Posted on 11/20/2002 4:49:42 PM PST by Samurai_Jack
Jeepers Freepers Al Gore says he was terrorized by "busloads of people" organized by the Republican Party, protesting outside the vice presidential residence during the 2000 Florida presidential recount. In an interview with Barbara Walters on ABC, Mr. Gore talked about the "the organized chanting round-the-clock," and said: "Well, this was the Republican response to what was happening during that 36-day period, and they organized busloads of people that came and stood outside the house all day and all night screaming at the top of their lungs." Says Mr. Gore's daughter, Karenna: "It was right-wing groups, it was definitely Bush-campaign-oriented effort to bus in people to have a sort of siege at the vice president's house, and, so, they were all lining there, screaming, and it was kind of an assortment of groups. I mean, some of them were anti-abortion groups, and some of them were pro-gun groups. But they were all screaming, 'Get out of Cheney's house,' the whole time." In point of fact, the Republican Party did not organize the protests, nor were "busloads" of protesters sent in by other groups. The protests against the inventor of the Internet were organized on the Internet. Specifically, the protests were started by the "Freepers" on Free Republic (www.freerepublic.com), "an online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism." Free Republic was founded by Jim Robinson, a Vietnam veteran living in Fresno, Calif., and the protests on Massachusetts Avenue outside the Naval Observatory were organized by Washington, D.C. area members. Also, Mr. Gore might like to know that it was a Freeper who designed a widely circulated parody of the Gore-Lieberman 2000 logo: "Sore Loserman."
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I was with a few hundred other Freepers on Wilshire Boulevard outside the Federal Building in Los Angeles when the U.S. Supreme Court decision overriding the Florida decisions came down.
Those Freeper protests were noticed, and they were effective.
During that campaign, I saw a photo of someone carrying one of those signs.
The photo was (accidentally, I suppose)taken so that only the left part of the sign was showing:
Go
Lie
"But we in it shall be remember'ed;
we few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
for he today that voteed his conviction with me shall be my brother;
be he ne'er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition:
and gentlemen in United States of America now a-bed shall think themselves accused they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that voted with upon our Election's day."
We then made a circumnavigation of the NO on foot finding the "secret" back entrance. No whale noises or other counter-measures were observed coming from the property. Lots of positive responses from those driving by though. We had Gore surrounded!
"Paranoia strikes deep"!!
DOPE
HEMP
For the Dole/Kemp ticket, pretty funny, looked totally legit from afar..
In point of fact, the Republican Party did not organize the protests, nor were "busloads" of protesters sent in by other groups. The protests against the inventor of the Internet were organized on the Internet.
"Get out of Cheney's house!" Kristinn, Ironman, Angelwood, and all DC Freepers, THANK YOU SO MUCH for organizing this. It was my very first FReep, and I'm so glad to have been a part of this historic and EFFECTIVE event. See y'all in a few weeks. FREEP ON!!
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