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Pig snouts and tree-climbing: Police manage long-planned day of protests
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 8/31/04 | Sara Kugler

Posted on 08/31/2004 5:54:30 PM PDT by MikalM

Activists donned pig snouts, climbed trees and targeted Fox News Channel in protests across Manhattan on Tuesday as police arrested 260 people during a day of civil disobedience aimed at the Republican convention.

Officers encircled scores of demonstrators with orange netting during a protest near the former site of the World Trade Center. Detained protesters were loaded onto an off-duty city bus, and police put the count at about 200. The demonstrators insisted they were following police orders.

The protest's 500 demonstrators, a group called the War Resisters League, said they were staging a "death march" from Ground Zero to Madison Square Garden, site of the convention. The arrests happened about a block from Ground Zero.

An Associated Press photographer was detained briefly in the cordon before being released; a photo messenger working with the photographer was arrested and taken into custody.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: democrats; democratsgonewild; demonstration; gopconvention; lefties; nyc; protest; warresistersleague; wrl

1 posted on 08/31/2004 5:54:31 PM PDT by MikalM
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To: MikalM

Typical members of the opposition party.


2 posted on 08/31/2004 5:55:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin (Who was Madame Binh's messenger boy?)
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To: MikalM

You gotta fight for your right to Par-teeee!


3 posted on 08/31/2004 5:56:29 PM PDT by Maceman (Too nuanced for a bumper sticker)
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To: MikalM

"Miss Piggy Misbehaving"


4 posted on 08/31/2004 6:00:50 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: MikalM

They may have been protesting Fox, but they got through to Chrissy Matthews!


5 posted on 08/31/2004 6:01:45 PM PDT by netmilsmom (Morologus es!)
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To: MikalM

"Officers encircled scores of demonstrators with orange netting during a protest..."
After covering them with the net, the net was to be tightened a bit and then whacked (repeatedly) from above, as the good book says.


6 posted on 08/31/2004 6:07:23 PM PDT by GSlob
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To: MikalM

Fox News has to love all the free publicity.


7 posted on 08/31/2004 6:07:59 PM PDT by AZLiberty (Proud to be an infidel.)
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To: MikalM

Who is Hall Igurton?


8 posted on 08/31/2004 6:24:52 PM PDT by LouisWu (This is Lou's mantra.His tagline isn't available right now, please leave a message & I'll chant it.)
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To: MikalM
It is also interesting that they planned to march all the way from Ground Zero to MSG, but they only made it about one block.

Their long-range planning skills reveal the general level of practical, functional forethought typically applied to all matters by the antiAmerica Socialist/Communist/Democrats.

9 posted on 08/31/2004 6:30:28 PM PDT by LouisWu (This is Lou's mantra.His tagline isn't available right now, please leave a message & I'll chant it.)
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To: MikalM
An Associated Press photographer was detained briefly in the cordon before being released; a photo messenger working with the photographer was arrested and taken into custody.

What a surprise. Not.

10 posted on 08/31/2004 6:32:53 PM PDT by sionnsar (Iran Azadi ||| Resource for Traditional Anglicans: trad-anglican.faithweb.com)
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To: MikalM

Who's the illiterate who slapped that sign together?


11 posted on 08/31/2004 6:33:39 PM PDT by Jorge
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To: Jorge

Hey folks, thanks for the great signs. I used one today and got sooo many people mad at me. I was at fox at 4:10 pm and really got under thier skin.
It got to the point that a few officers asked me to leave, seeing that I was all alone and wanted me to be safe. Anyway these fake protestors had no answer to me when I asked where were they on 9.11 all they could say was hes a murderer. I laughed, called them french canadians. I had the cops rolling.


12 posted on 08/31/2004 6:35:16 PM PDT by kendu
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To: MikalM

You have to be stoned to do stuff like that. And bored to just stand around and watch.


13 posted on 08/31/2004 6:38:39 PM PDT by BobS
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To: MikalM

14 posted on 08/31/2004 6:44:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin (Who was Madame Binh's messenger boy?)
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To: BobS

who watched, I was active


15 posted on 08/31/2004 7:49:43 PM PDT by kendu
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To: MikalM
"Activists donned pig snouts..."

No one will believe they're Michael Moore.

16 posted on 08/31/2004 7:51:33 PM PDT by CWOJackson
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To: MikalM
The thing that totally amazes me about the Left is that they sanction these sorts of idiotic, obnoxious protests. Do they, in their wildest, self-aggrandizing fantasies, believe that one single sane mind has been changed by these tactics?

Let's see, I'm walking down the street and encounter a bunch of yahoos wearing pig snouts, flailing about, shouting stupid slogans, carrying illiterate signs. My first thought would surely be "Wow, that group really has it together. Let me head on over into that mess and find out more about their cause".

And these guys are mild compared to the violent criminals who beat up the cop. Did anyone denounce that scene? I'd be livid if anyone who purported to speak for my "side" took any such action. But that's what divides us from them, there seems to be no conscience or common sense over there. It's like the dummies who block traffic and think that will endear them to those who are undecided. (End of rant).

17 posted on 08/31/2004 8:18:04 PM PDT by Mjaye
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To: kendu

Good job!


18 posted on 08/31/2004 8:46:23 PM PDT by texasflower (in the event of the Rapture, the Bush White House will be unmanned.)
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To: MikalM
I humbly submit for your consideration that any thread involving liberal protesters include this graphic and linked mp3. Click on the loveable little tyke to hear his opinion.

Just paste the following into your post, replacing parenthesis with "less than" or "greater than" (shift+"," or shift+"." Had to do that to get it to display):

(a href="http://www.wccta.net/gallery/fwr/hipcrap.mp3")(img border=0 src="http://img38.exs.cx/img38/9528/cartman3.jpg")(/a)

19 posted on 08/31/2004 10:08:15 PM PDT by truecons
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To: MikalM

Meet the Feebles in real life!


20 posted on 08/31/2004 10:08:37 PM PDT by Kornev
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