DU is being called out by the Protest Warriors, what is up with this?

[anarchy1999]

Attention Dallas Fort Worth........this came from the board that has decided to shut down our weekly Halliburton Protest.

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Attention ALL Protest Warriors!

The Democratic Underground is using their message boards to call for reinforcements for the next Halliburton Protest in Farmers Branch, TX!

How do I know?

A “little birdie told me”!

Link: Democratic Underground message board thread titled: "Has anybody here had any experience with this fun group? ProtestWarriors."

They are monitoring THIS forum, posting links to this thread, and quoting things that have been written here.

It seems they don’t like when someone else also wants to use their First Amendment right and express an opinion in a peaceful manner – especially if it runs counter to theirs.

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P.S - For you Du types, since I now know that you are monitoring this thread, be advised that I am not “retired” from the Marine Corps. I served Honorably from 1983 –1993, and had to leave the service of my country due to the “Reduction in Forces”. I enlisted in the Texas Army National Guard after “9-11” to serve in the War on Terrorism (which Iraq is a part of).

I joined Protest Warrior to allow me to enhance my ability to exercise the same right as you people do – freedom of speech.

I know how all of you LOVE to call anyone that doesn’t agree with you a “chicken hawk”. Well, this is one person who has put actions behind his words. Guess you will have to find another lame argument to try to discredit me.

Look forward to seeing you guys this Friday!

You can say “hello” to me!

I don’t bite (unless bitten)!
http://www.protestwarrior.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=18557&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15&sid=517d0928b10f9892ac215854e3754ee9

Absolutely not a nice bunch of people.

[Columbia]

1. Careful there

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/tech/news/2565447

[anarchy1999]

8. Not pleasant, and very unpleasant! I said earlier this is going to be a

long hot summer. The Dallas Peace Center, I do believe will quit this action before we ever let it get violent. What disturbs me most at this moment is that we are being monitored so closely. This was posted within two hours of my putting it up. These people need to get a life.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. This is their objective for you to be shut down

by any means possible

This is what jack booted thugs do

Keep doing it, and keep it peaceful

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. If this boy is active

he should know better.

He cannot hold a political opinion and identify himself as a member of the armed forces

Well the UCMJ either means nothing to him, or... he forgot that...

What am I saying LGen Boykin has gotten away with giving an opinion in uniform and speaking for the Army.

[AP]

6. That can't be true.

He's in the guard. Aren't there politicians who are in the NG? They couldn't be politicians if they weren't allowed to express their opinions.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. Not when they are activated

and the chances of being activated right now are pretty high

Also MOST politicians are NOT in the Guard, one Congressman who was not allowed to be activated when his unit was activated.

If they are not active then they can have an opinion... you are correct

But here is the kicker, you believe the guy ACTUALLY is in the Guard? He may or may not be. My experience with the web is that most who CLAIM to be in the service are not.

I know some who have, even on the right, but most on either side who claim such on line are not... or were not...

I will not question his service, but this is just a general observation from years on the web. For the record my service has been questioned as well... and these days I don't give a flying rats ass... but this posturing from him, is kind of the pissing contest of those who strike me as not really been there done that....

[anarchy1999]

11. Do you have more info on this?

I need more. We do not need to be being threatened. We have permission and have worked with the police departments to make sure this stays peaceful and non-confrontational.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Try to find what unit he claims to serve wtih

and then find out if they have been activated.

If they have... it is in the UCMJ... if he is CURRENTLY ACTIVE, contact JAG for his unit.

[RummyTheDummy]

33. Active?

My ass. He's probably never put on a pair of combat boots before. Check that, he's OBVIOUSLY never served.

Just another jack booted Rethug Chickenhawk. He and his band of mouth breathers are probably funded by the RNC. Frankly, they all look like a bunch of couch potatoes.

[Nlighten1]

3. Who cares.

Chicken hawks are just a bunch of loud mouthed punks.

[AP]

4. DU'ers would never call this guy a chicken hawk. He actually served. We'd

respect his service and his right to voice his opinion.

It's people like Rumsfield and Bush and Cheney and just about every Republican in congress other than John McCain who are chicken hawks.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

7. Most vets I know rarely volunteer the information that they served....

How do we know this guy served at all? Because he said so?

[AP]

9. All I'm saying is, presuming he did, he's not a chicken hawk.

Maybe if he understood what the phrase meant, he wouldn't be voting Republican.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Corect he is only a Hawk

That said, I woudl also wonder if he served in a peace time military
or a war time military... trust me there is a difference

[Media_Lies_Daily]

5. If he keeps talking like a big man he's liable to meet more DU vets...

...then he ever wanted to meet. What a turd.

