DFU REPORT: My Morning Adventure with the Lunatics of Los Angeles - They Are Stupid and They Smell

on site at the Bush/Simon breakfast | 8-24-02 | dfu

[doug from upland]

I arrived at about 7:20 to see a sea of fools. There were probably about two or three hundred there at the corner of Wilshire and Westwood. Unfortunately, although some FReepers were there, we never made contact. I visited all three corners where people gathered but missed them.

I wore a pair of khaki slacks, a black shirt and my USS RONALD REAGAN aircraft carrier ballcap. On the back of my black windbreaker was a red, white, and blue oval that said: 9-11 ... our disaster ... compliments of the Sinkmaster. Only one person in the whole crowd asked me about it and was not amused.

Noticeably absent from the gathering of the clueless were American flags. Anna Z said a small group of FReepers had 2 flags but for some reason I didn't see them. I was busy talking to the enemy.

Yes, indeed, the people with whom I spoke are stupid. Not surprisingly, some in the crowd, smelled. Gee, what were the odds of that in a demonstration of leftist lunatics.

When we put on a demonstration, we are creative. The enemy's signs had very little thought and the chants sucked. They had nothing like: Algore we are getting mad...you can kiss my dimpled chad. They had no songs. You need songs.

Every anti-war loser group and social misfit imaginable was there -- the creepy commies, the stupid socialists, the whining welfare leeches, fem-fatale (not) feminists, the save the forest fools, the free Mumia morons, a few ignorant Indian (not native American) dancers, a toad with a tambourine, a shemale with a stinking accordian, ACLU ambulance chasers with neon lime hats, anti-police people, tatooed and pierced punks, free Palestine (no such country) pukes, get us out of the Phillipines pawns, stop bombing Vieques (sp?) vultures, and any number of other gypies, tramps, and thieves (credit to nitwit Cher).

Some of the signs: We are still angry, we won't go away, Gore won
Money for jobs, education, health care -- not war
Save a forest, stop a Bush
The war is for oil, not freedom
Resist the racist war
End sanctions, no more innocent victims
Simon and Enron - unsafe and unethical
George W. Hitler (picture with little mustache)
Bush bombs kill kids
George W. Bush - world's No. 1 terrorist
No new war in Iraq
End the occupation from the West Bank to Watts
We want justice for Donovan Jackson Chavis
No police brutality - end war against black youth (held by middle aged bald white guy with side and back hair almost down to his waist)
Iraq is not the enemy, you are
Peace through anarchy
Start seeing Iraqi children (with picture)
California wants clean air, not dirty war
If you think peace is the only option - there will be peace
Jail the real criminals, the LAPD
Simon fraud
The real axis of evil - Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft
Money for reparations, not war
Bush wants war, we want jobs
Bush with a swastica for the "s"
Osama is a Bush

Pretty unimaginative, huh?

Chants: Stop, stop, stop the Bush attack
No more attacks on women's rights

Stop the fascists now
Money for jobs, not war
War makes it worse

Two guys were in prison outfits chanting Jail to the Thief. Gee, isn't that a ripoff on something we've seen before?

As you can see, although they were loud and obnoxious, these people were pathetic. Dumbing down our population is a RAT plan that seems to be working quite well. The RAT party depends on stupid people. It was a bonanza of stupidity on 3/4 of the corners at Wilshire and Westwood.

I engaged several in conversation. One woman, who appeared to be about 65-70, would not have sent U.S. troops to Europe to fight the Nazis. There must be, according to her, another way. She would also not have fought the Japanese because Pearl Harbor was our fault.

An admitted communist believes that the battle of Stalingrad was between the Soviets and the fascists. I had to explain that the fascists were actually the brainchild of Mussolini. Hey, honey, ever hear of Nazis?

A young guy with a sign about no war over oil was asked by me if he drove a car. At least he was honest enough to right away admit to me, "Yeah, I'm a hypocrite."

I spoke with two tree people who want us to just let the forests alone. If lightning stikes, it should just burn, because that is nature. If man set it, we should try to stop it. We should not remove dead trees or diseased trees because that is nature. When I asked her if, because cancer is part of nature, she would do something to stop cancer in her body, she had no good answer other than, "Oh, that's different. We're people." For some reason, these two naive fools had on handkerchief masks like they were bad guys in a Lone Ranger episode. When we talked about air quality, transportation, and energy, they were somewhat at a disadvantage arguing with someone who has written about and driven all types of alternative fuel vehicles.

