Free Republic gears up for "March for Justice" on DC/ counterprotest now

[Zuni]

Announcing Free Republic's MARCH for JUSTICE II, April 7, 2005, Washington, D.C.!!
Free Republic | March 15, 2005 | Kristinn, Jim Robinson


Posted on 03/15/2005 10:03:13 PM PST by Jim Robinson


In October 1998, Free Republic marched on Washington demanding the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Thanks to our efforts, Clinton was impeached less than two months later.

Then, as now, our country stood at a Constitutional crossroad. This year we stand at the crossroad of what kind of judiciary we will have: One that is restrained by the Constitution, or one that abridges our rights by making it up as they go along.

President Bush and the Republicans in the Senate are gearing up for a showdown with the Democrats over his judicial nominees. The Democrats have used the filibuster in an unprecedented way to block judicial nominees from getting an up or down vote. Republicans, led by Majority Leader Bill Frist are getting ready to employ the Constitutional option--most likely in mid-April.

A simple majority is needed to implement the Constitutional option. However, even with a 55 vote majority, a victory by the Republicans is in doubt. Democrats, unswayed by their ever-diminishing numbers in the Senate, have threatened to almost totally shut down the Senate if the Republicans succeed.

The Democrats are desperate because the judiciary is their last hope to force their liberal, unconstitutional agenda on the American people. If the filibuster is broken, they know that President Bush will be able to nominate and get confirmed Supreme Court justices in the mold of Scalia and Thomas. If the filibuster holds, we'll get justices like Anthony Kennedy who look to foreign law and opinion to support their unconstitutional rulings.

Therefore, in order to support President Bush's judicial nominees, and to put the Senate and the courts on notice that We the People demand the Constitution be respected and maintained, we will march on Washington on Thursday, April 7, 2005.

We will rally at Upper Senate Park, directly across the Capitol between Constitution Avenue and Union Station, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Immediately after the rally, we will march on the offices of all 100 senators in groups of state citizens to impress upon them the seriousness of our cause.

We will be working to bring other conservative groups in to co-sponsor the rally. Speakers and co-sponsors will be announced as they confirm.

We will need to raise funds for the rally. The estimated cost is $8,000. Capitol Police rules do not allow us to seek donations at the rally, so we will have to raise the funds before. Click here to help out.

Lord willing, I'll be making the trip from California to D.C. for the rally. It's short notice, but this is too important to stand back. Our rights are at stake. Defend them now, or watch a justice like Anthony Kennedy look to foreign law and opinion one day to take away your Second Amendment and other rights.



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[Zuni]

1. I want organize a counterprotest

I want to expose what the conservatives really want---pro-corporate, ex segregationists, mindless party puppetts (thomas) and RW ideologues (Scalia)

Lets march for justice and say no to Bush's radical judicial agenda.

[ET Awful]

2. Don't think much of themselves do they?

They singlehandedly caused the failed impeachment proceedings?

How many portapotties can they get for $8,000?

[LynzM]

42. That was my thought...

"Thanks to our efforts, Clinton was impeached less than two months later."

Yeah, I'm sure it was ALL their doing... :eyes:

[Aristus]

44. Yep, Richard Mellon Scaife, several billion dollars and a few

corrupt Arkansas State troopers couldn't get the job done, but a few morans from Freak Repukelick brought about the impeachment; which failed. Bill Clinton was acquitted, and left office with higher approval ratings than Ronald Reagan; the entire world was laughing at the repukes for making such a huge, expensive deal out of a harmless little fling.

But they want to take credit for that. Hokay. :eyes:

[Zuni]

52. one of my finest memories

I loved watching that fiasco. For all the hurt it caused the Clintons, the Democrats---it turned out to be the most absurd witchhunt ever. Tailgunner Joe McCarthy couldn't hold a candle to that booger of a man, Ken Starr.

And the fact the MacDougals were jailed in Solitary Confinement because they wouldn't lie about the Clintons is perhaps the most sordid incident of all. Or when they got that tramp Juanita Broadderick, who had an affair with Clinton but told her husband it was rape when he found out, to come forward.

Or that ho bag Paula Jones, who was so excited at being the President's mistress.

Man the scandals were all contrived. Even the worst things they got on Clinton, missing FBI files, Chinagate PALE in comparison to the Bush admin.

[MissMillie]

3. He's kidding, right?

The Democrats have used the filibuster in an unprecedented way to block judicial nominees from getting an up or down vote.

What a load of crap!

[Beaverhausen]

28. They seem to have forgotten how many of Clinton's appointees

the repubs filibutered against.

