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IranianDemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 05:21 PM
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Freepers say 1,000 people will show up to their "Pro-America" rally.
ROLFMFAO. History has shown it will probably be more like 10 people.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8860-2003Oct23.html

Kristinn Taylor said he is helping to organize a counter-demonstration to let protesters know that "their anti-American message is not going to go unanswered, like it was during Vietnam." Taylor, 41, co-leader of the D.C. chapter of Free Republic, said 1,000 people are expected for a rally at 11 a.m. at the West Front of the Capitol to show support for U.S. troops and protest tyrannical regimes. At 2 p.m., they plan on being at Pershing Park on Pennsylvania Avenue NW to greet marchers, though they are not looking to start trouble, he said.


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lefty_mcduff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 05:24 PM
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1. Why don't these knobs realize...
that wanting to bring US soldiers home *ALIVE* is *SUPPORTING THE TROOPS*.


Morans
(wonder if the dude that imortalized that word will be there)
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DeathvadeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 05:50 PM
Response to Reply #1
20. Can you say Brain Dead? I knew you could....
They need to be felt sorry for really. They just arn't able to think, is all I can fiqure.
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loudnclear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 05:57 PM
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23. "..like Viet Nam?"
Don't they realize that the peace protestors during the Viet Nam war were right? What has been the result of the Viet Nam war except the unwarranted loss of our young men and women?
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Clark Can WIN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-03 12:04 AM
Response to Reply #1
52. He told me
He'd be there.
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 05:27 PM
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2. I think a few DU'ers should infiltrate with signs
KKK supports Bush

WAR is good for overpopulation

GOD WANTS US TO KILL

I support the President's murderous foreign policy

Oil is WORTH the death of our troops.

Convicted gun felons for Bush

Republicans against equal rights

War is GOOD for the economy

Really...I MEAN it...get in front of the cameras too.
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knight_of_the_star Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 05:39 PM
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9. That would be SWEET!
If there weren't so many SoCal marchers heading north to San Francisco, then I would do that! We should seriously detail some marchers to do that, break up the FReepers!
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_NorCal_D_ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 06:01 PM
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25. Clever idea!
But a little underhanded don't you think?
:shrug:
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Kahuna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 06:15 PM
Response to Reply #25
31. You're kidding right?
Like they wouldn't do it to us?
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_NorCal_D_ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 06:25 PM
Response to Reply #31
35. You're right.
What was I thinking?
:crazy::dunce:
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Kahuna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 06:14 PM
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30. I like that idea!
:evilgrin:
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Chomskyite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 06:34 PM
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42. I would not want my face on TV below any of those signs!
n/t

So I guess I'd have to go in a GW Bush mark or something.
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AWD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 05:27 PM
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3. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And when 20 of them show (if that), I'll be there with my bullhorn yelling "Krisssssssstinnnnnnnnnn......Krissssssssstinnnnnnnnnnnnnnn......Krissssssssssstinnnnnnnnnnnnn"
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phrenzy Donating Member (941 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 05:31 PM
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4. Hmmm
I'm sick of these brownshirts and their pathetic attempts at intimidation - one day they are going to step over the line - and then it is ON. Blue Vs Red BEEEATCH!

What set you claimin?

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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 05:45 PM
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17. Correction
this is blue versus gray all over again.
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DeathvadeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 05:56 PM
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22. Colors chhhh, Colors
I am a nightmare walking psychopath talking
king of my jungle just a gangster stalking
Living life like a firecracker quick is my fuse
Then dead as a deathpack the colors I choose
red or blue cause a blood it just don't matta

Sucker die for your life whith my shotgun scatters
we gangs of L.A. will never die....just multiply

You see they hit us then we hit them
then we hit them and they hit us, man

It's like a war, ya know what I'm sayin
people dont even understand
They don't even know what they dealing with
you wanna get ridda the gangs its gonna take alot of work
but people don't understand the size of this
this is no joke man this is real

you don't know me, fool
you disown me, cool
I don't need your assistance, social persistance
any problem I got I just put my fist in
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ShaneGR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 06:34 PM
Response to Reply #3
43. No offense....
But who the hell is Kristin?

lol
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 05:31 PM
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5. Seriously, will some DUer go and take a few pictures?
I'd really like to see the turnout.
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Neecy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 05:44 PM
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14. oh, CSPAN will 'cover' it f'sure
To give equal time, they'll cover the 8 adults, 3 children, 1 dog and the hibachi that they featured last go 'round.

As I remember, many of us watched that little gathering and almost choked from laughing (and it was a really unforgettable DU thread). I hope SO MUCH that CSPAN covers their counter-rally again! I need the giggles.
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 05:32 PM
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6. The second funniest thing about that picture...
...is how there are perfectly available seats for people to sit in, and even though they are standing, like, there's a bunch of them standing where there wouldn't even be a chair for them to sit down in when they sit!
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 06:08 PM
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29. They're so afraid of the left, that they only sat on the right side
of the area, and others were forced to stand further right!

