Video of Sunday's Simon freep exposes liberals for who they really are

amazing.com (my web site) ^ | 08/28/2002 | David H Dennis

[occam's chainsaw]

bump for later (home) viewing...

[KateUTWS]

Geez......Bin Laden Fan Club....that says it all.

[Bigg Red]

Thanks for the ping.

[Bigg Red]

Way to go!

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Go Here: To Watch The Video

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[Feiny]

Can't wait to see it....I will have to view at home since my boss is here today.

[daviddennis]

Next time, add the Saddam Hussein fan club. One of them said that he thought we should not fight Hussein, but instead respect the natives' right to local control and democracy!

"But Saddam Hussein is a brutal dictator!" I remember saying, astonished by the sheer wrong-headedness of this viewpoint. He then talked more about us not having standing to intervene, democracy coming from below, and so on and on.

He eventually segued into commenting about Gore being the real victor of our presidential election, etc, etc.

At that point, I shut off the camera. Too boring to use, I fear.

If you ever find yourself confronted by a video camera, speak in one sentence sound bites. It's nothing personal. Video has to move fast; it's the nature of the beast. Three minutes can feel like three hours if you're not careful.

I'll bet that nobody here felt my three minutes were anything like three hours. Unless, that is, you have a modem connection.

If so, um, sorry :-(.

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[surely_you_jest]

Just watched your video. Thanks for shooting and posting it. The guy with the finger is a poster child for the inarticulate left. But I am being abundantly redundant.

Nice work.

[daviddennis]

I'm afraid so. If you didn't notice, I just asked them nicely who they wanted to have win the election for governor. After due reflection, I think that may have been the problem. Politeness kills these people. So remember, whenever you see one, make sure to be as nice as humanly possible. I think that to see the "other side" as anything other than demons rocks their worldview so severely they have to attack. And yes, I did feel physically threatened.

If someone told me that I would have the guts to stand up to that threatening a crowd, I would have said "No way".

But I wanted to get great video, and - judging by the comments today - I did.

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[mhking]

bump for me to watch when I get home...

[LowOiL]

Yall have all the fun over there. You couldn't find a liberal flake outside yelling like that over here. They are too coward, they hid. Heck you can't hardly find a liberal bumper sticker even during Clintoon's days.

Low OiL

[weegee]

Political Correctness is a cult. Dissent will not be tolerated. It is heresy to stray from the liberal doctrine on the issues.

[daviddennis]

Did you folks ever manage to see it successfully?

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[weegee]

Difference of opinion is one thing. Derailing threads 3 posts in with a tired "Bush didn't win" type argument is another.

Some disrupters post offensive threads (threads that will generate 200+ posts refuting the article) and never add their own comments (just post some articles and then go into hiding for 2 weeks).

The disrupters I've spotted of late are new accounts (some with a page and a half of old bookmarks, leading to suspicions that they were banned posters).

Conservatives don't agree on all of the issues. We can see that a problem exists but don't agree on the solution.

[weegee]

USENET is free with most people's ISPs (if not, there are free USENET servers) 80,000+ newsgroups.

15-20 years ago they were reasonably coherent and while flamewars did occur, the posters would generally be added to people's killfile (so they would not read the offending posts).

Moderated groups can be created to control the traffic that is posted.

Much of the internet world has bypassed/ignored USENET.

I appreciate FR for what it has to offer. I'm actually surprised when some lib posters aren't banned for some of their posts.

[ChuckHam]

Just watched the video. All I can say is OUTFREEPIN' STANDING!

[Tony in Hawaii]

That one jerk didn't seem old enough to remember "COINTELPRO."

[daviddennis]

COINTELPRO - wasn't that something having some vague connection with El Salvador or Nicuargua? I seem to remember a lot of fuss about it but don't recall what it was.

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[twyn1]

Great video -- I stand and applaud the courage of the Freepers in attendance !

I found the woman who was trying to counter-yell into the megaphone quite interesting...her sign said something like "43,000 will be off Welfare (in some year or other)"...I thought she was a FReeper at first, since that will be a positive move IMHO !!

[Tony in Hawaii]

It was something back in the 1960s having to do with countering the KGB, and the lefties hated it (of course) since we shouldn't be spying on the USSR because they're the good guys.