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MY EXPERIENCE AT THE TOWN CALL MEETING – Lloyd Doggett-today at the Veterans Admin.and heat stroke
personal experience today | august 6, 2009 | self

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.


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To: hope

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


61 posted on 08/06/2009 6:30:27 PM PDT by bareford101 (Give me liberty, or give me death!)
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To: bareford101

Am very glad to see your post. Bless you, thank you for what you did, and take care.


62 posted on 08/06/2009 6:41:52 PM PDT by green pastures (Soylent green? More like solvent green: health care reform to kill folks and 'save' social security.)
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To: bareford101

Take care of yourself! Heat stroke is dangerous.
God bless! FReepers really are the best people and we care about each other.


63 posted on 08/06/2009 7:12:24 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (Embrace your inner Mengele... support doc 0zer0's snake oil death care!)
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To: bareford101

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.


64 posted on 08/06/2009 7:57:01 PM PDT by elazarus (I am proud of my country!)
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To: bareford101

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.


65 posted on 08/07/2009 5:05:48 AM PDT by The Bat Lady (Doggett you can run, but you can't back your car out over the people....yet.)
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To: RVN Airplane Driver

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!

I think you replied to the wrong person although I, too, will keep up the good fight.


66 posted on 08/07/2009 6:16:02 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: bareford101

Bareford, just wanted to check on you to see how you are feeling. I worried about ya all night.


67 posted on 08/07/2009 6:36:18 AM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: TheSarce; Gracey; basil; DrewsDad; WOSG; TXBubba; austingirl; The Bat Lady; Flightdeck; davetex; ...

 
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.


68 posted on 08/07/2009 7:00:08 AM PDT by The Bat Lady (Doggett almost killing a General's wife at the Vet Center? Way to respect the military!)
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To: The Bat Lady
have you heard from bareford101?

Hope she got hydrated. I worried about her all night.

69 posted on 08/07/2009 7:02:46 AM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: bareford101

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.


70 posted on 08/07/2009 7:09:25 AM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: bareford101

Thank you!


71 posted on 08/07/2009 7:27:40 AM PDT by AuntB (Tired of Left/right coast globalist party power brokers? How 'bout THE HEARTLAND AMERICA PARTY??)
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To: mware

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309919/posts?page=47#47


72 posted on 08/07/2009 7:32:58 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Jimmy Carter - now the second worst POTUS ever. BHO has #1 spot in his sights.)
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To: bareford101

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.


73 posted on 08/07/2009 7:33:15 AM PDT by Bahbah (Only dead fish go with the flow)
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To: bareford101

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.


74 posted on 08/07/2009 7:35:13 AM PDT by Jedidah ("Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana)
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To: The Bat Lady

I will try my best to be there. Thanks for the heads up!


75 posted on 08/07/2009 7:40:48 AM PDT by basil (It's time to rid the country of "Gun Free Zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: The Bat Lady; bareford101

Thanks for the ping Bat Lady. Thanks to bareford101 for going, but that treatment was ridiculous. Send a report to:

flag@whitehouse.gov


76 posted on 08/07/2009 7:41:28 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Jimmy Carter - now the second worst POTUS ever. BHO has #1 spot in his sights.)
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To: MeekOneGOP; ValerieTexas; txhurl; basil; SwinneySwitch; austinaero; lormand; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; ..

Citizen mistreatment ping


77 posted on 08/07/2009 7:52:43 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Jimmy Carter - now the second worst POTUS ever. BHO has #1 spot in his sights.)
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To: bareford101

Lord Love you Lady!
Keep well.


78 posted on 08/07/2009 8:15:34 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: bareford101

God bless you, Bareford101.


79 posted on 08/07/2009 8:41:53 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch (Do not underestimate the will of the American people.)
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To: 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.)


80 posted on 08/07/2009 11:19:46 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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