Posted on 11/29/2001 9:59:23 AM PST by Hail Caesar
What:
Tyranny Response Team commandos and FReeper militia disguised as Santa Claus, Elves, other helpers (and even Christians <g>), to raid anti-Santa (anti-Christmas) Kensington Town Council's "Celebration of the American Spirit Through Lights and Music" (Includes the Santa-less Town Tree Lighting Ceremony)
When:
Sunday, December 2, 2001
3:30 p.m. - until?
(Their "ceremony" is scheduled to begin at 4:00 p.m. Our FReep is on whether the Town Council eventually surrenders or not. FReepers: take no prisoners in this cultural war!)
Where:
Kensington Town Hall ("Armory") http://www.tok.org/
3710 Mitchell Street
Kensington, MD 20895
Location Map and directions (click link below):
Battle Plan:
Patriots will peaceably assemble near the Kensington Armory beginning around 3:30 p.m. and then occasionally disperse to cover all access and egress streets to the ceremony's location. Remember, no profanity, no racism, no threats, no violence, etc., will be tolerated at the scene. A demonstration/protest permit is NOT required for this; regardless, local law enforcement officers should be treated with respect. We must remain "on message", defend the 1st Amendment, freedom of religion, freedom from this local government's tyranny, while we counterattack this secular assault on Christmas. Remember that we are doing this FOR THE CHILDREN! :-)
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Why (we should do this) - related background info threads at these links:
"First No Smoke, Now No Santa: Maryland Town Tells Jolly 'Ole Nick To Stay Home!"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/579694/posts
"P.C. Town Bans Santa Claus"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/579943/posts
"Santa gets axed from town's tree ceremony"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/580115/posts
"Santa not allowed in Parade in Kensington, Maryland because TWO families complained (my title)"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/579732/posts
"It's Time to Banish Santa"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/580387/posts
"Is Santa a terrorist?"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/578985/posts
I appreciate your suggestions, however, public area displays of Christianity have been BANNED by the Town of Kensington for quite some time now.
It's time we the people took back the public square and quit looking to government to do what it can't and won't.
I'm guessing that Freeper Santas will be cheered by most of Kensington. Ho, Ho, Ho!
We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:
"Dear Editor--I am 8 years old.
"Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
"Papa says, 'If you see it in The Sun, it's so.'
"Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?Virginia O'Hanlon
115 West Ninety-fifth StreetVirginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the scepticism of a sceptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no child-like faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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It is now :-)
"Seriously, I am considering conducting a peaceful act of civil disobedience in Kensington Sunday to protest the violation of Santa's civil rights. Kensington requires a protest permit. Dressed as Santa, I will volunteer to be arrested for protesting without a permit.Can't you see the nationwide press coverage of Kensington Police arresting Santa? Perhaps the the fear stricken liberal democrats will break out the dogs and firehoses against Santa? Hell, it will make people forget that the Philadelphia Eagles fans once threw snowballs at Santa." - Doctor Raoul
LOL!! I checked at www.HireSanta.com, but THEY have no "Santa Raoul":
LOL! The grown ups obviously aren't in charge in the Kensington City Council. Did you ever read Clifford Simak's Way Station? Maybe the aliens already loosed the stupid bomb on the world in the form of an unseen substance placed only in the most potentially dangerous polls in the nation, the Democrat precincts. Hmmm?(^:
Nonetheless, we should hold the COUNCIL members as those most responsible for this nonsense to prevail.
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