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(AGI) - Jerusalem, 1 July - Six persons who had demonstrated against the regime of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have reportedly been hanged in Iran, reported the Jerusalem Post, based on a telephone call with a source in Tehran. The hanging would have taken place in Mashhad. The news hasn't been confirmed, but the same source quote a sermon delivered by ayatollah Hadi Gafouri in which he urges protesters to be careful because they are risking their lives.

In Denver. Denver is not equipped to handle any convention scenario other than a coronation, and certainly not the most (potentially) contentious national convention in 40 years. It is important to point out that the state of Colorado, and the city of Denver, is currently nearly completely controlled by Democrats at every level of government. This puts these locals in a box, politically and from a law enforcement standpoint. This sets up a scenario similar to Seattle 1999 WTO debacle. I happened to be living in downtown Seattle during that awful experience, and what stands out is that the city...

Members of a small Kansas congregation known for its anti-gay message say they plan to demonstrate during a memorial service Friday for a Bremerton soldier killed in Afghanistan. That comes following passage of a state law in January, which requires protestors to remain 500 feet or more from funeral processions, the grave site and the funeral home or building where a funeral service is taking place. The law was passed in response to protests at soldiers' funerals. The funeral is for Sgt. 1st Class Johnny C. Walls, a 1985 Bremerton High graduate who died Nov. 2 of wounds suffered when...

At about 3 p.m. on Wednesday a group of anti-war protesters entered Sen. John Sununu's Elm Street office. By 11:30 nine were still sitting around, refusing to leave. All nine managed to get themselves arrested. No doubt they are proud of themselves, but the question is, what did this little stunt accomplish? Besides disrupting the work of Sen. Sununu's staff, the protesters achieved nothing. No one's opinion was changed, nor was Sen. Sununu's position on the war. Does anyone really believe the senator would change his vote based on the rude antics of nine peaceniks? Yes, the protesters received some...

Pro-war veterans group and anti-war adversaries warily promise peaceful event Police say World Can't Wait will have exclusive right to plaza Jordan Green News editor In late January, protesters swarmed onto the steps of the US Capitol and spray-painted antiwar slogans during a rally to pressure President Bush and the Democratic Congress to wind down the war in Iraq. That was the tipping point for Charles Gant, a disabled Vietnam combat veteran from Greensboro who volunteers his time with others who have served in the US armed services. "The silent majority is tired of the extreme left-wing viewpoint," Gant said...

Monday, March 19, 2007 Leftists Supporting the Troops Discovered by a reader at Indymedia, this was the scene yesterday in Portland, Oregon, as “anti-war” demonstrators burned not only a US flag, but a US soldier in effigy. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24853_Leftists_Supporting_the_Troops&only

An injured and bleeding demonstrator takes part in a rally to protest a visit to Mexico by US President George W. Bush in front of the US embassy in Mexico City. Bush on Tuesday promised his Mexican counterpart to seek change in US immigration policy, which affects millions of Mexicans and strains bilateral ties(AFP/Ronaldo Schemidt)

From The Desk of Viper News you won't see on MSNBC, CNN, CBS, NBC or ABC"You can't support the troops if you are marching in the streets against the war!"A Vietnam VeteranFebruary 08, 2007 'Gathering of Eagles' to protect Vietnam Veterans Wall By C.J. Raven U.S. Veteran Dispatch February 07, 2007 Leftist activists who march to the Pentagon next month will discover that their path won't be as clear as it has been in the past.The group, led by Cindy Sheehan, Jane Fonda, Ed Asner and their ilk, plan to gather March 17 at the Vietnam Memorial Wall to...

The rally last December was one of nearly a dozen paid-for protests organized by Russian émigrés in the U.S. in the past two years. They spent $150,000 to $200,000 in some months, accounting records indicate, to rally thousands of demonstrators near spots such as United Nations headquarters and the World Trade Center site. State-controlled Russian television, whose content is closely guided by Kremlin handlers, covered some of the events, often as the only news organ present, showing video of them on the evening news back home. Boris Barshevsky at a pay-for-protest rally in Queens, N.Y., last year. Organizers said the...

