After Action Report-Hollywood Freep

[Hi Heels]

Only starting this for RonDog who is still probably at the site. Wanted to get some pics up as soon as possible. Great Freep and thank you RonDog for a great event!! NO WAY did they not see us.

[paltz]

looks fantastic. Look forward to details.

[NormsRevenge]

Purple Finger Bump!

[MJY1288]

EXCELLENT :-)

[hsalaw]

Great pictures, great signs, and great purple fingers! Looking forward to more details. Thanks!

[HangFire]

Great Job!!!

[Matchett-PI]

bttt!

[Theresawithanh]

LOL! Love the first pic, Bush 4, H-Wood 0!

You guys no doubt put some panties in a twist today. Good job!

[smoothsailing]

GO FREEPERS!

[Fiddlstix]

Good Work
BTTT

[vpintheak]

Beautiful!

[Enterprise]

"looks kinda cheesy"

No, the Freep was great. That's just the cheese covering your eyes you blew out when you sneezed.

Troll

[Enterprise]

Good job. I appreciate it that someone was there to remind these screwballs that they only act, and President Bush makes far reaching real life decisions.

[CitizenM]

LOL great poster!

[SmithL]

I'm glad y'all enjoyed yourselves. The rest of us have to enjoy it through your pictures.

[GloriaJane]

Cheesy? That's you looking at yourself in the mirror!!



TROLL!!

[GloriaJane]

Wonderful Pictures!!! I love the big purple fingers!! LOL!!

[Theresawithanh]

Cheesy. Uh-huh. Welcome to FR.

[NonValueAdded]

Great job with the foam fingers. I would have chosen to paint a different finger, though, for those Hollywood types. ;)

[MJY1288]

Well! you smell cheesy

[CitizenM]

Been waiting all evening to hear how it went. Especially how the purple fingers worked. Great job! In the pictures, who are all those people who look irritated. Passersby?

Will catch up on this tomorrow. Going to hit the sheets now and hope for no snow here. Thanks LA FReepers. Thanks HiHeels for a quick update. Thanks RonDog for organizing this.

[smoothsailing]

TROLL ALERT ON AISLE #9

[tgslTakoma]

First photos just in, from Ron Dog and the Hollywood Resistance Force's Oscar Freep.

Good work, folks! Will check back in the morning to read the written report...

[paltz]

Troll alert !

[CounterCounterCulture]

Been waiting for this thread. :-)

[Enterprise]

So what kind of cheese is that dripping out. Troll cheese or Swiss De Ogre?

[AGreatPer]

Wonderful post. Thanks for reminding those idiots there is a real world. Of course, they don't care.

[Deetes]

Right on. Or right FReeping on :-)

[Blue Collar Christian]

Had a young woman get her knickers in a knot, telling me that we must be confused. The Oscars were about actors, not politics.

I told her we couldn't agree more, and to tell the actors.

She responded "We like THEM."

It was also amazing how many people thought so poorly of Iraqis having the freedom to vote.

[fish hawk]

I talk a good story but never get out in the trenches. God bless all of you that do it.

[Enterprise]

Matt Drudge played some of the comments directed at President Bush by Chris Rock. There's just no way a room full of Hollywood elites is going to gather without some gratuitous President Bush jokes.

[Falconspeed]

Ping!

[Howlin]

Can you put some cheese in this to bait the troll?

[John Lenin]

I smell a zot coming your way

[MJY1288]

LOL,

[GeronL]

The bullhorn sign said "First Iraq, then France"

LOL

[Blue Collar Christian]

"There's just no way a room full of Hollywood elites is going to gather without some gratuitous President Bush jokes."

What do you expect from a part of our society thats biggest event is patting itself on the back?

[Enterprise]

There's a new post up, I'm sure you read it by now. It contains some of Chris Rock's comments.

[RonDog]

Thank you for posting this thread, Hi Heels!

I will post MUCH MORE later, but I am VERY TIRED right now.

It appears that we DID make the Associated Press, from story.news.yahoo.com:

Sun Feb 27, 6:01 PM ET
Oscar fans gather along Hollywood Blvd. in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles Sunday, Feb. 27, 2005. Fans had to be screened by security authorities around the Kodak Theater during the 77th annual Academy Awards (news - web sites). (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

What do you expect from a part of our society thats biggest event is patting itself on the back?

Hi all--just got home from this FReep. I'm about to post a longer Post Action detail report here, and sending RonDog some photos soon to post here.....but this comment struck home. I walked back and forth to my car a couple of times....along the Hollywood Walk of Fame. I was noticing the many names, some of old, some more recent, and was thinking to myself about how little a contribution most of those "Stars" actually made. Sure, they might make us laugh or cry or think--using somebody else's words and thoughts. Yet is that reason for the level of worship these narcissists among us warrant? We have statues, monuments etc. to commemorate such as General Grant, George Washington, Lincoln yet how about the lesser giants among us, those who in less-famous ways show backbone, courage, leadership, integrity, patriotism, CHARACTER. Just needed to "journal" this thought, might as well put it here for all to consider.

