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insanity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 02:44 PM
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DC could get ugly
There is our protest, and the freepers counter-protest ("Support Our Troops Weekend"). Is it just me, or does someone else see the potential for outburst?
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lse7581011 Donating Member (948 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 02:45 PM
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1. Certainly Sounds Like
something's brewin'
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stepnw1f Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 02:46 PM
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2. lol (nt)
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mattclearing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 02:46 PM
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3. No. 1,000,000 antiwar protesters vs. 20 freepers = peaceful demonstration
Edited on Thu Sep-22-05 02:49 PM by tasteblind
:D

Edit: But seriously, freepers always show up at our protests here in DC. They are pathetic. They heckled Gore's MoveOn speech at Constitution Hall, they were defending the Iraqi people against Saddam Hussein at the anti-Iraq war marches in 2002/3, and they will be there tomorrow.

Trust me, freepers know their place, and they are hopelessly outnumbered in this neck of the woods.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 02:47 PM
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4. *high five*
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 02:51 PM
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16. SNAP!
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MarvinBarns Donating Member (72 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 02:53 PM
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20. 1million antiwar protestors
Will be biggest protest ever.
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mattclearing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 03:03 PM
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25. That is pretty optimistic.
I'd be impressed if we got half a million. People are pretty pissed, though.
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DancingBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 02:47 PM
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5. Calm down - the freepers never protest
50 or so of them stand off to the side in camo outfits and wave mis-spelled signs.

Nothing to worry about - c'mon down.
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KyndCulture Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 02:49 PM
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10. Don't forget the portapotties... 50 freepers = 120 toilets.
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mattclearing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 02:50 PM
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13. You've seen 50?
That's the biggest freep ever.

They only managed 5 at Clinton's booksigning. I think there were 20 at the march around the White House in '03.
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jrthin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 02:47 PM
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6. We'll be fine.
The freepers also showed up in Crawford, and we handled them and the situation just fine.
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 02:48 PM
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7. The freepers ALWAYS try to have a 'counter protest'
It never amounts to much.

Unless you're in the Porta-Potty business. Then it's a goldmine...


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HamdenRice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 02:48 PM
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8. Anti-war = pro peace, so I don't see how pacificists ...
could be part of any violence. Verbal outbursts sure.

But I could never understand why people pay any attention to pathetic little groups of counter protesters anyway.
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Fight_n_back Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 02:50 PM
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15. Anti-War +/- Pro Peace
I am against the Iraq war (i have been against all the Iraq wars) but would have no qualms about drilling a Freeper with a well placed shot to the adam's apple ....but enough about Ann Coulter
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 02:53 PM
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19. I'm with Fight_n_Back here...
Antiwar does not necessarily mean pro-peace.

Like Peter Tosh said, "I don't want no peace. I want equal rights and justice."
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Ioo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 02:48 PM
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9. 39298792834 of us, 18.1 of them, it will be fine.
Please, they are no shows, all talk no action.
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BBradley Donating Member (645 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 02:50 PM
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11. The freepers never come with enough people to bother us.
The status-quo isn't really a motivating thing to protest for I guess.
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zippy890 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 02:50 PM
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12. Yes, freepers are ugly, its true
because they are filled with hate & negativity.

They will be vastly outnumbered and inconsequential to our effots.
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warrens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 02:50 PM
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14. I reserved all the patriot potties in the area
What would they do without their post-event buffet?

If anyone going has a digital camera, check FReak Republic tomorrow night to confirm where Kristinn and his five or six acolytes are going to be, then get some pix of their pathetic excuse for a demo and post them here so we can all have a good laugh.
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 02:54 PM
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22. Oh, I'm taking pictures.
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 02:52 PM
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17. If both of the freepers are there at the same time, you're right
It could be very ugly.
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 02:52 PM
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18. Nah
The Protest Warriors are scheduled to be there. No danger of protesters getting jumped while the clueless boobs are busy whacking PWs.
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 02:53 PM
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21. I've been around for a long time and seen many protest and
I've yet to see any great numbers of freepers at any given protest.

Only a few types like this guy below that was at the anti war protest before the invasion of Iraq.


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txaslftist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 02:54 PM
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23. You forget that the military will be conducting a covert exercise...
...at the same time. So it might be 20,000 of us (plus a few military agitators) against 20 of them (plus a few hundred plainclothes special operatives).

It very well could get ugly. Lethally ugly.

I'll still be there, though.

:headbang:
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pnorman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 03:00 PM
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24. They'll be there in DC
in roughly the same proportion that they're serving in Iraq & Afghanistan.

"Porta-Pottie Patriots"!!

pnorman
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deutsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 03:05 PM
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26. Even if they get twice their usual number, they'll still be a fairly
insignificant annoyance.

One march I went to there were about 40 of them jeering thousands of us.
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