Conversations With The Mob: An After-FReep Report

[AnnaZ]

 

 

 

We had to drive past the protest site twice. We thought it was going to be a rally site. We were mistaken. It was around seven-thirty a.m.

 

On the second lap we frenziedly scanned the signs and faces for something or someone familiar, or friendly, for Old Glory, anything. "There! I saw a freerepublic sign!" exclaimed HangFire. And ties. Ours was the only group with ties. We were seriously outnumbered.

 

We parked the car and walked to the intersection, a little nervously, yet HangFire still boldly unfurling his American flag. Ahead of us a man trod upon his.

 

We met up with the rest of Free Republic's LA Chapter: The Hollywood Resistance Force. RonDog and Tony in Hawaii* (*but not really, I guess) looked great in their ties, and they were flanked by diotima, Bob J, DoughtyOne, Floratina and daviddennis (and a couple of people whose names I didn't catch). feinswinesuksass showed up shortly thereafter. We were lucky. doug from upland, although also present, never found us.

 

Around three hundred protesters dwarfed and engulfed our small but valiant team. The mob filled the three open corners and sidewalks at the intersection of Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards, site of The Regency Club where President George W. Bush was to be headlining a campaign fundraiser for California's next Governor, Bill Simon.

 

 

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                Diotima: I fear for my country.

 

To our left (no pun intended) lots of young, attractive, mostly white people, voluntarily burqha'd it seemed with sweatshirt hoods over their heads and bandanas obscuring their faces from the eyes down, carried signs proclaiming various forms of communist rhetoric and condemning harshly all things Bush -- truth need not always apply. Our other flank was the unions-and-their-lackeys stronghold. Same signs.

 

                Diotima: They hate my sign.

 

One side of it read: HONK 4 SIMON. But it was the other side of it that she was referring to, the side she was holding aloft as she was walking up and down the sidewalk, holding it above the heads of the protesters: OSAMA FAN CLUB.

 

A Young, Handsome Tho' Misguided Protester (YMP) approaches.

 

                YMP: Hey, you know your sign's not fair. You shouldn't have that sign.

 

                A FReeper: She's using her sharp and biting wit.

 

                YMP: But she's misrepresenting us.

 

                Diotima: No, I'm not. That's what you are.

 

                A FReeper: What do you care, you outnumber us 30 to 1.

 

                YMP: But she's misrepresenting our message. That's not what we're saying.

 

                Diotima: But that's what I'm saying.

 

He shuffles off.

 

 

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Another Young, Handsome Tho' Misguided Protester (YMP2) approaches.

 

                YMP2: You shouldn't have that sign.

 

                Diotima: Yeah, well I still have my freedom of speech, buddy, you haven't taken that away. Yet.

 

 

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                Young, Pretty Tho' Misguided Protester: I don't know... I just don't think I like Bush but I think it's like really cool

                    that we all like have our freedom of speech.

 

She smiles.

 

 

~~~

 

 

Another Young, Handsome Tho' Misguided Protester (YMP3) approaches, handing out flyers.

 

                YMP3: Come see my show.

 

                A FReeper: What is it advocating?

 

                YMP3: A new State.

 

                A FReeper: What kind of state?

 

                YMP3: A better State.

 

                A FReeper: Based on what... because if you can come up with something better than the US Constitution you win a

                    really big prize.

 

                YMP3: The Communist Manifesto?

 

                A FReeper: Bzzzzt. Wrong answer. Tried, failed, and the millions of corpses'll prove it to you.

 

He shuffles off.

 

 

~~~

 

 

The President's motorcade arrives. Chants begin. Bob J and DoughtyOne use bullhorns to mess with their intonements. Where were these people when we were bombing Yugoslavia?

 

About ten minutes or so later we decide to go for breakfast together and begin to walk past the crowd to Denny's.

 

 

~~~

 

 

 

                AngryUnattractiveSpittlingVietnamProtestHoldover: Bee-atches for Bush!

 

 

~~~

 

 

Later, two men are in an idling station wagon in the parking lot as we are on our way out. They were seen earlier in the viewfinder of daviddennis' XL-1 at breakfast as we watched the replay of them repeatedly giving the camera the finger.

 

                BlondeMale: Oh, it's "Luvya Dubya" girl.

 

                OtherMale: Are you a native of California?

 

                A FReeper: No, I'm a political refugee of the socialist democracy of Canada. I'm trying to save California from a

                    similar fate.

 

                HangFire: I'm half Native American... I go back I don't know how many generations. And leftist liberal loser policies

                    are destroying this State.

