Your OP from the original thread was quite an interesting read. It conveyed your thoughts and views but was missing the usual saturation with hyperbole and invective. It provided quite a contrast to the rebuttal post from Mr Trooprally who, although not your typical Freeper lunatic, filled his response with sweeping generalities and a constant drumbeat of guilt by association for the Quakers.
Here's the entire post, for those with morbid curiosity (I have sanitized his post -- every reference to the cesspool where this is posted has been replaced by "the hatred asylum"):
We, my wife and I share the screen name, have just today signed into "the hatred asylum" this morning because of WinOne4TheGipper's request on FReeRepublic. We are also know as "Trooprally" on FReeRepublic and Gathering Of Eagles. We are also the FReepers that started the Olney, MD Support the Troops Rally in Olney. We have been out on the corner since Dec. 31,2005. We have missed only one week, this past Sept. 15, because we were all at the big Gathering of Eagles Rally in D.C..
The Quakers, or "Qauckers" as we have labeled them, are not so innocent. They have been protesting America's wars since WWI. In the Olney area there is a Quaker Meeting House so there are a lot of them around. My guess is that they do not want to be identified because most Quakers do adhere to the basic Quaker beliefs. They believe that their religion is a global one, with no allegience to any country. I need to point out that this group of Quakers has previously pleaded for help from the local Quaker community with no results.
That is why they do not fly any flags. So why they get upset about us calling them unpatriotic is beyond me.
While the Quakers are all up in age, their presence does hurt or troops and if we we not out their, the Olney community would think they are the only game in town. With us out their, the Olney community knows they are not alone in their thinking. In Vietnam, with no counter voice to the leftists, the 'silent majority' was born. But we won't be silent this time. Our military needs us to guard their backs on the home front.
The Quakers are also the front group for PeaceActionMC (MC for Montgomery County, MD) and closely connected to Raging Grannies. Both groups advocate "civil disorder". Their civil disorder includes busting Recruiter windows and gluing the locks. This has been documented by thier boasting on leftists web sites. PeaceActionMC has a picture on their web site of their meeting in the Quaker Meeting House. So the "Quackers" are not so innocent as they pretend.
Protesting with the Quakers is MOBilizing Mothers. They were formerly named Mothers Opposing Bush (MOB), but since President Bush won reelection, they had to change their name. This is a younger group than the Quakers.
And we do not hide the fact that we are part of FReeRepublic.com
With that Prelude about the anti-troop protesters, our group of FReepers consist of many Vets, even one Iwo Jima Vet and 2 Korean War Vets. Our son is a Marine currently serving in Iraq.
We get 10 times the amount of honks and waves as they do. We have passerbys stopping all the time. They bring coffee during the winter and water during the summer, or they just stop by to Thank us. The Quakers have some, but our supporters far out number theirs.
And YES!, we do engage in verbal confrontation of the protesters. Numerous times we have had bull horns blaring. Not sure why this week was any different other than aomeone with a screen name on DU posted something. We have even "occupied" thier corner similar to their Recuiter offices occupation, just to give them a hard time. And the bantering does get intense.
As LibertyLady posted excerpts from our threads on FReeRepublic (Thanks. LL) 3DJoy had to turn to one Quaker and tell her that she doesn't approve of the foul language she was using. The other Qakkers had to shut their own up. Another time it took the Quakers 10 minutes to calm down one of their own after she got red in the face upset about our bull horns and us blaring out the truth.
This past week, we had a new, young person on the bull horn. He started in with some not to cool words and we immediately reminded him of our rules. But he has earned the right to confront the leftists and that is all I can say about him. As he learns the rules of our Rallies, he will be a great addition to our group.
And our singing of "God Bless America" or Battle Hymn of the Republic" really grinds on the Quakers. We know this from a conversation with them when we were occuping their corner one week.
And our banners. I want to Thank them for their compliment as to their professional look. All but two banners (out of five) and four signs (out of 30) are home made. One professionally made banner was given to us in the Spring of '06 by a Vet who just returned from Iraq. The other was given to FReeRepublic for the Walter Reed Medical Center Support the Troops Rally and we use it in Olney. The other three banners we made by a fellow FReeper. Most of the signs were made on my larger ink jet plotter in my office. We plastic wrapped some of them so the ink doesn't run in wet or snowy weather. The four professioanlly signs we had made early in our membership of FReeRepublic because we wanted all weather signs. And we paid for them. No George Soros deep pockets associated with FReeRepublic.
The week of Sept. 08, MOBilizing Mothers had 3 large banners that we professionally made. The Quaker's signs are hand made but are so badly made, that a passing can barely read them. And the hand made Quaker banner usually falls apart in windy weather.
Jeez, did this get lengthy! I'll keep an eye on "the hatred asylum" so if anyone has a question, I'll get back to them.
T
Well, Mr T -- thanks for holding down the fort. If you weren't on that street corner spewing endlessly at a bunch of aging Quakers, then Congress would grow some stones to end this war, Bush would lose his obsession with Iraq, and the terrorists would start blowing themselves up in our living rooms.
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