As dozens of anti-war demonstrators heckled President Bush outside an Indian Wells resort last weekend, a plainclothes Riverside County sheriff's deputy and another man moved through the crowd, the deputy waving a protest sign as the two snapped digital photographs of the demonstrators. Riverside County Sheriff Bob Doyle said that the U.S. Secret Service asked that members of his department's intelligence unit monitor the protest. Any photos taken Saturday of the protesters were snapped "under the auspices of the Secret Service," Doyle said. But Eric Zahren, a spokesman for the Secret Service in Washington, D.C., said the agency did not...

Ladies and gentlemen, the scope of the out-of-countrol illegal immigration problem is more massive than even those who've been warning about it for years may have realized. The photos on this thread are only a sampling of the hundreds available from yesterday's coast-to-coast demonstrations. They are intended to show -- in stark visual terms -- the scope of what we are up against. I think they also show that, in some respects, we have already lost the arguments so many have been making. We lost with immigration "reform" in the 1960's. More significantly, we lost in 1986 when President Ronald...

POLICE have clashed with protesters at the front gates of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music ahead of a speech there by US Secretary Of State Condoleezza Rice. Anti-war activists were rallying against US involvement in Iraq as Dr Rice prepared to deliver a speech at the conservatorium. About 50 protesters gathered outside the building in Macquarie St and were met by police on foot, on horseback, and with dogs. Police used the horses to push the protesters back, as a police helicopter hovered over the scene. Police made no early arrests but had to go to the rescue of The...

Turning up on a Pentagon surveillance list has become a badge of honor for members of a student anti-war organization at UC Santa Cruz -- and made them a national face of the peace movement. ..........It was an April 5 counter-recruiting demonstration at Santa Cruz that led to Students Against War's national notoriety. About a dozen protesters entered a career fair in a campus building and surrounded a table where military recruiters sat, preventing other students from talking with them. More than 300 people demonstrated outside. In the jostling that ensued, a career-center staffer was slightly injured. The recruiters left;...

Hundreds of people gathered along 40 miles of state Highway 111 in the Coachella Valley Sunday to protest a proposed federal law that would heighten enforcement targeting undocumented immigrants. In groups ranging from a few dozen to more than 150, the mostly Latino crowds of demonstrators cheered honking autos in Coachella and Indio; waved farmworker union, American and Mexican flags at a ritzy resort in Indian Wells; and held hands before a strip mall in Cathedral City. About 75 picketed the street in front of the office Rep. Mary Bono, R-Palm Springs, to protest her vote in December for HR...

What Thanksgiving should be How wonderful it is, how pleasant when brothers live together in harmony! Psalm 133:1 NLT Fighting historical vandalism In an article in Focus on the Family's Citizen magazine, Douglas Phillips describes how he took his family to Plymouth, Massachusetts, a few years ago and was shocked at what he found. Atop Cole's Hill, the burial ground for Pilgrims who died that first hard winter, Phillips was startled to see a city truck pull up and men pile out carrying shovels. They told Phillips the city was placing a new monument. "Most revolutions are staged at night,"...

SIERRA VISTA — For the second year in a row, Fort Huachuca will be the site of a protest by demonstrators who say the Intelligence Center on the post educates soldiers in torture procedures. According to an e-mail received by the Herald/Review, “The United States is responsible for using torture and training other governments in the most modern methods of torture.” That comment was part of the nexus organizers of this year’s protest outside the fort’s Main Gate implying torture is part of training at the Intelligence Center. Post officials have continually denied any torture procedures are taught at the...

