Posted on 01/20/2005 3:42:07 AM PST by kattracks
Washington (CNSNews.com) - In cold, snowy Washington, about a hundred protesters gathered outside the "Black Tie and Boots" inaugural ball on Wednesday night, comparing President George W. Bush to Adolph Hitler because Bush is "exterminating the Muslim race."
"It is no different in that Hitler killed so many Jews, and George Bush, you know, is exterminating the Muslim race and others," said a man who identified himself only as Don from Florida.
Don held up a sign with the words "Vote Republican" written over a Nazi swastika.
"It's just a form of fascism -- the Patriot Act and everything -- they stole the vote. Diebold (the electronic voting machine company) and their money stole the electoral vote of the people," Don told Cybercast News Service.
The group of counter-inaugural protesters gathered near the entrance of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, where the inaugural ball hosted by the Texas State Society was taking place.
The groups sponsoring the protest included Billionaires for Bush, Code Pink (a women's peace group) and a group calling itself the Ronald Reagan Home for the Criminally Insane.
Party-goers arriving for the ball were greeted with megaphone-amplified jeers decrying them as "pigs," chants of "Bush Lied, Soldiers Died" and "Stop the Celebration, End the Occupation" and signs asking, "Are You a Corporate Whore?"
Another protester -- Steve from Vermont -- was among a dozen activists carrying signs linking the GOP to Nazis. Steve told Cybercast News Service that the Bush family's ties to the Nazis go back a long way.
"George Bush's grandfather - he did business with the Nazis, they were partners with him (Hitler), and that is all Bush is. He slaughtered people in Iraq. If that isn't fascism, what is?" Steve asked.
According to Steve, people attending this week's inaugural balls in Washington "are basically a bunch of rich, filthy, selfish people who are out of touch with the real world.
"They don't care about other human beings on this planet, and they are destroying the planet," he added.
Steve also accused Bush of stealing the 2004 election.
"[Bush] stole the last election [and] he stole this one," Steve charged. Steve said Bush could not have won the election, given the "mass hysteria running rampant through the streets that they had to get rid of Bush."
Molly from Massachusetts accused the Bush administration of "putting out fake science -- fake pseudo-science and having Nazi doctors -- the same way Nazi Germany did in a lot of ways. There are a lot of parallels now between America and Nazi Germany," Molly said.
But one of the Inaugural Ball attendees dismissed any comparison of Bush to Hitler.
"If you want to make a World War II comparison, then the proper comparison for Bush is [former British Prime Minister] Winston Churchill," said Joe Biles from Lubbock, Texas.
"These people ought to be comparing [former Iraqi dictator] Saddam Hussein to Hitler," Biles added, dismissed the protesters as "the extreme fringe."
'Our country is suffering'
Many of the protesters expressed outrage that Americans are celebrating the Bush inauguration at what they call a time of tragedy.
"How can anyone who has a heart come and pay thousands of dollars to do this when the tsunami wave just knocked out so many people and there are over 100,000 dead in Iraq?" said Sam Joi from the group Code Pink.
Joi said the United States is in dire straits: "Education is going, all our social services are going, unemployment is soaring, people are suffering here in this country. How can they have a celebration tonight for this obscene amount of money when our world is suffering, our country is suffering?" asked Joi.
Joi said the inaugural partygoers were "greedy, they are hogs, they are pigs. How much do they need?" Code Pink members passed out bumper stickers with "Hallibacon" written on them, a mock reference to the defense contractor Halliburton, formerly chaired by Vice President Dick Cheney.
Molly from Massachusetts slammed capitalism: "This is a perpetuation of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. We are dividing the country into two classes, and that is disgusting; and there are starving people all over the world and they are having this absurd, excessive party," Molly said.
"Capitalism right now is just making rich people rich," she added.
' Shame on you'
At one point during the protest, Green Party members and supporters of former Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry clashed.
"John Kerry is the richest f*** in the Senate. You voted for John Kerry, shame on you," a Green Party supporter told Kerry supporters.
Representatives from an organic farm commune also took part in the protest.
A woman named Neyci from a 40-member, West Virginia-based commune wore a button proclaiming "Stop Bitching, Start a Revolution."
Neyci explained that her commune's goal was to "try to change in the culture through our art, to get out a different kind of like holistic philosophy that's about finding out the truth of what the hell is going to work, because frankly we are up against some really raunchy sh**."
Most of the inaugural party-goers walked past the protesters without comment, but Mike Scott of Texas told Cybercast News Servicethat the protesters "need a job." A woman making her way past the protesters declared that she would have "no comment for such a stupid group."
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Oh, I do wish you luck! I used to live in the DC area (Fairfax County) lo, many years ago and still have family there which causes me to visit about once a year. That is some traffic!
Noooo, my Moooslim buddies, it wasn't and isn't George W. Bush who is 'exterminating' the Muslim race, it is 'allah' himself, and the proof is his latest handiwork in Indonesia where he wiped out over 100,000 of your brethren.
Hey, don't get mad at me! That's what your own Islamofascist clerics have been saying since December 26th!
By the way, 'allah'?
Nice aim.
I didn't know Judeo-Christian was a Race either!
On the other hand it must be blissful being as dumb as a box of rocks.Naw, for people like this, there's a lot of stress. Trying to remember how to breathe, looking for the wiping instructions before they can take a clinton....
-Eric
Exactly when did Muslims become a race?
"We are exterminating Muslim TERRORISTS! Why is this a problem for some people?"
Obviously because they support those anti-Christian terrorists and are therefore anti-Christian. So in fact they view us Christians as the "problem" who must be exterminated.
Either that, or just slap them silly!
If nothing else, I'd like to force them to sit through a showing of the new PBS show, Auchwitz. It uses documents uncovered from the archives of East Germany that shows what happens when a government really wants to exterminate a people. The hyperbole spouted by these morons really steams me up!
Mark
Islam isn't a race.
And too bad he is doing so.
"The hyperbole spouted by these morons really steams me up!"
Mark
That's what they want, to lure you in and sucker punch you. Don't give them the satisfaction.
Speaking of catfights between idiot bigots:
"At one point during the protest, Green Party members and supporters of former Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry clashed. "
LOL!
Muslim RACE?
I didn't know that religion was an ethnicicty now.
*snort*
Is there any idea too stupid for the left NOT to try and use?
Of course it's irrational, petty, hyperbolic, irrelevant, puerile... but who's judging?
Find one nut who will rant incoherently, and off they go.
God, these people are hopeless!
Isn't that great?
"We are exterminating Muslim TERRORISTS!"
LOL, we aren't even doing THAT!
I wonder if Bellevue hospital has room for the entire looney left? Mayor Bloomberg better pony up, they need to build a bigger facility.
""George Bush's grandfather - he did business with the Nazis, they were partners with him (Hitler), and that is all Bush is. "
If that's the case, then the Islamists should love Bush, not hate him. Hitler is their hero. Since these nutty democrats love the Islamists, Hitler is their hero too. So Bush is acting like their hero? Very confused they are.
In one statement you've wrapped up the whole artical.
I was going to respond to the 'muslim race' thing but as I kept reading I kept running into more amd more delusional thinking. Don't these people realize how stupid they are?
The thought just struck me. Was this a DU event?
The arab muslim whiners work full time at twisting reality.
They even have at least one mod here at FR convinced that "muslimes" are a race. I heard first hand about it.
Same old tired song, not even new verses. What's the term in psychology that addresses the patient's extending his own behavior to others? Transference, right?
IMHO, these people are beyond help and should be institutionalized.
Projectionism, if I recall correctly.
I probably don't, but that's what the memory says currently.
Agreed.
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