Conversations With The Mob: An After-FReep Report

[AnnaZ]

 

 

 

We had to drive past the protest site twice. We thought it was going to be a rally site. We were mistaken. It was around seven-thirty a.m.

 

On the second lap we frenziedly scanned the signs and faces for something or someone familiar, or friendly, for Old Glory, anything. "There! I saw a freerepublic sign!" exclaimed HangFire. And ties. Ours was the only group with ties. We were seriously outnumbered.

 

We parked the car and walked to the intersection, a little nervously, yet HangFire still boldly unfurling his American flag. Ahead of us a man trod upon his.

 

We met up with the rest of Free Republic's LA Chapter: The Hollywood Resistance Force. RonDog and Tony in Hawaii* (*but not really, I guess) looked great in their ties, and they were flanked by diotima, Bob J, DoughtyOne, Floratina and daviddennis (and a couple of people whose names I didn't catch). feinswinesuksass showed up shortly thereafter. We were lucky. doug from upland, although also present, never found us.

 

Around three hundred protesters dwarfed and engulfed our small but valiant team. The mob filled the three open corners and sidewalks at the intersection of Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards, site of The Regency Club where President George W. Bush was to be headlining a campaign fundraiser for California's next Governor, Bill Simon.

 

 

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                Diotima: I fear for my country.

 

To our left (no pun intended) lots of young, attractive, mostly white people, voluntarily burqha'd it seemed with sweatshirt hoods over their heads and bandanas obscuring their faces from the eyes down, carried signs proclaiming various forms of communist rhetoric and condemning harshly all things Bush -- truth need not always apply. Our other flank was the unions-and-their-lackeys stronghold. Same signs.

 

                Diotima: They hate my sign.

 

One side of it read: HONK 4 SIMON. But it was the other side of it that she was referring to, the side she was holding aloft as she was walking up and down the sidewalk, holding it above the heads of the protesters: OSAMA FAN CLUB.

 

A Young, Handsome Tho' Misguided Protester (YMP) approaches.

 

                YMP: Hey, you know your sign's not fair. You shouldn't have that sign.

 

                A FReeper: She's using her sharp and biting wit.

 

                YMP: But she's misrepresenting us.

 

                Diotima: No, I'm not. That's what you are.

 

                A FReeper: What do you care, you outnumber us 30 to 1.

 

                YMP: But she's misrepresenting our message. That's not what we're saying.

 

                Diotima: But that's what I'm saying.

 

He shuffles off.

 

 

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Another Young, Handsome Tho' Misguided Protester (YMP2) approaches.

 

                YMP2: You shouldn't have that sign.

 

                Diotima: Yeah, well I still have my freedom of speech, buddy, you haven't taken that away. Yet.

 

 

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                Young, Pretty Tho' Misguided Protester: I don't know... I just don't think I like Bush but I think it's like really cool

                    that we all like have our freedom of speech.

 

She smiles.

 

 

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Another Young, Handsome Tho' Misguided Protester (YMP3) approaches, handing out flyers.

 

                YMP3: Come see my show.

 

                A FReeper: What is it advocating?

 

                YMP3: A new State.

 

                A FReeper: What kind of state?

 

                YMP3: A better State.

 

                A FReeper: Based on what... because if you can come up with something better than the US Constitution you win a

                    really big prize.

 

                YMP3: The Communist Manifesto?

 

                A FReeper: Bzzzzt. Wrong answer. Tried, failed, and the millions of corpses'll prove it to you.

 

He shuffles off.

 

 

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The President's motorcade arrives. Chants begin. Bob J and DoughtyOne use bullhorns to mess with their intonements. Where were these people when we were bombing Yugoslavia?

 

About ten minutes or so later we decide to go for breakfast together and begin to walk past the crowd to Denny's.

 

 

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                AngryUnattractiveSpittlingVietnamProtestHoldover: Bee-atches for Bush!

 

 

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Later, two men are in an idling station wagon in the parking lot as we are on our way out. They were seen earlier in the viewfinder of daviddennis' XL-1 at breakfast as we watched the replay of them repeatedly giving the camera the finger.

 

                BlondeMale: Oh, it's "Luvya Dubya" girl.

 

                OtherMale: Are you a native of California?

 

                A FReeper: No, I'm a political refugee of the socialist democracy of Canada. I'm trying to save California from a

                    similar fate.

 

                HangFire: I'm half Native American... I go back I don't know how many generations. And leftist liberal loser policies

                    are destroying this State.

