[Little Bill]

I don't agree. I have organized about twenty FReeps, I always advise people who attend these events to have a story ready if they get interviewed.

There are certain things that you do at different types of FReeps. If it is a 9/11 or Support Your Troops Freep, you act agressively and try to draw people to you and your views, you work the crowd.

These Freeps are easy, neither side wants problems, the biggest problem that we have had is keeping those who join us from punchiing the lights out of the protesters on the other side.

Political FReeps are different, you can get hurt at these. These FReeps call for loud agressive activism, but the otherside is also agressive and they have the rent a thugs from the local union hall.

How does the press fit in? They know what FRee Republic is and they don't like us. We had a FReep at City Hall Plaza in Boston against the Palis' and the IAC, we had Homeless Veterans, Retired Cops, and many passer byes join us, many interviews done, coverage none, TV, 25 seconds.

The press lines out the organizations that might upset the status quo, in Mass anyway. There are nore conservitives in this state than most people realize, if they had a focus point it might upset our Rulers, and the press is hand in glove with them, and they will keep the FRee Republic off of their pages.

[anymouse]

Maybe Boston is a ruder venue than what many of the rest of us have to deal with, but standing up for yourself is not the same as bullying like the left does so often. We are not out for blood (at least not literally. :)

The contrast of actually being polite and attentive may actually impress the media types.

Accepting that you have to get down in the gutter with the left to win, misses the whole point of using the media to win over a larger audience than merely those within earshot of a protest.