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FREEPER REPORT APRIL 5, 2003: Pro-America Rally with Glenn Beck in Clearwater, Florida
April 5, 2003
| floriduh voter
Posted on 04/05/2003 11:03:22 AM PST by floriduh voter
I'm probably the first person from Free Republic who attended the Coachman Park Flag Fest that's already home. I selected the front page for this report because those of us in attendance from Free Republic invited rally participants to visit us here. It will be much easier for them to be welcomed on the front page. Welcome.
I will have pictures from the rally and will be posting other links here. Flyers were flying in addition to all the American, British and military flags. There were some great signs too.
I was interviewed for local television but as time is always short, I'm not going to stay glued to the set for a glimpse of me. Let's just say that my sign may be on local Channel 13 (Fox) over the reporter's head at the anti-war moshpit, numbering a dozen or so. The short interview which is about that very sign is for local UPN Ch.4 or Ch. 9, I can't say for sure.
TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: april5reports; clearwater; florida; freerepublic; glennbeck; pictures; rallyfortroops; welcomevisitors
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To: M Kehoe
That group was chanting 'USA' at the protestors (before the police intervened).
Thanks for the report - hope all the judges are out of town this weekend!
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posted on
04/06/2003 8:09:46 AM PDT
by
Tunehead54
(Saturday April 5, 2003 - Clearwater, FLorida Support Our Troops Rally! Be there!)
To: WackySam
Here is the Peacenik Holding Pen B4 the Rally
Peacenik holding Pen after the start of the Rally
It was a good thing for them, that the Local Officials
were there to protect the scumsuckers...LOL
To: ThreePuttinDude
We Gave Peace a chance, THEY didn't want it
To: ThreePuttinDude
To: ThreePuttinDude
The Flag Guy
To: smalltowns
Boy! Talk about an uphill battle! Keep plugging away - at some point our support for the troops becomes to big to ignore - even by ignoramusses.
Hope I spelled that correctly! ;)
86
posted on
04/06/2003 8:50:40 AM PDT
by
Tunehead54
(Saturday April 5, 2003 - Clearwater, FLorida Support Our Troops Rally! Be there!)
To: ThreePuttinDude
Hey Tony, this ones for you
To: ovrtaxt
Thanks for addtl pix.
Now I know what you look like if I ever see you post. What a handsome family. Your pastor's fam also.
I usually am on the War Ops thread & America the Right way.. but lately just check in & post infrequently due to church committments & touring passion play that I photograph for.
88
posted on
04/06/2003 8:54:48 AM PDT
by
DollyCali
(Authenticity: To have Arrived !)
To: ThreePuttinDude
Hey Jock chIRAQ, this ones for you
89
posted on
04/06/2003 8:56:01 AM PDT
by
ThreePuttinDude
(The only thing worse than a Frenchman, is a Frenchman from Canada)
To: ThreePuttinDude
Pete Arnett 4 Prez
90
posted on
04/06/2003 9:00:06 AM PDT
by
ThreePuttinDude
(The only thing worse than a Frenchman, is a Frenchman from Canada)
To: ThreePuttinDude; Tunehead54
You'd need a picture host in the net if they are your personal jpegs.
Tunehead54, do you have any suggestions for threeputtindude re: pictures? The more the better, I say.
91
posted on
04/06/2003 9:31:38 AM PDT
by
floriduh voter
("Pound that Rock" John Gruden, Super Bowl Night 2003)
To: ovrtaxt
You need to find a picture hosting sight where the pictures don't disappear in a half an hour. If you can find a picture hosting sight, the formula for posting pictures is
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. After you right click to get the properties of the jpeg, you click copy. Then you paste the url for the jpeg between the quotes and click paste.
This thread will be up all week so take your time. I'd like to see your pictures. Are they on a floppy or a cd? FV
92
posted on
04/06/2003 9:36:23 AM PDT
by
floriduh voter
("Pound that Rock" John Gruden, Super Bowl Night 2003)
To: tenthirteen
There's no nicer family than the Bushes. Blue dog democrats will never face that reality.
