Posted on 01/22/2005 1:27:42 PM PST by Snapple
Brian Becker is a communist and the organizer of all of Washington's demonstrations. He thinks North Korea is a cool place.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/21/national/nationalspecial2/21protests.html "We think this is a significant achievement for the antiwar movement," said Brian Becker, national coordinator of a protest coalition called Act Now to Stop the War and End Racism, or Answer. "We have bleachers, a stage, a sound system, and we're right along the parade route. We feel we have succeeded."
Never before had the Park Service granted a protest group dedicated space for the inaugural parade, organizers said, and Mr. Becker's coalition filled it with thousands of people who were as close to Mr. Bush as those who came to cheer him.
There are reports that only Republicans could get tickets to the bleachers. If so, they weren't there.
This may have been because the protestors were slowing-up the security by trying to take in things they weren't supposed to have.
Protestors may not have been in bleachers, but according to Becker, they were there.
Actually, Becker says they have bleachers.
People coming to our party said that the demonstrators were holding up security checks. PRobably that is why the bleachers were half-full.
Oh, but I thought Bush was taking away peoples freedoms... hmmmm.....
The news report I saw said 200 or better.
Not anywhere near thousands.
Strange with all the resources of the NYSlime and no mention of how cANSWER is funded...
I only pray that some day Brian Becker gets in my face.
>>> He thinks North Korea is a cool place. <<<
Then go live there! I'll kick in a $1.00 to help him move.
As long as you don't come back.
Anyone else?
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_15195.shtml
Here is more reporting on the demonstrators in their own words.
"...the parade route filled up with anti-Bush demonstrators, many thousands more protestors were stopped at security checkpoints and not allowed into the A.N.S.W.E.R. rally. North of the check point at 3rd and C Sts. (the closest check point to the A.N.S.W.E.R. rally) a full block-and-a-half of people were held back. A similar scene was repeated at other check points. People held spontaneous demonstrations at the check points, chanting and holding banners. [Comment---spontaneous demonstrations at the check points means that they blocked access for other people]
"Over 10,000 antiwar protestors
at A.N.S.W.E.R. Mass Convergence
site on Inaugural Parade route
between 3rd & 4th St. on Pennsylvania Ave.
Thousands of other protestors
blocked at Secret Service Checkpoints"
AND
"Atop the bleachers was a giant banner that said, "Iraq is Bush’s Vietnam, Bring the Troops Home Now." It was the first time in inaugural history that the antiwar movement was able to have bleachers, a stage, and a sound system for a mass antiwar demonstration right on the parade route.
Thousands more demonstrators stopped at the A.N.S.W.E.R. rally site and picked up signs and were able to line both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue from 3rd to 7th Streets."
AND
"Speakers included: Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney from Georgia; former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark; Michael Berg, father of Nicholas Berg; Brian Becker, National Coordinator of the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition; John Boyd of the National Black Farmers Association; Brenda Stokley, President of District Council 7017 AFSCME; Zack Wolfe, chair of the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Committee of the National Lawyers Guild; Macrina Cardenas, Mexico Solidarity Network; Vanessa Dixon, DC Health Care Coalition; Sue Neiderer, mother of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq; Celeste Zappala, mother of Sherwood Baker, National Guardsmen killed in Iraq; and Nathlie Hrizi of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five and others. The program was chaired by A.N.S.W.E.R. youth and student organizers Peta Lindsay and Eugene Puryear."
Like pigs revelling in slop.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/17/politics/17tickets.html
The parade route was for communists and their fellow travellers and Republicans who gave money.
The public was really squeezed.
Each senator receives 400 free tickets and each House member 200 for the swearing-in.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/17/politics/17tickets.html
If you went to the Democrats, you could get tickets since their constituents weren't as interested in going to the parade.
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