Posted on 09/19/2005 8:56:32 PM PDT by Flora McDonald
All of us arrived at Crim Dell Meadow and the caravan of aging hippie throwbacks had already setup shop. According to Flora McDonald she had spoken to William and Mary previously about our counter protest. She was reassured we would be seen by both students and anti-war protesters. We were shocked to learn that the school had gone back on its word and sent us a football field or so away from the antiwar protest. Worse than that, the area had little foot traffic and shade (something the cindy sheehan’s group did have).
So I walked over to the college admin guy who allowed the groups to come on campus. He fed me the line that its school policy that groups have their right to free speech without being disrupted. I went on and said that nothing was being disrupted we just want the same foot traffic that they were getting. Standing there with U.S. flags and supporting our troops with our support the troop signs should not cause some disruption. We continued going on back and forth until he tried to pull authority and ask if I was a student. With a big smile on my face…I said “no”. I told him his new name was “bureaucratic college administrator”
So, while we ended up in the middle of bumble, with signs and flags, a bunch of CR’s and freepers went to the streets of Williamsburg with our stuff. We got a lot of thumbs up and honks. The school sent police cruisers to kick us off the street island we were standing on. So we stood on the sidewalk with our signs.
An oldish couple came up and used the same old tired line of “why don’t you go and serve if you’re for the war” My reply was simply “ Because the troops need to see groups of people like us on college campuses who support what they are doing not just Zarquai supporting groups like yours that bring down morale”. This went on for a while until they told me I’d be supporting Hitler if he were alive today. I nearly started laughing. Then they said I represented the worst of America. So I told them that coming from them that’s compliment. After they couldn’t give any alternative policy except saying the current one is a bad one, they walked away.
We met up with the other freepers at Crim Dell Meadow on campus.
"So many moonbats...so little time!"
Oh dat be a great bumpersticker or t shirt..:)
I loved seeing those young people..Glad they got to hear an "old soldier" speak.
Sorry it took so long to get the thread up. What with one FReep and another....
Did anyone write down the names of FReepers who attended?
Here's what I've got but I think I've missed a couple:
R. Scott
paltz
Live Free Or Die
concretebob
tom servo
csvset
justanobody
Mr. McDonald
Flora McDonald
(and friend, Miss R.)
Thank you Bump !!!!!
Your love of country is shinning through!
God Bless You all.
Fabulous job!!
“why don’t you go and serve if you’re for the war”
Thank you all for doing this.
bttt
It was the very first time I ever attended a politically motivated rally. I might even learn how to be more active in my participation.
Great job by all!!
I love the "World Peace Begins with W" and the rainbow! Very thoughtful.
I was thinking about a sign that says "Donate Here to Send the Cindynistas to Iraq" That way we could get rid of them, they could show our troops in person how much they *cough* "support them, and our troops could show their *ahem* "appreciation" by tossing their sorry butts to the "Freedom Fighters". Everybody wins!
Toward the end, we had two young men wander over "from the other side" to have a discussion with us. It was quite remarkable. They were soft spoken, asking intelligent questions - albeit from the lsm, listened attentively as several answered their questions and objections to what was said. They seemed generally interested in seeking the truth. One recited the spelling, twice, of a search term we told him to google. This indicated to me that he was serious about researching the things he had heard.
The greatest moment was when they thanked us for taking the time to answer questions, give explanations and verifiable information for what we we told them. They informed us that when they probed the "other side" for answers, all they could spout was, "but...oh...but...but...HALLIBURTON!" His facial expression and gesturing through that statement was priceless! It was then that they decided to search for answers elsewhere and came to us.
Meeting these two, and the most awesome, energetic Young Republicans and other students, give me great hope for the future of our Republic!
Does that sound right? Bob, what does your book tell us?
It's really nice to see the nice, well-mannered, clean young people get involved and support the troops...unlike the unclean, unkempt, unwashed hippies of yester year.
It gives me hope for America.
I love the World Peace begins with W sign!
That along with ...
"do you have a family member over there?"
"what noble cause?"
...are their signature absurdities!
My response: I would love to go. But the military isn't taking mid-40's fat guys with bad knees.
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