood an elderly Vietnamese man dressed in green beret and camouflage. He held an American flag in his right hand, the yellow-and-red flag of South Vietnam in his left. A Bush-Cheney sign hung around his neck. He pumped his black-booted heel up and down in time to patriotic tunes and redneck rock blasting from a boom box. Nearby, a blind young man sang out, "You can’t take away my Bush."
Black Hat wasn’t quite right about the dreads; his side included homeless activist Ted Hayes, whose dreads equal anyone’s. He had an amplified bullhorn in one hand and a genuine, polished ram’s horn in the other as he improvised chants. "Power to the right-wingers!" he shouted into the bullhorn...
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Some background for non-LA or CA freepers. LA Weakly is a leftist degenrate free weekly -- although it doesn't seem all that different than the LA Slimes. LA Weakly seems to be funded by a major moving picture industry less old than the one in Hollywood.
The article does not mention Free Republic, although in the past they often have. I'd say they learned they don't want to even mention the name Free Republic.
Of course the "zealots" of the title are meant to be us, not the commies...
CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread