OPERATION INFINITE FREEP, COLORADO STYLE - 3/01/03

Colorado Chapter of FreeRepublic.com ^ | 02/28/03 | Tom Buchanan

[fivetoes]

OPERATION INFINITE FREEP, COLORADO STYLE

WHO: All Freepers, the VFW, any other interested parties
WHAT: Support Our Troops Rally (Operation Infinite Freep)
WHY: To show our troops that we are behind them and to counter the anti war protesters across the street.
How You Can Help:Show up and bring a sign that indicates Support for our Troops. If you don't have a sign, we have plenty to go around. Bring an American flag to wave proudly.

These Freeps take place Every Saturday. Try to make at least one of them!

Ft. Collins
WHERE: North East corner of Mulberry and College WHEN:Noon to 1:00 p.m.

Loveland
WHERE: South East corner of Taft and Eisenhower (US-34) WHEN:1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Longmont
WHERE: South East corner of 6th and Main WHEN:2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Greeley
WHERE:Corner of US-34 amd 35th Ave WHEN:11:00 a.m. to Noon

Let's be nice and not get into any trouble. Protesting Guidelines

Please post your after FReep Reports here!

[fivetoes]

BONUS RALLIES

Two Area Rallies to Show Support for Troops (Ft. Collins and Loveland)

Radio station K99 Salutes the Troops rallies will be held in Fort Collins and Loveland on Saturday March 1, 2003.

The Loveland rally will be held 9-10 a.m. at Dwayne Webster Veterans Park. The park is on US-34 just South of Lake Loveland

The Fort Collins rally will be 11 a.m. -noon at Eldora Park, 1420 E. Stuart St.

Attendees will receive American flag bumper stickers, hear patriotic music and may sign a banner that will be sent to our troops.

[fivetoes]

FYI

[weldgophardline]

I will be in Greeley at 10:45AM to get the corner,hope to see all the FReepers out and warm tomorrow beating the lefists!!
We will beat them here then on to Longmont!!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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[Trteamer]

Greeley is my target for FReeping tommorrow! My first FReep in my home town, I'm stoked!!! Lots of friends are expected to join us. I'll post a report and send you pictures tomorrow! All the Best at the other FReeps, Greeley is in good hands.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Unfortunately I'll have to miss the Longmont Freep for the first time due to another engagement. But I will try to get to at least part of the Loveland K-99 rally, then to Greeley, then leave Greeley a bit early to go to Ft. Collins. Wow! Tons of N. Colorado Freeps tomorrow! Let me summarize them all -

• 9-10AM - Loveland park - sponsored by K-99
• 11AM-Noon - Greeley Freep #2
• 11AM-Noon - Ft. Collins Edora park - K-99 again.
• Noon-1PM - Ft. Collins Freep #500-something. Vets + Freepers at College & Mulberry
• 1:30-2:30 - Loveland Freep #200-something
• 3-4PM - Longmont Freep #5.

Dat's a lotta lotta lotta Freeps!!

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

• Noon-1PM - Ft. Collins Freep #500-something. Vets + Freepers at College & Mulberry
• 1:30-2:30 - Loveland Freep #200-something

OOPS! Sorry. It's late and I'm exhausted. I was counting up the approximate number of days since these started. Need to divide by 7 to get the number of rallies. So make that instead -

• Noon-1PM - Ft. Collins Freep #70-something....
• 1:30-2:30 - Loveland Freep #25-30 something

[fivetoes]

I am planning on getting to the park in Loveland an hour early and FReep the street before the rally.

[BlueOneGolf]

Today I'm joining you guys in a virtual FReep from Louisville. Here's my sign:

"I support Pres. Bush and our Troops. Liberate Iraq!"

I'll be with you guys in spirit today as you stand in defense of our Republic, our FReedom and our Troops. God Blesss the United States Armed Forces!!!

[fivetoes]

Loveland Report

It was a yoyo day for me, Loveland to Greeley and back to Loveland. A local country radio station, K99 was having two support for our troops rallies. The first one was in Loveland from 9-10 a.m. and the second in Ft. Collins at 11:00 a.m.. I arrived at the Loveland rally an hour early and took up a position next to the cannon with my trusty sign and flag. It is on a hill overlooking US-34. As people arrived they joined me and the fun began. Shortly after, FReeper BulletBobCo showed up and the FReep was on. Weldgophardline and his family showed up followed by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC and MollynMe.

I got to use my bullhorn and gave the crowd the ole Blessed are the Peace Makers! The United States Army, The United States Air Force, The United States Navy, The United States Coast Guard aaannnndd the The United States Marine Corps! The crowd went into a cheer. I then informed them of the four FReeps and told them they were more than welcome to join us.

I passed out some of dware's flyers to the crowd.

FReeping leftists is fun, but there sure is something special about rallying friendly folks.

After the rally we headed over to Greeley which is about a half hour drive to the East. We were welcomed by Trteamer and RandallFlag who were stationed on the NE corner of US-34 and 35th Avenue. I joined them. The Weldgophardline family were occupying the SW corner. This is the corner the lefties have been claiming in the past. We were early, they were late. Ya snooze, ya lose! MollynMe and CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC joined them.

The parking on that corner is about two hundred yards away across a field. After a while we could see the lefties walking toward the FReepers on the SW corner. They must have thought they had comrades on their corner. They were surprized to find that they were in an occupied zone. The moved to the opposite corners.

The wind was paralizing. Everyone was securing their signs to keep them from blowing away. My sign was stapled to my frame and a gust of wind came by and ripped my sign away from the frame and sent it flying down the road. Luckily I had my 'Give Our Troops a Honk' sign under it. A short time later one of Trteamer's signs blew across the street and they retrieved it and were puzzled by its message.

There were a lot of them pesky lefties, but we definately had the honks coming our way.

Oh, the yoyo thing. I went back to Loveland to replace my sign. It was like a sign shop pit stop. I threw together a sign in a rush and headed out to the Loveland FReep. I wanted to get there a little early since I invited the people to join me in the morning. I was there for a while and a couple joined me from the earlier rally. They brought along a couple of small flags and had a delightful time waving their flags at all of the honking cars. They plan on returning.

Another person from the morning came to help FReep, but he wound up on the other side trying to reason with them. It would not have been so bad, but he had an American flag attached to a long pole. It was one of the few times that a flag had graced their corner. He finally came over to the right side. We were also joined by RandallFlagg and Freedomfighter1.

The wind was not as bad as Greeley (nothing new), but the temerature dropped steadily and it started to snow. Then an event happened upon us and warmed us so that we could have gone a few more hours. A young woman stopped by with a two year old. She was crying tears of joy that we were there supporting our troops. She was an EMT in Greeley and I think she lives in Loveland. We told her that were there every week and she said that she would join us next week. It was goosebumpily to watch as her tears nearly froze as theyt ran down her cheeks.

Here are some photos.

Here is a picture of our newest FReeper. Please welcome BulletBobCO

Some of the folks at he morning rally.

This is a behind the scenes shot of us showing our support to passers-by

Here are a couple of shots of what the traffic saw as they approached.

This is a picture of 'them' in Greeley.

This Treamer facing off with a couple of 'them' in Greeley.

I managed to get this picture of the SW corner as I was leaving.

This is what we faced in Loveland.

Here is a shot of the good guys. That is Jack in te front and Freedomfighter1 behind him. RandallFlagg is hanging on to my sign which is a little different than it was this morning. Behind RF is the man from the eariler rally that joined us. Shortly after this picture was taken it began to snow.

Here is a shot of the loud traffic we face in Loveland.

This is a shot of tFreedomfighter1.

Just in case you're interested in how cold it was, this is a some chain covered in ice. Stay warm out there.

[dware]

BEAUTIFUL!!

[weldgophardline]

We started out in Loveland with the support the troops rally at the park, it was so nice to have people to share in our feeling of support for the troops. The people at k99 I would like to thank them for doing this, it was great when they released the doves for the troops and they flew over the flag it was beautiful.
We then headed to Greeley to do our seconded FReep in two weeks here. I think it was a great Freep this time because the people seemed to take notice this time of what we were doing out there this time . The horns were blaring as we came over the hill because Trteamer was already set up on the other corner, When mollynme got down to the corner it was so cold and windy that we decided to only use one sign at a time instead of our usual two or three signs. The wind had nothing on the wyoming kind 30 to 40 miles per hr.
The greatest one was when a Loomis armored car came by and really let go with his horn and siren it was so warming to all of us. The horns for our side had to be 20 to 1 if not more. The uesful idiots had on President Bush masks and were dancing like fools most of the FReep. They really did'nt like Randall Flag reading the E-mails from the troops he had been getting, to much truth for them I guess.When we were getting ready to leave one of the idiots came over to our corner and had a sign blaming the U.S. for every conflict from the last hundred years and how we should be ashamed of what we are doing out here supporting the troops. I polity called him a IDIOT and explained how he was the one wrong and how it was a degrading to see their display of hatred to the troops and America.
We then went to Longmont and had a time I would'nt have wanted to miss. We had four people come up after they had drove by to come and thank us for what we are doing . The first one was a mother that had a daughter in Afghanistan right now , it brought a tear to one's eyes to hear her thank us.The seconded one was a Naval Reservist that came and thanked us. The third one was a young man that had just enlisted in the army and was due to join up in two weeks. the fourth one was a young man name Nathan that was due to join up in the Marine corp in two weeks he came and joined the Freeper line and had a heated discussion with two young idiots that had came over to argue with us. If it is any doubt of this young man he showed great resolve in beating back their lies and enjoyed it alot. Our country is proud of these young men and women in the service of our great country, and we pray for a swift and safe victory for the TROOPS and quick return home for all of them.

[fivetoes]

Here are some pics by Trteamer

Here is a shot of them trying to hold down their sheet sign in the high winds in Greeley.

This is looking from the NE corner to the SW corner where the Weldgophardline family, MollynMe and CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC were holding down the fort literally.

Fivetoes trying his best to hold down the sign, or was he trying to hang onto the sign to keep himself from blowing away.

[Trteamer]

GREELEY REPORT:

A special thanks to our troops from GReeley Colorado!! Today FReepers fivetoes,Randall Flagg,Molynme,CardCarryingMemberVastRightWC,the entire family of weldgophardline, and I held our own in a horrid cold wind. I froze, but the response from the citizens to our efforts still warms my heart.

The leftists of GReeley consist of brainwashed college students and a few old leftist grandpa types dragging along their small grandchildren (I feel sorry for the little kids). They are not as organized or as experienced at this sort of thing as us FReepers and it shows. The wind was blowing hard and cold and our signs took a beating but held up. Old Glory really likes a stiff wind and looked spectacular! Yes, we gave the peace-niks a hard time. They asked for it.

Randall Flagg brought along his trusty bullhhorn and we took turns making comments to the leftists. I just love to get on the bullhorn and yell "Good Morning Leftists! I support George Bush!" and "Good Morning Leftists! God Bless Our Troops!". The funniest moment today was when Randall Flagg did a little bullhorn poll of the citizens stopped at the light. When he asked how many people voted for George Bush there was honking and cheering. When he asked how many people voted for Al Gore there was total silence except for a guy in a car yelling "Well I guess that answers that!!" LOL!!

I did a head count and it was about 10 FReepers to 23 leftists. Boy did we outnumber them and outclass them. You all know one FReeper is worth a hundred leftists! Our little band of battle hardened FReepers is a real handfull. They didn't stand a chance.