The guy with the peace through anarchy sign really was clueless. He couldn't understand why government and police were necessary. When I told him that without the police, the criminals would kill the innocent. He said, "Well, I'm not killing you." I expressed my appreciation for that.

There was one normal person in the crowd named Larry. He was a retired CPA holding a Bush-Cheney sign. The rude RATS chanted right in his face as loudly as possible.

When I confronted people about the possibility of Hussein obtaining nuclear weapons and a delivery system within 18-24 months, there was one person was not worried about Hussein and another who thought it was propaganda. Even the report from the Iraqi scientist defector was propaganda. Two people with whom I spoke are as worried about us having nukes as if Hussein has them. Duh.

It was an interesting morning being in the belly of the beast as I've never been before. These people are scary. And they are stupid. And yes, they smell.

If the good people can be given time to leave, maybe a nuke on L.A. might not be a bad thing. It is a third world cesspool.

[doug from upland]

Per your request --- TEDDY BEARS PICNIC

[NorCoGOP]

Kudo's to Doug on the front line against the mighty unwashed masses!

If I ever have a Saturday off again (unlikely, sigh) - I'll be joining the Fort Collins weekly freeps here in Colorado!

[doug from upland]

Actually, it looked like a casting call for the Star Wars bar scene.

[tubebender]

" want to know where I can get one of these. I am the only conservative at my bizarre place of business in my bizarre county, and this would make a nice statement"

I like to wear my NRA cap when I'm forced to attend "Tea and Scones" events...

[TADSLOS]

Actually, it looked like a casting call for the Star Wars bar scene.

LOL! Wookie look alikes.

[Madame Dufarge]

Your report's energizing, DFU.

Damned if I'm not proud to have you on our side!

[Capriole]

I like to wear my NRA cap when I'm forced to attend "Tea and Scones" events.

A nice touch; I appreciate and applaud your taste. But this is perhaps a better outlet for you gentlemen. Somehow I don't see an NRA cap quite coordinating with my cream silk suits at the "tea and scones" events, though. 'Tisn't ladylike. I anticipate wearing the Ronald Reagan cap only to work.

For annoying liberals, my preference is to go to the church at which my family worshipped for 225 years--ruined, snooty, leftist-infested Episcopal Christ Church in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia--and blend in nicely with my English blazer and great-grandmama's pearls. The other parishioners there tend to be denizens of our nation's Department of State, Clinton holdovers. And when all the self-righteous liberals there have accepted me and think I am another well-intentioned pious Democrat like them, I casually begin to speak with the greatest fondness about my shotgun, my deer rifle, my squirrel gun, my 9 mm Browning auto. . .You should see the expressions. It's priceless. They can't reconcile this gracious, manicured blonde lady with icky stuff like guns.

Next week I'm gonna tell 'em about my cavalry saber and my boarding cutlass. I expect them to faint. The men, I mean.

[Slip18]

Great reporting, Doug. You are a hero!

[ladyinred]

The scene from the Wizard of Oz comes to mind where Dorothy, Toto, the Scarecrow, Tin man, and the Lion come out of the woods into the beautiful area of the city of OZ singing, "We're out of the woods we're out of the dark, we're out of the night..." That must be how you felt climbing out of that cesspool of stupidity you were in today.

Although frightening, your report was done so well. Thank you for going, what a disgrace that freepers were all alone out there standing up for what is sane and human.

[Jonathon Spectre]

"One great big festering neon distraction-
I have a suggestion to keep you all occupied:
LEARN TO SWIM.
Because Mom's gonna fix it all soon...
Mom's comin' round to put it back the way it oughta be."
-Tool, "Aenema"

[Bullish]

It sucks to hear that they're so far gone. Distressing that I live so close to these cretins.

[Congressman Billybob]

Good and brave work, Doug,

At the last rally in D.C., after I'd done my stint, I walked over to the counter rally across the street. I was inobtrusive, but three people from that rally, all college students, approached me. (They recogniized me from having made a "raid" across the street to our rally, a while before.)