[Alaska Wolf]

Great work. Looking forward to the updates

[Joy Angela]

Great work!!

The Oscars/Freep was crowds and more crowds, lots of people trying to see the Rich and Famous, as they dodged Members of the PURPLE REVOLUTION!!!

It's so great to have "fellowship" afterward and meet everyone. We weren't all in the same place, while freeping, so it was a treat to talk, learn about each other and smile about the event!

What a blessing to have this outlet for our energies,
and our passion so we can encourage each other and be strengthened in the grand purpose!!

Ted Hayes was the radiant Uncle Sam and inspirational everytime he chanted or gave a cheer.

And RonDog in the Moore suit... what was it, "butt" backwards.

People who post on FR were there, plus many others who love America, served in the military and one young man just from Iraq on a 30 day leave!

Can you imagine the dedication, for this soldier to come to a freep while still on Bagdad Time/and with jetlag???

It's so nice to know that yes, Americans care about
their country, cherish their freedoms...

...And LOVE to Freep!

Can't wait to see more pictures!

[rantblogger]

Wow. Thank you for the two "Purple Revolution" shots, one of me with bullhorn and one of my hand.

My report:

I arrived with a box of purple rubber fingertips (a great bargain on EBAY where I snagged two gross for $1 per gross plus shipping--they usually cost about $2.50 per dozen at a stationery store) that had been dyed in RIT. In retrospect, I'd have gone for more of a lavender than a plum purple.

I was surprised at how few people understood the symbolism of the purple finger. When I got a puzzled stare from someone walking by, I made a point to politely ask "do you understand the purple finger"? If I got a positive response, I explained about the tens of millions of Afghans and Iraqis who risked their lives despite the threats to their lives by the powerful religious extremists. It wasn't merely voting, but that because of the dye, anyone who voted would be identifiable for 3 or 4 days AFTER the election. This is one of the reasons when I had bullhorn time I tried to explain the meaning. Frankly, I wasn't surprised that Hollywood would be this oblivious to REAL freedom and courage to fight for it.

Shout outs to the other FREEPers who helped hand out and explain what the "freedom fingers" were all about. In retrospect, I think it is important to POUND THE "PURPLE REVOLUTION" SYMBOLISM HOME, OVER AND OVER until it becomes as AT LEAST AS ubiquitous as the idiotic "WAR IS NO THE ANSWER" bumper stickers.

At about 3:30, I looked in my hip case and noticed that my PDA wasn't there. My LIFE is in it, so this was no small loss. I left the corner and walked back to my car at the lot on Cherokee that RonDog recommended. Hooray, my PDA was in the car after all. But walking back toward the FREEPing, I noticed that there was a primo location near Hollywood and Cherokee where cars were passing through a security gauntlet after being checked for explosives. Hundreds of cars got an "in your face" look of me with my "purple revolution" finger. I saw dozens mouthing the words "purple revolution" (proof of a solid public school education--having to read while moving one's lips!). I got some approving "thumbs up" salutes but I most of all I was successful at propagating the "mental virus" of planting the meme of the "purple revolution" that President Bush noted last week.

No doubt the newspapers and news shows that these limosine liberals watch do all they can to suppress the message of the courage of the purple-fingered first time voters.

At around 4:30, I walked back to the corner to see how well the rest of the FREEPers did.

Post-mortem... in retrospect, I'd have wanted one more sign with an explanation of what the purple fingers represented, a printed quotation of President Bush's mentioning the "purple revolution" and MANY signs with and WHY people should want to wear them. See below with suitable photos of courageous voters.

We could have really shown Hollywood, in character, as Garofalo-like.

Thank you all. Sincerely, Rantblogger

[Joy Angela]

Hey!! That's my hand underscoring the word FREE
on the Bush Poster!

Wowsa!!

That's a good shot!!!!

[Ros42]

Great job you all!! Awesome pictures and an Awesome FReep!

[Joy Angela]

re 40...

Hey, and isn't that MICHAEL MOORE,
why what's he doing outside the Oscars??

[CitizenM]

You might want to check the info. about the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in NY to see if this is what you are thinking about:

http://www.bcc.cuny.edu/hallofFame/

[Happy2BMe]

Thank you and Ron Dog for doing that.

I can't stand Hollywood.

Caption Hollywood's Finest At Antiwar Demonstrations (Danny Glover Fans Need Not Apply)

Eerie Silence in Hollywood as Anti-War Stars Vanish

And the OSCAR goes to . . Saddam Hussein!

[Badray]

Bump for the great pics. Gave me the chills. What brave people they are.