Operation Infinite FReep: Colorado Style, Support Our Troops: 2-22-03

Colorado Chapter of FreeRepublic ^ | 02/21/03 | Tom Buchanan

[fivetoes]

I made it to Ft. Collins for a while and Loveland. In Loveland I was approached by the head of the Loveland peace folks, Fr. Bob Davidson. We had a really nice talk. He said he knew that a regime change was needed in Iraq. He wanted to know if I knew of any people that would be interested in a public forum, perhaps monitored by the Reporter Herald. He was open to both sides being involved in the planning.

I told him about the forum in Greeley on Wednesday and he knew about it. One thing that I did stress is that I would not take part in a forum that portrayed us as Pro-War. I told him that nobody wants a war. If we can agree that Saddam has to go, we could discuss the best way to make that happen. He suggested that maybe AIMS community college would like to host it. As an after thought I thought maybe we could could have the VFW host it. That would give them something to think about. LOL! We exchanged phone numbers and email addresses.

More on this later.. Here are some photos.

Here is a picture of the Colorado Patriots Fife and Drum Corps. Later on they played music at my sons' Cub Scout Blue and Gold banquet. Yours truly got to portray George Wasington.

This is RandallFlagg and a Friend Greg.

This is them in Ft. Collins

This is the good guys in Ft. Collins

This is CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC and Rmrattlesnake in Ft. Collins

BTW, I think this is probably a good place to post our reports. I know it will save having to run home and start an new thread. Besides every one can post their reports when they wish.

[fivetoes]

Found this Letter to the Editor in two places, The Ft. Collins Coloradoan and the Rocky Mountain News

Protesters are wrong

Many people object to a military conflict with Iraq. My comments are directed to those people.

1. To those who like those silly slogans, such as "give peace a chance" or "strength through peace" -- duh! Your IQ is showing.

2. To those who want more proof: Where would you like it delivered -- to your living room, or perhaps your child's classroom?

3. To those who object based on religion: Pray hard and often.

4. For those who blame America first: You're still here?

5. To those who march in the streets waving hate-filled signs: Your action undermines America's security and the morale of our military personnel. It is unpatriotic and borders on treason.

6. To those who actually believe that America would send 800 missiles to Baghdad, killing thousands: You've been watching too much liberal TV. Take a cold shower and change the channel to Fox News.

7. To those who want to depend on the United Nations: Where have you been for the last 12 years? The United Nations is a joke.

8. To those who make uninformed decisions: Shame on you.

9. To those who bash our president no matter what he does: You're the worst kind and your opinions are impotent.

Every American has a right to monitor the actions of their government, and to protest if they choose, but there is a right and wrong way to do it.

Thomas Ely,

Fort Collins

Originally published Sunday, February 23, 2003

Kinda says it all.

[weldgophardline]

Now that is the truth!!!

[Trteamer]

GREAT JOB GANG!!!!
Sorry I missed The FReeps, looks like you folks had it covered as usual. I think I will help FReep Greeley next week.

I think I will ping some FReeper FRiends to your great reports.

[Trteamer]

Ping for the Colorado quadrupple FReep reports and pictures from Saturday!!

[SassyMom]

WOO HOO!!! Go Greeley freepers! My folks live in Greeley. When kneezles and I come to visit we will join you! CAN'T WAIT!!!!

[fivetoes]

So, did you get the holes filled in?

[fivetoes]

Here is a picture of the Colorado Patriots Fife and Drum Corps at the Cub Scout banquet later on in the evening. They sure look spiffy when they dress up!

I guess you could call this a FReep. I was George Washington and told them about what it was like during my life time. I always carry around a bunch of pocket Constitutions had the scouts pass them out to the adults. Then I told all of them to take a copy to their teachers and tell their teachers that they wanted to learn more about it.

I was jokenly accused of being a trouble maker, but hey, it goes with the territory!

[weldgophardline]

We can always use a couple more good FReepers to beat back the lefists.just let us know when you are up this way and we will get together and Freep some.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Hey was listening to a replay of the G-man's show on Sunday. Was that you, talking about the Colorado team? Whoever, thanks for the plug on the DC Chapter Rally on 1 March!

