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Reader comment on item: Pro-Terror Group to Meet in Chicago Suburb

Submitted by I was there, Jul 20, 2009 10:25

I sat through almost two hours of this travesty before I had to leave. (I would likely have been "escorted" out, anyway...the organizers were getting upset with me because I exercised my 1st Amendment rights during the presentations..."Security" kept coming by for short "visits". I made out better than a woman sitting several rows behind me who was removed by Oak Lawn's finest for attempting to exercise HER 1st Amendment rights. Only in America can a foreign hate group in a public forum speak unopposed while pro-American protesters are silenced.)

The article is completely accurate (including the incredulous "animals" comment).

One of the "uninvited guests" had the nerve to challenge the black speaker during the Q&A (ha!) session, bringing up the fact that more than 100,000 Union soldiers died during our Civil War to save the United States and free the slaves. This fact was scoffed at by the gathering as a whole and by one of the attendees, in particular, who sat immediately behind me. He promptly received a short history lesson (from me) at which point he denied making the comment.

Hilton Oak Lawn: (708) 425-7800 - my family has had many family gatherings (usually in excess of twenty people) as well as several weddings at this hotel (going back to the days prior to it becoming a Hilton). Never again.

From Oak Lawn's website:

"please call us at 708 422-8292 24 hours seven days for prompt and courteous service. If you feel you did not get the "Oak Lawn" service, please contact your Village Manager at 708 499-7743 or ldeetjen@oaklawn-il.gov."

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