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NOTE TO ADMIN MODERATOR: This story has been posted, but I hope you will leave this as a separate post. It took a few hours of digging, but I found this teacher. News reports were incorrect that she was in Asheville, NC. She teaches in Fayetteville. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ OUTRAGEOUS TEACHER, DIANTHA HARRIS, BROWBEATING LITTLE GIRL WHOSE DAD IS IN THE MILITARY I already have a call in to the school and am awaiting a return call from the Superintendant's office. SCHOOL WEBSITE SCROLL DOWN ON THIS PAGE TO 5TH GRADE, D. HARRIS, TO SEND HER A MESSAGE....BE CIVIL

Preparing to greet the commies - Early Saturday Morning DStarr chooses a sign from her arsenal as she prepares to confront the leftist march. This past Saturday, March 18, 2006 we conducted our third annual FReep in commemoration of the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. As in past years, leftists marched through the streets of Fayetteville, NC (home of Fort Bragg and Pope Airforce Base) and congregated in Rowan Park for their day of music and speeches, coordinated by NC Peace and Justice Coalition. The support the troops rally was conducted on the hillside overlooking Rowan Park. Wolfpat's sound...

Live thread from Fayetteville, NC. About 50 early arrivals in support of the troops have gathered ahead of the leftist "anti-war" rally in Rowan Park. This is the third year that FreeRepublic, in conjunction with Rolling Thunder, the veteran's motor cycle club, has organized a Support the Troops Rally to counter the Leftist Demonstrations here in the home town of Fort Bragg and Pope Airforce Base. This is the home of 82nd airborne division and 18 airborne corps, and we are proud and grateful for all they do to defend freedom! I am posting from a handheld, so those of...

Once again, antiwar protesters rallying in Rowan Park on Saturday will be met by a smaller but fervent group of pickets who support the war. Yet if the pickets had gotten their way, it would be them — not the antiwar crowd — filling the park on the third anniversary of the Iraq invasion. A member of Free Republic, a support-the-war group, reserved Rowan Park for this weekend immediately after last year’s large antiwar rally at the park. The reservation was described as for a two-day picnic and required an $800 check covering fees and a deposit.

FAYETTEVILLE) - Fayetteville is known as a town that supports the military, but there are some there who support bringing the troops home now. The city has had an anti-war rally at Rowan Park every year since the war began, but that almost didn't happen this year. The park might have been quiet Wednesday afternoon, but by Saturday, crowds will fill be filling up the park. Just like in previous years, protestors will stage an anti-war rally, marking the third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion into Iraq. This year’s event would have looked a lot different if members of a...

Hi, all. We had a great time Freeping the Cindy Tour. I think they were a little surprised when they pulled up in their rented RV and saw all of us waiting for them. I was really encouraged at our turnout. I think we had between 25 & 30 and the Cindinistas had about 30. Since we were the first group there, we had picked which side of the Market House area we wanted. Naturally, we chose the shady side, leaving them to the mercy of the sun. The Cindinistas were also a little upset when they couldn't pull their...

The anti-war mom isn't planning to set foot in Fayetteville - at least that was the word Thursday. But the fact that the peace activists have come from Crawford, Texas, where Sheehan spent last month camped outside President Bush's ranch demanding to speak with him, has fired up people in Fayetteville who say such vigils are demeaning to soldiers. About eight to 10 activists, mainly veterans and relatives of servicemen, are riding into town on the "Bring Them Home Now" tour. The tour set out on three routes across the country after the Crawford vigil disbanded. Fayetteville is one of...

As the nation's largest Army post prepared to host its commander in chief Tuesday, a little blue house in Haymount gathered protesters. Bumper stickers on cars at the curb read "Impeach Bush" and "Bush lied. People died." A yellow banner in the yard read: "Bring them home now." The 20 or so people milling around the Quaker House were former soldiers, parents and grandparents. They had no plans to watch President Bush's speech from Fort Bragg. "I've heard it all before, and I didn't believe it the first 10 times," said Chuck Fager, who runs the Quaker House, an organization...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- The Cumberland County District Attorney's Office has dismissed a misdemeanor criminal charge against a former Fayetteville Observer reporter in exchange for his apology to the city's police chief. The reporter, Robert Boyer, was arrested in March 2004 and charged with resisting a police officer because he refused two officers' orders to leave a street where a murder occurred. Boyer went to the street to the interview people for a story about the murder. At a trial in January, District Court Judge Cheri Beasley found Boyer guilty. He appealed to Superior Court for a jury trial. Assistant District...

Published on: Wednesday, April 6, 2005 Antiterrorism exercise keeps responders' skills sharp By Henry CuninghamMilitary editor About 25 protestors chanted and waved antiwar signs at an entrance to Fort Bragg. Suddenly, there was an explosion, and people began falling. Staff photo by Mike Spencer Mock war protesters gather as military police stand guard Tuesday during the Orbit Comet exercise at Fort Bragg. People in civilian clothes sprinted onto the Army post. Someone yelled, ''Go get 'em,'' and military police officers with dogs ran in pursuit. That was the scene Tuesday afternoon during the spring Orbit Comet antiterrorism exercise on Fort...

Today we met in Fayetteville, NC to Freep a motley rabble of socialists, anarchists, Code Pink-os, and other throwbacks to the 60's! As usual, we were well outnumbered by their hordes of college students, aging hippies and other bused-in protestors, but we held our own as always. Please post any reports and observations on this thread only.

Organizers called the anti-war rally in Fayetteville last year the city's biggest since the Vietnam War. This year, they are counting on Fayetteville's largest anti-war protest ever. The Old North State chapter of the Free Republic is planning a counterdemonstration. Lynn Huber, a chapter chairwoman, said she also expects more people this year. She said at least 200 people have made firm commitments. The two rallies Saturday will make for a repeat of last year, when the groups faced off at Rowan Park. Some people anticipated violence, but the rallies passed peacefully with dozens of police officers keeping a careful...

Report from a group meeting with our Enemies My husband and I did something that I never imagined we would do, we along with other military parents attended a Military Families Speak Out meeting. No, we haven't turned left wing but just took an opportunity that will probably never occur again.  An ad ran in our local paper that a Chapter for Military Families Speak Out was forming in our area. They invited all parents with concerns over the war to attend. We considered this an opportunity because we do have concerns over the war with children deployed even though we...

<p>Once again, busloads of leftist activists will descend upon Fayetteville, NC in an attempt to demoralize the will of our American troops by targetting their loved ones with antiwar drivel.</p> <p>The unifying factor of all of these groups is anti-Americanism utilizing continued propaganda themes of "Bush lied" and "No blood for oil". The mob will also import a number of speakers who have allegedly lost loved ones in Iraq, and will create some sort of symbolic display reflecting the number of dead. (They have used pairs of boots and black umbrellas in the past.) They will (undoubtedly through an unintentional oversight) neglect to display any symbolism reflecting the number of Americans killed in the WTC, or Iraqis killed by Saddam or Women beaten by the Taliban, or the number of Afghanis and Iraquis and Palestinians and Ukrainians and (soon) Egyptians who now have the ability to vote.</p>