Posted on 05/29/2002 9:08:11 AM PDT by ReaganGirl
MAF just called from the front lines of the Meyerson Center in Dallas where the counter protest is in full swing! I'll give you her run down of the Sham Mock Trial that our side totally disrupted last night. Then I'll tell you what's happening right now on the ground in Dallas!
Tuesday Mock Trial
The lefties of the Climate Justice Summit staged a mock trial holding ExxonMobile accountable for "crimes against humanity." As memory serves they stole that little title from Star Trek TNG where Q holds Piccard accountable for same. Nice to know they can come up with an original idea.
Our side gathered early in the day and had 48 people for protest training before loading into vans and heading for the Univ. Texas campus in Dallas. One of the organizers of the counter protest hosted the whole crowd for dinner at her home. What a peach!
Upon arrival at the UT Dallas campus our folks tried to enter the Student Union Center where the "trial" was to take place. The lefties panicked and called the cops who told our folks they would have to leave or be arrested. We had seven people dressed in Kangaroo costumes for the Kangaroo court and over 40 others there to cheer on Niger Innis and others who had asked to testify on behalf of Exxon Mobile. They were of course denied access and were even told by the lefties that "they had scripted the trial and were not letting anyone deviate from the script.
The lefties in attendance totaled a whopping 8 people. LOL so our side had them outnumbered almost 5 to one. At some point one of the lefties offered to let our people sit in the room but our folks declined. Being there would have only made the room look full for the press and we certainly were not going to assist them in their cause.
Our folks left and returned to the home of one of the organizers for cake and sign painting. Thus ended day one.
DAY TWO: EXXONMOBILE PROTEST AT THE MEYERSON CENTER
The day began at 7:P30 am with a head count. Our side had 98 pp and as of 10:30 had grown to well over 100. MAF things it's around 125 but will get a final head count and report back later. While most of our protestors are from Austin, Dallas and Houston there are many who made much longer journeys like Sauropod who came all the way from Baltimore! Sauropod, you rock!
As we were speaking she literally counted the heads of the protesters on the other side -- a whopping 43 people.
The police allowed our folks to set up right outside the Meyerson center and many of the ExxonMobile shareholders attending the meeting stopped to thank our folks for being there and supporting them. They even asked that our folks post our extra signs and American Flags on the fence around the building. It was awesome!
The Lefties:
The lefties arrived at the protest this morning in an old, gas guzzling ford van pulling a U-haul full of props. This is ironic since they are there to protest an oil and gas company that they charge is responsible for global warming and wrecking the environment. MAF was also told by one of them that they would be leaving in a hurry on their gas guzzling bus to get to DFW. They have to catch their jet planes back to Washington and New York. LOL
One of their props is an Oil Pump with card board flames all around it and the American Flag right in the middle of the flames. It's their way of burning the flag without actually setting the fire.
They also have a balloon of the globe with red paint spattered all over it. One can only presume what that is supposed to mean.
Their sign s read:
Solar Power = Solar People Our Planet their Profits
NOW FOR THE GOOD GUYS!
Freepers are joined in this effort by Citizens for a Sound Economy, the Council for Racial Equality and several other organizations.
We have several people in costumes such as Alice in Wonderland, The Exxon Tiger, a Shark and there is even a guy in a Grinch costume carrying a sign that says "The Grinch who Stole Capitalism."
Other signs include:
Oil - You Can't Leave Home Without It; I never got a job from a poor person; Down with Bugs - Up with People; Free Markets = Free People; Radicals Want your Job; Oil - Black Gold, Texas Tea and Stop Global Whining.
They're really having a blast! Great Job MAF for organizing the Freepers of Texas for this one!
OTOH, there are also some hard core, "true believer" ideologues who will fight liberty and its foundation no matter what. Those folks were certainly disappointed today ... and well they should be!
You guys done good ... real good IMHO. Next year they will figure they have to be there in force ... and will be met in kind.
My but didn't there excuses and explanations sound lame for arriving in that big gas guzzling, oil using van? LOL!
FRegards, God bless and Eagles Up!
Just about any conversation with Mr. MAF is priceless. Poor leftie...
These domestic terrorists are in prison for either assaulting a cop in a "Take back the strets!" action, or arson to protest the sale and use of SUVs. There hve been two SUV arsons in Eugene that distroyed more then several vehicles.
Exxon-Mobil, keep those wells a pumpin' and the refineries purculatin'!
Trajan88; TAMU Class of '88; TB #2999
Need more and more of this all over the country.
The FReeRepublic chapters here done us all proud today.
I'm so glad you were there today. I know MAF was really looking forward to having you there.
Next time I want to be on the ground and let someone else do the play-by-play from home.
It was GREAT to be able to participate yesterday and today... Many of us were itching to make a little visit to "college jail" last night when the campus police threatened to arrest us for trying to walk quietly on the sidewalk outside the Kangaroo Court.
(BTW, the lady with the report on that fiasco is not online, so her text will have to wait for transmission..)
COB, we really really missed you! We waited till 8:55 and our driver HAD to leave to join the caravan. We were hoping you'd go ahead and drive up anyway. :-( You missed a great time, very little sleep, and hoarse voices, LOL!
WHAT A BALL - OUTNUMBERING THE ECO-FASCISTS!!
(And MAF was cool as a cucumber! Clearly leadership qualities!! I'm proud to know her!)
**AND NOTE TO LIBS WHO WANT TO QUOTE ANYTHING OFF FR... WE ARE WATCHING SO DO NOT MISREPRESENT US, OK?**
(Last time I posted an after action, a Houston Press reporter "added" some comments and attributed them to me in his article - causing some criticism from FReepers for my "crude language," when that article was posted here. It better never happen again because I have my lawyer on speed-dial!)
TEXAS FREEPERS ARE THE GREATEST.... TIRED, BUT ABSOLUTELY THE GREATEST!
Not a word about the pro-Exxon protesters which out numbered the anti-Exxon protesters by 3 to 1. The picture shown was taken from our side.
This is so typical of the media, which is one reason I'll never believe their lame defense that they are not bias! When you see it first hand, it burns into your memory!
Awesome job,ping,bump.
ExxonMobil counter protesters, in background, chant toward a protester, foreground, before the start of the ExxonMobil shareholders meeting in Dallas, Wednesday, May 29, 2002. ExxonMobil earned $15.3 billion last year amid falling oil and gas prices, a decline from 2000. (AP Photo/Donna McWilliam)
LOL - One of the women in our group jotted the license # down....;-)
Great meeting you today, Jeff! You did a fantastic job on Jordana Banana!
It loaded fine for me. There's a great shot of a guy walking by carrying a sign that reads "SEEK THERAPY!" (directed towards the anti-Exxon crowd), and in small letters at the bottom "www.freerepublic.com". ROFLOL!!
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