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.
Tar, heated to 106, and feathers... out in the hot TX sun.
Lots of folks worried about ya.
Just found the DEM strategies of what we will face an upcoming townhall meetings.
all 4 pages should be read before attending.
BRING CAMERAS and get the face pictures of these thugs. They intimadate by taking our pictures? How about them beating up on US citizens? Their mothers must be proud.
I can't tell you what the support of Freepers has meant to me. I'm pretty much alone now and, honestly, on the way home yesterday, all I could think was “I've got to remember the details until I can get online with FP and then I can start taking care of me”.. smile..
Again, if I knew how to PING, I would.... love
Yes, I have been reading various threads about the thugs showing up at the town hall meetings. I’ve also been listening to Rush talking about this today.
Glad to hear you are beginning to feel better. Stay in the AC and keep on drinking the fluids.
Nothing to be embarrassed about. Shame on those who endangered you with their orders.
you know what? I have had a headache since I got in the air conditioned car yesterday to come home.. I didn’t until then. I couldn’t eat anything last evening because of it, but I drank a couple of bottles of Gater Ade and I feel like that helped. Today it is still there, but not as strong
My face is still really red and I had on sun screen and my husband’s 5th Cav. baseball cap.
Thank you for sharing with me.
Your kind warning and chiding is appreciated and listened to.
:D
You are/were very brave and you are my hero! God bless you!
Keep fighting for our freedoms....we ALL must!
I know you really dont want to but ya ought to go and get yourself checked out.
Ah Hah! you know, I don’t sweat hardly at all, either. I didn’t think that had any connection, though. Even yesterday while I was walking, my face and body never did get wet with sweat. Just before I started feeling woozy, a man who came up and was talking to me and he suggested I better go where it was cool. Anyway, his face was sweating up a storm!
thank you for sharing that... I would never have put those pieces together.
You’re welcome! :}
GREAT POST!
GOD BLESS YOU!!!...Thank you....you are an example for us all!
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