Maybe we on the left DO have a lot of power, if these idiots are afraid to even SIT in a chair that happens to be to the left!
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eauclaireliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 05:33 PM
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7. RE: Freepers say 1,000 people will show up to their "Pro-America" rally
And I say that history repeats itself:

http://bettybowers.com/protests.html
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LibertyorDeath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 05:37 PM
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8. Flag waving imbeciles

While their idiot son gives speech after speech about supporting the troops at the same time they're cutting the troops benefits!

Some support!!

The rethugs supporters must be some of the dumbest humans to ever walk upright not to see through this bullshit.
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johnfunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 06:40 PM
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45. Flag-waving imbeciles versus flag-waving antiwar patriots.
I strongly recommend protesters be ready with every size of Old Glory available and a few
It's our flag too!
placards, particularly for the press to see.

Antiwar protesters should make it clear to the proto-fascist FRaeks that they do more to support the Constitution and our troops than Rim "Looky my nuw RV!" Jobinson and his SHeepers ever will.
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arcane1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 05:39 PM
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10. remember when they had a rally at the L.A. Marathon?
and posted pics of all the people standing beside the road to see the runners... and they claimed that the crowd was there for the freepers???

That killed me :evilgrin:
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Mandate My Ass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 05:44 PM
Response to Reply #10
15. Hmmmm, so it killed you, did it?
And yet you live to post again.

And to whom do you owe this power of resurrection? Los Angeles o El Diablo? :shrug:
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arcane1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 06:05 PM
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27. JC Himself! Liberal protests work wonders!
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griffi94 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 05:40 PM
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11. didn't one of their chapters
organize a pro-war rally in LA and said 50 thousand showed up,but it turned out they had held their rally just a few blocks from the LA marathon finish line.i could be wrong but i seem to remember something like that
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 05:46 PM
Response to Reply #11
18. I remember something like that also.
But I don't remember specific details.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 05:42 PM
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12. Given the Freeps' propensity for exaggeration
I'd say they'll be lucky of two dozen show up. And that ain't no six inches, either!
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OneTwentyoNine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 05:43 PM
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13. LOL Freepers disguised as empty chairs. How do they do that? n/t
....
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 05:45 PM
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16. DU vs. Freeper Softball Match!
This is the perfect opportunity for those lucky enough to be in DC tomorrow.
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 05:47 PM
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19. Here's some pictures of them...
...protesting Hillary Clinton at a book-signing for /Living History/.

http://www.villagephotos.com/pubbrowse.asp?selected=337446&foldername=Hitliary+Freep

And their account of it:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/937293/posts

I will add though that there was a young gentleman (don't think everything was right 'up' there) who kept filming us. We were sure he was "DU", or something or another. He was wearing a "Stop Bush" pin. Well, it was fine and dandy until he started running over and asking questions. We kept asking were he was from, but he refused to talk except for his "questions".
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 06:06 PM
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28. what the hell does this say:
Edited on Fri Oct-24-03 06:07 PM by Rabrrrrrr
The sign far right



"You've blamed everyone but" and I can't tell the last word. Looks like "EONS", which doesn't make any sense, but given the lack of sense making at the freerepublic, that might be very well what it says.

"Get a Brain, Moran - it's EONS left! HAH! Everything but the EONS! Bile on my truth! You have no retort to that, do you, democrap, so I'm correct in BOXES! With PILLARS!"
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 06:21 PM
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32. I believe it says...
..."ELVIS".

The one that the woman behind her is holding over her head says "Real women read Ann Coulter." It was a few days after she appeared on /Hannity & Colmes/ where alan colmes actually asked her a good question - for her to name one person she'd accuse of treason. When I asked the woman with the sign why she couldn't name one person she'd have arrested for treason, she said that "she's protecting her sources like all the liberal liars do on your side." At first I was impressed with her answer - it seemed at least a good dodge, and she answered right away. It wasn't until later that I realized the whole thing made no sense at all.

See, now the kind of stuff at the bottom of your post, that would be real funny if someone infiltrated their rally with signs that said really absurd stuff like that! I think you'd have to have some cover story just in case one of the "fellow" FReepers asks you what it means. Or maybe even they'd be too afraid to ask!
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 06:30 PM
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38. Ah - thanks! I see it now.
ELVIS it is.

Love your idea of infiltrating with signs! Wish I was gonna be at the rally!

"HITLERY swags macaroons like a Pilter FISH!" and on the other side, "LIBERALS fear war because they FEAR FAT PEOPLE! So Who's filled with HATE NOW? HA HA! NOT WE!"