[vetwife]

24. But is he a combat vet? or just armchair observer?

Looked at his dates of service and he could be a Gulf war vet, but then again, who knows.....There are plenty of combat vets against this war so he may not be a chickenhawk but his commander in thief is ! Some folks can put the uniform on and sit in Florida and never leave stateside and get all big and bad, not to diss any vets out there who were fortunate enough to not see combat, but there is a difference between combat vets and non combat vets. Combat vets who have seen war up close and personal aren't so quick to rush to war. At least most combat vets I have talked to and I have talked to plenty ...don't approve of this thing. From a POW WWII captured at the Battle of the Bulge 82 year old Vet who is a dem, to a lot of combat VN vets. They are against Bush and Iraq !

[leftyandproud]

13. HERE is what they do

http://www.protestwarrior.com/video/video_download.html

[anarchy1999]

18. Can't get the link to work. Oh well......, , What am I doing wrong?

This is just so f'd up. Conquer and divide, welcome to 1864.

[Virginian]

15. I guess he doesn't know what a chicken hawk is.

Someone who plays "Lets YOU and HIM fight." Not someone who has actually seen action themselves.

He is someone who actually believes that Iraq had something to do with 9/11. Guess he thinks Saddam was flying one of the planes that hit the WTC.

If Saddam was such a threat,
Why weren't any of his neighboring countries as afraid of him as we were supposed to be?
Why didn't they come to us and beg us to help them rid the world of such a terrible threat?
Why weren't they with us in the initial penetration of Iraq?
Why aren't they in there with us now, helping restore order?
Why aren't they helping to finance this operation?
Why did they cause our gas prices to go up?

[not systems]

17. They are bad news.

Met a few at a protest.

They have "cute" signs that blend in trying to look lefty
but with kooky right wing messages.

Lots of hate mongering and ultra-nationalist type slogans.

Funny one was "Make war. Then Love." I can only assume
that they had Abu Ghraib in mind. They are sick little bunch
of "free-speech" advocates.

The freedom to kill Arabs being at the top of their list
of "freedom" based causes.

[anarchy1999]

19. Bad news doesn't even begin to start.

DAMN! This just so totally sucks for everyone.

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. And that is why you must keep doing what you are doing

they want to SILENCE YOU

Now try to get as many pals as you can (too far or I would be there, and I mean too far), and make sure you out number them, by quite a bit, and regardless of provocations et al, REMAIN PEACEFUL

By the way, just in case, have some training in non violent techniques and have street medic teams standing by...

[anarchy1999]

25. We have all that in place and will be meeting this week prior to Friday.

Do you have friends that live anywhere near close and would like to join us in a peaceful protest? We will not need street medics, but we do need for everyone involved to go through peace keeping training which is what the Dallas Peace Center is all about! Dammmmnnn. This just isn't supposed to be happening.

[NMDemDist2]

28. when I went to the site, I saw two 20something kids who

"started" the whole thing? who are these Texans? Typical freeper b'shit if you ask me, claim to love America, but don't understand the bill of rights or that the founding fathers EXPECTED us to question our government loudly and often

I really wish some of these people would take the time to learn American history and what this country is REALLY founded on.

[nadinbrzezinski]

30. You are so right

Heck many of these kids do not even know who Jefferson and Madison were... nor do they understand the genious of the Bill of Rights.

I took an oath to protect the Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic, at least in my estimation some of these radicals fall on the domestic side... though I am willing to teach them a tad of US History, starting with that band of merry revolutionaries called the Founding Fathers.

[NMDemDist2]

31. let's hope maybe they will be so mad they will read the

federalist papers to "prove them lefties are all wet" and maybe learn something

[nadinbrzezinski]

36. I recomend number 10

as a starting point.

:-)

[nadinbrzezinski]

29. I'm in California

and having street medics is not a bad idea at any demonstration

I wish I was close, I would be there... but cannot be there nor do I know anybody in Texas who is close enough.

Full disclosure I was a Medic with a Red Cross National Society... no, not the American Red Cross, I have a clue about how bad things can go...

Free hint, if this should get violent, and somebody finds himself or herself under Medical Care, and as a suspect, and the police starts asking questions, keep those precious mouths shut...

