Reports from Florida: Bush onlookers bullied off their own property.

OrlandoGator

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Fri Mar-18-05 06:09 PM
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Reports from Florida: Bush onlookers bullied off their own property.

Can anyone verify this? I've heard more than a few stories today from Central Florida that people who came out of their houses to see the Bush motorcade go by from their front lawns were approached by police and Secret Service and told to go back inside.

I know I can't be the only one who sees something wrong with this picture. Is this legal?

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Wilms

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Fri Mar-18-05 06:12 PM
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1. That's good advice.

I wouldn't want to be anywhere near him.

:scared:

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atommom

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Fri Mar-18-05 06:13 PM
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2. Wouldn't surprise me. The Germans were told to stay inside and not

look out their windows. Inaugural attendees were told not to look directly at him. The paranoia seems to be getting worse.

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Snotcicles

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Fri Mar-18-05 06:15 PM
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3. Which is probably a good thing, cause they could turn to salt

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atommom

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Fri Mar-18-05 06:18 PM
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5. Or to stone, like the people who looked at Medusa.

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tnlefty

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Fri Mar-18-05 06:26 PM
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7. But we're not to notice nor mention any parallels are we?

Edited on Fri Mar-18-05 06:27 PM by tnlefty

It blew my mind when a minister, a really level-headed, laid back man, mentioned to me during our last county party meeting that he's really getting frightened. He mentioned wondering if "this is how the Germans felt early on", and I was surprised and in a way comforted to know that I'm not being the reactionary that I am frequently accused of being.

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LiberalEsto

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Fri Mar-18-05 06:16 PM
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4. Legal or not, it's reprehensible

Edited on Fri Mar-18-05 06:17 PM by LiberalEsto

He's being turned into an extremist cult figure.

Last year, nobody could go listen to him speak at rallies without first signing a loyalty oath.

Now the average American isn't even allowed a look at this so-called elected leader who gets paid from our tax dollars, and is protected by Secret Service paid by our tax dollars.

What next, we're not allowed to breathe the same air?

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Maraya1969

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Fri Mar-18-05 06:18 PM
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6. Wasn't Orlando the place where the Huge Bush bulletin board was placed?

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OrlandoGator

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Fri Mar-18-05 06:33 PM
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8. You say "the" Bush bulletin board as if there was only one.

Edited on Fri Mar-18-05 06:33 PM by OrlandoGator

They were (and are still) all over the place. I'd say about 40% of cars here have "Bush/Cheney" or "W'04" or "I support President Bush and the Troops" (as if they are a package deal) or "W - The President" (my personal least favorite) stickers on them.

And the biggest joke of it is that Kerry won Orange county.

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flordehinojos

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Fri Mar-18-05 06:48 PM
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9. oh, the irony!

The irony of your statement, "people who came out of their houses to see the Bush motorcade go by from their front lawns were approached by police and Secret Service and told to go back inside(.)" to me is that, according to my right wing, catholic cousin, there are Mary apparitions in which she says that as the end of the world nears, people are to go inside their houses, lock the doors and shut the windows and not even look out the windows, or open the doors to anyone who knocks on them . In my head, in your above quoted statement, bush becomes the evil passing by!

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OrlandoGator

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Fri Mar-18-05 09:38 PM
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10. Any other Florida DUers hearing about this?

n/t

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