[Maestro]

4. Oh I wanna be there with a camera.

Can you imagine how many more morans photos we can get? ;)

[Zuni]

14. I want to have a counter protest

[DarleenMB]

36. "moron" not "moran"

unless I missed something.

sorry.

Can't help myself.

going back to lurk mode.

[FunkyLeprechaun]

37. Think there was a photo of a Republican holding a sign saying "morans"

Here's what I found... I didn't find the original picture

[xmas74]

47. You found it!

Welcome to DU!
:hi:

[Maine-ah]

41. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[ET Awful]

43. Welcome to DU

The "moran" is a long-running joke brought about by this picture:

[xmas74]

46. It's an ongoing joke.

The freepers can't spell "moron" right. They spell it "moran" on all their signs so we have adapted to their own spelling when referring to them.
It's just more fun that way!
Welcome
:hi:

[GregW]

49. Yep - you missed something all right

But you knew that, didn't you.

[Maestro]

66. You missed something

;) Do a search for morans and you'll understand.

[CottonBear]

73. Moran is the correct and definitive DU spelling.

Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[Pawel K]

5. Lol, they are accusing us of misusing the constitution?

Have these idiots completely lost their mind?

[Zuni]

6. DC area DU is needed

[DenverDem]

7. Yeah, thanks to their rally, Clinton was impeached.

Pathetic fantasical ignorance.

[BlueJazz]

8. Oh Brother.... This is where the Freepers need to be headed....

[StopTheMorans]

9. what mouth-breathing idiots

if i march today asking for the sun to come up, and it comes up tomorrow, it must mean that i made the sun come up, right? :crazy:

"In October 1998, Free Republic marched on Washington demanding the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Thanks to our efforts, Clinton was impeached less than two months later."

[Zuni]

11. are you in for a protest of FR?

I am in. I want to protest their rally. I support the court's decision to stop death penalty for minors---I support the Senate blocking Bush's neo-fasicts from being federal judges

[StopTheMorans]

15. i'd love to, but i'm in Boston, and i already have plans (friends bday)

that weekend. otherwise, i wouldn't mind shining some light on those roaches. the thing i find most hilarious is when freepers talk about what pussies liberal men are, but then they talk about how much they need their guns. gotta love those crazy freeper keyboard commandoes, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[sniffa]

60. Let's go rough 'em up

at Least the boston chapter. :evilgrin:

[Left Is Write]

51. That is an example of an over-inflated sense

of their own importance.

[Skip Intro]

10. Here's what the last big freep rally looked like

[Pawel K]

Didn't even think they'd be able to find that many

[Pawel K]

17. Didn't even think they'd be able to find that many

[Beaverhausen]

29. thanks for posting that photo

Remember folks, that is one of their bigger gatherings!

[Discord]

63. at least when they don't buy thier audiances it is. nt

[bettyellen]

54. LOL! Contrast that with every major city in the country looking like this:

[liberalitch]

61. Or the April 24, 2004 March for Women's lives....

Sorry I have no pics here at work

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

55. i walked past that on my way to interview amy goodman

and got called a "communist" BY Bob Dornan

he was speaking to a crowd of about 15 and acting like he had an audience of thousands. funniest thing I ever saw

[AntiCoup2K4]

62. I'd consider that a badge of honor!

To be labeled a "communist" by the most insane individual to ever hold a Congressional seat in the history of this country

(DeLay is a close second)

[jmowreader]

69. Let us step back and remember the FR rally with 50,000 in attendance!

IIRC the freepers held one of their rallies at the New York City Marathon (or some other huge event like that) and declared that every single person in attendance at the event was really there for the freeper rally.

In reality, a freeper rally is a huge, unbelievable, astonishing success if they get one person for every porta-potty they rent. (For newbies: freepers take great care to obtain and place under armed guard long lines of porta-potties. At the rally pictured in Skip Intro's post, I have heard they had about fifty porta-potties there. They had about a dozen freepers, as you can plainly see--they couldn't even fill all the chairs they brought.)

[jonnyblitz]

12. wow, they take credit for Clinton impeachment. nt

[burythehatchet]

45. delusion is a tell-tale sign of being a republican

[FlyByNight]

13. "March for Justice?"

The rant is so delusional, it's difficult to focus on one aspect of this amateurish screed and pick it apart.

Does this "justice" involve a mass suicide?

[Felix Mala]

16. A few thousand of us could volunteer

To point people to the wrong subway stops, to direct them to the wrong parts of town and to drive the big cake float that says "Eat Me" and ram it into their bleachers.