As fivetoes hinted in his report I did indeed get into a verbal exchange with two female leftists. Here is the story:

The wind grabbed one of my signs off the ground and sent it directly across the street to the leftists. This was one they had never seen and really upset them. It read "Leftists!! The BLOOD of Saddam's victims is on YOUR hands! (complete with bloody hand prints). The leftists all looked at it and were pissed. Just about that time fivetoes and Randall Flagg had to leave for Loveland and I held my corner by myself. Well here came two college girl leftists across the street bringing my sign back to me ( they shouldn't have done that, I will use that sign again on them). They came over to argue.

As they say , it's hard to have a battle of wits with an unarmed leftist. As we got into it, I looked over to see fivetoes stopped at the light with camera in hand and I started laughing. They didn't think it was too funny. These two girls were totally brainwashed by their leftist professors and it showed. They spouted all the B.S. they have been taught and I handed it right back to them in non politically correct terms. When I told them they must have flunked history class they informed me they were both majoring in history at the university. I pounced on that. I asked them "Who was Neville Chamberlin? and what did he do in WWII?", total silence. When they started talking about the glory of the United Nations I asked "Who is the head of the U.N. human rights commission?", total silence. When I asked them exactly what they would do about Iraq they told me they would have our special forces go in and capture Saddam instead of bombing the children. You cannot reason with brainwashed idiots.

When they informed me they were members of the Green Party, I pounced on that one too. I said to them "How about this one: Let's Drill A.N.W.R.!!" (I might as well have kicked their puppy)LOL!! That really got them going. I informed them there was 9 to 16 Billion barrels of oil in A.N.W.R., enough for 30 years of oil independence so our country can research alternative fuels. In addition I informed them that the infrastructure is already in place in Prudoe Bay and our oil companies are experts at minimizing environmental damage. THEY LEFT.

I stayed on the corner until all the leftists were gone. The people of GReeley Colorado send their THANKS to all our troops out there. Your have support!! The honking proved that. All the Best,

[Trteamer]

A Big PING!!, The Colorado FReep reports and pictures are rolling in.

Please FReepmail me if you wish to be removed from my ping list.

[SAMWolf]

Bump. Great job and pictures!

[Trteamer]

Welcome to our little band of patriots!! Nice to see you waving Old Glory in Loveland. I hope to meet you in person soon at one of our FReeps. Thank you for coming out to Support Our Troops. By the way Thanks again for the picture of the Wyoming Wind Sock, What a hoot!
All the Best,

[Soaring Feather]

Fantastic FReep, great photos!

Thanks for the ping!

[fivetoes]

I hope your day was as fun as ours. Scroll Up to get the full reports.

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Here are some pics by Deb, weldgophardline's wife.

The radio station released a covey of white doves for our troops.

Weldgophardline's family's FReeper dog.

Fivetoes was only reaching for his camera. Honest!

This is looking from the SW corner to the NE corner where RandallFlagg, Trteamer and fivetoes were holding down their corner.

An island of idiots.

CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC trying to stay warm and hold onto his sign.

An action shot of MollynMe trying to hold down her signs and FReep.

Them in Longmont.

The good folks in Longmont.

A circle of them in Longmont to end the festivities for the day.

[beaversmom]

Hey we (husband and sons) actually made it up all the way north to Ft. Collins this weekend. We talked with RandallFlagg and Card Carrying Member. A guy from the VFW (WWII) introduced himself to us as "Frank". At first he said, "What are you bums doing over here?" I think he thought we were on the wrong side of the road for some reason. He was very nice to us though--I think he figured out we were part of his group. He kept calling my oldest one "Ernest". At one point he went over to the dark side and I think he harrassed a few people over there.

Randall Flagg went to one of the dark corners and read letters and came back later stating it was getting too heated and stinky over there. We could hear some of what he was saying between the numbers the band was playing. It was cold but not as cold and windy as what I heard Greeley was today. Card Carrying said one of his signs was blown to pieces.

