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Tribute to a Conservative Activist Pioneer, Doctor Raoul A legend passed away last weekend. A legend from a long ago era—at least as time is measured in the Internet Age. As such, most of you reading this have never known of him, but you should. Doctor Raoul’s message for the wounded warriors at Walter Reed Army Medical Center His admirers included the likes of conservative luminaries Andrew Breitbart, Ann Coulter, John Fund, David Limbaugh and Michelle Malkin. His work was appreciated by numerous wounded warriors at Walter Reed. He bedeviled Bill and Hillary Clinton and was sworn at by liberal...

We were at the Chick Fil-A at the Paramus Park Mall in Paramus, NJ. The first time I ate at this place since the mall opened in 1974, and it was pretty darned good. I highly recommend the peach shake. What's noteworthy is this particular Chick fil-A is one of the few remaining original teneants at this mall. No media coverage, other than the local cable news. Considering how heavily democrat Bergen Cty is they had quite a turnout and everyone seemed in good spirits. And the crowd was quite a bit more, (I HATE this word) diverse than...

A group of protesters ultimately stopped the New Jersey State Assembly from approving a bill that would have added state debt for a new sports arena in an illegal manner. Activists from stopthedebt.com, United Taxpayers of New Jersey, and other citizens' advocacy groups packed the room where the Assembly hearing was held in Trenton. The hearing was called for 2 pm. By 3 pm, the room was totally packed with activists, business interests, media, and legislators. At 3:00, NJ Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Bret Schundler appeared, ready to make a statement at the hearing. A few minutes later, the hearing ...

Gathering of Eagles Action Alert Who: Hanoi Jane Fonda in NYC What: Support Our Vietnam/Iraq Veterans Rally Where: 230 West 49th Street, Between Broadway and 8th Avenue When: Saturday, February 21, 2009, 1 pm to Whenever

Just throwing out a handful of ideas for discussion: How to develop local chapters/conservative grassroots groups. Develop a conservative platform and a plan for recruiting, training, supporting and electing conservative candidates. Develop ideas for building an effective nationwide conservative grassroots network. How to combat the Fairness Doctrine? Install offshore servers? Private BBS? Email/Phone/Fax lists? Shortwave radio? Local/personal networking? Working with other conservative groups, political parties? Would a FReeper PAC be feasible? Practical? Effective? Would a FReeper 527 organization be feasible? Practical? Effective? How to infiltrate/influence local political organizations? Select and fund delegates for a national convention should our membership decide...

The Police have allowed us a rally at the Times Square Recruiting Station Island, 43rd Street and Broadway, to holed a patriotic rally as a show of encouragement for our troops and our recruiters in New York City on March 8, 2008, this saturday, from 1300 to 1600 that means 1 to 4 PM Alll who attend are to keep in mind that we must exercise discipline towards any left wing hippie scumbags who WILL show up to slander and take advantage of the situation. This is going to be big, I got confirmation this is a PGR event, GOE...

I am organizing a caravan from the Philly area to DC for the September 15th Gathering of Eagles. Figure it will be a 3 hour trip. There will be a brief pit stop at the halfway mark. Believe me, it will seem like much less than 3 hours, especially on the way home, high on having just FReeped moonbats all day. It's such a rush. It's a great way to show our solidarity with the military and to show the public that the moonbats don't represent American public opinion despite all the BS they're fed by the media. Round trip...

Who: Cindy SheehanWhat: Gathering of faint Hearts Rally/ConcertWhere: Central Park, East Meadow, 5th Ave & East 97th Street, Opposite Mt. Sinai Medical CenterWhen: Sunday, July 29th, Noon to 6pm Plan: Gather at 5th Ave & East 97th Street at Noon. We will proceed into the park and stake out a prominent location. We will voice our Support for our Troops and disdain for Ms. Sheehan as loudly and vocally as possible. We will use our first amendment right to free speech to interrupt her traitorous bile. Remember, Casey was a Hero, Cindy is a Zero! Bring flags, signs, banners, cow...

One of the unindicted co-conspirators of the FIRST WTC bombing, Siraj Wahhaj, will be a speaker at a local Islamic Conference to be held THIS SUNDAY in Hartford, Connecticut. All Freepers and Lurkers in good standing are requested to drop everything to be in Hartford for this event. This meeting is being held by known HAMAS supporters, also.

