(03-20-2004) Atlanta Post-Freep Report

03/20/2004 | Marc Oburg

[Tatze]

"Hilaryrhymeswithrich", her two daughters, "U S Army EOD", and I ("Tatze") met up early Saturday morning around the corner from the scene of the mass stupidity, .. uh protest. We walked up around noon to a protest crowd of about 100. It was a pack of the usual suspects: A.N.S.W.E.R., World Workers Party (Socialists), Pro-Palestinians, young tattooed and pierced globalists, and aged hippies stuck in the 60's.

Wanting to irk them the most, we took up on the edge of their crowd, rather than across the street. We were quickly joined by fellow Freeper "Pop-aye" and his son.

It took a little while for the genious protestors to actually figure out we were not with them. A brave few ventured over to engage us in debate. It was mostly liberal talking points, and most quickly resorted to yelling and name-calling.

Shortly thereafter, an Iraqi American man, named Kaise Urfali, came up to us and asked if we were there supporting Bush. We said that we were, and he thanked us and waived his "Fight Terror" sign in the face of the protestors. Another "Iraqi" came up to debate Mr Urfali, and shortly sunk back into the crowd, at which point Mr Urfali outed the other "Iraqi" as a known Palestinian. I guess they must always lie.

In time, we were joined by more fellow travellers, including Ryan from ProtestWarrior.com and three other guys there independantly. All had great signs, such as:

"End the Arab Occupation of Jewish Land"
"Vietnam Veteran For Bush"
"I will vote for John Kerry before I vote against him"
"K E R R Y H O U S E" (like a Waffle House sign)
"Friends dont let friends vote Democrat"
"Say No To War (Unless a Democrat is President)"
But my favorite and easily the recipient of the most glares from the pro-palestinian crowd was:
"We don't strap bombs on our 10 year olds!"

They had various speakers talking about the evil occupations of Israel, Iraq, etc, Bush lied, blah blah. One even complained that Israelis knock down doors and give residents five minutes to get out before bulldozing their house. Five minutes seems more than fair to me, considering the Palestinian bombers dont give any such warning before they blow up a bus or market.

Unfortunately, none of my pictures came out, so I will have to wait until I receive emails from the others who were there. Here are two from "Hilaryrhymeswithrich".

U S Army EOD, Tatze, and Hilaryrhymeswithrich's daughters.

Hilaryrhymeswithrich's daughters

The Freeping ending when they started their march to Piedmont Park. We thought about driving over there and freeping them again, but decided that we had our fun and called it a day.

[LucyJo]

"My interview with Fox news mostly centered around why I brought the girls. My answer, I want them to see that their are a variety of opinions out there. I want them to see that what they see on the news, just the anti-Bush crowd, is not all that is out there (Thank God for fellow Freepers!!)"

Truth be told, your views are representative of many more folks who weren't there than are those of your anti-American (whether they realize it or not) counterparts. I know you're representing what my family believes! Thank you very much.

[bluesagewoman]

You said it!!! Thanks for standing against them.

[justrepublican]

Thank you.

[FreedomPoster]

Bravo, sir! Hope to make it next time, thanks for the call.

[FreedomPoster]

GA Freeper pings. Some good work was done here.

[FreedomPoster]

>>I had a feeling they didn't like me very much

I bet that just breaks your wittle heart! lol!

[dansangel]

Great job (((((Tatze))))) et al! Thank you for the wonderful effort to counteract the Dums. Make God Bless all of you abundantly.

Thank you for the ping (((((FP)))))

[FreedomPoster]

Cross post to the NYC thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1102078/posts?page=1

[jwalburg]

Look buddy, I was raised by two hippy liberals. Every Thanksgiving dinner I hear your side and I DISAGREE."

Priceless. Touche! Excellent!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Thank You Patriots!

[Ryan]

Here is the same account provided by protestwarrior:
crosslink: http://www.protestwarrior.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=15069

edit: the boards are having database troubles. you may not be able to access them right away. sorry for the inconvenience.

[backhoe]

God bless, one and all.

[arasina]

[Tatze]

Welcome to FreeRepublic Ryan. I cant seem to get to the ProtestWarrior page at the moment. Its giving me an error.

[jwalsh07]

"Look buddy, I was raised by two hippy liberals. Every Thanksgiving dinner I hear your side and I DISAGREE." He moved along after that.

LOL, best rejoinder I've heard since I've been freeping.

[Flora McDonald]

Great job, Atlanta FReepers! It has been great seeing all the after-action reports posted today and I'm sure there will be more tomorrow.

Those little girls ROCK!

[LucyJo]

Look buddy, I was raised by two hippy liberals. Every Thanksgiving dinner I hear your side and I DISAGREE."

Priceless. Touche! Excellent!

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That remark is a "hilaryrhymeswithrich" original, and I agree with you...it is priceless, and LOL funny!

[pop-aye]

Well, I finally got home and decided to see what kind of response we were getting to our FReep! It was an amazing afternoon, filled with pride, joy, and some interesting insights.

I have to tell a story to illustrate my reaction to both the FReep and to the area.

Almost 1 year ago (363 days) I attended a FReep in my old city of Reno, NV.

It was a wonderful experience. We marched up to show support for our Country, Troops and Commander in Chief in the face of a number of anti-American’s. Well, when the FReepers made it up the hill, we outnumbered the anti’s by 3 to 1. It was exciting and wonderful.

Today, after walking up the a different hill, I found my new friends FReeping. At our largest number we were outnumbered at a minimum of 5 to 1. Instead of the anti’s being overwhelmed by us, their numbers made them overconfident (wrong, but overconfident).

I won’t go into huge details about all the people; others that were there have already covered it much better than I ever could.

What I will offer is some impressions. First, I believe (I may be wrong) but from my count, there were only 3 children there. I brought one of my son’s and Hilaryrhymeswithrich brought her two daughters.

It makes me wonder, do none of the “anti’s” have children? That might explain their inability to understand defending something that you love. Or, maybe, they do have children, but are not confident in their chosen course of action; they don’t believe all that they stand for? Or could it be that they don’t want to expose their children to the moral decay that their movement represents? I honestly don’t know the reasons, but the only future Americans that were there were the ones that were “Right.”

I took my son because he needs to know that those who don’t stand for something will fall for anything. He also needs to know that it takes more than a uniform to make a patriot (John. fn’g Kerry, are you listening?).

I had another observation: Except for the anti’s that can’t deal with reality (they were stoned), and the gay pride marchers, there was not a smile or happiness to be seen on the faces of any of the anti’s.

There was a vet calling EOD “stupid” (not his ideas, but a personal attack), there were Palestinians pretending to be Iraqi, there we Rastafarians looking for a party, goth’s looking for another reason to be miserable and old hippies trying hard to be vindicated for their hatred of our country. But there wasn’t a happy face on anyone other than the FReepers!

What was the thing that seemed to bug them the most? 10 People waving flags and celebrating the freedom that allows them to be there.

I must admit, at first, I was bothered that there was not a bigger turnout of Americans. I was concerned that apathy had indeed taken over.

Then, as I was driving home I saw families everywhere, they were in parks, having picnics, playing little league, taking their kids to the rifle range, shopping, doing yard work and a million other things.

I realized something important, the reason there wasn’t a big turnout of FReepers standing as a force against the hippies and activist wanna-be’s is because the bulk of the Free Republic was “out there,” living the American Dream that our troops overseas are busy supporting and defending!

[Bob J]

Good FReep Atlanta! Don't forget the "National Day of Vigilance Against Terrorism" on Sept 11!

[U S Army EOD]

The reason the antis didn't have their kids with them is because they were all aborted.