VIDEO OF NEWS STORY ON FRESNO "HATE" RALLY AND PICNIC HERE!!!

RadioFR ^ | 9/14/03 | Diotima

[diotima]

Here is the video of the news story that ran Friday night about the Fresno Chapter's "hate" rally and picnic.

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Please thank Agitator, Radio Free Republic's engineer and technical genius for converting these files so you could view them.

[CounterCounterCulture]

We are a diverse community here at FR with every ethnic and economic background.

X-Zactly.

[Sabertooth]

No offense, but there are ample posts (that the mods didn't catch) to allow the Fresno HRC to make it look like FR is a hate site. Comments about homosexuals, arabs and illegal immigration (seen any anti illegal threads lately or that the CA drivers license with the "bandito"?) would do the trick. They're probably going through the archives as we speak.

No offense, but what the heck are you talking about?

Is the purpose of the Moderators to sanitize our posts, to insure that they're sufficiently politically correct?

I've been all over the Illegal Alien drivers' license threads, and not only have I not seen the word "bandidto," I doubt I'd blink if I did.

Illegal Aliens are foreign, lawbreaking colonistas. They have broken and entered into our country, and now are squatting in our living room. They are no different than burglars. They are bandits.

Americans who behaved like them in other countries would be bandits as well.

Most of the Illegals come from Mexico, where Spanish is spoken. The Spanish word for bandit is "bandito."

That's not hate speech, that's honesty. Don't apologize for it, or you're caving in to the thought police. This is a conservative internet forum, for Pete's sake. Anything we post is "hate speech" to the fascists on the Left.

Appeasing them will bring you no comfort. Take your finger off the panic button.

Quit looking for the scapegoat within, and have the courage of your convictions. Oppose restrictions on free conservative speech, without apology.

Remember, if this fight comes to a head, it will be won on sound bites and the fact is, some Forum posts will give Reyes all the ammo she needs.

Pogrom. There's a soundbite.

Sanitizing, memory hole, Orwellian... those are some more.

Free Speech. There's a far better one.

I'll choose the last. You?

[CounterCounterCulture]

FYI

[Porterville]

Freedom of speech is like sushi, best served raw.

[Porterville]

sushi is such a fufu dish, there has got to be a better way of trying to say in a sound bite than using the word sushi... but what els taste good raw???

[weegee]

I thought that the Stonewall Democrats was the name of the organized elected congressional (state and federal) Democrats who keep stonewalling legislation (Texas' Chicken Ds anyone?) and appointment hearings that they dislike.

It's no fun to not have the majority number of seats...

[weegee]

We already had X42 harassing conservatives in the name of "national security" in the years that followed OKC. Hillary's notion of a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy still is considered true by the national media and academia.

[weegee]

To anyone coming late to this thread, here was the original site/post that threatened harassing the FReeper picnic. The poster "Freepwatch Network" doesn't appear to have posted anything else there (but it was probably a front name for a regular poster who thought he would get traction behind his plan).

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/08/31/5856677

If anyone had any misconceptions that the "antiwar" movement wasn't "antiAmerican", the anarchists at this site do come out and admit that the oppose our constitutional form of government. How can they say that they "love America" if they hate our form of government(not the excess or abuses that some people exhibit, but the democratic-republic altogether).

Why don't anarchists get shut down for sedition?

Here are the definitions from dictionary.com:

se·di·tion n.
- Conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of a state.
- Insurrection; rebellion.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

sedition \Se*di"tion\, n.
1. The raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without an overt act; excitement of discontent against the government, or of resistance to lawful authority.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

sedition n
- an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government
Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University

[weegee]

I see that he was a busy little beaver posting to a number of the "indymedia.org" sites (local chapters, generating local discussions):

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/08/80425.php

http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/09/1639517_comment.php

http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/cancun/action/usa/fresno-freeper-rally.htm

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/08/271030.shtml

[A Broken Glass Republican]

Agreed. Keep the focus on who attends these rallys...Fine people one and all. And hopfully none of those people made any of the "Bring a gun with you to the picnic" comments.

The Rallys are America at it's finest. Some of the nasty language, specifically anytime Islam is discussed, will sink the ship concerning this issue...It's some of the more "Hateful" stuff I've read.

[Mama_Bear]

I am so grateful to the Fresno group for supporting our troops each week.

Thank you so much, Colleen. It has been my pleasure to stand beside the Fresno group and support our military. No finer group of people will you find anywhere.

"Hate group"...yea right.

Isn't that amazing? But, this is how the left operates. I suppose we shouldn't be surprised, but still, I am just stunned over being called a member of a hate group.

[Mama_Bear]

Article to appear in Townhall.com tomorrow;...

Excellent! Thank you both. As a member, and recently appointed Head of the Fresno/Central Valley Chapter, I appreciate this very much.

[dixie sass]

Pardon me? Hate group, I think I've heard everything now. Well, rat's my sound isn't working. Gonna have to reload it.

[sauropod]

Interesting that there was no representative from the Human Relations Commission or whatever they're called.

Couldn't the TV station trace the fax number that sent out the press release?

Are they going to follow up today?

[sauropod]

Good work ag!

[sauropod]

Issue a press release that calls the Human Relations Commission a hate group that is a government entity. Give 'em a taste of their own medicine.

[sauropod]

Great letters.

Kudos from the "Right" coast. Now all i have to do is wait for Isabel to hit.

[sauropod]

"...after the commision voted to alert the city to the potential danger to public health the rally and picnic might pose."

Can you explain this?

[sauropod]

What about FReeping the HRC? Do they hold public meetings?

[sauropod]

We live in a free society. Unfortunately, we get posts here that are inappropriate, on occasion. The vast majority aren't.