And when someone asked, I'd say "I'm from freerpeublic, I'm (say some name I would have looked up at FR)"

Though I like the other idea of infiltrating with truly hateful signs, like "ANOTHER FREEPER for the excution of retards!" or "FREEPERS FOR DEATH TO NUNS AND OTHER PAPIST TERRORIST SUPPORTERS!" or "BRING IT ON! EVEN IF WE HAVE TWO SOLDIERS DEAD FOR EVERY ONE IRAQI DEAD, WE STILL WIN! WE HAVE MORE PEOPLE!"

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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 06:33 PM
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40. OH OH -- another great sign idea!!
"I'd be here supporting the war but I have a JOB unlike niggers, jews, kikes, dykes, homos, chinks, wetbacks, spics, pollacks, and injuns, all who my tax money supports!"
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 06:22 PM
Response to Reply #28
33. Everbody but "Elvis"....
eom
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Clark Can WIN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-03 12:19 AM
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57. That wasn't the Free republic
that was the fat one.
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ShaneGR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 06:36 PM
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44. MOMMY, what's wrong with those people over there?
http://www.villagephotos.com/image.asp?id_=3336225
Don't worry about it hun, they are just right-wing wackos. Promise me you will never become a Republican.
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 06:50 PM
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48. Hmmm...they blocked it.
I get:

Use from this location denied. Referrer is HTTP://WWW.DEMOCRATICUNDERGROUND.COM/DISCUSS/DUBOARD.PHP?AZ=SHOW_TOPIC&FORUM=104&TOPIC_ID=586801
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 05:54 PM
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21. Here's an opportunity to test "fair and balanced" Fox News.
Serious...see if they even cover the protest tomorrow (my dad told me the 2/15 one it was given little coverage and they spent a lot of time revisiting Laci Peterson that day), and if they do, lets see how much coverage the FReepers get vs. the anti-war coalition, and compare it to how big the protests are, and what kind of coverage is given to each group.
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_NorCal_D_ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 05:58 PM
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24. LMAO!
Bring it on!
:eyes:
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 06:04 PM
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26. Nine hundred and seventy will be cardboard cutouts
and the rest will be PR flacks and moving men HIRED to make it look like people actually showed up.

And there might be one Dem there - who felt he was in need of a good laugh.
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alphafemale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 06:23 PM
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34. LOL! The porta-potty protection brigade!
<snicker>

:)
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arcane1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 06:27 PM
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37. let's see... 1,000 freepers, that means...
10,000 porta-potties!

oh, and a contingent of Dyncorp mercenaries to guard them!
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 06:26 PM
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36. PHOTOS, DUers, Please!!!
One of you MUST walk over there and take some snaps of our Free Republic friends and then post them here.

I promise to do the sme here in SF. :)
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Kamika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 06:31 PM
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39. even if they get 1000 people
thats nothing
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qanda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 06:33 PM
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41. They include in that number
Any tourists that might be passing by at the time. Pitiful!!! I think I'll take my camera tomorrow to capture the 1,000 (all in one tight shot).
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alphafemale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 06:58 PM
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49. Mini Freeper/Freak Randall Terry rally in Savannah
There were 7 of them...they came in one van from out of town.

But they counted cops and counter protestors in their final number.
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 06:43 PM
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46. morons
Why do these morons always use the phrase
Pro America

Does Pro America mean illegaly invading another country
Does Pro America mean at least 2 US soldiers dying a day
Does pro America mean Those soldiers dying for oil
Does Pro America mean cutting VA budgets
Does Pro America mean cuts in our education here
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kwolf68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-03 12:11 AM
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54. Propaganda

The right has so successfully divorced itself from reality that pro-America can be anything their paradigm decides...ANYTHING.

I am near DC and the itch is really there to go snap photos, but my digital camera is in Richmond, Va and a throw-away I couldn't post....I am thinking of maybe going incognito.
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tinanator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 06:45 PM
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47. Its called "Freeper Math"
1,6,12,25,50,79,1000.
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alphafemale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 11:32 PM
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50. kick
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Clark Can WIN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-03 12:03 AM
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51. That's a great media tactic, they know
their turnout is going to be crap but you make a media release that says 1000 people will be there. Nobody's going to bother with a follow up story so you leave the impression that you actually HAD support when in fact you're just full of shit.

BRILLIANT!
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thebigidea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-03 12:07 AM
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53. snicker
my friends and I are thinking of mingling with them and carrying "I HATE FREEDOM" signs or something for the benefit of numerous cameras.
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GregW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-03 12:15 AM
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55. Those Freepers are just so dang popular!
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kwolf68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-03 12:16 AM
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56. ANYONE GOING TO THE DC rally?

Just wondering. I live in Manassas, Va and will be at George Mason University for a spell tomorrow. But I can park at my work in Arlington and take the metro to the protest area.
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alphafemale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-03 12:23 AM
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58. I know plenty are....There've been numerous threads.
Check the activism room.

If you can possibly attend you won't regret it.
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kwolf68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-03 12:26 AM
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59. Cool

Ill check
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