Posted on 10/28/2001 6:54:13 PM PST by basil
Members from The Heart of Texas Chapter of FreeRepublic did it's level best to be the loyal opposition today. I can't say that we made much of a splash, except we did get some interviews and tv reports were filmed. It remains to be seen if they will be shown on the local news or not.
As usual, we were greatly outnumbered, by about 30 to 1, is my guess.We had in the neighborhood of a dozen freepers, and they had probably 300-350. (I'm not that good at estimating crowd size, so maybe someone else can come up with a better estimate.)
It's hard to imagine where all these folks come from (mainly, from under rocks is my guess.) They are almost interchangeable. With very few exceptions, they are young, extremely dirty and smelly, and filthy-mouthed, and are clad in dirty clothes, some in only their underwear! They infiltrated our ranks today, and were perhaps the rudest people I have ever encountered. They were obviously hoping to start a fight. At one time, we asked the police to remove one particularly nasty fellow from our midsts, and were told that that was not possible! We would shout USA, and he would shout SUCKS C#CK"! I don't know what the deal was with the cops and why they wouldn't remove him. Anyway, we had to endure them until the bitter end.
We carried on as best we could with our signs, chants, recorded music, and once in a while, beating out the rythym of our chants with our little mop-bucket drums.We did get lots of waves and thumbs up from passersby, but none stopped to join us.
Several from our group did engage in conversations with these people, and I'll leave it to them to let you know how that went.
Also, The Bat Lady took roll, so I'm hoping she will list all of those in attendance. I would try to do that, but I'm afraid I would leave somebody out. I will say, though, that TexasRangerette joined us. She drove all the way from Abeline--over 200 miles, just to join us. It was nice to get to meet and spend some time with her.
Now I am hoping that others will add to this thread with their views of the way the afternoon went. As always during these events, each of us had different experiences.
We will keep on keeping on, as long as it takes! If they show up, we'll show up.
I would have joined y'all if I still lived in Texas.
...and we have pictures too. LOL. Basil, I wasn't as explicit on what the little bike punk said. I'm not sure he really believed half of what he said. He was probably just trying to get a reaction. I got a great pic of you putting him in his place.
A dozen FReepers on short notice is a good showing. I haven't looked at the pictures yet, but I'm sure the difference between the two groups was apparent. We had lots of young people, dirty looking and badly dressed marching here, too.
Good work - thanks Heart of Texas FReepers.
our signs:
Side 1 Flip side
What part of There WILL be bodybags
"until you are filled with
dead or converted to Islam" US Civilians
don't you understand US Military
? ? ? or TERRORISTS
FIGHT it RADICAL
WIN it LEFT HATES
END it AMERICA
MAKE LOVE WE OFFERED
NOT WAR PEACE
WE ARE A THEY
CAN-DO PEOPLE CHOSE
WE WILL DO BOTH WAR
George Will 10/14/01
OUR TROOPS ARE OTHERS FIGHT
FIGHTING FOR YOUR FOR YOUR RIGHT
RIGHT TO BE WRONG TO WHINE
EVIL WINS UNITED
WHEN GOOD PEOPLE WE
DO NOTHING * STAND
* Their countersign... something like ...Terroist win when good people bomb innocents... my guess is bomb in Afghanistan... no mention about the innocent American citizens killed. One woman actually said "she didn't care" about the US citizens. I'mfightingMad and I looked at each other in amazement that she really didn't care about our innocent lives.
PEACE IS FREEDOM
1 PENTAGAON ISN'T FREE
1 USS COLE ANTE UP
2 TOWERS
TOO LATE
TheBatLady's husband wanted this sign:
IMAGINE THE GOAL:
WHIRLED ELIMINATE
PEACE-niks TERRORISM
Then I put on my Afghanistan woman's costume, head to toe veils.
My sign
AFGAN * WHAT IS FEMALE
HOOTERS & CAN'T READ
GIRL THIS SIGN?
* OK, I admit that I spelled it wrong, and the guy on the other side of the street (leftist) called
me on it. Pretty funny I thought. but 2 reasons ... one my sign was too small and for another
thing the Afgan women aren't allowed to learn to read or write so of course it would be mis-
spelled.
One reporter for the ACC student newspaper, asked about my outfit and I had to explain that
if we lost this war, this is what she (and the American Hooters girls) would be wearing next year.
I had only had it on for about 10 min. and it was already really pushing on my nose.
We had patriotic music, Lots of American flags (OH THEY HAD ONE) so chanting, some
dialog and a good time was had by all.
our signs:
Side 1 Flip side
What part of There WILL be bodybags
"until you are filled with
dead or converted to Islam" US Civilians
don't you understand US Military
? ? ? or TERRORISTS
FIGHT it RADICAL
WIN it LEFT HATES
END it AMERICA
MAKE LOVE WE OFFERED
NOT WAR PEACE
WE ARE A THEY
CAN-DO PEOPLE CHOSE
WE WILL DO BOTH WAR
George Will 10/14/01
OUR TROOPS ARE OTHERS FIGHT
FIGHTING FOR YOUR FOR YOUR RIGHT
RIGHT TO BE WRONG TO WHINE
EVIL WINS UNITED
WHEN GOOD PEOPLE WE
DO NOTHING * STAND
* Their countersign... something like ...Terroist win when good people bomb innocents... my guess is bomb in Afghanistan... no mention about the innocent American citizens killed. One woman actually said "she didn't care" about the US citizens. I'mfightingMad and I looked at each other in amazement that she really didn't care about our innocent lives.
PEACE IS FREEDOM
1 PENTAGAON ISN'T FREE
1 USS COLE ANTE UP
2 TOWERS
TOO LATE
TheBatLady's husband wanted this sign:
IMAGINE THE GOAL:
WHIRLED ELIMINATE
PEACE-niks TERRORISM
Then I put on my Afghanistan woman's costume, head to toe veils.
My sign
AFGAN * WHAT IS FEMALE
HOOTERS & CAN'T READ
GIRL THIS SIGN?
* OK, I admit that I spelled it wrong, and the guy on the other side of the street (leftist) called
me on it. Pretty funny I thought. but 2 reasons ... one my sign was too small and for another
thing the Afgan women aren't allowed to learn to read or write so of course it would be mis-
spelled.
One reporter for the ACC student newspaper, asked about my outfit and I had to explain that
if we lost this war, this is what she (and the American Hooters girls) would be wearing next year.
I had only had it on for about 10 min. and it was already really pushing on my nose.
We had patriotic music, Lots of American flags (OH THEY HAD ONE) so chanting, some
dialog and a good time was had by all.
Freedom is not Free!
Let's Roll
UA 93
And on the other side had a God Bless America poster with an Eagle and the Statue of Liberty.
When the un-American crowd can stumbling up the road towards US and the Federal Building, they were asking what are we fighting for.
We replied "We're Fighting for Freedom and Freedom is not Free!"
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