Posted on 03/20/2004 8:45:25 PM PST by DoughtyOne
I think he is mocking 9/11 NYC Firefighters (coming out of the rubble) as an artistic statement...Or he is dying of AIDS, one or the other.
Compare OUR message (above) with THEIR message (below) from the Associated Press:Video - 6.2 mb "U - S - A"
Video - 4.5 mb "U - S - A"
Video - 3.7 mb "Four More Years"Those chants were led by TED HAYES, who really knows how to get into the media. :o)
See also, from the Associated Press:
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Many of the demonstrations were accompanied by smaller gatherings of Bush supporters. In Los Angeles, marchers passed by several dozen people who lined one Hollywood block, waving flags and chanting "Four more years."
"We believe in George Bush. We believe in what he's doing," said Gary Beck, 48, who was visiting from Tampa, Fla.
Looks like WE won this round. :o)IRAQ WAR ANNIVERSARY
Voices of protest heard around worldHuge rallies in almost every major city oppose the Iraqi occupation
Verena Dobnik
The Associated PressMarch 21, 2004
NEW YORK -- Hundreds of thousands of people around the world rallied against the U.S. presence in Iraq on the first anniversary of the war Saturday, in protests that retained the anger, if not the size, of demonstrations held before the invasion began.Protesters filled more than a dozen police-lined blocks in Manhattan, calling on President Bush to bring home U.S. troops serving in Iraq. Mayor Michael Bloomberg estimated the crowd at about 30,000, but organizers said later that number had grown to more than 100,000.
"It is time to bring our children home and declare this war was unnecessary," said the Rev. Herbert Daughtry, a New York activist addressing a rally in Manhattan.
The roughly 250 anti-war protests scheduled around the country by United for Peace and Justice ranged from solemn to brash.
In Montpelier, Vt., hundreds of silent protesters placed a pair of shoes on the Statehouse steps for each of the more than 560 U.S. soldiers killed in the war.
In Los Angeles, one of about 2,000 protesters held photographs of Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney with the words, "forget Janet Jackson's -- expose the real boobs..."
I am, of course, biased......but in reviewing the coverage a story about MULTIPLE events all over the world, where no single event can get much attention...
...it appears that OUR one hundred fifty protesters in Los Angeles were MORE EFFECTIVE in communicating our message in the media than were THEIR two thousand.
I really would like to know in coherent, intelligent words exempting all foul language please.
It looked there was a great shot of Freeper cinnamon girl on this Sunday morning's KNBC-TV Channel 4 News coverage of Hollywood & Highland yesterdayThanks for the report, ALOHA RONNIE!
It couldn't have been CG on TV, though, since this rally was held on her Shabbat......but there were two OTHER attractive, articulate conservative blondes at our rally, Deborah Courtney and Lauren Schmitt.
Was it one of THESE two?
Deborah Courtney
Lauren Schmitt
I am somewhat confused. Maybe a democrat anti-war protester or ANSWER can address this question?It appears that some of the Protest Warriors had the same concern. :o)
Why are you not demonstrating against having our troops in Bosnia and Kosovo?Where were any of you when Clinton sent our troops there?
From Derrick's LA Protest Warrior gallery :
Excellent ! Maybe we'll get some more good members here on FR out of that ! ...
WELCOME to Free Republic!As I told many of the Protest Warriors yesterday, what you guys did was AMAZING...
...particularly for your FIRST TIME out!I would like to personally apologize to both the Protest Warriors - and to the LAPD, though, for MIS-informing you about the proper dimensions for "legal" sticks to hold your signs.
When we met with Captain Mike Downing (Hollywood Division, LAPD) on the Friday before the event, I asked him what the rules were..... and I **thought** that he said two inches by 3/4" -
which is what I told you guys, and which is what you guys attached to your signs.Here at Free Republic, we are proud of our LONG, and exemplary record of working VERY effectively with the police departments in jurisdictions all across the country where we protest, and I would not want to do ANYTHING which could jeopardize that professional, relationship.
Police oficers have a job to do which is as important as the one that our men and woemn in the Armed Forces are doing overseas, and we DEPEND on them to protect us from the (often NASTY) opposition which generally out-number us by ten- or ONE HUNDRED-to-one)."Ignorance of the law" is NO EXCUSE, and HERE is the law from the Beverly Hills Police Department website:
Wood or Wood Products. It is unlawful to carry or possess any length of lumber, wood or wood lath greater than one foot in length, unless the wood object is blunted at its ends, is 1/4 inch or less in thickness and 2 inches or less in width, or if not generally rectangular in shape, does not exceed 3/4 inch at its thickest dimension. [BHMC Section 4-3.209(a)]You COULD have been arrested for carrying those sticks, and I was wrong, and am sorry.
NEXT time, we will do better.
Hi, ethanmx2!See also:WELCOME to Free Republic!
What is Free Republic? How does it work? What's in it for ME?
[Practical advice for beginners.]
Welcome, and Thanks [Newbies Especially, Please Read] ^ | May 21, 2003 | RonDog (and FRiends)
Posted on 05/21/2003 1:33:29 AM PDT by RonDog
I have been asked by a group of politically active "not-yet-FReepers" (at my local NRA chapter) to explain to them (in forty-five minutes or less) how to use this extraordinary forum.
They would like for me to tell them:What (exactly) **is** Free Republic?CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread
How does it work?
Why can it do for ME?
Great !! Welcome to FreeRepublic.com ! ...
Thanks !
Wood or Wood Products. It is unlawful to carry or possess any length of lumber, wood or wood lath greater than one foot in length, unless the wood object is blunted at its ends, is 1/4 inch or less in thickness and 2 inches or less in width, or if not generally rectangular in shape, does not exceed 3/4 inch at its thickest dimension. [BHMC Section 4-3.209(a)]They must have DIFFERENT rules in San Francisco...
...since THESE flagpoles appear to be ENORMOUS.From :
Pics from Counter-Rally in San Francisco
The Protest Warriors ^ | March 21, 2004 | Todd
Posted on 03/21/2004 2:00:03 PM PST by bgcountry187
Here are some pics from the Counter-Rally in San Francisco. God bless the Protest Warriors. Visit us online at Protestwarrior.com.
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