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Title: Sunday Freeper Protest on the Mall
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Published: Sep 25, 2005
Author: Self
Post Date: 2005-09-25 20:51:18 by crack monkey
Keywords: Freeper, Protest, Sunday
Views: 424
Comments: 25
I stopped by the freeper protest at about 1:00 today. It was on the mall up near 7th Street. I didn't know where it was but as I was passing Camp Casey I saw a 400 pound guy with a long beard and a shirt that said "Jesus and George W. Bush". I figured he would know where the rally was and he did. Said he was going there himself. As I was talking to him I noticed the guy had a white bullhorn that had the words "Jesus" and "No Fags" painted on it. The guy saw me pulling out the camera however and said no pictures. I didn't push it as some of these guys believe cameras capture their souls and stuff like that. To give the devil his due, I think the crowd count of 100 I've been seeing is a little low. I did a couple of informal counts and got a number closer to 200 or 250. It was hard to get a count as the rally was on the mall and there was no good elevated place from which to count. Some of the speakers were angry to the point of almost sounding hysterical. One woman kept hammering on the 100,000 figure for the Sept 24 protest, e.g., "We're not going to make a lot of noise like 100,000 people did yesterday". This made me think that the 100,000 figure is now a talking point. They don't want to concede the 250,000 to 300,000 figure so all mention of the demonstration is now going to be: "The 100,000 people who blah, blah, blah, etc." They had a couple of tents set up where they were interviewing people. People were lined up outside waiting their turn. I asked them what was going on and nobody would tell me. Sort of reminded me of a Scientology event with the creepy secrecy. The crowd wasn't as dorkey looking as the usual freeper crowd. Not so many 500 pounders waddling around and pimply faced skinny guys with buck teeth. People mostly looked normal. I wandered around for a while looking for the guy with the "No Fags" bullhorn. Figured I could sneak up on him and get a canded shot. No luck though, didn't see hide nor hair of him. Here is a crowd shot as I approced from the West end of the mall: Here was somebody from FR getting interviewed: The FR Booth: Counter Protesters. There were about 15 of these guys: Buttons on a counter protester. The monkey button was hilarious but she wouldn't trade it for any of mine. A sign maker: Another crowd shot. I took this from the back, the crowd extends forward to the big flag. All decked out for W: An ACLU = commie T-shirt: These must be staff for the protest. I saw others wearing these shirts: This guy looks like an old hippy. I would think that would piss the freepers off. 
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#1. To: crack monkey (#0)
For some reason, the last guy reminds me of blackie are tos1 and tos2.
LOL!
Hey you need that button! Great photos. I watched a lot of it on C-Span today.. it was sick. Did you listen to the speakers?
Yeah, I sat through several. One woman who had a kid in Iraq (still alive) was really given to pulling facts out of her ass. I wish I had made notes. She opened up with a screed about how the "100,000 people" making noise in the street the day before don't represent the majority of the country. She litterally claimed that the majority of the country was prowar. She didn't stop there, she made of a whole string of facts and circumstances which, if true, would have justified her political beliefs. It was like she had never read a newspaper in her life.
A lot of their women are rather tough and dyky looking.
I watched several hours of it on C-SPAN today. I had no idea it was going on but I just stumbled on it as I was channel surfing. I was looking for some of my friends from the old days. Other than kristinn and Cal I didn't see many folks I recognized...I was expecting to see more faces I would recognize when the cameras panned the crowd but I didn't. Most old FReakers have seen the light I suppose. I felt really sorry for the Gold Star Families...they lost a loved one and stated their support for the 'noble' cause and the president. I imagine they are in a state of denial.
I think that's the one featured in the link griper posted above. She was really lame and not credible as was the R, Steven King, from Iowa.
Those shirts are the Gold Star Mothers (for war). The Higher than expected attendance can be explained by this being a coalition event out of freeper control. It has been the policy of the DC Chapter to ignore or at least not "disrespect" Cindy, todays crowd (speakers) was vicious toward Cindy thus the DC Chapter was not in control.
I know I felt badly for them too.. I lost a family member in the military and its rough. We never were antiwar or prowar in any vehement way after it happened though. Now THIS war I have a real problem with.. and with any for that matter that's based on fraud .. (hmm that might include most LOL)
It would be funny except for the 100s of thousands of Americans who were killed for nothing. Lets look at the last 100 years: Spanish American War - Sinking of The Maine It was probably a faulty boiler not a Spanish bomb that sank her WWI - Sinking of The Lusitania The Lusitania was carrying war supplies to England WWII - Attack on Pearl Harbor We had the Jap code cracked, FDR let it happen. He sacrificed our obsolete Battleships while our Aircraft Carriers were safely (and conveniently) out to sea. Korea - ??? I don't have a clue Viet Nam - Gulf of Tonkin attack Never happened Gulf War I - Bush set up Sadam to make it look like he didn't care if Iraq attacked Kuwait (kind of a "Thank You" for the Iraq-Iran war)then we invade. Gulf War II/911 LOL only Freepers,shills,retards and rapture monkeys believe or want to believe Jorge and his neocon cronies.
Does Dr. Raoul still do freeps? He was cool. I always got a laugh out of him. I still have the Presidential Knee Pad set he gave me at the white house back in like 99.
Do I hear a fat lady singing?
No fags? Well, that accounts for the low FReeper turn out, doesn't it?
I always thought he was a few sheets short of a ream.
That could explain why the crowd looked different as well. As I mentioned above, they didn't look like the normal overweight or otherwise nerdy freeper crowd. This crowd looked like more of a normal cross section of population. The 150 or so people at the Saturday rally had that Freeper look to it, and I suspect this was a pure FR event.
