Posted on 04/23/2010 4:06:46 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
Dissidents in the world's most oppressive countries aren't feeling the love from President Obama.
No one seems to know precisely who is behind the "Miss Me Yet?" billboard—the cheeky one featuring a grinning George W. Bush that looks out over I-35 near Wyoming, Minn. But Syrian dissident Ahed Al-Hendi sympathizes with the thought.
In 2006, Mr. Hendi was browsing pro-democracy Web sites in a Damascus Internet café when plainclothes cops carrying automatic guns swooped in, cuffed him, and threw him into the trunk of a car. He spent over a month in prison, some of it alone in a 5-by-3 windowless basement cell where he listened to his friend being tortured in the one next door. Those screams, he says, were cold comfort—at least he knew his friend hadn't been killed.
Mr. Hendi was one of the lucky ones: He's now living in Maryland as a political refugee where he works for an organization called Cyberdissidents.org. And this past Monday, he joined other international dissidents at a conference sponsored by the Bush Institute at Southern Methodist University to discuss the way digital tools can be used to resist repressive regimes.
He also got to meet the 43rd president. In a private breakfast hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Bush, Mr. Hendi's message to the former president was simple: "We miss you." There have been "a lot of changes" under the current administration, he added, and not for the better.
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Apparently, “honor” is only proven with a WH PR department camera.
LOL.
“And honest freepers who agree with your politics (or your feigned politics) think you suck.”
Just Laz. Unless he's cloned himself.
After I first encountered you, I received a copy of the OhioWFan Truth File. You have a very sordid posting history.
I'm amused. You have no honor.
You mean the NYFD Chief? Sure.
Bush was more patriotic to Mexico.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=16425
There are more.
“LOL! Good bye, troll. Say hi to the folks at Liberty Post, or wherever you got your propaganda.”
Here, actually.
“I’m amused. You have no honor.”
I don’t have a PR photography following me around, if that’s what you mean.
“There are more.”
What, like the Sith?
” photography “
photographer
No more food from me. Plenty of others have your number. I'll leave your dishonorable, lying self to them, if they choose to waste their time.
I've been working at the computer here, but even popping in now and again to laugh at your nonsense, and counter your baldfaced lies has been a monumental waste of time.
Get counseling.
God bless President Bush.
“Get counseling.”
Projection, AGAIN. You really should seek professional help.
“God bless President Bush.”
God bless and preserve the United States from enemies foreign and domestic. To paraphrase Cicero, a nation can survive threats from without and its fools, but it cannot survive treason from within - which was exactly what ordering our troops on the border to withdraw when the Mexican Army crossed was. TREASON. Republicans (Bush’s side of the party, at least) and Democrats are on the same side and it is NOT the American side.
Good luck with taking the first step in becoming an active citizen. (Donating to JD was a good baby step. Reach a little father and actually DO something).
Now I really have wasted time here, so I'd rather not return.
Good luck in becoming a conservative activist.....the people you have mocked here are deeply involved in making this country better and stronger. You should think about doing so yourself.
(PS. "truth files" on pro-active citizens, while Nixonian in nature, isn't really on the right side of the aisle....ya think? :)
Again........good luck on your quest to become a (real, involved) conservative.
“I hope you decide to get involved in improving and restoring the country, rather than in trying to destroy the work of those of us who are actually involved in the conservative cause.”
I am. That’s why I’m opposed to deifying Bush’s record. The MSM defined him as a “far right conservative”, but he was anything but. Continued defense of that record provides cover for other soft-socialists in the GOP. If we want to retake the GOP, that liberalism must be expunged.
This is something that you do not fundamentally understand... at least if you are serious about helping the conservative cause. Opposing Obama’s liberalism is all well and good, but if you don’t ALSO oppose GOP liberalism, you are just a partisan.
“(PS. “truth files” on pro-active citizens, while Nixonian in nature, isn’t really on the right side of the aisle....ya think? :)”
No different from the McCain Truth File.
Good luck in your life. With your stubbornness, lack of ethics, propagandizing and ignoring the truth being forced in your face, you would make a great politician. Lindsay Graham comes to mind.
He's creepy too.
You're not even a good troll for the other trolls who keep "truth files" on fellow conservatives.
Hope you get a tongue lashing at your other internet forum for exposing the creepiness of your cabal.
Creepy boy. Ick.
I sense the hairy hand of the John Birch Society and their STD-corrupted thinking in your inability to even make one truthful statement. You can't even propel your steaming heaps of Leftist propaganda creatively. The more you blab, the more you expose your hatred for this country and your pretense of being a conservative was a pathetic effort.
Another day, another chance to suck. Liar.
This is to all the Mods, JimRob, and anyone who supports President Bush..........or doesn't.
I have noticed in the past months what seemed to be a coordinated effort using my old posts (some 8 years old), out of context, to intimidate, humiliate, or shut down my participation on certain threads.
Now Favor Center has exposed the truth that the effort is real and that there is a hidden, dishonest, group effort to smear me personally. rabscuttle385, and Favor Center have done so repeatedly)
I would guess that I'm not the only Bush supporter for whom this kind of Nixonian, Obama-like file exists. I don't claim innocence in my conversations with Bush haters. They make me mad, and sometimes I cross a line I shouldn't cross.
What I would like to know officially, is whether or not such a dishonest effort is condoned by the officials on this board, or if it is breaking FR rules (I have never known such a creepy network existed prior to this)?
Is it acceptable for a group to keep a file on legitimate freepers to use against them, to pass along to newbies (several apparently have received the information immediately on signing up).
It is important to the integrity of the forum for all of us to know what is, and what is not acceptable behavior, and whether a "truth file" on Bush supporters is the acceptable category. (There are a lot of us, so it's important information).
I have very much enjoyed being back on FR, participating in discussions, getting good information on conservative activism, being in touch with freepers regarding Tea Party and phone and e-mail efforts. I will not be intimidated by secretive thugs, but I'd like to know if it's considered a legitimate thing for any group to do.
Any response received will be appreciated.
Thanks.
Don't let them get to you, they're ghouls behind masks and they wither under the truth.
The ‘Yeah, Buts’ .... pompous and disingenuous ..
as if they or anyone of us could pass a microscopic
scrutiny of perfection as flawed human beings.
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