If you are going to miss the WTO ministorial in Cancun here is an alternative: Lets counter the counter-protesters.

We already have many people committed to attending and disrupting the Freeper annual picnic thrown by www.Freerepublic owner Jim Robinson. We are hoping to see as many people as possible show up to disrupt their little gathering. Should be a lot of fun. Why let these fascists get away with the stuff they promote?

The Fresno chapter of www.freerepublic.com members is throwing their annual picnic sept. 13th and 14th in Fresno. The Freerepublic network is based in and operates out of Fresno, under the control of owner Jim Robinson. The Freerepublic is the largest, busiest, and most widely read political forum in the world, with around 100,000 members. Membership is comprised largely of right wing GOP and other militant right-wingers.

DO NOT underestimate the power of the Freerepublic. It is a major organizing tool of the GOP party and right-wing thought throughout the US and overseas.

Freerepublic members are anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-peace and justice, and anti-environmental. These are the people who organize counter-protests throughout the country to many progressive causes, including anti-war protests of the past two years.

Freepwatch suggests activists register an account at www.FreeRepublic.com and actively disrupt the website. Disruption of the FreeRepublic network will help to stop their GOP fundraising and Republican organizing for the 2004 election. Show no mercy.





Here is an announcment posted by Jim Robinson himself regarding the annual Rally and picnic. More information on this event will be posted soon.

LET'S BE THERE IN NUMBERS!



Announcing the 2nd annual tailgate and rally-sept. 12th and 13th



The Fresno/Central Valley Chapter cordially invites one and all to our second annual Fresno Tailgate and Rally on Friday and Saturday, September 12th and 13th, 2003.

Our rally will begin at 5:00 pm and end at 7:00 pm Friday night, at the corner of Blackstone and Shaw in Fresno. Afterwards, the group will retire for dinner and refreshments at the nearby Ramada Inn.



Our tailgate pot-luck picnic will be at Woodward Park on Saturday, September 13th. We have the Mountain View Picnic Area from 3:00 pm until 10:00 pm.





The entrance to Woodward Park is on Audubon Drive, just off Freeway 41 on the northern edge of Fresno. The Mountain View Pinic Shelter is near the center of the park and is the second parking lot on the left from the Audubon entrance.

Bring your flags, banners, signs, family and children. Prepare to support your country and enjoy the company of your good FReeper friends!

I would hate to miss a good picnic in a public park. I have some stale bagels to "donate".

--Freerepublic members are anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-peace and justice, and anti-environmental. These are the people who organize counter-protests throughout the country to many progressive causes, including anti-war protests of the past two years.--

That's right! We'll label them however we want regardless of the truth, and on top of that, we'll disrupt their freedom to march while at the same time de-crying them as fascists should they do the same to us.

--Freepwatch suggests activists register an account at http://www.FreeRepublic.com and actively disrupt the website. Disruption of the FreeRepublic network will help to stop their GOP fundraising and Republican organizing for the 2004 election. Show no mercy.--

Of course, if anyone comes here to disrupt IMC, we'll call them freepers and shills and tell them they shouldna outta be here, to go away.

Freedom for me, but not for thee!!!!

It's all about Rotten Eggs this time.



Here's the comments of the Grand Wizard himself Jim Robinson on a thread on FreeRepublic devoted to the counter protest:

To: Bob J

Might think about hard ball this year. Bring your own bat.



115 posted on 09/01/2003 4:45 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Conservative by nature... Republican by spirit... Patriot by heart... AND... ANTI-Liberal by GOD!)

Indymidiots are extremely hypocritical.

They engage in the same behaviour they accuse others of doing.

And get righteously indignant when someone points it out.

Look like the Freepers are getting a taste of their own medicine. They should have thought about this type of response before they organized all the counter-protests to the anti-war protests. They deserve anything that comes their way.

I won't be attending as I have made other arrangements....

I would suggest no organized counter-picnic. Roving affinity groups, it's a public park.

We are well financed, heavily fortified, and armed to the teeth. Bring it on!!

We are well financed, heavily fortified, and armed to the teeth. Bring it on!!

"(Conservative by nature... Republican by spirit... Patriot by heart... AND... ANTI-Liberal by GOD!) "

left out "...shit for brains...."

Fruit is always good to bring to a picnic. Rotten fruit will be the ticket for this one.

"left out "...shit for brains...."

Oops! That's me!

"Look like the Freepers are getting a taste of their own medicine. They should have thought about this type of response before they organized all the counter-protests to the anti-war protests. They deserve anything that comes their way."

What a hypocritical excuse for an act of violence. They do protests, peacefully, and then you come along and say "they deserve 'ANYTHING' that comes their way". IIRC, not a single FReeper has ever been arested for committing an act of violence, or disruption during their protests. Whats their crime? Daring to hold protests and rallies with political messages that is the exact opposite of yours? How dare they! Look in a mirror. There, you will find the real fascist.

We already have many people committed to attending and disrupting the Freeper annual picnic thrown by http://www.Freerepublic owner Jim Robinson. We are hoping to see as many people as possible show up to disrupt their little gathering.

You can hold a counter protest? You have to disrupt.

Should be a lot of fun. Why let these fascists get away with the stuff they promote?

Gee, we cant have that now can we? What do those Freepers think this is? A free country?

Typical example of liberal fascism. All they do is hold peaceful rallies and such. You choose to up the ante by calling on people to physically disrupt the picnic. And then you justify this behavior on the grounds that they hold rallies, and conter protests and stuff. Yet they've never resorted to what you're proposing.