If you challenge liberal orthodoxy, your argument cannot be debated on its merits. You have to be in the pay of global media moguls. You have to be a Jew. On the Saturday of the great anti-war demonstration of 2003, I watched one million people march through London, then sat down to write for the Observer. I pointed out that the march organisers represented a merger of far left and far right: Islamic fundamentalists shoulder to shoulder with George Galloway, the Socialist Workers Party and every  other creepy admirer of totalitarianism this side of North Korea. Be careful, I said. Saddam Hussein's Iraq...

If you challenge liberal orthodoxy, your argument cannot be debated on its merits. You have to be in the pay of global media moguls. You have to be a Jew. On the Saturday of the great anti-war demonstration of 2003, I watched one million people march through London, then sat down to write for the Observer. I pointed out that the march organisers represented a merger of far left and far right: Islamic fundamentalists shoulder to shoulder with George Galloway, the Socialist Workers Party and every  other creepy admirer of totalitarianism this side of North Korea. Be careful, I said. Saddam Hussein's Iraq...

Sorry it took me so long to get this up. The day got away from me. Freepers joined with The Minutemen, Save our Taxpayers and Constituion Party to remind the leaders of our country that it is THEIR JOB to secure the borders. We had wonderful speakers that I wish I would reprint their speeches. 1st because we didn't hear them well and 2nd because they were so passionate and truthful. I tried to find a terrorist costume and was going to sneak across the "borders" but there wasn't one and they DID Have a great BAT GIRL costume. I...

For those of you who work in DC, apparently one of the protest groups here in town, Critical Mass, plans to ride bicycles to the bridges during the afternoon rush hour and block them, "shutting down traffic." We here in DC are already the victims of a perfect storm. While Rita bears down on Texas, we can look forward to both the World Bank and anti-war demonstrators screwing up the entire downtown area. I have my "Help, I am surrounded by idiots" signs printed, and in my car.

Jesse Jackson's traveling circus reportedly flew to Caracas yesterday for a grandstanding visit with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. The announced visit came in the wake of ill-considered remarks from televangelist Pat Robertson who declared that the U.S. ought to try to assassinate Chavez. Jackson went there to show Chavez he's a 'man of peace and goodwill' and probably wanted to curry favor with him, given the opportunity presented by Robertson. And what better way to look good for his U.S. domestic constituents than to be seen in an abrazo embrace with telegenic Hugo Chavez? But a funny thing happened on...

LA protesters call for the release of Iranian political prisoners - Sunday, August 14, 2005 Los Angeles (AP) -- Hundreds of demonstrators called for the release of student leaders held since 1999 by the Iranian government during a rally Sunday at the Federal Building in West Los Angeles. The protesters marched in support of Manoucher Mohammadi and Akbar Ganji, who were arrested in a crackdown on anti-government protests at Tehran University in July 1999 and who have recently embarked on a hunger strike. The government jailed about 1,200 people during the crackdown. Most were freed soon after, but Iranian authorities...

8/6/05 Amnesty International calls for an urgent investigation into the killing of demonstrators in Iran Amnesty International today expressed alarm at the cycle of violence in the Iranian province of Kordestan and neighbouring Kurdish areas, which has reportedly left up to 20 people dead, hundreds wounded. Hundreds of others are believed to have been arrested, including prominent Kurdish human rights defenders and activists. Amnesty International is urging the Iranian government to promptly initiate an urgent, impartial and independent investigation into these reports. The methods are findings of such an investigation must be made public. Officials suspected of responsibility for human...

PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: President Bush spent the day in Washington while the First Lady continued her trip to the Middle East. The President attended church at St. Johns this morning. In the meantime, Laura and her security detail had a few anxious moments during her visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories. Here's a bit of how the Associated Press writer, Nedra Pickler, described the situation: JERUSALEM - Laura Bush waded into Middle East tensions on Sunday during chaotic visits to sacred religious sites, where crowds and hecklers grew so rowdy that armed guards had to restrain them....