I believe what you're saying, but there may be some sort of internal conflict going on that accounts for the really weak turn out. Both myself and several of my friends independently spoke to people around the FR booth. We were all told in no uncertain terms that this was a FR sponsored event held in response to the Sept 24th anti-war rally. The FR people told me that the Gold Star moms were "participating". What you say about the Cindy Sheehan attacks is definitely true. The first speaker I heard absolutely ripped Sheehan.
http://www.de fenselink.mil/news/Sep2005/20050925_2844.html DoD covered the rally. There is a pic of Angelwood, TgslTakoma and a woman whose screen name I can't recall at the booth selling rally items.
From the linked article in reply #16.
freepers=retards=redundant
The D.C. Chapter of Free Republic has disagreed with the (national) Free Republic Network in the past.
Well true the results arent funny by any means I lost a family member in the military so I know what the results are... And so many havent come to terms to the biggest fraud of all IMO and its 9/11.. I bought the official conspiracy theory til I read the Northwoods document that is what brought about my doubts about the official story: My doubts about the official 9/11 story built up over time, as I read books like Brisard & Dasquié's Bin Laden: The Hidden Secret and Andreas von Bülow's Die CIA und der 11. September [The CIA and 9/11]. They crystallized when the Bush administration opposed investigating 9/11. Then I read David Ray Griffin's New Pearl Harbor.
Woodward's Bush at War showed the cynicism. The Campaign in Afghanistan was called off. In the fall of 2002, the 28 pages in the Senate report were censored. Saudi stories became a flood. The principals of prior cooperation and scandals; bin Mahfouz, Al Qadi of PTECH - a story basically not covered. All Saudi involvement was hidden, as were the myriad connections to Pakistan - the ISI sending money to Atta story made it to Europe but never crossed the Atlantic. Christopher Smucker's AQ's Great Escape raised the question of so much incompetency and eye averting, one wondered if we really wanted to grab him at all. It's been a slow process with the natural human desire to not see the truth when it's too dirty. And, of all things, John LeCarre's climax in his last book "Absolute Friends",IIRC. LeFebvier's Dollars and Terror/Islam highlighted the long involvement of America in boosting fundy islam for it's own ends. Brings to mind the book "Return to Iron Mountain" spoken of by Fletcher Prouty. Dismissed as a joke, the book highlights the necessity of the human being requiring an enemy. Progress via war has been a distinguishing feature of modern humanity. And,then of course, the sheer coincidence of the date 911. Talk about a marketing coup. Instant imprinting on the psyche. The rest of world would say 119. DDMMYY instead of MMDDYY.
"I want the American people to know that our dreams are gone, our work was in vain. There will be no future for our children and our grandchildren in the new Iraq. The future is for the clerics. This is not the democracy we dreamed of. "--Dr. Raja Kuzai
For me it was the Northwoods document which basically described a government plot to use airplanes as weapons by the government and then to pin the blame on the Cubans MUCH like 9/11....I think because it was a primary document rather than a theory caused me to take a much closer look at 9/11.
3D-Joy
Amen............
#2. To: crack monkey (#0)
"Jesus and George W. Bush". I figured he would know where the rally was and he did. Said he was going there himself.
One if by land, two if by sea...how many if they are already here?
#3. To: crack monkey (#0)
#4. To: Zipporah (#3)
Did you listen to the speakers?
#5. To: crack monkey (#0)
#6. To: Zipporah (#3)
#7. To: crack monkey, griper (#4)
#8. To: crack monkey (#0)
These must be staff for the protest. I saw others wearing these shirts:
#9. To: Fred Mertz (#6)
#10. To: Zipporah (#9)
Now THIS war I have a real problem with.. and with any for that matter that's based on fraud .. (hmm that might include most LOL)
Hey, Meester,wanna meet my seester?
#11. To: Fred Mertz (#6)
#12. To: crack monkey (#0)
As I was talking to him I noticed the guy had a white bullhorn that had the words "Jesus" and "No Fags" painted on it.
#13. To: Critter (#11)
Dr. Raoul
#14. To: Hmmmmm (#8)
Those shirts are the Gold Star Mothers (for war). The Higher than expected attendance can be explained by this being a coalition event out of freeper control. It has been the policy of the DC Chapter to ignore or at least not "disrespect" Cindy, todays crowd (speakers) was vicious toward Cindy thus the DC Chapter was not in control
#15. To: Hmmmmm (#8)
Those shirts are the Gold Star Mothers (for war). The Higher than expected attendance can be explained by this being a coalition event out of freeper control.
#16. To: Critter (#11)
#17. To: crack monkey (#15)
The Rally to Honor Military Families, held Sept. 25 on the National Mall in Washington, was sponsored by Move America Forward, Free Republic and Right March.
#18. To: Flintlock (#10)
LOL only Freepers,shills,retards and rapture monkeys believe or want to believe Jorge and his neocon cronies.
#19. To: Hmmmmm, Fred Mertz (#8)
#20. To: Flintlock (#10)
#21. To: Zipporah (#20)
#22. To: aristeides (#21)
#23. To: aristeides (#21)
My doubts about the official 9/11 story built up over time, as I read books like Brisard & Dasquié's Bin Laden: The Hidden Secret and Andreas von Bülow's Die CIA und der 11. September [The CIA and 9/11]. They crystallized when the Bush administration opposed investigating 9/11. Then I read David Ray Griffin's New Pearl Harbor.
#24. To: Fred Mertz (#16)
a woman whose screen name I can't recall
#25. To: Zipporah (#20)
the biggest fraud of all IMO and its 9/11..
Hey, Meester,wanna meet my seester?
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