Posted on 08/08/2009 2:19:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This is a 100% true accounting of my experience at the Lloyd Doggett Town Hall meeting at Veterans Building, Austin, Texas, 8/6/09 - Susan Prince
Just to set the scene:
I am a white woman, 67 years old, 5'2" tall and weigh 115 pounds. I am usually very healthy.
I was at the first Town Hall that Doggett gave, but didn't have a sign; just my voice... and just yelled. He called us (all senior citizens) "an angry mob".
Today, I guess I was an Angry Mob of One.
At 3:15 p.m. when I arrived back at my home, I was still trembling and flushed from the heat and took my body temperature. Normally my temp. is 97.8. RIGHT NOW, it is the same degree that I was walking in for an hour and a half - 106 degrees Fahrenheit!!! That translates into a heat stroke. And my husband served our country, was terribly wounded and I couldn't stand on federal property with my sign.
My experience at the town Hall meeting with Lloyd Doggett August 6, 2009
It was on the news this morning that Doggett would be having another Town Hall meeting today at the Veterans Affairs Center. Since my husband has used that Center (as a retired General with 90% Viet Nam disability), I had my ID military card and proceeded to go in. I was not carrying any type of bag or purse -- only my sign.
In the sign in area, the clerk behind the counter looked up my card, found me on the computer, and told the policeman that it was "o.k" for me to go in to the small auditorium. I had my poster with me. On one side was a blown up photo of my husband graduating from West Point and shaking the hand of John F. Kennedy.. it's a great picture! On the other side, I had written: "NO MORE LIES!!!"
As I entered there were about 4 police officers in the blue uniforms and a lot of other people walking around talking on their walkie-talkies and checking everyone before people were allowed in.
I went into the small auditorium, (more like a small movie theatre with 2 aisles) and sat down on the back chair facing 3 men who were my generation and had on their Army caps. And we began to talk.
Within 5 minutes a police officer (blue uniform) came and got me and told me I had to leave with my sign because I was on FEDERAL property. I asked "where can I go?" His answer was "come on out with me and I'll ask my supervisor". So I did and a few minutes later (all the while people are coming in and I'm standing there in the lobby holding my sign), he came back and said "you will have to go outside". I said "It's 106 degrees outside"! I knew that because I had just seen it in my car which tells the temp. I couldn't hear his reply so I leaned in a little and his response was: "back up, don't get close to me"! Now, here I am trying to hear and do what I was asked and he is afraid of me! I backed up and asked him again where was the closest place I could stand and could I stay in the air conditioning". His answer was "No, you have to go out on the sidewalk with your sign". In front of the building there are several rows of cars and a wide cement area when you first come out of the building. Near one of the arches, I saw some shade and so I walked over there and stood with my sign.
Within 5 minutes, another police officer came over to me and told me I had to go out on the street sidewalk. This is a very wide 4 lane street with an old sidewalk. There is absolutely no shade.
I told him I would obey and for the next hour and a half I walked up and down along the highway in front of the building with my sign. The temperature was at least 106 degrees - which is typical for Austin in August.. For the first hour there was no one else walking or in the sun. Just me and then 3-4 people came out with small signs for Obama and they just wanted to fight... I'm too old to fight, so I just kept on walking. I got a lot of thumbs up and horns... and one car stopped with 3 people in it that I declare I have seen on the street panhandling here in Austin, and they called me a delusional old woman". Since I've been called worse, I just kept on walking.
Give me Liberty or give me death.
LLoyd Dogget is obviously an ass.
WOW!
Need to show up at the next City Council Meeting and blast the police for not allowing her to stand in the shade and first of all for kicking her out of the Town Hall because they didn’t like her sign. This is BS on the part of Austin police and a lowlife Congressman.
Bless your heart! You had a right to BE THERE!!! It makes me mad that they don’t respect a person asking to stay in air conditioning in that heat. Thank you for what you did. I just wish you’d had company.
You are my hero. Your experience with the police is disturbing. May God watch over you.
We have them on the run.
Vote this asshole out of office next year.
When these cochroaches confronted with have to find real jobs they will pooh in their pants.
This is disgraceful, if you were a member of ACORN they would drive you to the event.
I'm so glad Phil Gramm stomped him in the 1984 US Senate race to replace retiring Senator John Tower. What was really hillarious was the Gramm campaign TV ad criticizing the campaign contribution to Lloyd Dogget given by a "gay rights" group that held a party at a gay bar. The money was raised by stuffing cash into the G-string of a male stripper.
but, SeekAndFind, you are still a HERO!!
Question: Since when do local police are into enforcing Federal property rights? And what is Federal property?
I would think that local police have more important things to do than harass an elderly woman. Or is this what LIB cops do all the time?
I am sad to report that we have gone beyond the tipping point when honest Americans cannot express their opinion. As I told the toodie at my congresscritter’s office:”The day this government dictates whether I live or die, is the die I say “GO TO HELL”.
I agree with you 100%.
Okay, SHE’S my hero!
The Dem’s are getting panicked, look at the dribble I found on Twitter this afternoon. It appears to be coming form the White House and their Obamanista’s.
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. @whitehouse @barackobama We need help out here! We are losing control of narrative. Looking like #Iran. Stop protesting! #hcr #healthcareabout 2 hours ago from web
@marcuslarsson Why we are on the verge of a just society because of Obama, a fair and just leader.about 16 hours ago from web in reply to marcuslarsson
Running #HealthCare won’t B sufficient. #Obama will need 2 direct all #insurance in order 2 remove risk & worry from R lives. Let him lead.about 16 hours ago from web
@KEVINLORIGO Successful Statism requires ctrl of Transportation,Financial,Energy&Health, AND a fair & just leader. Obama 2 implement.about 16 hours ago from web in reply to KEVINLORIGO
@marcuslarsson Successful Statism requires ctrl of Transportation,Financial,Energy&Health, AND a fair & just leader. Obama 2 implement.about 16 hours ago from web in reply to marcuslarsson
You told him you would obey? I thought the people at these were pissed off.
Says who?
HELOO!
That's TAXPAYER property!
Susan, you are a charming, and courageous woman, and I have no doubt that your husband served this country proudly. I am so ashamed of my country for allowing this to happen to you. I served in the United States Air Force from 1956-1968 and decided to accept other opportunities and not reenlist even though I loved the Air Force and my years in it. It would have been unimaginable for something like this to happen in those years. I was an NCO who had known and admired a few general officers, and later became friends with several high ranking(four star)Admirals and
Generals, most now dead, and no doubt covering their faces in shame.
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