They lied to us! They led us all to believe this was a huge gathering of leftists. They had collected all these co-sponsors - not just locally, but from Boulder and Denver and wherever else. They even called in the Greens for help. And though it wasn't announced in the paper, they must have invited the remaining dregs of the Communist Party in Colorado - as evidenced by that hammer and sickle poster close to the stage. They must have left no slimy stone unturned in Colorado in their desperate search for like-minded fodder to swell their ranks. But look at all the turnout they got out of it! The Greeley Trib said there were fifty of them, but I think that's being generous.
This "rally" was hardly worth Freeping! I mean hey, folks. We are highly trained, leading-edge, top-quality professionals, with advanced degrees in Freepology from an accredited institution, with collectively many years of experience under our belts. We worked long and hard to get this far, and it's demeaning to waste our talents on such a sorry excuse for a Leftist rally as that one was. They lied to us, folks! They promised us a big rally to be counter-Freeped and they failed to deliver. Heck, they didn't even plan it so that there was a single through-street close to them, meaning that nobody in Greeley was aware of their presence (or ours). They could at least have done something like start a rumor that Hillary would be there signing free copies of her new book, or something else that would increase the Leftist turnout to respectable numbers! I think we have grounds for a lawsuit against them, don't we? For False Advertising? Or maybe Breach of Promise? They should at least be made to pay for our time and gas mileage. We should contact our FR Chapter lawyer. (We do have a lawyer, don't we?)
You know, it's just starting to dawn on me ..... I wonder if maybe this was a setup? Have we been HAD? Was this just a decoy rally to draw us away, while the REAL rally was held somewhere else? Yes, I know we heard the shrill rantings of local loonies like Norberto and the evil bald-headed one over the PA system, but those could have been taped in advance, you know. From that distance away, could we really be 100% sure that those weren't the back sides of MANNEQUINS we were looking at? Let's all think back and try to remember - did any of us actually see anybody MOVE? Think hard now - did any of those "people" we saw from behind appear to you like they were leaning quite steeply towards the downwind side? If so, that would definitely be evidence supporting the mannequin theory!
Of course, we did have that one Leftist come back to "dialogue" with us, but how do we know she wasn't just a caretaker they sent to keep the mannequins propped up - to adjust their guy wires and such? Or maybe her job was to distract us? Maybe while she was arguing with us and we were giving her our attention, a co-conspirator of hers was scurrying around back there picking up all the downed mannequins? The possibilities are endless........
Doug and Dale - since you live closest to Greeley, maybe you can start going to City Council meetings and urge them to develop a better Leftist organization in the area, to come up with something that is far more Freepworthy than is there now. (Or maybe that's the job of the Chamber of Commerce? I dunno). I'll work on the same for Fort Fungus.
OK, enough complaining. Here are a couple of photos ...
The good guys! Yay! Note there were 7 or 8 total of us --- 
Communists? Or mannequins? You be the judge. (A remote infrared heat sensor would of course be useless here, given the particular class of invertebrates they belong to). 
One thing I got a kick out of ..... there was no car traffic to speak of back in that area, but I heard honking from a lone car that happened to be leaving the parking lot, and later realized that at the time, it was passing by a "Honk For Our Troops" sign that I had temporarily placed near my car and forgotten! So here was my sign sitting out there with no people anywhere near it, and someone was giving out troops a honk, anyway! Yeah!