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The camera guy was from "IndieMedia". Guy named Eric. I was able to give a 5 minute defense on the war.

My report. I showed up to join Bat Lady at 10:40am,
with many signs, some nicely laminated:
Visualize World Freedom
World Freedom: Now Iraq, Next N Korea, Cuba, Iran, ...
We Support our Troops, our Cops, PResident Bush
God Bless our Troops, our COps, PResident Bush
Want Peace? Defeat Terrorism.

A great collection - I just needed folks to carry them!

As Bat Lady said, I'd estimate the leftist crowd at about 200. the main leftist rally went from 11am to 12 noon, I was there about 10:40am to 12:20. They were partly protesting the 'police brutality' of incidents in recent years, and reused a sign they'd used in previous protests on it. Most of the leftists were real dregs of society types, young unwashed. We were on the other side of the street from the leftists protesting and behind the stage, so we didnt get to hear what they had to say - good for my blood pressure.

We had a few 'guests' show up on our corner. One woman though she was being smart by having a "war=terrorism" sign. to complement my "WANT PEACE? DEFEAT TERRORISM" Sign.
Gave me an opportunity to ask stuff like "So, D-Day and attacking Hitler, that was an act of terrorism, eh?" and "So if war is terrorism, then terrorism is war. So that means 9/11 was an act of war. huh." She didnt reply ... but we had a few others come by and try to engage. I had a few 'conversations'.

At one point one of the police officers interjected to 'break up' our conversation that was becoming a bit heated. An anti-capitalist leftist was trying to lecture about all the problems in east autin and we dont have real democracy blah blah blah.

And BatLady, what the heck was that guy dressed like a cat with the shopping cart supposed to be? Some

an airhead from "American Friends Service Committee" with another anti-US slogan (or was it 'stop police brutality' - I asked if they supported stopping the police brutality of Saddam Hussein) engaged in lengthy discussion.

She spewed the usual are we going to drop bombs on every dictator. I said, "Name a dictator in power today worse than Saddam Hussein?" She was clueless and was asking her friends
"Help me, name one ofhtose African dictators" ... "Idi Amin" "He's dead" I said. It was laughable.
"okay, how would you liberate North Korea from their communist dictator?"
"Well I am riding my bike and not using oil."
"Which does absolutely nothing to help the people of North Korea"
She said, well I dont know much about north korea so let's talk about the middle east.
she thought I was "closed-minded" because I could readily refute everything she spewed, she insisted I give her time to make her case, and when I said "Okay, you have one minute and started looking at my watch, she whined "you are not listening to me." Goodness, I feel sorry for any dude who ends up in a relationship with her, 10 minutes with her,
and she was already a nag.

The leftists have a pretty hermetically seal world-view, they actually dont understand the concept of differences of opinion and think if only we would unlearn the stuff we know we'd come to their way of thinking.

I used a question to another leftie "Name a country you would rather live in than the United States?"
They came up emtpy-handed.

It was okay to have 4 of us, with 4 of us and 200 of them, we were pretty well matched. But it would be nice to have a bigger crowd. 10 or so would have really made a difference!

Neither we nor the leftists made the papers much. The AAS had an inside metro/state article on Crawford Texas, they mentioned in several paragaphs some locals who were upset with them, but no mention of freepers.