Let me prefix this with the following new information - another Virginia gun dealer is going out of business thanks to Bloomberg: Franklin Rod & Tackle in Rocky Mount. Bloomberg's spokesman said quite piously a few months ago that Bloomberg didn't want to put gun dealers out of business. We know better. THE PROTEST IS ON!! Maniacal New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his Mayors' Coalition Against Illegal Guns will be meeting for a one day "National Summit" at the DC Capitol Hilton (corner of 16th and K at 1001 16th Street NW) on Tuesday, January 23rd - see...

The first to arrive were a troop of Protest Warriors from New Jersey, who brought lots of flags and signs and stayed till the end, chanting and cheering.Soon the Caucus for America pulled up in a pickup truck, which would become our stage. The NYPD had been saving a space for us with a big truck.As the police barricades went up, we tied our signs and flags to them. When I saw that we had 30 or more people at a quarter to five, I knew it was going to be a success, since most people were coming after work....

<p>We have a sound permit, and we will be across the street from the New York Times. They are at 229 West 43rd Street. .</p> <p>The groups on board so far are Free Republic, Caucus for America, the Congress for Racial Equality, and Protest Warrior, NYC Chapter. We have reached out to several other groups as well, and are waiting to hear back from them.</p>

Pictures from NY rally

Folks, Due to last minute circumstances I am on a Metro North train headed up north..the party has started already.. how long will it last? I won't be back in NYC untill 3:40..is this too late? Anybody have firebrand's cell num? (don't post private msg only) would love to come but if too late :-(

We will meet tomorrow, November 11, at the northeast corner of 41st Street and Fifth Avenue, right across from the lions. Time: 11 a.m.The parade starts at either 23rd Street, if you believe 311, or 26th Street, if you believe the antiwar site, and goes UP Fifth Avenue to either 57th or 56th. Bring signs if you like.

The Tri-State Chapter of Free Republic will be joining the Operation Iraqi Hope press conference and rally on Sunday, September 18, 2005. Time: 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.Place: Southeast corner of 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue. Operation Iraqi Hope is an organization dedicated to getting the truth about America’s effort to help the Iraqi people achieve freedom and democracy. The sound permit is in the works and will be issued. The only matter still pending is whether the group will actually be allowed to stand on Bryant Park territory. But the press conference and rally will take place regardless, at...

A horde of the pink unwashed descended on Fox News' headquarters in New York City yesterday afternoon to hold a "Shut-up-athon" against the number one cable news outlet in America. Led by Code Pink, the leftist feminist group founded to oppose the war on Iraq, about a thousand demonstrators filled the sidewalk in front of Fox's building on 6th Avenue at 48th Street. Police were everywhere to keep order, which they did with great success. FReepers Coleus, Laserlock, ELS, Trueblackman, kristinn and two lurkers held a counter-demonstration there to support Fox News and to educate the public about Code Pink's...

I just got off the phone with Dave Dilegge, who gave me an early report, a few minutes ago. With about 20 patriots at the rally site so far, things got off to a rousing start with a special chant that really pleased the police there: "POLICE ARE GREAT, IT'S TRAITORS THAT WE HATE!" Leadpenny called while I was writing this up, to give me a list of who's there so far:JohnnyMac, BigGrayTabby, Little Bill, Dutchy, Electric Strawberry, Cacique, Race Bannon, KLT, OneidaM, Johnny7, Oschisms, NewWahoo, Nitro, Sauropod, Leadpenny, Dave Dilegge, Loanpalm, Johnny B. (not [yet] a FReeper, just came ...

I am off to Moran's to join the rest of the chapter in welcoming MadIvan to New York. I will attempt to post using my pocket PC and my wireless modem as we haven't arranged for a modem connection with a laptop there is no sense on lugging around the extra weight in addition to my camera and camcoder. We will try to upload some digital pictures as the party is progressing and hope that AT&T has a CDPD node nearby to transmit. Barring that, we will continue the thread once we get home.

Just returned from the protest and after-protest hash and rehash.Attending: Doctor Raoul, firebrand, TFine80, davide, and Don (not a freeper).We stood outside the Broadway entrance from 4:45 to about 6:30, holding our signs and shouting our heads off: "Don't buy Newsweek," "Newsweek Lied, People Died," "Flush Newsweek," "Newsweek Lies to America," etc. The signs said pretty much the same, along with "There Are Lies, Damn Lies, and Homicidal 'Reporting,'" "Former Newsweek Reporter Will Lie for Food," and TFine80's sign, which said something like "And you wonder why they hate us!"Many people stopped to chat. There were the usual Manhattan liberals...