[Peach]

This is the official Bush-Cheney blog for the convention:

http://www.georgewbush.com/blog/

[SeeRushToldU_So]

Rush has always said that the libs are at their most entertaining when they are out of power.

[finnman69]

[Jet Jaguar]

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[visagoth]

I thought at one time JimRob should start a Photoshopping contest area on FR.... but after looking at the loony left, I don't think I can do much better.

Sad really.

[Jet Jaguar]

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[Hillarys Gate Cult]

We need to keep these images front and center. Will disgust the undecided and moderate voters into not voting Democrat and help wake up our lukewarm Republicans into getting to the polls.

[blanknoone]

You may want to ask the mods to change your thread title. This isn't about the freakishness at the RNC Convention, it is about the freakishness of those protesting the RNC.

[Fzob]

A group of AIDS (news - web sites) activists stage a naked protest outside of New York's Madison Square Garden August 26, 2004. The protesters blocked 8th Avenue in midtown Manhattan outside the Garden, site of the Republican National Convention. Law enforcement authorities expect thousands of protesters to descend on the city before the start of the convention on August 30, 2004. REUTERS/Jeff Christensen

Layla Love, right, from the Brooklyn borough of New York, and Leila Brahimi, left, from the Manhattan borough of New York, dressed as the Statue of Liberty, take part in a rally for reproductive rights sponsored by Planned Parenthood

From left, Michelle Mazzarno, Danni Wright, and Jennifer Nordstrom, who call themselves 'Elephants against Republicans,' stand Saturday, Aug. 28, 2004 at the Ground Zero in New York to protest the Republican National Convention which begins on Monday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Reproductive rights supporters gather next to City Hall in New York August 28, 2004. Planned Parenthood (news - web sites) organized the march, which began in Brooklyn, marched over the Brooklyn Bridge, then gathered next to City Hall. The protest was one of many scheduled in conjunction with the Republican National Convention which begins August 30 at Madison Square Garden in New York. (Henny Ray Abrams/Reuters)

 

Protesters march through the streets in New York looking for Starbucks coffee restaurants on August 28, 2004, the site of the Republican National Convention. Police expect large protests and have planned for the possibility of attacks when the convention starts in New York on August 30. REUTERS/Chip East

Planned Parenthood (news - web sites) organized a reproductive rights march from Brooklyn, across the Brooklyn Bridge, and into lower Manhattan, August 28, 2004 in New York. The protest was one of many scheduled in conjunction with the Republican National Convention which begins August 30 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Organizers estimated a crowd of 15,000. REUTERS/Henny Ray Abrams
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Sender]

Tactical Assessment of NYPD for Direct Actionists, Some Notes on the Strategic Importance of the Protests

...After any action, leave the area as quickly as possible. Change and swap clothes with friends, and remember that we attempted to gain the permits supposedly guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. The Declaration of Independence states that the correct response to tyranny is rebellion. The people are sovereign, not the state. If they choose to break the law, then they are the rebels and we are the defenders of liberty...

Don't waste your psychic energy fretting about the police. Keep sober. Plan your range of action and do it. Don't waste time on DTs (undercover detectives) except to try and lose them. Invisible Bloc tactics of "everybody in khakis" is really only for those who plan direct actions. If you are a radical, don't wear the subculture uniform that says to police: Arrest that guy.

TRY NOT TO GET ARRESTED ON SUNDAY. It's going to be a long week and for the protests to be successful, they need to be sustained. Experienced activists have better things to do than sit in jail.

A popular resistance to the war and domestic repression will energize tens of millions alienated from any political action, and will let people under threat of American cruise missiles and F-16s know that we do not consent. We are not "good Germans" doing the leaders' business. We are a free people whether the government gives us permission or not. If we have to choose between the warmongers and the world: we choose the world. Our audience is small town America, the city we live in and the rest of the world. The conservatives are a tiny minority and the liberals defeated.

from nyc.indymedia.org Expect lots of pictures later today.

[Rebelbase]

The true face of the Democratic Party is on display for all America to see! This ought to be good for another 3-5% of the vote going to GW.

[Sender]

[HawkeyeLonewolf]

These guys must love their ticket then...

[Imaverygooddriver]

You should make a collage of all those pictures and make it into a poster that says "Kerrys America"

[risk]

My favorite so far: the subcomittee's decision to advocate a "flag protection" constitutional amendment. We're supposed to be the party of less government, not more. The federal government should let citizens defend their own private property but stay out of the business of restricting personal expression (assuming people burn their own flags).

[depenzz]

How can I get a bunch of pictures of these "kooks" together so I can print them and put them in the few democrats in boxes at work.

I keep telling them that their party has left them and they don't know it or won't admit it. They just won't give up.

The other day one said, "all Bush does is lie", I looked at him and ask him to tell me one lie, just one lie he told you and the guy couldn't even give me one thing, I told him all he is doing is parroting the media and he walked away.

[RippleFire]

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[muir_redwoods]

Although I'm somewhat nearby, I'll be staying away from NYC for awhile. I did just get back from a week in San Francisco. My daughters and I went west to spread my wife's ashes in, where else? The Muir Woods (see screen name). Anyway the week we spent in SF was like a week at a zoo. I couldn't believe then number of people openly hostile to the president. One clown wore a large, very long T-shirt (and apparently nothing else) with a large picture of W with the words "International Terrorist" written across it. Many of the little shops had posters and other signage deriding W. The street people have figured it out and many sport Kerry buttons. I was trying to make a phone call near Union Square and this doufus with a sign board for the DNC and a petition was collecting signatures. He was yelling at people walking by and, somehow, I made eye contact. He asks me if I will help him (HIM!) defeat George Bush. I looked him right in the eye and I said, "I've been hoping for his re-election for 4 years and am actively working for it now"

I never knew it was so easy to shut up a moron. He just looked at me and moved on. Amazing. SF has to be about as bad an example of Blue-State mentality as exists. Other places might be as bad but SF is truly horrible. Too bad, nice town once.

[Rightly Biased]

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[weegee]

"Dennis, there's some lovely filth down 'ere!"

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