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Phony War Protest at Clemson U, Genuine Zot at FR
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Posted on 06/01/2005 10:53:44 AM PDT by Trail Mix

"The only person there at the time was a man in a black ski mask, trying to set up a sound system he never did get to work." In addition to the ski mask pulled down to conceal his face, the man wore an athletic shirt displaying the word "CUBA" and a white headband over his ski mask with the word "PEACE" scrawled on it.

"We were a little taken aback," relates Cothran. "He looked like a terrorist."

If the manner and appearance of this lone protest leader weren't disconcerting enough, the signs he displayed gave additional pause. "Abortion Isn't Murder, War Is" read one, with the letters in "War" colored red and dripping like blood. Another banner he would unfurl, crudely spray-painted on a bed-sheet, urged "Free Saddam, Arrest Bush."

As if on cue, a line of counter-protesters from the College Republicans made their way to Bowman Field, more than a dozen well-scrubbed campus conservatives with signs of their own.

Two days later, Clemson officials announced an investigation when the man in the black ski mask was identified as Andrew R. Davis, editor-in-chief of a self-described conservative Clemson magazine. Davis admitted he had organized the rally using a phony name and a shell group he called "Clemson Liberals Against War" (C.L.A.W.)"


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Calls to ask if they then all marched downtown to enlist went unreturned.
1 posted on 06/01/2005 10:53:44 AM PDT by Trail Mix
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To: Trail Mix; MeekOneGOP

IBTZ


2 posted on 06/01/2005 10:55:18 AM PDT by eyespysomething (Peace - that brief moment in history where everyone stands around reloading.)
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To: Trail Mix

You make the calls?


3 posted on 06/01/2005 10:55:50 AM PDT by eyespysomething (Peace - that brief moment in history where everyone stands around reloading.)
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To: Trail Mix

4 posted on 06/01/2005 10:55:59 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
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To: Puppage

Ya think???


5 posted on 06/01/2005 10:56:34 AM PDT by Trail Mix
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To: Puppage

So I'm asking--How many enlisted that day?


6 posted on 06/01/2005 10:57:01 AM PDT by Trail Mix
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To: Trail Mix

7 posted on 06/01/2005 10:57:46 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
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To: Puppage; MeekOneGOP

I think you are right.


8 posted on 06/01/2005 10:57:50 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.)
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To: Trail Mix
Fake but accurate right?

Isn't that the left's litmus test for journalism today. Koran flushing, etc..

9 posted on 06/01/2005 10:59:03 AM PDT by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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Their probably going to work for KBR or Halliburton when they graduate.

Maybe you can mop their floors one day.


10 posted on 06/01/2005 10:59:26 AM PDT by eyespysomething (Peace - that brief moment in history where everyone stands around reloading.)
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To: Trail Mix

You might want to read this quick!

11 posted on 06/01/2005 10:59:38 AM PDT by beltfed308 (Cloth or link. Happiness is a perfect trunion.)
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oops, their SB they're


12 posted on 06/01/2005 10:59:53 AM PDT by eyespysomething (Peace - that brief moment in history where everyone stands around reloading.)
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To: MeekOneGOP

Hey Meek, he's dead!!!


13 posted on 06/01/2005 11:00:00 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.)
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To: Trail Mix

Trail Mix

How appropo.


14 posted on 06/01/2005 11:01:49 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (In God We Trust. All Others We Monitor.)
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To: Trail Mix
 
Idiots.

Remember, God put them here for our amusement.
 
Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

15 posted on 06/01/2005 11:02:23 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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Davis admitted he had organized the rally using a phony name and a shell group he called "Clemson Liberals Against War" (C.L.A.W.)"

I would say his future as an even organizer were dim.

16 posted on 06/01/2005 11:04:25 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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Calls to ask if they then all marched downtown to enlist went unreturned.

That question is getting old. Besides, do you really know where to go if you want to enlist?

17 posted on 06/01/2005 11:05:19 AM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (If their Chief of police is okay with it, I am guessing that we should probably be okay with it.)
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Like...DUDE...you can enlist online now, y'know? Your draft board will be in touch shortly...


18 posted on 06/01/2005 11:09:26 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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19 posted on 06/01/2005 11:11:27 AM PDT by Sloth (I don't post a lot of the threads you read; I make a lot of the threads you read better.)
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To: Trail Mix

20 posted on 06/01/2005 11:11:54 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (The theory of evolution is the great cosmogenic myth of the twentieth century - Michael Denton)
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