Medics in the US rarely know they have to ask officers to step away until they are done and officers rarely mirandirize during medical care. Now if you are the victim of an assault, feel free to tell the cop all you know, the fresher the better...

[anarchy1999]

32. Sweetheart, you scare me. Please don't. We Will not let this get ugly.

We just need support from like minded individuals. We are the Dallas Peace Center.

This is so not fair. Do me a favor and send me a pm. I'd like to talk a little more, off the air.

[nadinbrzezinski]

35. You got a PM

and no the intent is not to scare you... at all

[anarchy1999]

41. Thanks and lots of smiles.

n/t

[arcane1]

20. I'm glad they enjoy seeing Americans get killed for Halliburton's profits

ah that's right, Iraq is part of the "War On (some) Terror" :eyes:

[anarchy1999]

23. I know, hard to understand, but you'd just have to live in Dallas to

understand. Most of us yet have still to understand what is happening here.

Most of us ask "who would Jesus bomb", and we have many other questions.

Go to klif.com and click on their rally they had last weekend and the prayer given by Bruce from McKinney Fellowship Bible Church. It would almost be amusing if my brother had not been best friends with this man and helped him to start this church. I guess it is understandable maybe why I no longer speak with my righteous brother.

McKinney Fellowship Bible Church is at the "support the troops rally" being sponsered by TalkRadio, KLIF. I'm in awe.

[FDRrocks]

22. "It seems they don’t like when someone else also wants to use their...

First Amendment right and express an opinion in a peaceful manner"

What a bunch of hypocrites. They fuck with the left, its okay, the left fucks with them (marginally, mind you)... then you hate the first admendment.

Dear Assholes from Protest Warriors who will, no doubt, read this:

This web site monitering your site does not infringe on your freedom of speech. It is simply gawking at your pathetic efforts to disrupt civilian protests. You have no ground to stand on when talking about disliking First Amendmant rights.

You guys are clearly disturbed by people who believe in different things doing just what your organization does.

[Career Prole]

26. Yo, Part-time Warrior.

Sorry, Billy Bad-ass...I support the troops stuck in Iraq. I won't support their mission.
Go fight over there if you think it's right...give someone who doesn't think it's right a chance to come home.
I definitely don't support big-mouthed "troops" stateside.
I can see where you might admire bush* though. A couple of National Guardsmen who sat out a shootin' war by hanging out in Texas...there's a lot of common ground there.

[anarchy1999]

27. Where is Will? Where is Scott Ritter, he's coming in June. We need some

Serious help in Dallas over the next few months. There are lots of us here protesting this illegal war and this administration, we are just so outnumbered.

We need Mike Ruppert, we need Dennis K., we need John Kerry. We have lots of work to do.

If you make your living at Halliburton, how can you possibly be opposed to their policies?

DU'ers, I apologize for the position I have put us all in. Sorry. If you can make it to Dallas, thank you, if not, keep us in your thoughts and prayers.

[Skip Intro]

34. "...to serve in the War on Terrorism (which Iraq is a part of)." - Rove?

why in the middle of this howdy doody clown's rant does he feel urged to mention the WOT "includes Iraq"? What a biga$$ lie to post right out there.

And that site - lol.

The whole damn thing reads like Agent Mike's interpretation of Captain America on acid.

*this post has been seriously edited

[neverborn]

37. It's just like L-Dotters and FReepers. Check it out.

That's bullshit, and I'm suprised you bought into the muslim line. Nick Berg was murdered, because the filthy, savage muslims do not what it means to be human. They are untermenschen. Gutter rats.

Their Satanic cult they call Islam compelled them to butcher Nick Berg alive.

http://www.protestwarrior.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=18734

[VOX]

38. Major irony with Protest Warrior poster and PFC Lynndie England photo...

Noticed the right-wing poster depicting a ME woman on a leash as I looked over the PW site -- and it caused an immediate visual association with the image of the notorious Abu Gharaib "leash photo."

Just my opinion, but I'd say that this is more than a little bit ironic.

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2004/05/06/430_leash,0.jpg

[neverborn]

39. PW is as anti-Islam as LittleGreenFootballs

[girl gone mad]

40. Something I've learned..

is to take cameras. Digital video cameras, cell phone cameras, the more the better. Take pictures of the counter protestors. It is a good deterrent, since if they do threaten or attempt to harm you guys, you will have their pictures for easy identification and possibly even video of their actions.

I get the feeling that the people organizing the counter-protest are probably payed for by Halliburton. Even pro-war people don't seem to be too enamored of Halliburton from my experience.