After the rally, we went by a restaurant for a bite and before I knew it, it was 2:20. So when we drove by the rally in Longmont, it was just wrapping up at 3:00. We honked and waived to the Longmont Freepers but we were on the other side of the road so I don't know if you guys saw or heard us. Oh, and before we made it to the Ft. Collins rally, we stopped by the radio station deal at Edora Park. We signed the banner and grabbed a few stickers and then left. There were a few people there but it didn't look like too much was going on at the point we arrived. All and all it was a fun time and worth the trip from Aurora to Ft. Collins. I'll try to make the Longmont one next weekend.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Thank You Patriots

[TheConservativeCitizen]

I'm still cold from FReeping in a snowstorm but what more fun can you have on a Saturday? I humbly suggest that every FReeper attempt to bring a friend to the next rally. I'm tired of being outnumbered on the street though I do agree that one of us is worth a hundred of them. I was both in Fort Collins and later in Loveland today and am ticked off beyond belief at the state of affairs in this country. Loveland was especially supportive of our little brave band of six flag waving patriots. I work most Saturdays but attend at every opportunity. Thanks to all for your dedication and especially to Tom Buchanan for his committment and hard work. I think because of my limitation on Saturdays that I will have to start a one man FReep complete with flag, snare drum and appropriate sign whenever I have a day off. Even a lone nut on a corner gets plenty of honks and waves I guess.

-Freedomefighter1
(Dave)

[weldgophardline]

I hope to see you in Longmont next weekend could use the help we could be shorthanded but we will prevail.

[fivetoes]

Just for reference.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks for the ping.

Bump.

[weldgophardline]

We had a great FReeping day hope you did to.

[bluesagewoman]

WOW! You guys Rock! Fighting with leftists is really hard on a person. Trying to figure their logic is useless. Great idea to read those letters. Thanks for doing the FReep in the cold and snow.

[RandallFlagg]

Report of the rally for America's Troops in Norhtern Colorado (Four Rallies)

Aw, MAN! We had such a great time today! I started off early, driving first to the rally in Greeley. I saw Trteamer all by himself at the NE corner, so I grabbed my bullhorn to join him. The wind was fierce! He told me that he'd already lost his, "BOMB SADDAM" sign when it blew across the street. There was another group of Patriots covering the opposite corner, fighting the winds as well. When the antibushers showed up, I laid into them with letters from our troops overseas. As usual, they simply stood there with idiot looks on their faces. Fivetoes showed up about 15 minutes after I did and stood with us. I was going to begin a little polling to the peaceniks by asking who they voted for, begining with President Bush and working my way to Clinton, then demand that they get rid of all the "No War" signs and be honest: they aren't anti-war, they're anti-Bush. It didn't turn out that way. I only got as far as, "Here's a poll for you all: How many of you voted for President George W. Bush?" But before I was able to continue, there was an immence blaring of car horns all around us. Since I didn't expect that kind of reaction (I was only expecting responses from peaceniks, who either were too stoned to reply or didn't speak English), I decided to just ask, "Ok, who voted got Al Gore?" Utter silence.. There was one peacenik, however, that decided to try and engage in a debate with me, although Trteamer discouraged it (Sorry, Trteamer, but I was aching to get my share of leftist flesh today, after what I heard was going on with the kids of our military being put through at their schools by their liberaloser teachers). The guy didn't even know who Ramsey Clarke was. If I had about three hours, I'm sure I could have opened his eyes to what the anti-war rallies were really about. But, I had bigger fish to fry, so I said my farewells to my Patriotic Pals and headed North to Fort Collins.

Walking to join Trteamer

Proud Patriots Braving The Winds

Ahhhhh! Fort Collins Freepin' Time!!!

I love the smell of Patriots in the morning!

We really had a great turnout.

