Posted on 12/14/2001 7:39:08 AM PST by hellinahandcart
You all deserve a standing ovation for courage under fire!
I learned something today, besides the fact that hellinahandcart is a most talented artist:
Garlic is used to ward off vampires
A cross to ward off the devil
Our Stars & Stripes to ward off commie leftist traitors.
From a proud member of the DC Chapter.
'Pod.
I think you guys should have waited out the speech then pounced. FReepers at many events including those secured by the secret service are given prime spots because we are known for our law-abiding and courteous protest methods. See DC Chapter FReep Rules for reference. They make sense.
Having said that you folks showed great bravery going into a basement full of Rats!
Now, now. We were not there to physically take on the @#$%^&*'s, so three was plenty (especially since Nitro is such a big strong tall fellow). We were there to give them a little stomach acid, that's all. To let them know that some people are catching on to them. We knew we were going to get thrown out eventually. That's also why I don't consider the shoving to be charge-worthy (when you try to provoke a reaction, and you get one, well...).
Now, if we'd had a few more people, we could have done a two-stage disruption and still left one person in there to record the whole presentation. But the second disruption might have escalated the mood in a bad direction. These people are zealots even if they're not prime physical specimens.
OTOH, let us acknowlege that at least *some* of the people there were honorable opponents. Afterall, they did return the flag and the hat.
You got the hat and our flag back. There's hope for a couple of people that were in there.
I may get flamed for this but I think many people in there are gentle, well-meaning souls who really believe and practice the "brotherhood" aspects of their movement. Others are disaffected freaks who've finally found a place to "belong". That's powerful psychological stuff. They are seriously deluded, however, and blind to what the world would really be like if they finally got what they're after. And they've all been misled by conscious manipulators at the core of this group.
But yes, I think they also thought giving us our stuff back was the right thing to do.
Otherwise you were in the middle of a bunch of commies.
We knew that. :P
You're crazy!
Yeah, I know. mr. hellinahandcart was NOT a happy camper when he found out what I was doing on Thursday night. (sigh)
Yes, we must do it again sometime, real soon, Tis the Season to be Jolly!
Dave - agree we need to plan - unfortunetly I have to coach 8-9 year old Basketball this afternoon and then go to a work function (I missed last year's Christmass party because I stayed too long at "Cheney's House";-) - Please send my regards to the D.C. Chapter - we did "good" this year and everyone feels like an extended family to me. - One of the other Daves in our bunch (Leadpenny too).
Would love to meet you sauropod......We would bring the libs to their knees...I hope you'll be there in Feb....come on down.
Now, we Freepers know how to PAAARRRRTTTYYYYY! Of course, we'd have to have a giant celebration...O'Luney is the place!
Hey Jimmy, these wackos couldn't have hurt us, Thank Goodness, Nitro had the good sense to keep his composure...
Hey, you coming on up here so we can do a Big Freep, out here in the Socialist Republic of NY? We've got to make an impression!
As some great musician wrote,"I may be crazy, but man, atleast I'm cool, everybody knows I ain't nobody's fool." Johnny Winter, one of my favorites!
Dave, you can count on me, to organize what I can in February up here, but getting some people to move, is easier said then done...NY Freepers need to get up and FREEP!
Giambi even shaved his goatee...what a woooossie SELL-OUT!!
Yeah, NY deserves the PUNK...MUD
He'll be a great Yank, MUD......and don't be in mourning, my good friend, Atlanta is a wonderful team!
FreeGards Here In NY, Fighting Off The Commie Wackos,
Karen
Believe me, Tunehead, you would have hit the ceiling if you heard the wrong stuff they put out as facts....Apologies accepted...
Karen
You should have seen it Dan, they shuffled and surrounded Nitro....it was just unbelievable! You would have have decked them for sure! You should have seen these people...what a bunch of sadsacks!
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