 

                OtherMale: You're a traitor to your own people. They used to worship the oil when it was in the ground, they

                    were thankful for it.

 

                A FReeper: What the heck are you talking about?

 

                BlondeMale: Yeah, and now you and Bush are pumping all that oil and spraying it in the air and causing all these

                    earthquakes.

 

                A FReeper: What?!

 

                HangFire: Uh huh. Well you just keep telling yourself that as you drive home in your car, okay?

 

They drive off, the BlondeMale repeatedly spitting through the passenger side window as they exit stage left.

 

 

 

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We should never be that outnumbered. Where were the GOP people? The Simon people? An eighty-year old lady had joined us only because she had heard doug from upland on one of his many announcements on local AM radio yesterday.

 

FReepers do things that heretofore were solely the domain of the Left. Our side needs to learn. It's time for all of us to Network.

 

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Pictures forthcoming.

 

 

[AnnaZ]

Check in, please.

 

;^)

[doug from upland]

I should have given you my cell number. Here is my report -- CLICK

[diotima]

AnnaHangfireandKids

AnnaZ

Diotima and Hangfire

Diotima and Hangfire2

DoughtyOne

The Rabble

FeinieDiotimaAnnaZ

Freepers

Freepers after the Protest

Hamlet and Indigo

Hangfire

More Rabble

The Police

More Leftists

The Opposition

The Opposition Again

Another Shot of the Oppostion

They are Everywhere

I mean EVERYWHERE

Osama Fan Club

Osama Fan Club sign

The Police

Liberals go to Publik Skool

Tony In Hawaii

Diotima and Bob J in FRivaWear

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

YMP2: You shouldn't have that sign.

Diotima: Yeah, well I still have my freedom of speech, buddy, you haven't taken that away. Yet.

Way to go!!!

[Militiaman7]

Thanks, for standing up for us. Great FREEP!

[Tony in Hawaii]

It's funny. Last night I didn't sleep much. I didn't think I'd be able to get up that early, but I was awake before my 5:30 alarm.

I had a bad feeling, that I'd be heading into the belly of the beast. Once I arrived, however, the feeling had gone away. I wasn't put off by being so heavily outnumbered, mainly because the opposition was so silly. And I have to say, 90% of them were pretty good-natured, and the ones who weren't didn't get in my face. I guess being six feet tall and 300lbs has its advantages.

There were lots of slogans from the lefties, but only one really made my blood run cold:

"Welfare rights are human rights!"

Welfare rights. The "right" to the fruit of another's labor, without compensation, in other words: slavery. This from a person who may have descended from slaves.

We may have been outnumbered, but if you count aggregate brain cells, we had 'em two to one.

It was good meeting everybody, and I hope to do it again.

[Bob J]

GRATE PICS! Who took them? Heheh...

[Constitution Day]

Awesome post-FReep report!

[CyberAnt]

You guys did great! Wish I could have been there! Sure sounds like you had a lot of fun. What do these children know anyway ... talk about skulls full of mush!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

OtherMale: You're a traitor to your own people. They used to worship the oil when it was in the ground, they
were thankful for it.

A FReeper: What the heck are you talking about?

BlondeMale: Yeah, and now you and Bush are pumping all that oil and spraying it in the air and causing all these
earthquakes.

A FReeper: What?!

Now that is a dialogue to remember!

[Bob J]

Good to meet you Tony!

[Jim Robinson]

Wow! Great job everyone! I love it! But, ties? Man, I'm gonna have to get me some dressier t-shirts.

[diotima]

Just to let you know, I ran around behind the liberals and held up the Osama Fan Club, whenever the media was taking pictures of the rent-a-mob.

My sign REALLY pissed many people off. The complained that I had "HURT THEIR FEELINGS" and it was "OFFENDING THEM."

Of course they have no right protecting them against being offended and no right protecting their feelings, although they might believe this since they think they have a right to my TAX DOLLARS.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[Tony in Hawaii]

You too, and it was good to meet the gang.

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

Great job everyone! Love the pics..

What's with the osama fan club???

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

I was thinking you would have dark hair and brown eyes for some reason. :)

[diotima]

I would stand behind them (they couldn't see me) so that people driving by would see the sign above their heads.

This did not make the leftists happy.

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

That's HILARIOUS! Good one!!!!

[Illbay]

We should never be that outnumbered. Where were the GOP people?

Perhaps most of them prefer not to dignify these silly, childish Leftie protests by bothering to acknowledge them.

Perhaps they don't like the Left calling the tune.

[HangFire]

Osama Fan Club?!?

