I could hear Curtis Sliwa firing up our troops in the background. Doctor Raoul said about 50 freepers are braving the cold and had to get off the phone as someone just threw an egg over the balcony from an apartment building.
An ambush?
That reminds me of the time Marylander and I were protesting outside the New York Times Washington Bureau and someone lobbed an egg from an upper window and almost hit us! Eggs splatter in every direction in a very large area! GO DOCTOR RAOUL, GO CURTIS SLIWA, GO TRI-STATE CHAPTER GO!! Kudos to all of you.
Well ----What a bust!
I got there early enough, parked on 41st and 2nd, and spent the next 1 3/4 hours trying to get to 1st without first going up to 64th!!
You could only walk on the West side of 2nd, and all the side streets were verboten, unless you lived there. I finally spoke to one officer about my dilemma. He said our rally had been moved to 41st and he let me go East, but the stairs down to 1st were blocked by the police. I could look down at the UN plaza, at 41st and 1st, and saw lots of police, but no Freepers. Those police said that 1st Ave was closed to traffic. I went back to 2nd and tried to go South, but couldn't. All walkers had to go North!! When I spoke to other police, they were polite, but knew nothing about our rally, and told me if I wanted to go to 1st, I had to go 20 blocks North and then come down!!
Forget it! Walking among all those unwashed for that 1+ hour was enough -- never mind for 20 blocks!! The sidewalk was really crowded -- most carried signs, some had radios and I could hear Sharpton ranting, some wore all kinds of peacenic get-ups, some with their pink spiked hair looked like freaks ----- you know -- the usual idiots. I hated being among them as tho I was one of them.
These guys may not have been parading on the street, but they WERE parading! At one intersection, they wouldn't stop and let cars, with the green light, pass. You should have heard the car horns. Drivers were pis++++--- er, ticked off! (GOOD!)
I finally got back in the car and left. The radio news said the anti's were ignoring the police and were crossing barricades to get into the street ----and succeeding. It said there were scuffles as the anti's pushed by and that in some areas, the police were letting them thru.
I tried. I didn't dare hold my sign (BLESS OUR TROOPS and PEACE THRU STRENGTH) up high among all the unwashed. I was chicken and now I hang my head in shame.
It was frustrating not to have some way to get in touch with those at 'ground Fr.com'. Maybe next time we can exchange cell#?
Tried that with about a dozen officers. Not a single one had any idea where our rally was. :-( Perhaps the ones near our rally knew.