Posted on 05/17/2004 10:35:29 PM PDT by BillF
In the report that follows, CLICK ON ANY PHOTO AND A FULL SIZE VERSION OF THE PHOTO SHOULD APPEAR . (Thumbnail photos hyperlinked to full versions.) Also, I've linked to several sound files in WAV format. Click on them and you should hear the sounds. Right click and save if you want to listen to them later.
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Across the street from Rumsfeld's house with French Embassy and their fence behind us, FReepers wait for leftists. TgslTakoma has back to camera as she makes last minute signs. Trueblackman discusses Iraq with a liberal on a bicycle. Kristinn holds a sign behind Bmwcyle who is also holding a sign. |
Even as Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made a surprise visit to our troops in Iraq on Thursday, May 13, 2004, FReepers of DC Chapter conducted a surprise FReep of various leftists purporting to re-enact "torture" of Iraqi prisoners outside Rumsfeld's DC home. The stealth FReep by DC Chapter's special ops unit achieved total strategic and tactical surprise, leaving leftists looking like deer in the headlights on several occasions.
The honor roll of FReepers at this gathering of eagles: tgslTakoma, Bmwcyle, Trueblackman, Jimmy Valentine's brother, Kristinn, and BillF. |
| DC Chapter FReepers gathered across the street from Rummy's, in front of the French Embassy's curved iron fence, and waited for the leftists. DC Police and other security forces were out in force as we waited. I think that Army or other military provide security for Rummy's house. Uniform officers of the Secret Service, who provide security for foreign embassies and diplomats, drove by numerous times.
Before the leftists march had arrived, a liberal guy on a bicycle stopped and argued with Trueblackman about Iraqi policy. A guy with a skateboard, who appeared to be a recon guy for the leftists, stood on our side of the street about 25 feet from us. As I videotaped some of the arriving leftists, skateboard guy had his video camera on me and my camera focused on him. Until he "blinked" and turned his camera away from me, we had several seconds of a video standoff from 25 feet. |
Trueblackman, appropriately having an American flag above and behind him, continues to discuss Iraq with liberal. The liberal was apparently not part of the |
A very pregnant Rebecca Cooper, a local channel 7 reporter, walked by and talked to us before the arrival of the leftists. As she observed a photo from the Berg murder on one of our signs, Cooper responded to one of our questions by saying that she had not seen the Berg torture murder video. One of the FReepers told her that she should indeed wait until her child was born before viewing the video.
Cooper smiled when I pointed to the Berg murder photo and said, "I sure hope that, if we catch any of these murders, we don't subject them to sleep deprivation to get the other killers or to prevent further murders like this. I would be too upset to sleep if I found out that my government was waking these killers up at night. "
(DC Chapter co-leader Kristinn reports that Cooper had a quite fair report on the left's protest and our counter-protest on the 11 pm news that night.)
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About 35 leftists gather in front of Rumsfeld's house. Not visible are numerous security officers around the perimeter of the house. Many of the cars in the photo are likely unmarked police and security cars. (Unfortunately, the above was the only photo of the leftists where my camera's auto-focus worked.) |
The leftists included members of Code Pink, DC Anti-War Network, and Shirts Off. The latter group apparently is concerned that the cost of the war is taking the shirt off their backs, whereas they believe that such high government spending is not justified for liberating another country and safeguarding our country. Instead, they want the monies transferred to education, healthcare, and federal daycare for pets.
Leftists planned to re-enact the Iraqi prisoner "torture" at Dupont Circle, at least ten blocks south of Rumsfeld's house, before marching to Rummy's place and re-enacting all over again. However, the re-enactors apparently decided not to do the re-enactments at Dupont Circle, but waited until they were at Rummy's before they performed their bizarre show.
Unfortunately for them, more than half of them of the one hundred or so leftists at Dupont Circle did not make the march to Rummy's. Numerous of the leftists in the march had signs with photographs of the "torture."
Some of the marchers who dropped out are said to have been inspired by the "torture" photos to book passage to Iraq in hopes of becoming U.S. prisoners there. Other march dropouts are rumored to have been inspired to go to Barney Frank's house. We could not where any of the march dropouts went. |
As the leftists arrived at Rumsfeld's, numerous reporters were with them. The leftists were chanting in a pattern common to the leftists. A leader shouts something, followers (F) respond. (This pattern had been emphasized to DC Chapter FReepers last year by a helpful police officer as noted in box at right below.)
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Leader: "U.S.!"
Followers: "OUT!" Leader: "RUMSFELD!"
Followers: "OUT!" ad infinitum, ad nauseum. Then, when the leftists arrived fully on scene, they stopped chanting. tgslTakoma immediately shouted: YOU SUPPORT THE DEATH OF INNOCENT AMERICANS! [Leftists became frozen like deer in the headlights. They, and the press around them, instantly turn their heads and focus on the FReepers.] YOU GIVE YOUR UNCONDITIONAL SUPPORT TO THE IRAQI RESISTANCE! YOU HAVE BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS! When tgslTakoma stopped momentarily, and per Jimmy Valentine's brother's pre-FReep chant suggestion, I started chanting: GIVE RUMMY A RAISE!
