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Posted on 04/14/2003 6:27:05 AM PDT by BillF
On Saturday, April 12, Citizens United and the Young Ameriics's Foundation held a rally on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
The rally, co-sponsored also by the D.C. Chapter of Free Republic, had the Capitol looming large a few blocks behind the stage. The Washington Monument soared up from the other end of the mall and the spirits of assembled patriots soared as well.
DC Chapter had a table that drew numerous visitors, all of whom were encouraged to visit the FR website. People signed a banner for the troops at the FReeper table and flags, button stickers, and pins were distributed.
It was a sunny day with an occasional breeze. Temperatures were into the 70s, but several blocks away a rally and march was held by ANSWER .for those who were stuck in a 60s quagmire.
Late in the rally several of our group of intrepid FReepers redeployed to the front of the Washington Post building so that we could express our disapproval of the ANSWER group as they marched by. ANSWER is a front for the (Communist) World Workers Party.
IMHO, there were at least 5000, possibly as many as 10,000 patriots in attendance at the CU/YAF rally.
U.S. flags were everywhere. I saw at least one U.K. flag. South Vietnam flags were also there as numerous Vietnamese-Americans waved U.S. and South Vietnam flags together and strongly back the troops. Those with a recent memory of lost freedom are often especially appreciative of freedom and the brave troops who preserve it.
Speakers included: radio host G. Gordon Liddy, The Weekly Standard's Editor Bill Kristol, former Reagan White House Official Linda Chavez, former Senator and actor Fred Thompson, Fox News' Military Analyst Major Bob Bevelacqua (ret.), radio host Laura Ingraham and "The Singing Cop" Danny Rodriguez performing "The National Anthem" and "God Bless America".
A video presentation for the troops featured country music legends Toby Keith, the Charlie Daniel’s Band and Ben Stein of Comedy Central.
I'll add any further comments about the rally in a separate post. I'll also do a separate post, when time allows, describing the FReep of the ANSWER people. The attendance honor roll for Saturday's gathering of eagles included:. Angelwood, Free the Hostages, Kristinn, Jimmy Valentine, Jimmy Valentine’s Brother, LeadPenny, Doctor Raoul, Your ad here, GunsAreOK, stand waite, Ludwig von Mises, Taxman, Sauropod, Mudboy Slim and BillF.
Numerous other FReepers were there, but I don't have the list of those who signed in at the FReeper table. The possessor of the list is invited to add to the honor roll. Other FReepers who were there should reply and let us have a complete record.
Here is a link to a photo thread. It has heavy graphics and may take some time to download.
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Swoon, swoon...
that musical video was fabulous!! Toby Keith is a hunka hunka burning....
patriotism!
Sitting there on his C-span throne, allowing callers and guests to lie without challenge, makes a mockery of C-span's reason for existance. I'm sick of it.
A sea of red, white, and blue flags and Toby Keith singing "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue" on the huge screen with the Capitol in the background.
With reference to the photo thread (click here, but it includes large graphics). You can click on any photo on that thread and see a full size version.
The speakers were all great. However, your humble writer and several other DC FReepers left early as an advance party to scout a location near the Washington Post for FReeping the C.A.N.S.W.E.R. leftists as they marched by.
Daughter of tgslTakoma, Kristinn, YourAdHere, his friend Nick, and BillF(your writer) were among the advance party.
Traveling by car from the CU rally toward our planned spot for protesting the leftists, Kristinn noticed Laura Ingraham walking towards the rally. I recalled that YourAdHere had a great sign in the car that was designed for Ann Coulter. His sign said "ANN, PLEASE MARRY ME." He was saddened that Coulter wasn't coming, I suggested that he could cross out "ANN" on the sign and write in "LAURA," but it was not to be.
(Central command refused to confirm rumors that Coulter was not speaking due to some "Blonde-on-blonde" incident also involving Ingraham. They're both great, but both speaking at the same rally might have been too much charisma in the city.)
Arriving in front of the Washington Post, we chatted briefly with a couple security guards and a more senior person (apparently a supervisor of building security or maintenance). The senior guy said that the Post had protests against it two or three times a week.
The irony of us appearing to defend the Post would later be magnified when at least one leftist claimed on one of their web message boards that we FReepers were employees of the Post or paid by them. How dare they accuse us of that!
I contemplated a suit for libel, but decided that the leftist's only asset, a 20 year old tie-dyed t-shirt, was not sufficient to pay off any judgment.
