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To: AGreatPer; bmwcyle; Doctor Raoul
I'm back home for a quick bite to eat, and then I'm off to stand against them at Lafayette Park. Kristinn, me and BillF stood on Georgia Avenue, first at the entrance to Walter Reed - across the driveway from a clutch of leftist-supporters wearing black and flaunting black wreaths.
And of course, the media was out there in droves, to cover the leftist blood dance.
The leftist photo-op was being set up halfway down the block - they set up a podium with amplified sound, in a hospital zone where our soldiers are trying to heal wounds.
The three of us walked silently down the sidewalk to the back of their gathering, and then we stood away from them, in the street between parked cars, and we held our signs in silent witness to their exploitation of our wounded and dead soldiers.
Kristinn's two-sided sign sign read: s1) Leave Our Wounded Alone, and s2) God Bless Our Troops
My two-sided sign read: s1) Leftists Exploit Military K.I.A. For Blood Dance, and s2) U.S. Troops -Mission IS Just & Good. God Bless Them.
BillF had several signs, but he'll have to tell you what they said, as I was preoccupied by the activities swirling around us.
I did have one self-described socialist peace protester who kept stalking me, trying to make me listen to his rant. I finally picked up my things and tried to walk away from him and he blocked my way, shoving me repeatedly. I tried to turn right and he pushed his guitar case into me, again blocking me. I turned the other way (towards the street) and he pushed into me again, placing his hands on me and shoving me backwards into traffic. I raised my voice very loud and called out for him to stop shoving me and to let me pass. Camera crews swarmed over to where we were and he continued to bodily block my passage down the street and shoved me several more times, with cameras rolling. It will be interesting to see if any of that makes it to broadcast.
I'll post more later but right now I have to inhale a sandwich and hit the road for round two, with Angelwood, BillF and Kristinn (if he can get away from work again).
Wish us well fellas (and pray that there is no more left-wing violence and intimidation).
35 posted on 03/15/2004 9:09:13 AM PST by tgslTakoma
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I was partially blocked from seeing the leftist shoving tgslT, but heard her shouting at him to back off. I moved closer to her and saw that the leftist was bumping into her and blocking her way. I lowered my shoulder into this guy's chest and slightly pushed this guy away from tgslT, shouting at him to "stop pushing her," as a dozen cameras moved to record the incident.
Other leftists came and got the guy to back off as I shouted "STOP THE LEFT WING VIOLENCE!" (Credit Doctor Raoul for the slogan.)
I heard me shouting the slogan on one radio station when driving home from the morning FReep.
After the incident with guitar-case guy pushing tgslT, another leftist came over and touched my arm. I shouted at him to stop touching and back off. He did as cameras whirled.
Precisely to avoid such incidents (minor as they were this time), DC Chapter members always try to maintain a good separation distance of 5 or 10 feet when arguing. We make it a point to not invade someone's personal space, but the leftists are sometimes not as well-behaved.
At the morning FReep, one of the hard core leftists was a twenty-something guy who looked like Abbie Hoffman, way back when. I kept expecting him to push his bike into us or do something similar. Fortunately, he just spouted ultra-left wing "Black Helicopter" theories.
Why can't the left wing "peace protesters" be peaceful?
Because they are socialists not peace protesters.