Rally for America - Lone Star Style! (LIVE THREAD)

Live reports from Dallas | 05/28/2003 | Interesting Times

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[Seeking the truth]

Dangerous precendent here, IT

FR risks being branded as "Oil Operatives"!

Watch out for those OO's and is the check in the mail, WTH, they have deep pockets, right?

[Seeking the truth]

Good to see Reagan Girl on the case. I hope she reads this. Miss ya, RG!

[Registered]

It appears we are tied.

[Interesting Times]

The shareholders meeting itself just started at 9am. As many as 50 shareholders were there supporting us right before they had to go inside.

[Registered]

..and our ball is stuck. Can you move your paddle?

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A few more Greenpeace Luddites have straggled in, swelling their numbers to a dozen or so. Some of their signs: Exxon Earns, Earth Burns. Stop Corporate Greed. It's not about Freedom, it's about Oil. Protect our planet from Exxon. If Earth dies, Who Survives?

Sheesh. Meanwhile back in the real world, only capitalist countries have the technical and financial resources to reduce pollution. But somehow the ecological disasters created by the Soviets and Chinese never seem to get mentioned by the econazis...

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Some more signs from the forces of light and reason:

Lay pipe -- Keep the caribou warm.
Poor People Need Oil!
People = Profits.

And a couple of two-sided signs:

Capitalism Doesn't Like You Either / Don't Socialize, Super-Size.
Real Social Justice... Exxon pays my single Mom 70K per year. / Oil Pays My College Tuition.

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Our activists are now offering some useful advice to the members of GreenPeaceRiots:

Go back to France!
Go back to France!
Go back to France!

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Dangerous precendent here, IT

FR risks being branded as "Oil Operatives"!

It's true... they bought us off with chocolate covered donuts.

I feel so... cheap.

[Registered]

Keep posting and pass the donuts.

[Interesting Times]

Freepers in attendence include:

Ms AntiFeminazi
LurkerNoMore!
Sauropod
Hellinahandcart
chuckhole
Conservative
Mrs. Conservative
ras (their son)
Clinger
Gracey (with 8 friends from Austin)
LloydChristmas
Stultis
Batlady
Mr. Batlady
Texas Rangerette
ReaganGirl

The Shrew was there yesterday taping material for Radio FR, but he's on a plane this morning headed home to Colorado.

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Keep posting and pass the donuts.

Certainly.

Hmm... this one appears to be filled with high-grade crude oil.

[abner]

Are you in attendance?

Wish I was... >sniff, sniff< I'm pitying myself here...

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Evidently a labor union contingency has arrived on the scene. They're not with RedPeace. It appears to be the Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers Internations Union (PACE) -- shouldn't that be "PAICEWIU"? -- who are here to present their own issues regarding the shareholders meeting. There are about 30 of these folks, who watched the festivities for a while and have now gone to meet in a nearby church.

When they come out, the Exxon-Mobil Shareholders Meeting will officially qualify as a three-ring circus.

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Are you in attendance?

Nope, I'm manning the phones in Greater Suburban DC and reporting updates as they roll in from ReaganGirl, MAF and Pod down there in the heart of Texas.

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The number of RedPeace thugs arrested yesterday was 36.

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Some more signs:

Eco-Terror Kills
GreenPeace Lies
Stop Global Whining

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Sauropod wants to let you know that he'll be sending you some digital video of the rally when he has the chance.

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And now this, from the All I Can See Is My Own Bias department -- a reporter walked up to one of our activists earlier and started a question with, "Even though you're outnumbered by GreenPeace..."

At that moment there were precisely 8 RedPeace activists present, and more than 50 fans of capitalism.