HUGE Press Coverage for FREE REPUBLIC and DC Chapter (Patriots Rally III counterprotest)

many many many! - refer to article | Jeff B.

[Xthe17th]

Thanks to the hard work and perseverance of kristinn and other DC Chapter FReepers, Free Republic got a lot of PUBLICITY all over the nation this weekend. This was due to press releases, faxes and phone calls informing the media of our counterprotests of the bussed-in anti-american leftist scum which polluted the nations capital yesterday and today.

Below is a listing so far of where FreeRepublic was IN THE NEWS:

ARTICLES:

• ABCNews.com (Jan 19, '03)
• Washington Post (Jan 19, '03)
• Washington Times (Jan 19, '03)
• New York Times (Jan 19, '03)
• Kansas City Star (Jan 19, '03)
• Orange County Register (Jan 19, '03)
• Charlotte Observer, NC (Jan 19, '03)
• Washington Post (Jan 18, '03)
• Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN (Jan 18, '03)
• WTOP.com News (AP) (Jan 18, '03)
• Yahoo! News (Jan 18, '03)
• Newsmax (Jan 17, '03)
• CNSNews.com (Jan 15, '03)
• Newsday (Jan 15, '03)
• Crosswalk.com (Jan 14, '03)
• Washington Post (Jan 13, '03)

PHOTOS:

• Joel Kernodle (MSNBC, Jan 18, '03)
• Kristinn (AP, Jan 19, '03)
• Human Shields (AP, Jan 19, '03)
• Dr. Raoul (AP, Jan 19, '03)

[CedarDave]

Another good slogan -- it should be a bumper sticker. In the meantime it makes a great tag line!

A question for you New York area FReepers. Were there demonstrations in New York (or the New York area), or did protesters travel to D.C.? If there were protests in NY, what did the general population have to say about them?

[Steve0113]

Not sure if these are freepers

That's me on the far right (as usual).

[Terriergal]

Police Arrest Close to a Dozen Anti-War Protesters Who Breached Barriers Near White House

That was from the first article listed.

Close to a dozen huh? Wow.

[CyberCowboy777]

We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle

[Terriergal]

AWESOME!

One of my freeper buddies suggested holding up a sign with a big arrow that points at the anti-war bunch and says "friends of Hussein gather here" or "supporters of terrorism here" and the like.

[blackie]

Be Well - Be Armed - Be Safe - Molon Labe!

[Terriergal]

PING - bookmarked for later perusal!

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for this great news!

The DC Freepers and their honorable guests are great people.

Of course would any of this had happened if not for Free Republic? No! If Free Republic was not here, the lunatics would have had a free run in DC and around the country.

This is a prime example of why every good Freeper should be a monthly donor to Free Republic.

Can anyone imagine the nightmare we would live in if not for the presence of Free Republic?

Please cancel a subscription to a left wing fish wrap.

Then, from your monthly savings, please send at least $5/mo to Free Republic to keep it up and running.

Make Free Republic a 24/7 nightmare and day time terror machine that scares the hell out the left wing lunatics.

Please, donate $5/month to Free Republic. That is just 17 cents a day to help Keep America Strong!

[CyberCowboy777]

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles..
William Shakespeare

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
Woodrow Wilson

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

And last but not least

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Orson Welles

[Freedom2specul8]

I'm so impressed and proud of all of you. I love the human shield idea..you guys did great!

[Taliesan]

PLEASE take me off these ping lists. Thanks.

[FreeTheHostages]

[ping for later reference]

[afraidfortherepublic]

It seems so unbalanced..our side has less than 100 people and the idiots have thousands.

Wrong! Our side has millions -- it's just that they have jobs and families to attend to.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Were there demonstrations in New York (or the New York area), or did protesters travel to D.C.?

They came to DC. Couple of Bus Load of SEIU locals from Brooklyn and elsewhere. I'd love to see ANSWER hold a protest in NYC. Preferrably close to ground zero.

[SassyMom]

WOW!!!! Thanks to all of the Washington DC Freepers. I have been really upset because all I have heard are the reports about the anti-war protesters and NOTHING about those standing up for our troops and our President.

God bless all of you that went to the rally. God bless our troops and our great nation.

[FreeTheHostages]

Well, I was happy to be there with you. Not sure if we met -- I was handing out press packages by the press table. I'm happy to hear you mention speech against Jews -- I always here much of that. It's absolutely unforgiveable. And unforgiveable that the media doesn't cover it.

[FreeTheHostages]

But they're going to hold a protest in NYC. On February 15th, JV's bro. You going?

[Ciexyz]

Freeper bump!

[FreeTheHostages]

In response for your for more photos, there were some of the Sunday protests here and throughout that thread.

[Marysecretary]

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. I hope you were all good boys and girls and washed your hands when you got the first chance! Peace people don't like soap...and I don't want ANY of you to get sick from exposure to peacenik fever.