Trafalgar Square Webcam is up and running (Where are the tens of thousands of protestors?)

Cam Vista ^ | 11/20/03

[areafiftyone]

Here is the link to the webcam that is focused on Trafalgar Square. Doesn't look like tens of thousands to me. Looks like a small gathering. Also I heard Bush will not be even in the vacinity of the protestors today he will be in Blair's home town. HEH HEH!!!

[Hunble]

Obtain their names!

Draft these "peace protesters" into the Army and place them in Iraq as Peace Keepers.

It is time for them to put up or shut up.

[johnny7]

(the one with man-hands)

HA! I bet she could do a quick job on a boiled lobster! Ammanpour seem to always have a 5 O'Clock shadow too. Must be those damn testosterone injections!

[Hunble]

[MJY1288]

I don't see more than 300 people in the square, I wonder how the media will explain this

[areafiftyone]

Oh you know the liberal media will add a couple of zeros to the 300 to make it 30,000. That's because they built up this big hype about the protestors and now they look like the Bush hating fools that they are.

[smokinleroy]

I see a small crowd of people, but no protest signs. Probably mostly curious spectators.

[newcats]

The image hasn't changed in the last 15 mins.
Maybe the fake video feed isn't ready yet?

[SkyPilot]

Yup--sure looks like 60,000 people to me.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Or, as another FReeper pointed out yesterday, the Alphabets will tote out old protest footage and use that instead.

Nothing will ever stop them from admitting they're wrong.

[alnitak]

Trafalgar Square is normally that busy :-)

In fairness, they are probably forming up for their march.

Remember it's only 3:42PM London time, and most of them have not yet got out of bed.

[Indy Pendance]

"I wonder how the media will explain this"

5000 busses are on their way, caught in traffic...

[tx_eggman]

There were more pigeons in Trafalgar Square the last time I visited than there are protesters present today.

[Semper Paratus]

Tea time isn't over yet.

[cubreporter]

No way...we don't want this kind of slime to don the proud uniform of the United States Army or any other branch of the service. They don't deserve it.

[finnman69]

How does that protest of theirs go?

The World Is NOT Watching! The World Is NOT Watching!

[areafiftyone]

Actually the only people that are watching are the DUers and that's about it. Nobody really cares. Actually the ding dongs don't even realize that Bush will not see them because hs is probably on his way to Blair's hometown by now. He's going home tomorrow.

[finnman69]

November 20, 2003
http://www.instapundit.com/archives/012628.php


HERE'S A LIVE WEBCAM VIEW of Trafalgar Square. Doesn't look like 100,000 people to me, to the extent you can tell from one webcam. Nor to Andy at World Wide Rant.

UPDATE: This BBC story still says 100,000 are "expected" -- but if you scroll down you'll see that it's really more like 30-40,000. That's about 10% of the number who showed up to protest the fox-hunting ban. And yeah, I know these numbers don't mean much in themselves. But the downward trend seems pretty clear.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Email from London suggests that protesters aren't exactly overrunning the place. And here's a photo from a London blogger's office window that makes the turnout seem less than overwhelming, too. Reader Rick Bradley emails:


Is it just me, or are this week's British protests strikingly reminiscent of the Martha Burk protests at the Augusta National this spring?


Yes, like the New York Times with Augusta, the BBC has been doing everything it could to pump turnout -- only, it appears, to produce a rather disappointing number of actual protesters. Do you think the media are paper tigers?

[finnman69]

This protest march has just gone by my office window - the length of the column was no more than 25 yrds............but it will be reported by the media as 'massive'. Just remember, Mr Free Market will always give you the truth.

http://www.fmft.net/archives/cat_economics_politics.html#000056

[finnman69]

http://www.fmft.net/archives/cat_economics_politics.html#000055

Protests - My Worst Fears Have Been Confirmed
It worse than I thought, the UK has lost its backbone. For the last 2 weeks, the leftie media has been assuring us that anti-American feeling is running so high in the UK that 100,000 people would be protesting against President Bush's visit.

Now unlike idle journalists who blithly interpret numbers as a "ground swell of opinion", shall we take a look at the facts here? The CIA Year Book (do you like the irony?) gives the poplution of the UK as 60,094,648. Therefore 0.166% of the population dislike Bush sooooooooooo much that they are going to protest. Fair enough.

I feel a sense of perspective is required here. Last year, 407,791 of us marched through London to protest against the bill to ban foxhunting - thats 0.679% of the population. Or to put it another way, 4 times as many people want foxhunting saved as want Bush to go home!

But the truth is nothing like that. I have just come back from a meeting in the City - through Trafalgar Square (approx 1000 soap dodgers there) & walked up to the US Embassy (not a single scumbag there). I got back into the office & took a quick look at the Associated Press site. They put the numbers in "hundreds".

So, just for a minute, lets be unusually charitable and call it 5000. That figure equates to 0.00832% of the population….or……wait for it……..81 times the number of people care about keeping fox hunting than hate Bush!!!

Now, look at how much media attention has been focused on Anti-American feeling………..uummm………..do I sense a hidden agenda, or am I just being far too cynical as usual?

[section9]

Well, to be fair, the numbers have increased significantly:

Still, it looks like the Annual All-England Convention of Gits, Prats, and Bloody Poms.

Be Seeing You,

Chris