Before the big march of leftist flotsam and jetsam passed by us, a lone leftist walked by and objected to one of my signs. It said "BRAVE U.S. TROOPS PREVENT NEXT 9/11." This didn't make sense according to the lone leftist. After all, the troops don't make policy. He claimed that only policy makers can prevent another 9/11. Why he couldn't understand that people (military, intell, law enforcement, etc.) implementing policy also can affect what happens is beyond me. And soon he was beyond me.
After a pause in our force flow, a second wave of FReepers arrived including LeadPenny, Angelwood, tgslTakoma, Sauropod, Jimmy Valentine, Jimmy Valentine's brother, hellinahandcart, and GunsAreOK. I believe that others were there, but I'm not sure.
Please chime in if you were there or you can add names of others who were there.
After the action, we saw Doctor Raoul, who, along with another person, had FReeped the leftists about a block away.
Our signs, in addition to those mentioned above, included:
PEACNIKS STUCK IN 60s QUAGMIRE, TROOPS LIFT U.S. HIGHER
I'M A CELEBRITY GET ME OUT OF HERE with a map of the U.S. and photos of various antiwar celebrities
"ANTI-WAR" MOVEMENT IS IN A QUAGMIRE
Ahead of the march were at least 3 police cars and a guy on a skateboard. At both the front and back of the march were sound trucks with leftists shouting through megaphones from flat truck beds.
As the thousands of leftists passed in front of us, many of the FReepers including me were back near the front wall of the Post. Intrepid FReepers including Sauropod, LeadPenny, Jimmy Valentine, Jimmy Valentine's brother, and Kristinn formed a front line of FReepers near the edge of the sidewalk separated from the leftists by a line of parked cars.
As the leftists surged along the street in front of us, their "marshals" tried to block the more aggressive ones from going between the parked cars to get to us. However, other of the leftists were walking along the sidewalk and came between the front and back line of FReepers. Some of the leftists with cameras even got behind our back line, but they were simply taking photos or video.
We trading chants with the leftists and the situation grew more heated. Just in time, a line of police officers came, dismounted from their bicycles, and formed a protective line along the side walk. They soon requested the front line of FReepers to get behind them.
Our chants included:
USA USA
YOUR RED ROOTS ARE SHOWING
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS
SWIM TO CUBA
At one stage, an especially belligerent "peace" protestor challenged us to fight and said "I'll kick your ***es!" My reply was PEACE AND LOVE, CAN'T WE ALL HUG? Soon several of us were chanting SADDAM NEEDS A HUG.
In the middle of the street the leftists did something bizarre. OK, something else bizarre beyond their usual bizarre conduct. Dozens of phony dollar bills were somehow propelled 20 feet in the air and were distributed by the wind. The phony money had pictures of President Bush on them and various leftist web addresses.
Jimmy Valentine's brother was shouting at the leftists YOU TOOK THE BROWN ACID AT WOODSTOCK. Although that was undoubtably true for some, he adjusted the rant upon noticing some of the younger protestors. His booming voice soon thundered YOUR PARENTS TOOK THE BROWN ACID AT WOODSTOCK and YOU'RE STUCK IN A 60s QUAGMIRE.
As the sound truck at the back of the leftists' march approached us, they stopped shouting RACIST at us. (I never figured out how being in favor of liberating the Iraqi people from a brutal tyrant make us, in their warped minds, racists.)
With at least five hundred marchers in our immediate vicinity and the end-of-the-march sound truck approaching our position, the leftists begin shouting SHAME ON YOU at us and pointing to us. They thought that President Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld (occasionally Ashcroft and Powell as well) were the "axis of evil." The leftists HATED the Hitler-like warmonger President Bush that existed solely in their warped minds.
And now they hated us. It was great!
The lefty disruptor broad that was at our 23 March rally showed up and continued calling us "Morons!" LOL!
Daryl Lamont Jenkins showed up as well and kept taking pictures of us. I checked out his website (onepeoplesproject.com) and the writers there still don't have the definition of fascism right. They insist that if you are a patriot, you are a fascist (because you have strong nationalistic tendencies).
BTW, I think Daryl Lamont Jenkins lives in New Brunswick, NJ. That is where their website is based.
As an aside, they are trolling for any personal info about any fascist/right-wing people (including us). They refer to FR as "Freak Republic."
And the writing on Daryl's site is juvenile at best.
Stay tuned, everybody!
These wonderful reports were first started by Mr Confetti Man ---soooooooooo long ago, and they have become one of my favorite type of thread. Thanks!
Also, those are terrific pictures on the other thread.
(Next time I see you I'm going to pick your talented brain to find out how you post a picture directly to the thread. Be forewarned! LOL!)
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