Ok, this is where it gets ugly.. Below, you'll see a picture of one of the good guys holding down the SE corner. Since I had a letter that gave thanks to our folks, I figured that I should stand with him to be able to address all the groups. I crossed the street and introduced myself and began reading the letters from our military members overseas. When I finished -it seemed that I attracted some attention- a radio reporter came up to me and stated that his battery on his audio recorder was dying, but he'd like me to read my sign to him and make a quick statement. I did and he left. Afterwords, I looked behind us and saw an antibusher holding the familiar red-and-blue "No Iraq War" sign. We stated that the police have told both groups to stay on their respective corners to avoid conflicts. He told us, "This is my house. I can stand here if I want!" It was at this point that three more of them were converging on us. Since I was still ready to take them all on, I engaged them. Things were getting pretty heated; they said things glorifying the UN and I told them that if it wasn't for the UN, we'd not be in the conflict with Iraq right now, yadda-yadda-yadda...You know the rest. But the bad part was this: I have been calling these folks "Smelly" for quite some time. I'll admit that I used to simply do it because I thought it was a stereotype. I was wrong and I realized it during my engagement with them. Even with semi-strong winds at the FReep in Fort Collins, I could smell something akin to rotting flesh and stale Fritos. I really couldn't take it anymore and simply had to re-join our Patriots. Next time, I'm bringing a couple of cans of Lysol!

What I saw while addressing The Antibushers

There's a story behind this picture as well. After leaving Ft. Collins, I went to Loveland to re-join Fivetoes in support of our fine fighting forces. I knew I couldn't stay too long, so I pulled into the parking lot, strapped on my bullhorn and marched up behind them and started out with, "Blessed are the peacemakers! United States Army, United States Navy-----" Fivetoes and the others began holloring, "No! NO!! We can't do that here!" I didn't know it was against the law, so I ceased and simply stood holding my sign. From behind, a very young lady (About 19-23 years old) walked up to us with a 2-year-old boy om her hip. Tears were streaming from her eyes as she told us, "Thank you! Thank you! I just love what you're doing! Thank you all so very much!" Well, folks, this simply broke my heart. I just wanted to hug both her and her little child and tell them that all was going to be alright. It was so painfully obvious that she was so torn up inside by the actions of the liberal media, the bushbashers and the Hollywood idiots, that she saw us while driving by and just broke down crying. I guess that she thought that she was all alone in her opinions. Well, she was simply misinformed. If she's here reading this right now (I told her about this site), I just want her to know that we all will be here to support her in these painfull times. Take care, Ma'am. You are absolutely not alone. Sign on to this site and if you just want to talk with someone, we'll be here.

I'm glad we were upwind from these....

Fourth And Final FReep for the day...In Longmont!

Bushbashers over yonder...Yuck!

Yet another story behind a pic. Do ya see these two? Well, they're from the other side, trying to get us to see their point of view. I explained what a monster Saddam was -"We aren't any better, we kill people too." I explained why we must disarm him -"We shouldn't be the masters of other nations." I asked if either of them had ever been to another country -"Yeah. Sweeden." SHEESH! Like talking to a coupla brick walls! So, I gave up. As they left (hah! I made a funny! "Left?!" HAH!), our group began making the bleeting sounds of sheep as they crossed the street. Very appropriate!

The fine young man facing the camera on the left holding the two signs will be enlisting in The United States Marine Corps! He'll be going to Boot Camp within about 2 weeks. I say "Hoo-Rah!" Yet another outstanding addition to our heros!

Does the act of holding a sign that says, "No War For Oil" while standing by a gas station violate something?

Well, that's it. I won't be joining you folks for a few weeks because of work. Hopefully, I'll have some new, fresh, bigger signs made up by then.

God Bless Our Military!

[RandallFlagg]

Ping!

[weldgophardline]

We will hold the forts and corner while you work we promise to keep a few sheep for you because we know after not FReeping you will be hungry.

