Posted on 08/06/2009 1:58:24 PM PDT by bareford101
BACKGROUND: I am a healthy white woman, 67 years old, 52 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.. its 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 Ill ask my supervisor. So I did and a few minutes later (all the while people are coming in and Im standing there in the lobby holding my sign), he came back and said you will have to go outside. I said Its 106 degrees outside! I knew that because I had just seen it in my car which tells the temp. I couldnt hear his reply so I leaned in a little and his response was: back up, dont 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 Im 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 Ive 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 couldnt stand on federal property with my sign!
Give me Liberty or give me death.
I’m not going to be going outside at all for awhile. I still feel very shaky and vulnerable..
thank you for your kind words... smiles to you
Am very glad to see your post. Bless you, thank you for what you did, and take care.
Take care of yourself! Heat stroke is dangerous.
God bless! FReepers really are the best people and we care about each other.
Please take care of yourself...and thank you for sharing.
Wake Up America!!!!
This is real. This government is doing everything they can to stop our Freedom of Speech.
Keep the “chatter” going...get more people involved...Election 2010 has started.
Thank goodness you are OK.
Note to self: pack a freeper kit in the car
UMBRELLA,
ice chest with water enough to share
Sunscreen.
I’m so angry about this story I don’t know where to start but I hope you get this out nationally. Doggett is a true progressive, he will not change his mind no matter what the voters think.
Still almost killing a General’s wife should certainly help him lose the next election.
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 Chenaults deputys widow in Bangkok, Thailand years ago....what a classy lady...you are obviously in that mode. Keep up the good fight!
I think you replied to the wrong person although I, too, will keep up the good fight.
Bareford, just wanted to check on you to see how you are feeling. I worried about ya all night.
Congressman Doggett will be appearing at
the Community Care Center
at 825 Rundburg Ln, Austin Tx
on Sat morning August 8,
at 11:30.
I called to confirm this, it is NOT a townhall meeting (but public is welcome) it is probably Doggett giving pork for votes at the Community Care center (like at Bastrop)
I don’t know if we will be let in, but if not I plan to be outside.
Take WATER, Umbrellas for shade and maybe sunscreen.
Hope she got hydrated. I worried about her all night.
Checked in to see how you were doing....Glad you are better. Violence in St Louis with six arrests last night. We may be in for a long conflict.
Thank you!
I am very glad you are recovering. I don’t know if there are any follow up effects that you should be on the lookout for, but it might be wise to check once more with your doctor. Just a phone call.
You are brave and have set an example for us all.
I don’t understand why you were asked to leave federal property. Was it because signs aren’t allowed?
Not sure I would have left the building without being carried out. I would have handed over the sign, if that’s the issue, but as a taxpayer, I have as much right as anyone else to enter a federal building.
Folks, it’s time for passive resistance. Be polite. Follow the legitimate rules. And make them carry you out.
I will try my best to be there. Thanks for the heads up!
Thanks for the ping Bat Lady. Thanks to bareford101 for going, but that treatment was ridiculous. Send a report to:
Citizen mistreatment ping
Lord Love you Lady!
Keep well.
God bless you, Bareford101.
You have a good, strong spirit. Those in power do not respect that, nor age, nor experience, nor logic... but only their own “because I said so” ‘authority’.
It pains me to say it, but I think that our Government would rather give us Death than Liberty. (So it seems to me right now.)
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