Great job! Good to see YAF.
Posted on 05/18/2006 5:43:12 PM PDT by kevinjdeanna
Members of Young Americans for Freedom came from as far away as Michigan to support a start-up chapter of YAF at Liberty University last weekend. The YAF-ers came to oppose Sen. John McCain’s immigration policies and rallied along the side of the road. After getting lots of enthusiastic responses from passing cars, they marched to the entrance of the school and demonstrated there, leaving only after the police threatened them with arrest.
This action is part of a general effort to revitalize Young Americans for Freedom and create a real right-wing youth movement to mobilize against the Republican leadership for secure borders and national sovereignty.
During the protest several people stopped to talk with the YAF protesters. All were in support of the YAF position against McCain and illegal immigration. One construction worker walked from a nearby construction site to voice his support saying that most of his co-workers on the site could not even speak English. A Liberty University parent also stopped and said he could not believe that someone like McCain was actually being invited to speak at Liberty. He asked about YAF and said he was glad to see that someone was openly voicing what most people were thinking. Reporters also stopped by with questions about the rally and YAF.
The day before members of YAF had attended a Minutemen rally in Washington, D.C., and were confronted with a gaggle of left-wing militants and Reconquistadors who attempted to disrupt the rally. They shouted obscenities and slogans in Spanish. YAF-ers carried Don’t Tread on Me Flags and megaphones and chanted “Smash Left-Wing Scum” at protesters, which caused some of them to attempt to turn violent. Police were forced to intervene when leftists attempt to surge at the pro-Minutemen line. The protesters seemed surprised to encounter right-wing activists who were not afraid to engage them.
These activities highlight efforts by Young Americans for Freedom across the country to re-energize the right across America.
I was a YAFfer between 1999 and 2003.
It's good to still see them fighting the good fight.
Great job! Good to see YAF.
Actual young conservatives...I thought that was a thing of the past...
And if you knew anything about Windham, you'd think that remarkable! Later in 1970, William F. Buckley threw a 10-year anniversary party for YAF in Hartford and at his estate in Sharon, Ct. Guests: Goldwater, Strom, Al Capp, Stanton Evans, David Keene, James Kilpatrick, etc., etc. Quite the lineup! Best wishes to the New YAF.
(Along with Ron Robinson, I was active in the Buffalo NY chapter of YAF in the 60's ... what an amazing time, we were against the zeitgeist, but our perspective on things has held up to this day.)
I remember Al Capp was particularly outstanding, funny and droll. It was a thrill to have him there, because he was a "convert," a liberal who saw the light.
I had already met Goldwater a year before when I went to Washington and made of point of visiting his office. I was let down, to tell the truth, but still revered him.
A couple years after the Sharon Ct. shindig, I met WFB on the set of Firing Line, and believe me, it was pure ecstacy to have met this gracious and good man.
As a kid (late 60s) I can remember listening to a weekly YAF program on WBAI (Pacifica) in NYC. My how things have changed
My folks were in YAF in Rhode Island back around 1964-1969. When you weren't in 'Nam, I don't suppose you attended the God, Family, and Country Rallies sponsored by the JBS in Boston every July 4 from like 1964-1974 did you?
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