Other FReepers joined in. It took several seconds and numerous Rummy chants before the leftists recovered sufficiently to start chanting again. |
CLICK HERE TO HEAR THE SOUND FILE OF LEFTISTS AND FREEPERS (WAV FORMAT, 30 SECONDS, 650 Kb). Right click and save if you want to listen later. [Note that the microphone was on me. Therefore, when we started chanting GIVE RUMMY A RAISE, my voice sounds loudest, even through other FReepers actually chanted louder.] [I made some short video files, but my interface device to attach camcorder to computer is not working. Therefore, no video files this time. Maybe some other time, I'll have video files.] |
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This led to a shouting match between FReepers and leftists.
When the leftists chanted NO BLOOD FOR OIL, Bmwcycle shouted YOU SHOULD BE FACING THE FRENCH EMBASSY WITH THAT CHANT!
tgslTakoma shouted AL- QAEDA THANKS YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! (I'll try to post a reply with a Reuters photo of tgslTakoma in action.)
FReepers chanted: SWIM TO CUBA! [CLICK HERE TO HEAR THE SOUND FILE (WAV FORMAT, 9 SECONDS, 183 Kb). Right click and save if you want to listen later.]
Kristinn shouted: YOU NEVER DEMONSTRATED AGAINST SADDAM! tgslTakoma: YOU NEVER! Kristinn: YOU NEVER DEMONSTRATED AGAINST AL QUAEDA! YOU HATE THIS COUNTRY! tgslTakoma: YOU HAVE BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS! Kristinn: YOU LOVE IT WHEN AMERICANS GET KILLED! [CLICK HERE TO HEAR THE SOUND FILE (WAV FORMAT, 17 SECONDS, 370 Kb).]
Bmwcyle: STOP SUPPORTING ISLAMIC FACISM! STOP SUPPORTING THE ENSLAVEMENT OF WOMEN!
FReepers chant: WHERE ARE YOUR BURKAS?
Leftist chants included: Leader: FIRE RUMSFELD Followers: TORTURE. Other chants: STOP THE BUSH TORTURE!
One of the Code Pink leaders, believed to be Gael Murphy, came up to confront Kristinn and the police made her go back to her group. This was the subject of an AP photograph. (I'll try to post a reply with that photo.)
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Once some leftist guy came over to argue with Kristinn, "Get out of my face! Go back to your group," Kristinn told him. When the leftist refused, Bmwcyle called an officer. The officer told the guy, "OK, man, let's go." The leftist walked back to his comrades. On one of the two occasions when a leftist was ordered by the police to step away from our demonstration (we had a permit) and get out of our faces, the leftist or comrades apparently demanded police badge numbers and raised a stink.
Within 15 minutes or so of their arrival, the leftists slithered off into the night. They had largely lost their press as many of the reporters had begun interviewing FReepers. |
Trueblackman being interviewed by an Arab news service. |
Jimmy Valentine's brother puffs on a victory |
| Bmwcyle being interviewed.
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tgslTakoma talks on the phone |
Kristinn being interviewed. |
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Kristinn talks on the phone about the successfully concluded FReep. |
Trueblackman projects his usual confidence. Officers meet behind him |
Bmwcyle, partially behind a reporter, at left. tgslTakoma, near U.S. flag, chats with a DC police officer as Jimmy Valentine's brother in blue shirt listens.
Kristinn talks on the phone. The guy on the right was looking for a restaurant suitable for his girlfriend's birthday on a different day. He saw the leftists march and followed out of curiosity,
ending up with us as he agreed with the U.S. liberation of Iraq. Bmwcyle talked to him quite a bit and may have recruited a new FReeper.
The police were professional and courteous, as they almost always are in dealings with FReepers. (See last photo, which shows tgslTakoma chatting amicably with an officer.) I mention this for two reasons. First, we had a couple disagreements with the police in the past two months. It's important that FReepers in other locations appreciate that friction between DC FReepers and police is relatively rare. Second, last week was National Police Week and everyone should keep in mind that police are on the front line in both the war on terrorism and their activities protecting us from criminals.
With the leftists gone, FReepers packed up their signs and left. Several of us moved to an undisclosed location for food, drink, and plotting of further peaceful actions against U.S.-based friends of Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden.
Appreciation is expressed to StayAt HomeMother for posting the live thread as listed below:
DC Chapter at Rumsfeld House: Surprise FReep of Left LIVE THREAD!
Posted on 05/13/2004 4:31:46 PM PDT by StayAt HomeMother
DC Chapter has just begun a STEALTH, NO advance notice, FReep of the Code Pink and other leftists who are at Rumsfeld's house in Northwest DC to re-enact "torture" of Iraqi prisoners. Some stalwart members of the DC Chapter have gathered peacefully to counter the leftists.