[coloradodem2005]

18. Let's march on Washington.

I can't make it, but a counterprotest is in order

[Zuni]

20. I want to do it. I am in Maryland and close enough to come

[barackmyworld]

19. We need to do something like this:

http://harvardsucks.org/

A bunch of Yalies masqueraded as the "Harvard Pep Squad" at the annual game and got the alumni section to hold up sheets of paper that looked like this:



But I doubt there would be enough Freepers there :(

[Maestro]

21. I thought is was saying

"We *uck." Insert the letter F where you *. ;)

[GalleryGod]

24. Ouch, Maya!

:silly:

[barackmyworld]

26. Yeah, they sure got us good

We'll think of something next year!!

[CanuckAmok]

22. I just sent them directions... I hope they arrive in time!

[Zuni]

40. hahahahahahahahahahahah

good one

[GalleryGod]

23. All the "Tough Guys" ALWAYS stay home,though.

Wiping their asses with one hand and typing threatening language with the other...just a bunch of old pot bellied medical rejects and Skank Ho's at Freeper Rallies:shrug:

[madrchsod]

25. jim will have a desperate fund raiser

for freerepublic website so he can live large in dc....what a joke

[sniffa]

27. i thought

they were marching to demand the impeachment of dubya. siLLy me. :P

[bvar22]

30. Leave the poor Freepers alone.

They carry enough of a burden without us piling on!

Actually, I defend their right to have their little playground (FR). If it keeps them busy, they won't come here.

I DO strongly object to members of DU linking to FR, or posting thread titles with FR in the subject line. It embarasses me that we would advertise their site on our front pages. Discussing what goes on at FR on DU only offers ligitimacy and publicity for their organization and wastes our time. DU is probably the only organization left in the USA that acknowleges their pathetic existence. They have been shunned by Katherine Harris, Sean Hannity, Rush Limpball, and Bill O'Reilly. If DU would leave them alone, they would quietly slip away into the obscurity they have earned.

I also am disturbed by members of DU going to FR and "debating" with the freepers. I put that in the same category as ridiculing the handicapped or tormenting animals. Really, you guys should be ashamed!!!

[KamaAina]

31. What has 32 legs and 18 teeth?

The group photo from the Freeper rally :evilgrin:

[Mr_Spock]

32. Free Republick - bunch of sally boys - what a joke

They make me laugh out loud - thanks for the comic relief after our Dems backstabbed us on ANWR. :D

[BikeWriter]

33. Joke 'em if they can't take a ####!

[warrens]

34. Ooooo, bet they bring their Patriot Potties

What a bunch of tools.

[Biased Liberal Media]

35. Clinton was impeached??

what is that? Wishful thinking??

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

56. technically, he was

impeachment refers to charges filed by the house, however, he was found not guilty.

the GOP likes to act like the fact that they voted for the asinine case implies guilt.

by that logic, oliver north is in prison

[Sapphire Blue]

38. March for ‘Justice’?!

Lynch mob blood lust, complete with delusions of grandeur, would more accurately describe their anticipated ‘event’.

[Orsino]

39. Hint for freeps:

It's not a march unless more than one of you walks down the street chanting.

One at a time, it's just crazy.

[Dave Reynolds]

48. All 4 of them in one place?

The stink will be truly awesome.

[GregW]

50. Here's one of their MONSTER rallies in Eugene, OR

[Zuni]

53. That makes me want to:

SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT, GEORGE W. BUSH and the troops

[Melynn]

58. That is sad

I almost feel sorry for them. Almost...but not quite.

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

59. The guy on the right

Is a Nazi skinhead, no? Or do normal Eugenians dress and shave their heads like that??

[AntiCoup2K4]

64. Eugene, no. Springfield, yes.

Springfield is the "anti-Eugene" next door. And that guy does look like a Nazi.

[Beaverhausen]

68. LOL!!!

[jmowreader]

70. Not a real FR rally. Nope. Try again.

The complete absence of porta-potties is a dead giveaway.

[GregW]

72. OK, OK, OK - you got me

It wasn't a real FR rally - it was a counter-rally to the one we held a block away protesting the impending Iraq war. Here is our turnout ...

[arikara]

57. LOL a call to arms

for all six of them... the pathetic morans.

[WoodrowFan]

65. deploy the portapotties!

The last time the 101st Fighting Keyboarders had a rally in DC they had as many portapoittes as participants!

[peekaloo]

67. Budget cuts have hurt 'em.

This year it's catheters and colostomy bags.

[madinmaryland]

71. I'll defininately be there.

I would not want to miss seeing the stop the moran guy and a couple other freepers. Need a good laugh!