Posted on 04/10/2008 7:27:56 PM PDT by radar101
Previously posted was an item,"John McCain visits Prescott:"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997696/posts
On April 5 I attended a support rally in Prescott for Sen. John McCain.
I carried a sign with a photo of a war-torn child from Iraq and an anti-war sign from Moveon.org.
Local police told me I had a right to be in the crowd and close to the stage.
Three Navy/Army men were in front of me. I told them I loved them and I support them 100 percent - just not this war based on lies. They thanked me for my gratitude and belief in democracy.
Right away McCain's security force asked to leave. I told them that I had spoken with local police and had a right to be there. They told me it was disrespectful to be there and asked me to leave.
When McCain appeared and I held my signs up, at least three men surrounded me and blocked my signs with theirs. Then the crowd turned hostile. Someone called me a bitch and told me to get "the f---" out of there. Another ripped the photo of the child from my hands, and others pushed me through the crowd while hurling threats and foul comments.
They were not allowing people to express their democratic freedoms. They were allowing only perfect crowd-pleasing supporters within this sphere of influence that our so-called democratic media would report on.
So do we live in a democratic society? I think not. The word empire comes closer to mind.
K.R. Russell
Sounds like they were behaving like democrats
They’d do the same thing to one of us.
Except they’d try to get the police to arrest any on our side.
Can someone describe exactly what A “Wor torn Child” is ?
Do they have Union or sumpthin’?
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Getting a front seat at a campaign event is not a RIGHT, those spots are reserved for campaign workers.
Maybe someone should have called her a waaaaambulance.
Poor baby. Maybe she should stick to crowds of like-minded individuals when she displays her “I AM STUPID” sign.
Yeah, I love how Hillary! and Obama set such a good example, letting the opposition wave signs up near the stage. Why, every day they demonstrate their tolerance for their political adversaries by inviting them up on the stage to debate anything.
That darn McCain campaign just has no diversity. *rolleyes*
those wascally local police.. ;-)
Inasmuch as the McCainiacs are all wimps it's not surprising they didn't do that ~ just kind of hid her signs.
A real man's event'd had that ol'gal out there with a busted up head ~ that's from her diving into the pavement.
>>>Three Navy/Army men
This Bozo/Bozette can’t tell the difference between an Army and a Navy uniform, but wants us to believe she knows where “war torn’ photos come from.
Code Stink and other protesters in Berzerkely have done much worse there in their protests against the Marines, and the police there have only harrassed those who were counter-protesting peacefully. I have zero sympathy for this pathetic woman.
So do we live in a democratic society? I think not. The word empire comes closer to mind....K.R. Russell
False. We live in a Republic.
>>>> free assembly
Not if the event was on private property.
You do have the freedom of speech as well as the responsibility to accept the consequences of that speech. You are free from governmental repercussions but the response of your fellow citizens is based on their freedom of speech.
See, it works both ways
There were National Guard guys there in Army uniforms.
The “Navy” guys she saw were Air Force ROTC from nearby Embry-Riddle Air University.
Good
Lol, the military illiterate probably from download them from Rev Wright’s soul mates @ al Jazzera.
“So do we live in a democratic society? I think not.”
Yes we do, which is why I vote in opposition to clowns like yourself.
Read you tagline. So, you know my wife, do you?
Campaigns pay for these rallies and should not expect their message to be distracted by a moonbat with a sign. If the people there wanted to see lefty claptrap they would have been home watching CNN or MSNBC.
Only if they "need more white people"
If what this person describes is true, those people’s actions were reprehensible and offensive. Just b/c the shoe is on the other foot doesn’t make it any less shameful.
Too the contrary it appears that good Americans are finally stepping up.
Of course, the report is from the mouth of a demented pinko. You can’rt trust it. Anyway, she had no business being there.
Liberals should not intentionally offend people, and then whine and cry when they get the reaction they should have expected.
An additional thought: just what was the warn-torn child? What would happen if you held up a picture of an aborted child at a NOW rally?
Darn, you beat me to it.
susie
Cry me a river, jackass.
They beat the snot out of a teenager in the Pacific Northwest for carrying an American flag.
If you show up to protest a candidate, expect his supporters to be “uncouth.”
You’re Joking. I hope. Cause HOPE is what we are all about.
Nobody has any idea of what we’re “hoping” for.
S’okay.. it’s all good.
This is NOT what they would do to our side. Hillary’s been caught in the past using union goons to eye gouge dissenters with thumbs to the eye. And this was hiring union labor enforcers who’ve been convicted of such charges in the past so Her Clinton knew what she was getting.
Sounds to me she was looking for trouble from the get-go!
Wonder if she was even there? Odd that she would go all by here lonely liberal self.
I was wondering the same thing. I’m a non-native speaker. You must be, too.
And secret service. Supporters are rarely the type to go violent or disrupt a public speaking event.
The police are very unlikely to have DIRECTED her to go to the front and cause an issue.
I carried a sign with a photo of a war-torn child
Freedom isn’t free, war torn isn’t dead, there is hope for this kids future in a free society. Price paid by fearless Americans for the World to be a better place. Thank you America!
A true fellow traveler!
keyword election violence shows many such incidents, caused by the left:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/electionviolence/index
You failed in the marketplace of ideas, hapless fool
Tell me you are kidding, even if you aren't.
OMG how horrible that they said bad words to her. BooHooHOOO such bad bad people. Grow up lady!(and I use that term losely!)
I went to a Bush event in 2004. Tickets for the event had to be requested in advance (they were free, but you had to know where to get them), and the color of your ticket determined where you were allowed to stand at the rally.
My son and I had blue tickets, which allowed us into the civilian zone closest to the president. No one was allowed to approach any closer unless they were Secret Service or police or members of the President’s entourage.
“I call bravo sierra”
I think you called this one correctly.
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He’s lucky I wasn’t there, I would have shoved his sign up his ass.
It’s about time.
Every time I have ever tried to talk to a “Liberal”,
As soon as I voiced any opinion that differed with their worldview, I was Demonized, Marginalized and Silenced as best they could. They have even gone so far as sticking their fingers in their ears and Going Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah.
So you see Rational Debate Does not matter to a Liberal.
No point in trying to be evenhanded with them they will never reciprocate.
No, we live in a Representitive Republic, moron. Go get an education. Spoken to the author.
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