"Freerepublic members are anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-peace and justice, and anti-environmental."



No. They're anti-liberal opinions on those subjects.



These are the people who organize counter-protests throughout the country to many progressive causes, including anti-war protests of the past two years. "

Without once getting violent, throwing things, assaulting people, etc. Yet the FReepers have amassed so many bruises from leftists.

"liberal fascism"

In addition to "liberal fascism," I also believe in God, the Easter bunny, and the Tooth Fairy. I'm a conservative.

"In addition to "liberal fascism," I also believe in God, the Easter bunny, and the Tooth Fairy. I'm a conservative."

Oh sure. There's no such thing as liberals who can pose a threat to freedom. They're all a bunch of innocent little lambs.

"actively disrupt the website"

"I have some stale bagels to "donate"."

"They deserve anything that comes their way."

"Fruit is always good to bring to a picnic. Rotten fruit will be the ticket for this one."



Yep, those liberals sure know how to respect other peoples freedom of speech.

Burning 'Bad' Ideas At College

by Nat Hentoff 6/26/00

Stories not likely to have been part of this year's college graduation exercises:

Last October -- as reported by the Student Press Law Center in Arlington, Va. -- students at California State University at Sacramento stole 3,000 copies of the student newspaper. They were enraged because the paper, The State Hornet, had published the picture of a Hispanic man being arrested and charged with resisting arrest at a football game. There had been violent incidents at the game, including the death of a spectator.

The self-righteous censors then demanded that the paper pledge never to publish anything that showed minorities in an unfavorable light.

In recent years, students have stolen, trashed and sometimes burned quantities of campus newspapers around the country as a form of vigilante protest. A recent issue of the Student Press Law Center Report notes that since September of last year, thieves have stolen publications from nine colleges in eight states, from California to Mississippi. In April, many copies of two student publications at Yale University were stolen, and theft took place at five more colleges.

Frequently, these incidents are motivated by a contempt for diversity of speech and ideas in higher education. At prestigious Cornell University, the conservative campus paper, The Cornell Review, published a parody of ebonics -- a kind of informal black speech that some educators thought should be considered equal to standard English.

More than 200 copies of The Cornell Review were stolen. Some were thrown into trash cans and others were destroyed in a merry bonfire. There was no public criticism by members of the administration or the faculty of this transmogrification of the principle of free inquiry in the academy.

Emboldened, the vandals attacked again when The Cornell Review published an illustration by syndicated newspaper cartoonist Chuck Asay, titled "Which One of These Kills More Blacks?" There were three panels -- a Ku Klux Klan murder by fire; followers of Hitler in front of a large swastika; and a doctor about to perform an abortion in a Planned Parenthood clinic. The student-thieves who took revenge on the newspaper were mostly black and Hispanic.

Cornell's dean of students, John Ford, told me when I was reporting the first mocking of the free press on the part of students that he was not aware that any copies of the Cornell Review had been set on fire. The second time it happened, I told him I had a photograph of him standing at the burning without stopping it. He then told me he saw no reason for disciplinary action concerning this theft of more than 500 issues.

A spokeswoman for the administration, sounding as if she had been trained at the Clinton White House, called the burning "symbolic" -- adding that Cornell supports both the right to publish and the right to protest what's printed.

Last fall, I was invited to lecture at Cornell on, of all things, freedom of speech and of the press. I spoke in detail about Cornell's approval of arson and theft to shut down diversity of ideas. At a faculty lunch, a professor took me aside and said, "I'm glad you're saying these things, because I can't."

She is a tenured professor. I was not surprised, having interviewed other professors with job security at a number of campuses who are afraid to speak against assaults on conservative newspapers lest they be accused of being insensitive to black students.

The main campus newspaper, The Cornell Sun, in reporting on my lecture, quoted professor Lawrence Moore, head of the American Studies department, who had invited me. He told The Cornell Sun that in my speech, I had been mistaken about faculty silence concerning the thefts and bonfires. There had been critical comment, he said.

But the night before, when I arrived on campus, Moore told me that he had been surprised at the lack of public criticism from any of the faculty. At dinner at his home, after my lecture, two professors said they had been disappointed that there had been no faculty criticism. In my lectures, I said that someone should teach the students who burned newspapers how 'unacceptable' books were burned in bonfires in Germany in the 1930s. And, I should have added, about how the Third Reich criminalized jazz, labeling it "Jewish black rubbish."

I wrote a letter to the Cornell Sun, correcting Professor Moore. It was not published. It did appear in the Cornell Review, where I noted that Cornell's code of conduct states clearly: "The right to free expression requires respect for the rights of others."

But when I was reporting on the burning of ideas there, Barbara Krause -- Cornell's judicial administrator in charge of disciplinary action -- assured me that the theft and destruction of newspapers had not violated Cornell's code of conduct.

Cornell and a good many other colleges need courses in respect for diversity of ideas among students, faculty and the administration, including the often-distant college presidents

It did appear as if the reaction was extreme.

For reasons beyond my understanding it got out of hand to my opinion.

Some idiots can be herded in a group to do actions against their own self interests.

It occurs on “both” sides. Sometimes by design. Look around, most of the people you are looking at are morons. It's not their fault because this is also, in my opinion, by design. Don't give me any wide eyed amazed bull shit.

Roll it in a little ball and spit it back baby.

"It did appear as if the reaction was extreme."

No. It was just typical liberal reaction to people doing things of which liberals have not given their stamp of approval.

I've been busy looking for abortion clinics to bomb. I'm a conservative fascist (pardon the redundancy).