Posted on 04/20/2002 7:56:53 AM PDT by Mustang
Received two cell calls from Dave. The stage is set. The flags are waving. The weather is great. They're ready to Roll! Around 0945 the crowd was 50+ including Kristinn, sauropod, Leadpenny, Angelwood, Exit 148, GoreWarVet, Dutchy, Congressman Billy Bob, Black Agnes, TaxMan, TGSL DeComa, WhoKnowsWhatEvil, FireBrand, Country Dummy, Stan Waite, Pro2aMom, 0351Dog. (please pardon any mispelled "names" or omissions. The cell connections were poor).
Around 1015 the crowd was continuing to grow, with some spill over from the Peacenik/anarchist nitwits. Dave reports that it was the port-o-potties that attracted them. But our fearless Freepers labelled the doors "Patriots" and Patriot Women". It seems to be turning them away.
More to follow. Mustang sends from Florida.
Nobody is asking you to follow a crowd, for God's sake, this is FR. They would like you to exhibit a little courtesy.
Well, I'll tell you.
Their expenses to Washington, DC are paid for by various left wing groups! That's bloody how!
I got into a mild confrontation with some mush-headed college student from NY in front of a Porta-Potty. [LOL! We were not allowing outsiders to use our Porta-Potties. Really pissed some of them off! LOL!]
In the course of our "conversation," I asked him how he got to WDC: "On a bus." was his response. "Who paid for it," was my next question. "People for the American Way" was his response.
And, when I was driving around looking for tgslTakoma's and Gore War Vets vehicles, I saw several buses with signs in the front indicating that they were from Mosques in New York.
The point is that these people are not here on their own nickle. They have no investment in these demonstrations and are being used as pawns -- "Useful idiots" is how Joseph Stalin put it. They were here because it seemed like a fun thing to do -- "Road Trip" is what I believe events like this are called.
One last thing: They are super-trashy people! Filthy people -- WDC is a pretty city in the area we were in and down towards the Capitol Building, but this anti-American crowd really dirtied that part of the city, both in their appearance and in the trash they left behind. They are pigs, not fit to live in any society, not to mention a polite society!
OTOH, we left the FRee Republic rally site cleaner than we found it! And none of us dressed or looked like pigs!
Yup. DC is truly liberal when it comes to the First Amendment (Thank God and the Consitution for that!). Only certain objects listed as "deadly weapons" in the local criminal code (i.e. guns, nunchucks, knives over a certain length, etc.) are "banned." This bullsh*t about picket signs being used as "weapons" is just b.s. imposed by the socialist states of Maryland and in NYC, too.
And yes, DC allows the other kind of poles, too, including "pols", opinion "polls" and real "Poles" from Poland. ;-)
Not to be confused with the other Asian tourist who wandered to the front of the stage with a silly sign. Sauropod politely pointed out to him that several of the words on his sign were misspelled.
lots of freeping news going on, huh? t
Oh my gosh! You're not kidding! As I left the rally and looked across the street, the lawn was filled with trash. Very little of it was bagged for pick up. These Palestinians and others just threw their crap all over the place. Our area was spotless. I wasn't surprised but as the Freepers left the rally area you wouldn't have known anybody had been there except for the stage and the booths that were still standing.
Hint, hint.
I rode the Metro back and had discussions with a bunch of these "Movement" people - the ones wearing bright yellow t-shirts with "MOVEMENT" in block red letters. There were 40 of them who all car-pooled down from Maine. You know - the ones with signs that said "Why Iraq?"
They're actually quite intelligent though obviously misguided. If it weren't for the fact that our permit didn't allow debate*
, I would have preferred if we/the Police would have let some of them in. They could have learned some things.
* I guess this is because the District of Columbia is under the jurisdiction of congress and doesn't have to follow the freedom of speach provision of the Constitution. Well, we all knew that already.
It's not that we dismiss them. It's that the grassroots American public aren't financed by huge outside funding sources like the left wing is. I would not doubt that the same people who contribute heavily to the DNC also contribute to these professional protestors. They sure aren't getting their money by holding bake sales. Can you imagine?
"Yo, DUDE! Wanna buy some BROWNIES!? I madum myself! Twelve dollars a half dozen, man! What?!? That's not highway robbery, man! These brownies are good $H!T!! Made with the BEST Lebonese hash money can BUY, man! Cheap at TEN TIMES THE PRICE!"
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