 

                OtherMale: You're a traitor to your own people. They used to worship the oil when it was in the ground, they

                    were thankful for it.

 

                A FReeper: What the heck are you talking about?

 

                BlondeMale: Yeah, and now you and Bush are pumping all that oil and spraying it in the air and causing all these

                    earthquakes.

 

                A FReeper: What?!

 

                HangFire: Uh huh. Well you just keep telling yourself that as you drive home in your car, okay?

 

They drive off, the BlondeMale repeatedly spitting through the passenger side window as they exit stage left.

 

 

 

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We should never be that outnumbered. Where were the GOP people? The Simon people? An eighty-year old lady had joined us only because she had heard doug from upland on one of his many announcements on local AM radio yesterday.

 

FReepers do things that heretofore were solely the domain of the Left. Our side needs to learn. It's time for all of us to Network.

 

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Pictures forthcoming.

 

 

[Interesting Times]

"Osama Fan Club."

That's just too cool.

My sign REALLY pissed many people off. The complained that I had "HURT THEIR FEELINGS" and it was "OFFENDING THEM."

Standard doctrine. If they can convince people that there's a right not to be offended, they can silence all opposition. And, of course, they're offended all the time.

BlondeMale: Yeah, and now you and Bush are pumping all that oil and spraying it in the air and causing all these earthquakes.

Ah. That explains it...

[Fearless Flyers]

Where were the GOP people?

Repuplicans sign checks and sell off conservative values for a chance at power. They don't have the guts to face off with the enemy.

I'm proud of the freepers who had the courage to take a stand, keep up the good work.

[Interesting Times]

Some of the exchanges were just tooooo much. A lot of them are angry, yet totally ignorant. (Dangerous combo.)

Very.

But the good news is they can't win without controlling the information flow...

You guys did great.

[HangFire]

Hang Fire, did you really worship the oil???

Yeah man, I'm praying to a can of 10W40 right now...< /sarcasm>

[Interesting Times]

I'm not seeing "Diotima and Hangfire" and "They are Everywhere"... but the other photos are great.

[doug from upland]

The Osama sign was brilliant.

[dansangel]

Wow! And I thought WE had it rough as the objects of Billy McKinney's ire!

AnnaZ, et al ~ You guys are the absolute greatest! Thank-you for standing those air-heads down. Apparently they have killed off one too many brain cells from the sounds of their garbled rhetoric.

I agree with Freedom Poster....you guys ROCK! High fives all around and {{{{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}}}}}}

[doug from upland]

That's the retired accountant Larry whom I met.

[RightOnline]

......and ALL of you who were there..........

OUT-BLOODY-STANDING JOB!!!!!!!!!!

[gilor]

Great Job!.........BUMP!!!

[Kaslin]

My sign REALLY pissed many people off. The complained that I had "HURT THEIR FEELINGS" and it was "OFFENDING THEM."

Awwwwwwwww isn't that just to bad. I feel so sorry for them

Not!!!

[AnnaZ]

I'm sooooooo glad he found you, and you him. What a courageous guy. Did he hear you on the radio? Where was he from?

[AnnaZ]

So spraying oil into the air causes earthquakes. Geez, the things you learn from the left.

It's those really interesting tidbits that make them so charming.

;^)

[Bahbah]

I love you guys.

[AnnaZ]

Thank you both for your encouraging words. Thank goodness for other FReepers and beautiful weather, or this morning would have seriously depressed me. (When we first arrived I was literally in tears.)

[Jen]

Thanks for ping, FP! Are you ready to start an "Ax Max" campaign?

[HangFire]

Pssst...Your profile page makes me lol;-)

[AppyPappy]

HangFire: Uh huh. Well you just keep telling yourself that as you drive home in your car, okay?

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!! Clue Fairy, line 1.

[AnnaZ]

I'm proud of the freepers who had the courage to take a stand, keep up the good work.

Thank you. I was really heartened by those who turned out as well. The size of the crowd was very intimidating, especially since there was no clear side for us. (If anyone kept on driving after seeing the mob, I don't blame you.)

The corner where The Regency Club is situated was closed to protesters and I looked at it longingly. I kept saying, "Hey, I'm a minority here, I'm a Bush supporter. I want my set-aside. I need help from the authorities so that my message can compete with the majority's!" (They didn't listen.)

[anniegetyourgun]

Well, I've been gone for over a month now and come back to find Freepers up to their old tricks again. And wonderful tricks they are! I've missed you all and thought THIS is the thread I should use to REAPPEAR after my long "vacation."

Great work you CA Freepers!