The emotions this movement inspired coincided with the one deeply moral political phenomenon that postwar America has experienced--Martin Luther King's civil-rights movement. The Rev. King's multiracial civil-rights marches and their role in overturning de jure and de facto segregation in the U.S. were a political and moral achievement. In retrospect, it's clear that the moral clarity of the early civil-rights movement was a political epiphany for many white liberals. Some have since returned to traditional, private lives; others have become neoconservatives. But many active liberals carried along their newly found moral certitude and quasi-religious fervor into nearly every major public-policy...

David McClain, the interim President of the University of Hawaii caved in to a bunch of left-wing, faculty-led students that had occupied the university's administration building on Thursday, April 28. The demonstrators were demanding an end to the University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) project, which would establish a naval research facility at the campus.  Students, faculty and others who were involved in the protest oppose the university's plans to enter a five-year, $50 million contract with the Navy to establish the research center. McClain allowed them to stay through the weekend.  The building was turned into a combination dormitory...

Brian Becker is a communist and the organizer of all of Washington's demonstrations. He thinks North Korea is a cool place. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/21/national/nationalspecial2/21protests.html "We think this is a significant achievement for the antiwar movement," said Brian Becker, national coordinator of a protest coalition called Act Now to Stop the War and End Racism, or Answer. "We have bleachers, a stage, a sound system, and we're right along the parade route. We feel we have succeeded." Never before had the Park Service granted a protest group dedicated space for the inaugural parade, organizers said, and Mr. Becker's coalition filled it with thousands...

After attending President Bush's inauguration, NewsMax.com's Fr. Mike Reilly reports on a part of the inaugural parade you won't hear covered on the nightly news. The well-dressed, refined ladies and gentlemen from across the United States who traversed the streets of Washington this week for the president's inauguration stood in sharp contrast to the hordes of demonstrators sporting grungy jeans and do-rags. While the crowd at the inauguration ceremonies at the Capitol showed great respect to former Presidents Clinton and Carter, the demonstrators shouted obscenities to those attending the inauguration. One demonstrator shouted "F*** you" to Fr. John Wroblewski, pastor...

Inauguration: Free Republic Kristinn Taylor Free Republic Washington Chapter Co-Leader Wednesday, January 19, 2005; 11:00 a.m. ET Not everyone demonstrating Thursday will by rallying against the current administration. Members of the D.C. Chapter of Free Republic, a conservative Internet based discussion forum, will gather to support “Bush, the men and women serving in the U.S. armed forces and their mission fighting the war on terrorists in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.” Kristinn Taylor, co-leader of the Washington chapter, will be online to discuss the group's plans as well as their support for President Bush and his policies. Submit your questions and...

This one is self-explanatory. Yahoo News caption: A U.S. flag burns on the ground during a candlelight vigil against the war in Iraq on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, November 30, 2004. The vigil was part of a day of protests against the visit of U.S. President George W. Bush. (REUTERS/Christinne Muschi)

Last Sunday's protest march through the streets of Manhattan was an old-fashioned mass rally, and as the week unfolded and the cops arrested demonstrators around the city, comparisons were made to the famous Chicago convention of 1968. It has been more than 35 years since that notorious event, and with comparisons in the air, perhaps it is worth thinking about how the shape and content of the country's partisan politics have changed since those powerful forces were put in motion by the pitched battles of Grant Park... ...The Democratic children of the '60s--if not all, at least those who set...

The vast army that marched past Madison Square Garden yesterday afternoon yelling, "Bring the Troops Home!" and "Fox News Sucks!" and "Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!" were united by one great emotion: Contempt for George W. Bush. They denounced the President and all his works in blunt generic slogans and in distinctive New York-ese (my favorite: "Bush is a Tush"), and sang out "No more years!" This chant was almost the only hint that the marchers realize it is an election year. They hate Bush but they didn't show any love for his opponent, either. They didn't even mention him....

Strange Cosmos has an Iraq Quiz in power point format. I am researching some quotes regarding what these same people have said against the war and against President Bush. See also my comments below. Thanks!!