[RandallFlagg]

Heh! Thanks, pal. I'll miss it. Damn! I had fun today!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Thank You Patriots

[beaversmom]

Hello FF1--we're you the one who commented on my son's sign today at the Fort Collins rally? If so, it was very nice to have met you. Keep up the good work. I don't know if I'll be able to make the Ft. Collins one every Saturday, but it was fun to come out and enjoy all the good company today.

[beaversmom]

that should read "were" not "we're"

[Jim Robinson]

Beautiful! Great job, Colorado!

[JustAmy]

You guys have been busy!!!

Thank you for coming out every week to show your support for our country and our military.

Our troops need us now more than ever; show them they have our support and appreciation.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Good job on the photos today, you all! And it was great meeting a few Freepers for the first time – There was BulletBobCo at the 9AM Loveland rally. Then in Ft. Collins I met BeaversMom’s husband (BeaversDad?) and got to talk with him for awhile. And then I talked to FreedomFighter1 for a short time without even realizing he was a Freeper - until I saw these photos of him tonight - LOL!

Debbie – I love that red white & blue knit covering for your pup. Looks great! And he certainly needed some extra wind protection today, as did we all. (Did you remember to stitch “www.freerepublic.com” onto it somewhere? Ha!)

I really feel sorry for those young brainwashed students across the street in Greeley. I recognized some of them from the forum we participated in at UNC the Wednesday before last. The guy who wore the mask that mocks Dubya was one who stood in line supposedly to ask our panel a question, but instead just launched into a tirade about the USA being the real “terrorists” because during the Cold War a generation ago we helped a lot of Latin American countries fight back against USSR- and Cuban- funded Communist insurgents by training numbers of their soldiers in counter-insurgency tactics at the “School Of The Americas” – and later some soldiers from one of the many countries participating in this program killed some nuns. So this decades-old murder is spun thusly --- “America has the blood of nuns on its hands, so therefore WE are the terrorists and thus have no right to defend ourselves against terrorist actions such as 9/11”. And this is only one typical example of the kind of lunatic-fringe-logic we heard that night. Another angry student lectured us about supposedly huge numbers of children (in the 6-figures as I recall) starving to death in America’s inner cities every year (!!!) – and this he defined as “America’s own terrorism” – once again defining us all as hypocrites to oppose terrorism elsewhere. And a coed on the opposing panel told us all how the US’s liberation of Afghanistan and proposed liberation of Iraq should be defined as “terrorism”. It’s just astounding to see the incredible lack of rational thought processes on campus, to see the amount of successful brainwashing that the burned-out 60’s leftist profs have performed on their young charges, even in a city as conservative as Greeley. Depressing!

But anyway you guys – if someone comes over and starts to argue, send them to me!! I just LOVE to argue with these people. What’s really fun about it is the fact that we can bring up lots of little inconvenient facts that they’ve never heard of. And even if it’s impossible to change someone’s mind in one day, we can at least plant a lot of doubt and make them start questioning at least a few of the lies they’ve been force-fed. Also I think a lot of them look across the street at us and are totally confused. They’ve only ever heard one side from their high school teachers and college profs. They’ve never listened to Rush (or any other talk radio show) because they’ve heard that he’s a loonie, so why bother to listen. So they look at us and wonder about us and imagine the worst kind of stuff. When they come over to lecture us, they fully expect the result to be either, A) They’ll open our minds to the glorious truth by using all these astounding factoids that we the unwashed masses have never heard before, or B) That they’ll discover we’re evil or morons or both, and therefore their goal of educating us is hopeless. So the very LAST thing they expect is to discover that not only have we already heard every single “eye-opening” factoid that they lay on us, but also that we know all the REAL facts that shoot down every one of their “killer arguments” in flames. So at the very least they now go away with an uncomfortable suspicion deep inside that, “hey, these guys seem to know what they’re talking about!”

But anyway, I am REALLY going to miss you all the next 2 weekends. We’re doing our traditional family camping trip in SE Utah’s canyon country for Spring Break, so we'll be on the road both Saturdays. I’ll eagerly await your reports when I get back. Bye!