In addition to the local channel 7 report that Kristinn observed to be a fair rendition of the night's events, I saw Greg Kelly of Fox News report on Washington developments in the prison abuse scandal during Fox & Friends on Friday, May 14. He showed a few seconds of the leftists at Rumsfeld's house and, very briefly showed, tgslTakoma, Trueblackman, Jimmy Valentine's brother and Bmwcyle, who was largely obscured by JVB. Additionally, one AP photo and one Reuters photo showed FReepers. I'll try to include those photos in a reply post.
Yes, same great guy, great FReeper, but I've corrected his screen name in the quote above.
It was also Trueblackman who get banned from a bookstore by Hillary's private security for ridiculous, absurd reasons per the first below thread, whereas he really got under the libs' skin by holding a sign saying: I WANT TO BE AMERICS'S 44TH WHITE PRESIDENT per the second below thread. (The sign was his slam against Kerry for saying that he [Kerry] would be the second black President.)
Hillary's Staff Threatens to Abort Booksigning Over D.C. Chapter (4/21/04)
D.C. Chapter ^ | Wednesday, April 21, 2004 | Kristinn
Posted on 04/21/2004 9:10:57 PM PDT by kristinn
Honor Roll for tonight: Angelwood, tgslTakoma, Trueblackman, scholastic, 3D-Joy and kristinn. Big thanks to Rummyfan for the tip!
Her Heinous, Hillary Rodham Clinton, held a booksigning for the paperback release of her book, Living History, at the Books-a-Million in Washington, D.C.'s ultra-liberal Dupont Circle tonight.
The booksigning was nearly called off because Hillary Clinton's staff freaked out when Trueblackman went through the line twice to get copies of Hillary's books signed by her.
[snip]
One guard got in his face and told him he was banned from the store.
CLICK HERE FOR THE REST OF THAT THREAD.
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Federal Police Ordered D.C. Chapter Silenced Outside Democrat Fundraiser 3/25/04
D.C. Chapter ^ | Thursday, March 25, 2004 | KristinnPosted on 03/25/2004 10:06:57 PM PST by kristinn
Honor Roll for tonight: Staytrue, BillF, Angelwood, tgslTakoma, GunsareOK, BufordP, Trueblackman, sauropod and kristinn.
An officer with the Federal Protective Service ordered the D.C. Chapter of Free Republic to stop addressing Democrats waiting across the street to enter the Democratic Party's Unity Dinner in Washington, D.C. tonight.
[snip]
Trueblackman came to the rescue and lightened the mood with a sign of his own that mocked John Kerry's statement that he wanted to be 'America's second black President' after Bill Clinton.
Trueblackman's sign said "I WANT TO BE AMERICA'S 44TH WHITE PRESIDENT."
That was a controversial sign. Folks either laughed or scowled when they saw him holding it. A Washington Post photographer came over and took several pictures of Trueblackman with his sign.
A while later, an older white man, who looked like a politician but we can't place his face, came out to get in his chauffer driven sedan. He called out to us, "Vote Kerry."
Trueblackman told him, "I'm voting for Bush."
This set the white man off. He sneered at Trueblackman, "What has George Bush ever done for you?" The racist way that sounded stunned us all, I think.
I missed that! Glad you found it!
It doesn't take RB much to get him going. lol He's a fighter for sure......ah but how much we've grown (and how much I've learned) since we/I first met him. He's not hard to debate now. GRIN
THANKS for the ping!
RB? "Our" old RB??? The one who waters lawns???
OhBoy.... Inquiring minds want to know!! Tehee. Talk about ancient history! ;-)
I think it would be to start a
FREEP TRADITION
OF FREEPERS TAKING FREE COFFEE AND DONUTS TO THE POLICE--AT LEAST ENOUGH FRO THOSE CLOSEST TO FREEPERS AND WITH WHOM FREEPERS WOULD INTERACT PERSONALLY.
Civility and generosity can bear good fruit.
At least they'd be likely to have left the scene with a positive aura around the thought of
FREEPERS.
. . . SOMEWHAT regardless of their politics.
Yes yes, the one who is associated with a um.... screeching owl..or any thing fowl that flies. GRIN (if he reads this, I'm JUST TEASING heh heh)
That news is hysterical! So he's still slinking around, huh?
I'm not worried about him reading my comment. He's a TOAD. Heheh! And NO WAY would he last past 3-4 posts before he got bounced from FR anyway! He belongs on DU, LOL!
Way to go DC Chapter!
Oh, you ought to come check it out, Humidston! It's a hoot. Mornin', ladies......
Way to go DC Freepers!
REALLY EXCELLENT, YOU GUYS!
Good evening, Gummy! I just caught your post. Is he there regularly? Did you see my other post to Kim just above this one? I'd bet money he's tried to register here but was bounced for his bad manners, LOL!
I have to start some dinner for Bear but will try to check in later. Let me know when and where I should check him out. That would be FUNNY!
A man in a suit at a protest!
You, my FRiend project nothing but class!
Keep up the great work, DC Chapter, I wish I was located closer to DC, so I could be out there with you!
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