[Trteamer]

Howdy fivetoes, yes we filled in the holes in the cornfield. We brought in a loader, a dumptruck, 190 gallons of water, and packed it all down. The farmer is happy!
Now that goose season is closed, I will have to settle for peace-niks to harrass. The geese are smarter!LOL!

[Trteamer]

Howdy! It wasn't me on the G-man show, but I'm glad we all got a plug from someone! Give em heck at your next rally, I look foreward to the report.

[RandallFlagg]

Hey was listening to a replay of the G-man's show on Sunday. Was that you, talking about the Colorado team? Whoever, thanks for the plug on the DC Chapter Rally on 1 March!

It was me, if it was the replay I'm thinking of.

 

[radu]

Awesome, awesome, awesome!! Y'all rock!!! I would have loved to see the looks on the useful idiots faces when the statements from the military folks were read to them. LOL!! That's such a wondeful idea, Randall. I'll have more coming in the future.

What I do have right now for y'all is something created by my Senior Chief pen pal on the USS Briscoe. He just sent this to me for posting. It's his way of saying "Thank you for all the support!" hehe! I like this beauty!

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Dough! and I saw this thread earlier. Thanks

[weldgophardline]

THEY ROCK we just roll along and freep lefist here they are the rock we build on. THANK YOU TROOPS!!!!
I had one lady confront me yesterday and ask why we were pro war I asked her to look at our signs and point out the pro war and she could not do it . I told her I was not going to let the likes of the other side to do what they did to the troops in the late 60's and early 70's. I won't for the love of the troops and My brother in law in the AIR FORCE.

[fivetoes]

Here are some pictures taken by weldgophardline.

[RandallFlagg]

Great! You know where to send 'em!

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

BTW - in those 6 photos above are -

• weldgophardline and his oldest son.
• beaversmom, beaver, amd my own Mom
• weld's son, weld, me, and a reporter from a local Longmont publication who interviewed both sides. We'll be looking out for their March issue! (As the snow started to fall, I pointed out to him that though it was snowing pretty heavily over on our side, all the flakes were landing on the other side of the street.)
• RandallFlagg and others mentioned above.
• My daughter with The Littlest Freeper - Beaver's little bro. Start em young! Start em young! And to the right of him is weld's Freeper Pup.
• The PeaceBots across the street. Toward the right end are Larry, Moe, Curly and Shemp.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

OK, Patriots! Here are 6 more photos from WeldGOPhardline's brand new Digital Camera - the first 3 from Greeley and the last 3 from Longmont.

But first a word about the Longmont Freep --- I wanna tell you all I was absolutely SHOCKED today by the PeaceBot's behavior! Not ONCE did any of them come over to our side of the street to attempt to disrupt our message!! Do you realize what this means, Fellow Freepers? Do you grok the significance of this??? I'll tell you what it means - It means that in UNDER SEVEN DAYS the PeaceBot's operators have managed to:

• Design new implant chips!
• Special-Order a whole slew of those chips from the factory!
• Replace implants in EVERY SINGLE one of the PeaceBots across the street in time for today's protest!

The fact that they accomplished all that in less than 7 days means that they have some serious $$$ behind them and some serious organizing skills. This is SCARY!

Yeah, yeah, yeah ...... I know some of you are going to argue with me and say, "Hey! Every time "Data" goes berserk, the crew of the Enterprise always upgrades his behavioral implant chips in a day or two." But hey, folks - that kind of efficiency only happens in the MOVIES. These PeaceBots are real life here!

OK - on with the photos ....
The Dark Side of Greeley. Milling around asking themselves, "Who ARE those people across the road? How did they get here!? This isn't how our profs told us it would work out! They promised we'd be the only ones here. Wah!"

Next is WeldGOPhardline, founder of the first-ever Greeley Freep!

And Mollynme drove up from Longmont to help. (Weld's wife Debbie must be taking all the photos).

The Dark Side in Longmont. Can't quite read the sign on the right - but I think it says, "Will picket for food!"

The Light Side. The Right Side.

Good shot of Beaver.