These were all middle-class, do-gooder college students, and I was able to have a sane conversation with them (they were not the "Free Mumia" types). I thought it was worth the effort to talk with them, let them know Ii understood where they were coming from. The one young man was intending to go into elementary school teaching. I asked him why, and he said because his father had done that for 20 years. I praised his father and him, for commitment to a career choice that entirely too few young men ever consider.

Anyway, with the more intelligent and thoughtful of the opposition, it is possible to communicate and maybe plant some seeds. It is scary to be among them, though. The "security marshalls" for the other rally were all Musliim men, speaking mostly Arabic, Farsi, whatever, into their cell phones.

Congressman Billybob

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[doug from upland]

The WORKERS VANGUARD newspaper was represented. Here is a tidbit from 18 years ago:

[From Workers Vanguard, No. 345, 6 January 1984]

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U.S. imperialism’s trip wires for World War III extend from one end of the globe to the other. Reagan is now engaged in three wars–in Lebanon, El Salvador and Nicaragua–and in the Caribbean the U.S. troops are finishing off the rape of Grenada. American Pershing 2 nuclear missiles have been deployed in Europe, aimed directly at Moscow–at six to eight minutes striking distance. Decaying capitalism is readying to plunge humanity once again into global war, and lurching toward a nuclear holocaust which threatens the extinction of life on this planet.

Revulsion and opposition to the mass slaughter which is endemic to the imperialists’ class rule is a central part of the Marxist vision of and struggle for a classless, stateless society. The hideous threat of World War III and the bellicose policies of Washington today engender justified fears and inchoate pacifistic sentiments among the world’s masses, both in the Soviet bloc and the capitalist countries, sentiments which can be turned against the imperialist war-makers. The carnage of World War I gave birth to the Russian workers revolution of 1917–because the Bolshevik Party won the workers, peasants and soldiers to revolutionary opposition to their “own” government, and ended Russia’s participation in the inter-imperialist slaughter by replacing the exploiters’ state with a government of the working people. =============================

I guess the Pershing 2 missiles didn't quite do what the commie rag projected. "Rape of Grenada" sounds like it's right out of the RAT playbook. They continue to mock that necessary operation.

[doug from upland]

Forgot a few:

sign - Rumsfeld is a pig

chant: George Bush, you can't hide . . . we charge you with genocide

[doug from upland]

HERE IS THE ENEMY AMONG US

[who knows what evil?]

And yes, they smell.

I have also noted that similarity when confronting these irrational leftists on several occasions in the past. Perhaps Freepers should consider handing out those little foil sample packets of shampoo when confronting these people in the future...think they would get the message? One would think it would embarrass the h*ll out of SOME of them, at least. (Consider the amusing ramifications if you could get that in front of news cameras..."Conservative activists confront anarchists with hygiene products"...ROTF!)

[MissAmericanPie]

You forgot to mention the worse thing about them, they vote. It's horrifying to know that all that ignorance gets poured onto a ballot. I wish that voting were limited to only male property owners, lol.

[doug from upland]

Brilliant idea. We need to pass out hygiene products to them when they demonstrate. I like it.

[esopman]

'...freepers were all alone out there...'

The level of real education (not indoctrination), insight and (yes, I'm gonna say it) spiritual awareness manifest by most Freepers is highly anomalous in the political arena. In addition, DFU is to be applauded for his strong stomach.

Entities such as those observed by DFU are archtypes of those who blindly accelerated the demise of their freedoms in various cultures and then got in the cattle cars believing what the folks with the guns and the whips told them. They woke up, if at all, much too late. This is a very high degree of blindness, indeed.

What it will take for our republic to fully awaken from our sleepwalking to tyranny is something far beyond 9/11. That is now an old and grainy movie in most American memories.

The bigger and bigger government responses even under W are problematic for me as well...what will we do when a Daschle or a Hillary has the reins of Homeland Security in their fists?

[Uncle Hal]

Doug you are the greatest. Years ago I went to UCLA to get an MBA and lived in the West LA area for 40 years so I know all about the crazies that congregate there. I have now retired and live in Sonoma Co. in N. Calif. and they are just as crazy up here. You cannot get away from them.