Ok a longer version Demo in San Diego

[nadinbrzezinski]

First off let me take you back to those dark days of November, you remember them well... the Pretender stole the election... so some of us hardy souls got together one fine morning (A sunday) to hold a protest.

We were at most twenty of us... it was cold (yes even for San Diego) it was rainy, it was miserable, We marched... the three hours we had to... and then absconded to Starbucks to get something hot... to warm some of our old bones.

Today I went to a demo I heard from on the web. I had nothing to do with organizing or nothing like that. It was by Balboa Park in San Diego, and we had... 2000+ people... the police had a heavy presence, but that was because of the at most 20 freepers on the other side.

Oh it gets better, but in November it was fifty fifty, you know the idiots gong Bush won, get over it, were quite more than today. Today I'd say that in my judgment over 90% of the cars driving by were supporting the action.

the lesson of the story is... this is growing folks, and this needs to keep growing.

Oh and got some great bumper stickers and a bushville hat, and a true majority pen... and reconnected with some of those twenty hardy souls, I had not seen them in months... it was good to see them.

So it is not all over the MSM, (though the locals DID cover it), folks it was the same way in the early days... in the good ol' days... the historical record is quite clear on that.

Oh and 2000+ in San Diego, you people realize how good that is?

[skooooo]

1. yep San Diego is very conservative

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Actually the urban areas are NOT as conservative

as they used to be... that is changing

[maveric]

5. As San Diego proper get "browner" its also getting "bluer".

And that is the case. Most of the population of SD lives south of I-8 and are mostly minority/dems.

I've been living here in SD for 25 years and have seen the trend slowly changing. Hell, Donna Frye, a dem, got more write-in votes than the repugs did.

Damn! I had to work tonight and really wanted to attend the rally in Balboa Park.
I did get to protest bu$h on Coronado though.

Great work my SD dem friends.

[Maat]

3. I was there!

It was at least that many.

It went VERY WELL.

The 9-year-old (and this 40-something mom) had a great time!

[McIntyre]

4. Newspaper account of SD Protest Rally

Here's the link http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/09/25/news/sandiego/20_12_149_24_05.txt

Here's my letter to the editor:

Letter: Re Anti-war protestors greeted by equal number of pro-troop
supporters, 9/24/2005: I rode the "Peace Train" to the protest in Balboa Park and take issue with your report stating there was an equal number of counter protestors. During the 1.5 mile march from the station to the park I saw/heard two people heckling us and viewed approximately two dozen at Balboa Park; hardly the equal number your phantom reporter contends.

The support we received from people along the route was heartening as was the number of cars honking and flashing peace signs. Isn't it peculiar that, in addition to your erroneous version of our rally, the Amtrak in Washington, D. C. suddenly and inexplicably cancelled several trains leaving peaceful protestors without transportation to the rally there? What's a patriot like me to make of all this?
:patriot: