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.
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God Bless YOU!!
Great report!
The way you smacked those libs down, I'd like to introduce you to my sister!
Great work y'all. Thanks for supporting the troops.
Good for you guys! School campuses are really tough. Glad you stood up to the BCA.
Backs against the wall, FReepers, students and friends come through for our Freedom Fighters!
Thank you for all you all did...........
You know how much I would have loved to be with you.
It looks as if you guys had a good time up there. I loved the "Send Cindy to Gitmo" sign. We had someone in our group who had one of the Camp Gitmo shirts.
Rock on Freepers....keep the moonbats on the fly...
God Bless you and our troops!!
Paltz wrote the report and she is one awesome debater. A couple of the guys walked over to give her a hand with the screaming hippy couple, came back & said "She's holding her own just fine!"
Why is it old hippies get so ornery?
Yep. That's the clunker they were in when they arrived here in Fayetteville. Ain't it purty?
WOO HOO! Thank You!
My gratitude to all of you for supporting our troops!
The best part about being on the campus of W&M was meeting all these young people. They were intelligent, witty and well-mannered.
The FReepers weren't bad either!
We stayed a lot later than we intended - had some great conversations.
>>Why is it old hippies get so ornery?<<
Because the years are ticking away and they are losing power.
My sister is that way.
Hugs to Paltz!
So many moonbats...so little time!
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