93
posted on
04/06/2003 9:39:26 AM PDT
by
floriduh voter
("Pound that Rock" John Gruden, Super Bowl Night 2003)
To: M Kehoe; 4integrity
I'd say it was more like 20K because people kept coming, even as I was heading towards the parking lot. I couldn't make a right turn so I took the beach route to exit. I never saw the Gulf and forgot to look when I drove over the Sand Key Bridge. I'll just have to go to the beach sometime but it's always in my thoughts.
94
posted on
04/06/2003 9:46:01 AM PDT
by
floriduh voter
("Pound that Rock" John Gruden, Super Bowl Night 2003)
To: AntiJen
Thanks antijen for keeping me on your ping list. These words were handed to me at the rally in exchange for FR's url:
"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 ch ance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." John Stuart Mill, Philosopher 1806-1873
95
posted on
04/06/2003 9:54:00 AM PDT
by
floriduh voter
("Pound that Rock" John Gruden, Super Bowl Night 2003)
To: windchime; MinuteGal
Then you saw my arm, windchime and my sign waving over the reporter's head. A closeup of the sign is somewhere in 1-50 of this thread.
All we need to do next time is HAVE ONE HUGE FREEREPUBLIC.COM sign so that we can find everybody.
96
posted on
04/06/2003 9:59:19 AM PDT
by
floriduh voter
("Pound that Rock" John Gruden, Super Bowl Night 2003)
To: Tunehead54; diotima
Diotima, I got my freerepublic bumper sticker at Friva. How can tunehead54, et al request FR bumper stickers? Thanks in advance. Floriduh Voter
97
posted on
04/06/2003 10:06:12 AM PDT
by
floriduh voter
("Pound that Rock" John Gruden, Super Bowl Night 2003)
To: floriduh voter
Thank goodness I'm a computer expert - I was trying to transfer some more pics and it kept locking up -
finally I checked the log and saw that my online account was full. So duh! delete the stuff to make more room! Idiot. I fixed the most recent stuff but happily here's some more pics:
Great Anti-War sign!
![](http://mysite.verizon.net/res19r4u/gb/Anti-War Maggots.JPG)
The other side:
![](http://mysite.verizon.net/res19r4u/gb/Other Side.JPG)
Now that's a FLAG!
The one in back guys! Although the one in "front" is nice too.
![](http://mysite.verizon.net/res19r4u/gb/Now that's a FLAG!.JPG)
More to come ...
98
posted on
04/06/2003 10:12:47 AM PDT
by
Tunehead54
(Saturday April 5, 2003 - Clearwater, FLorida Support Our Troops Rally! Be there!)
To: All; floriduh voter
With all due respect, name tags, bumper sticker etal are a waste of time, energy and money for events like this particular one where a sea of humanity obviates personal identification.
Bumper stickers wouldn't have helped as our parked cars were dispersed over miles of Clearwater streets. You grabbed whatever obscure spot you could find and then walked and walked to the park.
I had my FR bumper sticker on, plus freeper ID on my shirt but this didn't do any good when dealing with the logistics of an elbow-to-elbow crowd of thousands and far-flung isolated cars.
What we need is a FReeper flag or pennant attached to a HIGH stick or post, visible from near or far. Other FR ID's work fine in freeps where there are smaller groups.
We pick up pointers as we go along, and this is one of them. I sure did miss hooking up with other freepers and not being able to have lunch together. Next time, we'll have the problem solved, I'm sure.
Leni
99
posted on
04/06/2003 10:18:19 AM PDT
by
MinuteGal
(THIS JUST IN ! Astonishing fare reduction for FReeps Ahoy Cruise! Check it out, pronto!)
To: floriduh voter; Tunehead54
I'll look into it. Usually we have them and give them away at FR events. I know they will be in the goodie bags we give away for the cruise.
100
posted on
04/06/2003 10:18:54 AM PDT
by
diotima
(FR/FRN SUPPORTS OUR TROOPS!!!!!!!!)
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