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Anti-Bush Protestors Heckle Broadway Theatergoers
Reuters ^

Posted on 08/29/2004 7:58:56 PM PDT by MaineRepublic

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dozens of demonstrators heckled and jeered Broadway theatergoers on Sunday, seeking confrontations with Republican delegates who arrived in New York City to back President Bush (news - web sites)'s reelection bid.

Police arrested up to 60 protesters who assembled in Times Square at dusk chanting anti-Bush slogans after hundreds of thousands had marched in Manhattan to decry the president's policies before the Republican convention begins on Monday.

But individual protesters kept tensions high, some of them hissing or cursing at well-heeled couples heading to popular Broadway musicals like "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and "Fiddler on the Roof."

"Republican murderers go home and kill your babies!" one young man yelled at theatergoers, a far cry from local public service messages urging New Yorkers to "make nice" to party delegates in the city for the four-day convention, where Bush will be nominated for another four-year term.

A second protester shoved a middle-aged woman in a black cocktail dress, shouting:

"Bitch, go home! We don't want you here!" At one point, police cordoned off a city block after several dozen demonstrators jeered and razzed the incoming audience.

"We were talking to delegates as they came by. We were very calm," said Brendan, 23, an organic farmer from upstate New York, adding he was thumbing his nose at the crowd with other hecklers before police intervened. "You do anything a little out of the ordinary here and they arrest you."

Protest actions in front of New York theaters were some of the few taking place outside permitted demonstration areas.

The wild card in protests expected later this week is whether self-styled anarchists try to wreak havoc in the city with unannounced actions despite unprecedented security.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brownshirtsforkerry; gopconvention2004; kerry; rncconvention; rudedems
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I say thank God these Kerry supporters are willing to expose themselves like this. Let the Nation see how Democrats treat Republicans. Boston wouldn't have been a far drive for me, but did you see Republicans bothering the Democrats in Boston? I hope all the undecideds read news stories like this.
1 posted on 08/29/2004 7:58:56 PM PDT by MaineRepublic
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To: MaineRepublic

Whoops, the other thread must have been posted while I was busy trying to post this one.


2 posted on 08/29/2004 8:00:33 PM PDT by MaineRepublic
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To: MaineRepublic

I can't beleive that this came from Reuters! Usually they wouldn't print something like this that exposes the ugly, unwashed leftists.


3 posted on 08/29/2004 8:01:09 PM PDT by rocky88 ("It's goin to be the summer of George! (W. Bush, that is!)")
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To: MaineRepublic; Admin Moderator

good try... they beat you by six minutes.


4 posted on 08/29/2004 8:01:25 PM PDT by PokeyJoe (The plural for RAT is RATS, not RATICS)
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To: MaineRepublic

You can bet there's going to be riots in NYC before the week is up. Be careful out there everyone..


5 posted on 08/29/2004 8:01:28 PM PDT by Bella
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To: MaineRepublic
A second protester shoved a middle-aged woman in a black cocktail dress, shouting:

Why didn't a man kick this guy's ass?

6 posted on 08/29/2004 8:01:29 PM PDT by Texasforever (God can send you to hell but he can't sue you. He can't find a lawyer.)
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To: Texasforever

"Protestor" does not = "guy."


7 posted on 08/29/2004 8:03:45 PM PDT by Snickersnee (Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket???)
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To: MaineRepublic
"Republican murderers go home and kill your babies!" one young man yelled at theatergoers

This from a member of the party of abortion-on-demand!!??!
8 posted on 08/29/2004 8:04:03 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (The theory of evolution is just that - a theory.)
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To: MaineRepublic
"Republican murderers go home and kill your babies!" one young man yelled at theatergoers

No doubt a DemocRAT Pro-abortion zealot, i.e. a baby killer.

9 posted on 08/29/2004 8:04:07 PM PDT by jackbill
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To: PokeyJoe

Yeah, I was all caught up in my reading on Freerepublic and I went to check out the headlines on Yahoo, and when I saw that story I just went straight to post it without checking back to see if anyone else had found it too.


10 posted on 08/29/2004 8:04:10 PM PDT by MaineRepublic
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To: MaineRepublic
These protesters need to get a life:

ANTI-WAR PROTESTERS ARE GETTING SILLY!

11 posted on 08/29/2004 8:04:12 PM PDT by etradervic (Kerry is a Left-Wing Dinosaur)
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To: MaineRepublic

what we have is a sector of some americans who would rather fight other americans than fight the terrorist.


13 posted on 08/29/2004 8:04:48 PM PDT by rineaux (hardcore for W04)
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To: MaineRepublic

I hope the weirdos and freakniks make Kerry look like an extremist that is out of touch. The article gives me hope.


14 posted on 08/29/2004 8:05:32 PM PDT by RKB-AFG (4 more 4 W in 04)
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To: MaineRepublic

This crap wouldn't happen, if we were still an armed and dueling society...

An armed and dueling society is a polite society...

Semper Fi


15 posted on 08/29/2004 8:06:41 PM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek...But I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: MaineRepublic
"Republican murderers go home and kill your babies!" one young man yelled at theatergoers

Probably just a Reuters reporter.

16 posted on 08/29/2004 8:06:48 PM PDT by VisualizeSmallerGovernment (Question Liberal Authority)
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"Why didn't a man kick this guy's ass?"

Because in the continuing pussification of America it is not likely that two men can have a gentlemen's fistfight. The lawyers for one side or the other will sue somebody, even if it's the police they sue because they DON'T arrest the guy who is defending his companion.

17 posted on 08/29/2004 8:07:11 PM PDT by groanup (Our kids sleep soundly because soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines stand ready to die for us.)
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To: MaineRepublic
They hope the undecideds will read it, and conclude from the last line that these are not normal democrats, just radical anarchists who obviously are NOT associated with the fine, upstanding democrat Party...
18 posted on 08/29/2004 8:08:00 PM PDT by Kay Ludlow (Free market, but cautious about what I support with my dollars)
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To: MaineRepublic
Yes, and hope the stories are covered by more than Fox News.

That said; given the Democrat proclivities of New Yorkers; perhaps it will open just a few eyes from their side as well.

Whatever; they deserve their guests; hope they enjoy! And take a really good look at them.

19 posted on 08/29/2004 8:08:04 PM PDT by cricket (Don't Lose Your Head. . .Vote Republican)
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To: MaineRepublic
Whatever happened to laws protecting people from assault?
Am I wrong here, or if I belligerently harass random people on the street going about there business I can be picked up for anything from disturbing the peace to loitering to assault to vagrancy?
20 posted on 08/29/2004 8:08:07 PM PDT by counterpunch (The CouNTeRPuNcH Collection - www.counterpunch.us)
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