You might think that with all the coverage, that a “support Cindy Sheehan” demonstration in New York City would draw possibly hundreds, possibly thousands of anti-war protestors. Not so.
I often stop by the Leftist gatherings in Union Square to annoy the Commies. This evening, I arrived at Union Square at 5:30. There were maybe 50 demonstrators and 20 or so others milling around the periphery.
But despite a “Camp Cindy” sign (shouldn’t it have been “Camp Casey”?), demonstrators were not the “new face of anti-war protest” crowd. The speaker was condeming the death penalty and that a million people on Death Row are executed in Texas every minute (or whatever her statistics were). She eventually got on track and tried to get a chant going: “Shut down the war. Bring the troops home.” The crowd came to life momentarily but it quickly died out. I snickered loudly.
The Workers of the World people (aka, Commies) were there, offering leaflets to whoever stopped to see what was going on. I had fun annoying them: scrawny lesbos and earnest dweebs in suits and ponytails.
An old hippie had a "No Draft" sign. Some guy who had dyed his eyebrows orange was trying to hand out cards to present to the police. The cards read: “I do not consent to be searched.” And, of course, there was a big sign reading: “Stop Bush” with the “s” in Bush spelled as a swastika.
I told the swastika guy that he was an idiot and a passer-by voiced his agreement with me. Swastika guy replied that Bush planned 9-11, that it was just like Hitler and the Reichstag, that no airplanes were hijacked on 9-11. This didn’t win over any sympathy amongst the spectators.
I left around 6:00 (before a chick with a guitar started to sing). From what I saw, "Camp Cindy" failed to draw a meaningful crowd or any new converts.
Thanks - sounds like it was pretty pathetic - just like you predicted!
Too bad I didn't pick up on this earlier. It would have been fun to have gone down to the St. Mark's zoo and see the exhibits (orange eyebrows?). Sounds like a fizzle, though - not too different from the usual flotsam prevalent in Union Square.