Posted on 03/21/2009 3:37:09 PM PDT by Michael.SF.
BENICIA - About 40 anti-war protesters held what they said would be their final rally Thursday, six years after the United States-led invasion began against Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
Patricia Kneisler, who has led the Benicia Peace Vigil for five of the last six years of the conflict, said the weekly demonstrations on First Street and Military began to subside after President Barack Obama's election in November.
"People are really conflicted now," Kneisler said, explaining how many of the demonstrators felt they should not be protesting the war while Obama established his administration.
The Benicia Peace Vigil was begun by a group led by Danika Carter Cavulich, a member of the Solano Peace and Justice Coalition, with its first protest coinciding with the day the first bombs fell on Iraq
Attendance has dramatically fallen from an initial group of dozens of people to, at one point, no one showing for the Thursday afternoon's rally.
In contrast to the recent sparse turnouts, about 40 de-monstators came to the vigil's final hurrah, which included balloons with peace signs, pickets and cheers as passing vehicles honked their horns in support.
RedBird Tate, who has lived in Benicia for 10 years, was among those who believes the protests should have ended when Obama was sworn in as president.
"Obama is my hope. He's going to kick butt and take names," Tate said, holding a sign and an effigy of former President George W. Bush, complete with faux flames.
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Attendance begin dwindling after the Nov. election, and now that the ONE, is president, there is little support for the cause.
What a bunch of gray haired ponytail hypocrites!
Redbird is in for a big surprise.
What a pitiful group of people these clowns are.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The irony is that if it wasn’t for the soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines that these idiots hate, these hippy morons couldn’t have their protests and “peace vigils.”
Exactly and ending it now is proof positive of that fact.
"People are really conflicted now," Kneisler said, explaining how many of the demonstrators felt they should not be protesting the war while Obama established his administration.
CORRECTION:
"Liberal Commie Wacko People are really conflicted now," Kneisler said, explaining how many of the demonstrators felt they should not be protesting the war while Obama established his administration.
Just how bad does your life have to be to have Obama as your hope? /p>
I love the symbolism of the traffic control sign on the post.
That picture inspires me to want to start my own protest group. Baseball bats to boneheads.
If people are conflicted now, then they were never serious about it, genius.
Patricia D Kneisler (civil engineer)
450 Greenbrier Ct, Benicia, CA 94510-1443
Contact Phone: (707) 746-5053
URL (web address):
Business Category: Engineering Services in Benicia, CA
Industry (SIC): Engineering Services
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Your peaceniks are a better looking bunch than our “Every Tuesday In Front Of The Federal Building” crowd. Ours are a bunch of Vietnam-era clowns from the 60s.
Obama is a ‘butt’ and has a host of names already: “Ozero”, “Obozo”, “Obummer”, “Il Douche”. At least the color of the bird is correct; although I didn’t know dodos were red.
She must not be very business in her business or she wouldn’t have time to protest.
The flotsdam and driftwood of society. I wonder if any of those people have real jobs.
I just love the RIGHT TURN ONLY sign over their heads.
When my son came back from Iraq (he served on board the USS Lincoln), he became furious at these people, not because of the protest, but because the spot they selected to protest at was located directly across the street from the Benicia VFW Hall and was a direct affront to all veterans.
Passing cars weren’t honking in support. I think this ninny failed to see the extended middle fingers being waved in her direction.
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