The leftists (or at least one of them) claim that you were trying to intimidate them. Click here for the DC IndyMedia absurd version.
Click here for the Washington ComPost story (nothing about FR or the incidents involving you).
From now on, I promise to use the "buddy system" when venturing into the wilderness.
Please do so. Please also don't put honey on your back (i.e., FR jacket) if you're going into the hornets' nest. You're too nice a person and too important to get injured by these leftists.
But a different kind of white people did show up – four members of FreeRepublic.com – and they caused two rather nasty incidents involving police
A different kind of white people??
They counted four FReepers, but they counted wrong. It was just Kristinn and me. A young couple visiting from out of state stopped and talked with us for a long time, and they witnessed the male (he's not a man) who walked up and threatened me. The girl was dumbfounded by that. She said to me, "Did he just threaten you, in front of everybody?! I don't believe he just did that." They had been about to leave when this happened so Kristinn asked them to stick around while he got the police, in case they wanted any statements.
They were very nice folks. The man was familiar with Free Republic and had been to the Support the Troops Rally in Raleigh. His mom was in DC this past week lobbying on the Hill for veterans with Hepatitis C. He said that many vets were inoculated with the compressed-air guns and some with re-used needles, and many vets now have hep C. Apparently VA says there is no proof that the inoculation technique is the cause, so they are balking at covering the health costs related. His mom is doing this all on her own, because her husband is one of the vets with hep C.
But he was probably a government spy, too.
;-)
P.S. I wore the jacket so they couldn't say I was there under cover. I figured my face was well-known enough by them that they would recognize me with or without the jacket; and I didn't want to give them any reason to call me a spy or an infiltrator. We can all see how well that worked out. Next time I'll wear a tie-dye and a wig and some peace beads, and a CIA cap.