Posted on 08/06/2009 1:58:24 PM PDT by bareford101
BACKGROUND: I am a healthy white woman, 67 years old, 5’2” tall and weigh 115 pounds. Today, I attended another "town hall" meeting which Doggett set up.
MY EXPERIENCE AT THE TOWN CALL MEETING – Lloyd Doggett It was on the news this morning that Doggett would be having another Town Hall meeting today at the Veterans Affairs Center. Since my husband has used that Center (as a retired General with 90% disability), I had my ID military card and proceeded to go in. I was not carrying any type of bag or purse - only my sign. In the sign in area, the clerk behind the counter looked up my card, found me on the computer, and told the policeman that it was “o.k” for me to go in to the small auditorium. I had my poster with me. On one side was a blown up photo of my husband graduating from West Point and shaking the hand of John F. Kennedy.. it’s a great picture! On the other side, I had written: “NO MORE LIES!!!”
As I entered, at 1:30 p.m. there were about 4 police officers in the blue uniforms and a lot of other people walking around talking on their walkie-talkies and checking everyone before people were allowed in.
I proceded the small auditorium, (more like a small movie theatre with 2 aisles) and sat down on the back chair facing 3 men who were my generation and had on their Army caps, as did I. And we began to chat.
Within 5 minutes a police officer (blue uniform) came and got me and told me I had to leave with my sign because I was on FEDERAL property. I asked “where can I go?” His answer was “come on out with me and I’ll ask my supervisor”. So I did and a few minutes later (all the while people are coming in and I’m standing there in the lobby holding my sign), he came back and said “you will have to go outside”. I said “It’s 106 degrees outside”! I knew that because I had just seen it in my car which tells the temp. I couldn’t hear his reply so I leaned in a little and his response was: “back up, don’t get close to me”! Now, here I am trying to hear and do what I was asked and he is afraid of me! I backed up and asked him again where was the closest place I could stand and could I stay in the air conditioning”. His answer was “No, you have to go out on the sidewalk with your sign”. In front of the building there are several rows of cars and a wide cement area when you first come out of the building. Near one of the arches, I saw some shade and so I walked over there and stood with my sign. Within 5 minutes, another police officer came over to me and told me I had to go out on the street sidewalk. This is a very wide 4 lane street with an old sidewalk. There is absolutely no shade.
I told him I would obey and for the next hour and a half I walked up and down along the highway in front of the building with my sign. The temperature was at least 106 degrees – which is typical for Austin in August.. For the first hour there was no one else walking or in the sun. Just me and then 3-4 people came out with small signs for Obama and they just wanted to fight… I’m too old to fight, so I just kept on walking. I got a lot of thumbs up and horns… and one car stopped with 3 people in it that I declare I have seen on the street panhandling here in Austin, and they called me a delusional old woman”. Since I’ve been called worse, I just kept on walking.
At 3:15 p.m. when I arrived back at my home, I was still trembling and flushed from the heat and took my body temperature. Normally my temp. is 97.8. RIGHT NOW, it is the same degree that I was walking in for an hour and a half – 106 degrees Fahrenheit!!! That translates into a heat stroke. And my husband served our country, was terribly wounded and I couldn’t stand on federal property with my sign!
Give me Liberty or give me death.
God bless you.
Fight them. Sue- but first take care of yourself. If your temperature is that high, you need to see a doctor.
Send this to Hannity and Beck right away.
Also ask to set up an appointment with Doggett and explain what happened to you.
Also contact your local radio and newspapers.
Good for you but what an ordeal.
What a way to treat the wife of a retired General.
When Dogget gets an opponent in his next race, please contact the staff of that opponent with this story and see if they will let you share it at campaign rallies.
Meanwhile share it with all your friends and contacts.
God Bless
I can’t stop thinking about your experience compared to all those screaming ‘60’s radicals throwing military medals over the fence of the uS Capitol, buring the uS flag, and flying Soviet and North Viet flags on “federal property”
I am worried for you. Please take care of yourself and be sure to let us know how you’re doing.
I am worried for you. Please take care of yourself and be sure to let us know how you’re doing.
The judicial system is on their side too.
This sucks!
With your husband being a General Officer you could get some press from the San Antonio press. Austin socialist pigs...probably not. Take care of yourself.... I remember meeting Gen Claire Chenault’s deputy’s widow in Bangkok, Thailand years ago....what a classy lady...you are obviously in that mode. Keep up the good fight!
It’s been 35 minutes. Are you ok?
Thanks for what you did.
This is outrageous (the way you were treated.) Please get someone to take you to the doctor to be checked, or at least put a cool, wet cloth on your head to bring your temp down.
Police unions are Obamabots except for perhaps in Cambridge, MA.
Thank you for what you did. You are as much of a patriot as your retired General!
Had I been in Austin, I would have been proud to walk beside you.
Please make sure you get re-hydrated. Let us know how you are doing.
I agree with others, contact Dogget, the local media, and Rush, Sean Hannity, Glen Beck, etc.... and let them know what took place.
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” Benjamin Franklin
Great work. I wish I’d known of the Doggett town hall meeting today. I would’ve been there. Doggett thinks he’s invincible in 2010. We’ll see.
Can anyone see how this is going to develop? There is a reason that the liberals talking points include comments about angry mobs, violent protestors, right wing extremists, swastikas, etc. This is being orchestrated so that the Obama administration will be able to call up the National Guard to “police” these townhall meetings in order to “protect” the speakers from potential threats. Soon, we will be protesting under enemy fire.
...Gotta remember...police are in unions also...ergo, obamabots......
What a stupid generalization.
Care to back up your stupid statement?
Second, my son is a police officer and he and his colleagues cannot stand Obama and the things that are transpiring in our government. So, your comment is a broad based generalization which is incorrect. And stupid.
I typed slowly so that you could follow along.
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