Posted on 08/31/2004 11:02:16 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK - Protesters in pig snouts grunted and rolled in bogus $100 bills featuring a sneering Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) on Tuesday as part of a day of civil disobedience aimed at deflating Republicans in town to celebrate their party's presidential ticket.
Outside the hotel where Texas Republicans were staying, about two dozen protesters calling themselves employees of "Hallibacon" chanted: "We love money. We love war. We love Cheney even more." They accused Cheney and the company he once led of profiting from the war in Iraq (news - web sites).
Fourteen people were detained near Wall Street for blocking morning traffic. Another six protesters were arrested for wearing masks in a Harlem subway station, authorities said.
More than 500 people have been arrested in convention-related protests since late last week.
Relations between Republican National Convention protesters and the thousands of New York City officers assigned to police them turned ugly Monday when a march from the United Nations (news - web sites) to Madison Square Garden ended with a violent confrontation. Earlier, smaller demonstrations had focused on health care, civil rights, homelessness and other areas in which protesters say Republicans have failed the country.
A protester attacked and seriously injured a plainclothes detective, according to police and witnesses. Hundreds of police in riot gear swarmed the area, pushing protesters away from the Garden and into nearby side streets. Four other police officers suffered minor injuries during the scuffle.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly called it "a blatant, vicious attack."
The plainclothes detective who was attacked, William Sample, was hospitalized Tuesday with serious facial trauma, but his injuries were not life threatening, police said. His assailant was being sought by police.
The protest began when a crowd of several thousand outside U.N. headquarters negotiated with police to march to Madison Square Garden despite not having a permit.
"They asked if they could march, and we said yes," police Assistant Deputy Commissioner Tom Doepfner said. "We try to be nice."
A wall of uniformed police on motor scooters blocked off half of Second Avenue as marchers trooped down city streets. Police steered the restless, unwieldy crowd through midtown Manhattan rush-hour traffic as cars backed up 10 blocks in places.
The march ended at the protest area south of the Garden. Witnesses said the confrontation began as police tried to use interlocking metal fences to contain the thousands of protesters. Some protesters began to push against the fences, witnesses said.
The New York Civil Liberties Union accused police of having raised tensions by not explaining to the crowd what they were doing with the barricades. Police said they were keeping open a lane for emergency vehicles.
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Associated Press reporters Suzanne Gamboa, Sara Kugler and Tom Hays contributed to this report.
Protestors wearing pig snouts, costumes and a Dick Cheney (news - web sites) mask chant and toss 'Hallibacon Bucks' in the air outside the Marriott Hotel in New York on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2004. Halliburton was hosting a breakfast inside the hotel for the Texas delegates to the Republican National Convention. (AP Photo/Dean Cox)
Kind of off topic, but if the police poisoned this crowd's drug supply, would anything of value be destroyed?
Drudge has a link to a journalist who supposedly infiltrated an anarchist group.
Evidently today is the day the anarchists plan to protest, but this is the first piece I've seen of any demonstrations so far today.
Plainclothes New York City Police officers arrest protesters who had blocked traffic in the Financial District of lower Manhattan, August 31, 2004. Police expect the largest number of spontaneous acts of civil disobedience today, the second day of the Republican National Convention which is being held at Madison Square Garden. REUTERS/Jeremy Bigwood
Police arrest a man during a march against the Republican National Convention in New York Monday, Aug. 30, 2004. A day after massive street demonstrations, smaller groups of protesters turned Monday to health care, civil rights and economics, areas where they say President Bush (news - web sites) and the Republicans convening in Madison Square Garden have failed the country. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
In the first picture--what is that 'red stuff' that is all over the protesters legs and waist? It looks like a giant spider web!
Huh? It's now against the law to wear a mask in a subway ?
It's an orange barrier mesh net thingy .. real easy to string up and move .. probably was what the protesters were up against
except on Halloween, apparently .. or?? ;-)
We're expecting protesters here at 46th & 6th (Fox News building) at 4 pm.
Boiling some oil as we speak.
Funny radio guy Phil Hendrie, another Democrat for Bush, says moveon is actually paying demonstrators to turn out? Is this true? I refuse to go to their website to check it out. I wouldn't doubt it though.
I don't understand why all the protestors in the picture have on Michael Moore costumes???
...employees of "Hallibacon" chanted: "We love money. We love war. We love Cheney even more."
...employees of "Heinz-heinies chanted: "We love TeeRaysah. We love the poor. Kerry loves TeeRaysah's allowance even more.
You know, I find it impossible to take people wearing pig snouts seriously. I bet the folks in Iowa feel the same way. Hope that picture is widely circulated.
And the point of this exercise would be...?
What fine intellectuals these protesters are.
But then again, down here they are much more pretty then up there.
These people just live in constant Halloween Party. I see daily the real Halliburton Employees. They are had working , God fearing people. But ofcourse, we live in Texas, where people work hard and earn a living.... not NYC.
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