You really know how to piss the other side off!

Bwhahaha!!!

[meyer]

Excellent job, all y'all. I really loved that Osama fan club sign. Nice work, Cali Freepers.

[AnnaZ]

Great pictures!!!

This one (Osama Fan Club sign) kills me!!! (You're so sneaky... LOL!!!)

[AnnaZ]

Thanks for your great addition to the thread, and for coming!! Very appreciated!

[Tony in Hawaii]

Mind if I use the one of me on my profile?

[wardaddy]

Where were these people when we were bombing Yugoslavia?

Excellent Point Anna!!

God bless all of you. I'm not sure whether to judge the obvious ignorance of your(our) opponents as a good thing or not. You know what I mean? They are sort of Jacobean....any of them carrying knitting needles..LOL.

Regards...and Bump!!

[HangFire]

BlondeMale: Yeah, and now you and Bush are pumping all that oil and spraying it in the air and causing all these earthquakes.

FReeper: Set the crack down and step away from the pipe... do it now!

[AnnaZ]

Some of the exchanges were just tooooo much. A lot of them are angry, yet totally ignorant. (Dangerous combo.)

[Stultis]

they have no right protecting them against being offended and no right protecting their feelings

...Yet

[Taxman]

First Coast FReeper ATTABOYS to all you brave Left Coast FReepers who took on the LooneyLeft!

AWWWWWLLLLLLLLRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIGGGGGHHHHHHHHHTTTTTTTT!!!

Eagles Up!

[AnnaZ]

But, ties? Man, I'm gonna have to get me some dressier t-shirts.

LOL! The ties are optional. DoughtyOne had a sweatshirt with the Inauguration of Bush and Presidential Seal on the front. (We weren't making friends fast... "Tough crowd, tough crowd.")

[wcbtinman]

"Where were the GOP people?"

Out making a living and paying taxes so that those Marxist bastards could stand there, protest, and demonstrate complete ignorance.

[diotima]

Ping!

[dutchess]

"Wow! Great job everyone! I love it! But, ties? Man, I'm gonna have to get me some dressier t-shirts" ROTFLMAO

Great report and pictures. The dialogue was especially amusing, and yes very scary!

[StriperSniper]

Another Young, Handsome Tho' Misguided Protester (YMP3)

Are most of those leftists pretty boys, or are you just easy..........to impress? ;-)

[diotima]

SURE! Use any one that you want.

[AnnaZ]

My sign REALLY pissed many people off. The complained that I had "HURT THEIR FEELINGS" and it was "OFFENDING THEM."

It was just too funny. "Waaaaaaahhhhh... you're misrepresenting our message... somebody make her stop!"

[FreedomPoster]

You guys ROCK bump! Man, I don't think you could get that many nutcases in one place here in GA. My hat's off to y'all.

Anti-McKinney FReeper ping; check out what our friends in CA are doing. I'm rearing to go on another FReep here in Atlanta, now that the object of our attention back in May is outta here.

[Squantos]

Was the yellow police tape in the pictures printed in English also ? No Habla ?!?!?.........Great Pics !

Stay Safe and Thank You for being there when the rest of us can't !!

[diotima]

OK, we are going fishing....will check back here later!

[FreedomPoster]

You should have offered to call a WHAAAAAAmbulance for them. Then again, given the 20 watt nature of that crew, they probably wouldn't have gotten it.

[AnnaZ]

How funny was that?!!! "Like whoa, man... get out from behind the wheel of that oppressing, insatiable and dangerous vehicle."

[AnnaZ]

Perhaps most of them prefer not to dignify these silly, childish Leftie protests by bothering to acknowledge them.

You just keep telling yourself that and finding that agreeable and respectable and stay comfy and cozy until they've completely taken over, okay?

[KDD]

Nice touch with the sign. ROFLMAO

[AnnaZ]

 I'm not sure whether to judge the obvious ignorance of your(our) opponents as a good thing or not.

Since their votes count equally I would hasten to say "not". (Unless they're pulling the lever for Ralph... heh heh heh.)

[HangFire]

BTTT!

[AnnaZ]

Are most of those leftists pretty boys, or are you just easy..........to impress? ;-)

The group to our left (pardon the pun), both male and female, were a very attractive bunch. Just an observation. (I make the point because it unfortunately matters. At the FRN conference we learned that appearance is 55% of the message... and I believe it.)

[Southack]

Nice job!

Some Ralph Nader signs at left-wing protests would be pretty effective, too (ought to give Democrats in the media real fits - how do they report a Nader rally - do they overhype it or under-report it, they think to themselves)...