'Pod Speaks...

I was always anti-authori-
tarian in my youth. I was not particularly conservative until about 1990 or so. I thank the Large One in the afternoon for that shift in my thinking.

I also credit the education I received (particularly the graduate education - M.S.M.E) with teaching me how to think. This skill (thinking) is not possessed by everyone.

Testifying against the Roadless Area Iniative Forest Service public hearings in 2000.

I began to familiarize myself with land rights issues and "takings", etc., and have been an activist ever since. I've given testimony in Forest Service public hearings and in Department of the Interior public meetings. Although possessing no geology degree, my avocation is of being an avid fossil and mineral collector.

When the Department of the Interior tried to ram the "Baucus Bill" through in the mid-1990's, that also set me off!. The gist of the bill was that no one but degreed paleontologists were to be permitted to collect vertebrate material on any BLM controlled land. This monstrosity was put together by a group of elitist professors who didn't like commercial collectors or amateurs.

Anytime an elitist group tries to control an area of my life that should be free is an occasion to "go to war." Ruby Ridge and Waco really set me off, particularly after seeing the McNulty films. I track legislation and regulation that pertains to my areas of interest (land rights, smart growth, etc.) and have become a leader of the land rights community on FR.

I began reading the Washington Times in 1993 on a daily basis. While not perfect (they canned Samuel Francis), they are still the best newspaper around. This (and talk radio) is how I tracked the myriad scandals of His Slickness.

When the Monica thing broke, I was so hungry for news, I kept going to the Drudge homepage all the time to see what was breaking news. I started exploring the links and found FreeRepublic and started lurking. I joined about a month after finding the site and have been here ever since.

I have to tell you that another FReeper, Angelwood, has been an inspiration to me to get out and protest. During the March for Justice, I was unable to attend due to an obstinate wife, and I recall seeing it on the C-SPAN website and literally crying that there were so many folks who thought like I did about Bonnie and Clod. I resolved to attend the next major event that I could. That was the Judgement Day Rally (December 5, 1998) and started me down the path of active protesting.

I attended the House Manager's Dinner that honored the 13 House Managers who did their job in getting His Slickness impeached. At that rally, Angelwood looked at me with those baby blues of hers and asked me why I wasn't out there more often. I said I would start and soon I was joining the D.C. Chapter in front of the White House on Saturdays. I did perhaps two dozen or so of these protests. In addition, I have protested at two of the last three White House Correspondence Association dinners and also at events such as the Darby Farmland Rally (September 2, 2000). I try and videotape as much as I can of these events. I use the following logo on the protest tapes which I produce.

I have participated in several FReeps of Her Heinous at Massachusetts and Whitehaven (Witchhaven, for those of you in the know) and also FReeping Al Gore at a recent book signing.

Some of the most important FReeps that I have done include:

• organizing the D.C. Chapter's protest of the Endangered Species Act in support of the Klamath Farmers two summers ago,
  and
• counter-protesting the A.N.S.W.E.R and the D.A.W.N leftist filth anti-war rallies.

I also protested during the election fiasco in 2000 (first weekend after the election).

That's pretty much it. I keep busy being a Dad to my two kids and being the ant that spoils the picnic pretty much everywhere else.

~ His Royal Podness