What is with Free Republic and the Navy Memorial?

[Goathead]

I just saw that news conference on CSPAN. Man those guys are assholes, but what were they talking about when they said they were going to protect the Navy Memorial?

Oh, and by the way Kristinn Taylor of the D.C. chapter of FR, when you said that Micheal Moore saying things about Iraqi insurgents "being the same as American "minutemen"" would be the same if Americans during World War II had cohorted with the Nazis, you should have done your homework, because some Americans did cohort with the Nazis: Prescott Bush, your beloved dictators grandfather.

[oneighty]

1. Protect the Navy Memorial

from what?

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[Goathead]

2. I couldn't figure out what they were talking about

They kept saying something about the Navy Memorial.

[oneighty]

8. Hmmmmm

I send the memorial a little money now and then. My navy outfit has a bronze plaque there which I helped pay for. The memorial is only that. A memorial to the sailors.

I do not see what it should be protected from.

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[acmavm]

3. For some crazed reason I guess they think us crazed liberal democrats

are going to attack it. Anyway, that's what I read yesterday.

Who knows? They don't make sense so why pay attention them? Their freeps and fundies. That should pretty much explain it.

[Placebo]

4. It's scary how much all the Bush men look alike.

:scared:

[Jesus H. Christ]

5. By "navy memorial" are they really talking about...

port-a-potties?

[Goathead]

10. Is that where the Port-A-Potty Rebellion took place?

LOL!:hurts:

[IHeart1993]

6. A Republican talking point?

So the Freepers don't know either?

[brainshrub]

7. Here's where the Navy memorial is located:

I'll be staying far away from the Freepers. If there is an incident, it will be triggered by those wankers.

ON EDIT: Perhaps they will have a last look at the Constitution in the National Archives, across the street, before Bush wipes his butt with it.

[madrchsod]

9. the American Nazi party was

fairly large and along with the Klan they formed the shock troops for people like Prescott bush and the band of rich white thugs.
creepers-another group of dumb fucks who never understood the subtlies of history

[norml]

11. They got a permit to rally there on Inauguration Day.

They said they need to protect the memorial from the anarchists.

[brainshrub]

14. Why would anarchists want to target the Navy memorial?

Is there something there that makes them mad? Why wouldn't they attack the Washington Monument or perhaps the Lincoln Memorial?

Not only are Freepers violent, they are just plain weird. How do these people hold down jobs?

[Kansas Wyatt]

12. So if the freeps had a pissed off Iraqi....

Running at them with an AK-47, instead of a liberal who was for peace, would they run with shit & piss streaming down their legs or would they stay and 'protect'?

[illflem]

13. Maybe they see some sort of threat from this

but that's giving them too much credit


Navy raising questions with D.C. mystery project

By Spencer S. Hsu
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Shortly after dawn, two dump trucks and a water tanker pulled up to a new, unmarked complex of buildings at East Potomac Park, the grassy peninsula near the Jefferson Memorial. The drivers exited their cabs, knocked at a gatehouse with blacked-out windows and waited for a security guard to emerge from behind a locked door.

A section of 10-foot security fence slid open minutes later, and the trucks disappeared, leaving the joggers and cyclists along the waterfront none the wiser about their mission.

What goes on beyond the fence is a mystery. The multi-agency review normally required to erect anything on federal parkland did not apply to the beige metal buildings. The Navy, which operates the site, at Ohio and Buckeye drives Southwest, calls the work a "utility assessment and upgrade" and volunteers nothing more. A section of 10-foot security fence slid open minutes later, and the trucks disappeared, leaving the joggers and cyclists along the waterfront none the wiser about their mission.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002102201_navysecret27.html