Hong Kongers March to Commemorate Killings of Tiananmen Square Activists Associated Press May 30, 2004 HONG KONG (AP) - Thousands of people marched through Hong Kong on Sunday to commemorate the killing of students by Chinese troops who broke up pro-democracy rallies in Tiananmen Square 15 years ago. The June 4, 1989 crackdown, in which Beijing used soldiers and tanks against the unarmed activists, shocked Hong Kong, then a British territory. Hong Kong reverted to China in 1997. "Chinese people will never forget this incident," said Thomas Ma, an unemployed 44-year-old. "Using guns to suppress defenseless people - you tell...

(snip)Between 2,000 and 3,000 people came to United Nations Plaza and marched down Market Street. Police reported no problems or arrests. International A.N.S.W.E.R. organized the "emergency" action last week after a new wave of fighting began in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. (snip) "The only way the United States is going to leave Iraq, which is very unfortunate, is if the Iraqi resistance militarily wins," said Joshua Deutsch, 22, a public health student at UC Berkeley with a "Long Live Fallujah" sign. Deutsch said he hoped as few U.S. troops are killed as possible, but "There is a right side...

Protest Wave Rocks More Provincial Cities SMCCDI (Information Service) Feb 25, 2004 The increasing wave of protest rocked more of Iran's provincial cities, such as Ardel, Kiar and Farsan, where hundreds of demonstrators were came attacked by the Islamic regime forces after they came in the streets. Plastic bullets, Tear Gas and clubs were used against peaceful demonstrators who were shouted slogans against the regime and its leaders and have resulted in tens of injured and arrested among the demonstrators. The brutal attacks resulted also in the popular anger and the protesting crowd took against several public buildings and security...

I wish to elaborate on this topic which I mentioned two days ago. I didn't go into much details at that time because I had not prepared an entry, so I wrote it on the fly. First, I have to explain to some western idealists that public demonstrations is an alien idea to the majority of Iraqis. We have been forced to demonstrate in favour of Saddam, the Ba'ath, Palestine, and Arab nationalism for 3 decades. Just to give you an idea on how that was like for us; party members would surround colleges, schools, and govt. offices. They block...

Demonstrations against the G-8 summit in Evian, France, turned violent in front of the Hotel Royal in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Sunday. Demonstrators converge on G-8 summit Thousands block roads, clash with police ASSOCIATED PRESS ANNEMASSE, France, June 1 — Thousands of protesters blocked highways and bridges, set fire to barricades and drew volleys of tear gas and rubber pellets Sunday from anti-riot police near the Group of Eight summit in the French town of Evian. THE MOST VIOLENT protests early Sunday were in the Swiss city Lausanne, across Lake Geneva from the G-8 summit site. Demonstrators wearing masks hurled rocks...

Freely expressing dissent is THE AMERICAN WAY isn’t it?

From the peace movement's elite, like singer and activist Pete Seeger, to the foot soldiers who have trudged through months of winter weather to demonstrate their opposition to war with Iraq, the consensus yesterday was that their job is far from over. While none regrets the dismantling of the repressive regime of Saddam Hussein, many in the peace movement maintain that the war is illegal despite its military successes and view the American invasion as the first step in global-empire building by the Bush administration, with Iran, Syria and North Korea as the next likely targets. Their patriotic duty, they...

Last week in Chicago anti-war marchers tied up traffic on Lake Shore Drive for hours. Yes, indeed, that’s surely the way to win over the hearts and minds of others. Aggravate them by adding hours to their commute. That’ll persuade them of the rightness of your cause and attract allies. It could have been worse. Some anti-war activists in San Francisco demonstrated their flair for originality by conducting a vomit in. Regurgitating on the plaza and sidewalks of the Federal Building, the protestors wanted the world to know that the war with Iraq made them sick. Puking for peace can...

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1048735390542 Jerusalem Post, Mar. 27, 2003 Europe on the brink, By BEREL WEIN The vehemence of the protests and unqualified opposition to the war against Iraq emanating from European capitals and streets is very troubling. Protesting for peace is meaningless unless there is a plan to create and maintain that peace. I have not heard any positive plans for achieving peace emanating from France, Germany, the Vatican, Russia or the other protagonists. They have not presented any reasonable alternative to counter Saddam Hussein. Nor have they come up with any good, concrete ideas on how to deal with all the...

More than 200 residents rallied yesterday on Greenwich Avenue, waving flags, signs and banners to show support for American troops on the battlefield in Iraq. Most demonstrators said they are not pro-war. Instead, they simply wanted to rebut the numerous anti-war rallies that have been staged around the country in recent weeks, they said. "We're not here to support war," said Gary Belmonte, 57, a Greenwich resident and Vietnam veteran. "We're here to support the troops." Several demonstrators, including Belmonte, said they feared the anti-war protests would send a message to troops that Americans do not support them.

VOMIT-IN demonstrates typical leftist perversion! The leftists demonstrated their maturity and showed just what their pathetic perverted souls look like, by staging a vomit in yesterday. San Francisco recently spent millions of dollars to build public (Drug Shooting Galleries) and (Walk in 20 minute Whore Houses ) camouflaged as public toilets. But why should they waste their money when the leftist and perverts just want to puke in public. Why go to all of the trouble to build private stalls, when it is obvious that citizens of this leftist dominated city would prefer to openly defecate in their streets, like...

It is obvious that a war to "Shock and Awe" Saddam Hussein will soon begin. In the first 48 hours, as many as 3,000 missiles/bombs may fall on Iraq. Next weekend, there will be more support the troops rallies, one of which will be at the Academy Awards. When our young men and women begin the engagement, they are going to need to know that Americans are solidly behind them. They don't need teachers saying to young children that their parents are immoral if they are fighting to oust an outlaw and murderous regime. And they don't need demonstrators in...

This is a letter to Santa in which a Marine asks for only one thing, a DEMONSTRATOR! Click photo to read the letter. Image by, Cpl. John Sabol, Jr.

<p>About 5,000 anti-war protesters from cities along the Peninsula crowded onto Palo Alto's City Hall Plaza on Saturday afternoon, making the rally against invading Iraq one of the Peninsula's largest demonstrations ever.</p> <p>But despite its formidable size, the rally was rather whimsical. People carried balloon animals twisted into circular peace signs. Children scribbled peace slogans on the pavement with chalk. And a choir of two dozen elderly women wearing sunbonnets crowned with brightly colored crepe-paper flowers belted out ``Make Peace Instead of War'' to the tune of ``When the Saints Come Marching In,'' accompanied by an accordion and a frying pan used as a tambourine.</p>

WASHINGTON - Iraq sent spies from Canada to New York and Washington this month to snoop and stir up anti-war demonstrations, according to a government report obtained by the Daily News. The classified document also reveals a plot by Al Qaeda-linked militants in Zimbabwe to attack American targets in that country and elsewhere if the U.S. declares war on Iraq. It suggests the group, Tablik Ja'maat, could be a "conduit for communication" between Osama Bin Laden's terror network and Iraqi leaders. The threats, disclosed to U.S. spy agencies yesterday, are detailed in a secret report prepared by an intelligence unit...

BERLIN, Oct 26, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- Demanding an end to threats of an "unjustified" war against Iraq, thousands of demonstrators gathered in cities across Europe and beyond Saturday for a show of opposition to U.S. President George W. Bush's policy toward Baghdad. In Berlin, crowds of people brandishing placards that declared "War on the imperialist war," "Stop Bush's campaign" and "No blood for oil," along with a few Iraqi flags, converged on the downtown Alexanderplatz square ahead of a march past the U.S. and British embassies. Police estimated about 4,500 people took part, while organizers put the...