(PS: Need to start up a separate discussion thread on how to build wind-proof signs! LOL!)

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

And thank YOU guys for your inspiring work in Fresno each week! And all you Missourians and Houstonians and many more of you. Ain't Freeping such a blast?!?

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Greetings fivetoes, Colorado FReepers, et al:
Sweet FReep report. Thanks for your support!

[radu]

Wow! Y'all sure are busy in CO.! So many FReeps!

Great pics here! The Sailors overseas will love to see all the support!

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Go you Bisons! Out in force supporting our men and not a few women. It's great to read your weekly reports. I appreciate what it takes to give up your Saturdays. Do you folks ever take nourishment. Food is an important factor to the DC Chapter. It also provides a great chance to recount the activities and encounters. Well done!

[RandallFlagg]

– if someone comes over and starts to argue, send them to me!! I just LOVE to argue with these people.

Hey, save some for me! Just let me bring my noseplugs.

[fivetoes]

Does the act of holding a sign that says, "No War For Oil" while standing by a gas station violate something?

Perhaps if they get their way then gas prices will jump so that no one can afford to drive and everything that requires petroleum to produce will go up too. They will have to resort to making signs from a piece of cardboard and a hunk of coal because the cost of markers will sky-rocket too.

[radu]

brrrrrr! I've got goosebumps from reading about all the cold and wind out your way. It makes me admire y'all that much more for getting out to show your support for our troops!

How cool that Nathan joined you yesterday! Ooooo, I would love to have heard his "heated discussion" with those two useful idiots. LOL! I wish him and the young man due to join up in the Army all the best and thank them for volunteering to serve the USA!

[radu]

Awesome reports and great pics. Y'all really do a fantastic job giving the useful idiots H*ll!!!! LOL! It's obvious how much y'all relish each exchange. hehe!

Thank you for braving the cold and winds to show your support for those who protect the USA! And thank you who served for doing your part in the past!

[weldgophardline]

Ater your FReep the other day you know how we feel no how cold the wind blows when you can support our TROOPS and pi** off some leftist puke it is all worth it and makes you feel good and warm all over.

[weldgophardline]

Trteamer is doing a great job on the radio this morning on 650 AM a great plug for the FReepers and FreeRepublic web site WAY TO GO Trteamer!!!!!!!

[Trteamer]

Yes, today I got to be a radio star and promote Free Republic big time!! Let me tell you all the story:

Last Thurday I FReeped F.E. Warren Air Force Base by myself and had a one man Support Our Troops rally. It was fun! The next day one of my customers called me to tell me there was a conservative radio show host going on and on about some guy outside the Air Base showing support for our troops. This radio host was begging for the guy to call in. My customer told me she figured it had to be me and was right.
I called the host, Dave Chaffin, on radio 650AM, KGAB, Cheyenne Wyoming. He was thrilled to talk to me and invited me to call in this morning to be his guest for about 20 minutes.
I have never done this before but it gave me a chance to thank the troops once again so I went for it. Dave started out by asking me what group I was part of so I told him I was from the Colorado Chapter of Free Republic. We went into detail about what FRee Republic was and plugged the website numerous times. Dave had been to the website and was quite impressed since his show lately has been all about supporting our troops. He kept telling the troops to write the Free Republic website down and repeated it real sowly so everyone got it.
I am so happy to be able to give back to the troops in any way I can. If anyone wants to drop Dave Chaffin an e-mail of thanks here is his address: davechaffin@clearchannel.com

All the best out there FReepers!

[Flyer]

Great job, TRT. The rally Saturday attracted a number of new members to our Houston Chapter. Some in the crowd saw FreeRepublic.com on some of our signs and came and tracked us down here. I smell an uptick in new registrations here.

[RandallFlagg]

I tried to catch you on the air, but there are some days when the closer stations just drown the heck out of the farther ones. Sorry. I wish I could've hear ya!