Posted on 09/25/2005 2:08:40 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Edited on 09/25/2005 2:22:35 PM PDT by Lead Moderator. [history]
Sept. 25, 2005 | Though yesterday was the first day a permit had been granted for an anti-war march past the White House since the Iraq War began, one could be forgiven for having low expectations for the protest.
To begin with, the event's joint organizers, International ANSWER and United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ), feud so regularly that they had to sign a pact promising not to attack each other until the event was over.
Then there was ANSWER's rejection of message control -- its leadership demanded that each of its component organizations be allowed to protest issues besides the war. Starting at 9 am, therefore, the Palestinian boosters took over Farragut Square with their own signs and chants, while bands of anarchists, affordable housing advocates, and Hugo Chavez supporters staked out intersections around D.C.'s downtown.
......In the frequently carnivalesque march that looped around the White House and downtown, one could spot just about any slogan imaginable, from the 9/11 conspiracy theorists to the simply unintelligible: Riding a green ladies' bicycle, a white-bearded hippie sanctimoniously coasted down a line of stationary D.C. cops, holding aloft a poorly lettered sign reading "WHY? (expletive deleted)." Four of D.C.'s finest double over laughing in his wake. "The city prefers the officers to keep a straight face," their sergeant said. "Sometimes that's hard."
Earlier that afternoon, a group of anarchists splintered off the parade route onto K Street NW, overturned newspaper boxes and, according to Jeremy Hammond, a self described "anti-capitalist traveler," controlled the street for two hours. The police arrested one or two, and chased the rest out on motorcycles. Later, Hammond says, the anarchists regrouped in front of a military recruiting office, and succeeded in being shot at with rubber bullets. (The skirmish has not appeared in any other published accounts.)
Divide and be Conquered
'Riding a green ladies' bicycle, a white-bearded hippie sanctimoniously coasted down a line of stationary D.C. cops, holding aloft a poorly lettered sign reading "WHY? Motherfucker$." Four of D.C.'s finest double over laughing in his wake. "The city prefers the officers to keep a straight face," their sergeant said. "Sometimes that's hard."
I'm waiting to see this guy on the MSM news. Guess I'll have to wait a long time.
The alphabet networks work as a image consultant for the loony left. They will hide stuff like that.
Bet they didn't show any of the anti semitic stuff either.
Yeh ... but they share one thing ... they're all anti-American scum
And that's just the Democratic Party!
But these protesters sound lots worse.
LOL, the media thinks they can hide who these guys are, the DUmmies think nobody will notice either, but everyone recognizes the faces. They're the same ones who turn up in Seattle, and every other protest around the world. Same old, same old professional protesters.
What a side-show.
Hello! Sounds like some of these guys are comic relief. Sometimes you can see the funniest things. A tornado hit our town a number of years ago and the police had blocked off the downtown area. I was walking home from the bus when I saw this nudist going right down the road in front of everyone, in full view of police officers too. He sure had b---s to do that, though I can't be too sure since I quickly turned my eyes away.
Their rally included a bunch of people praising the palestinian terrorists.
She looks like a follower of Black Bloc.
"They're just a bunch of cobbled together groups - environmentalists, feminists, socialists and communists."
Word of the day: gimcrack: a showy but useless or worthless object.
Gimcrack' how befitting for these leftists
I take real issue with the Police sign. They were a pretty decent group and I liked some of their songs. But I guess Sting is kind of a liberal though.
Gimcrack' how befitting for these leftists
I thought that was what happened if your jockstrap got too tight.
So in order to overcome mass murder, they will resort to Revolution, which is nothing but bloodletting on an epic scale? The only Revolution that ended well was the American, and even that was more of a War for Independence with an evolutionary government. The rest of the Great Revolutions degenerated into orgies of violence and the rise of a Leviathan far more tyrannical and sanguinary than the one it sought to replace.
Their rally included a bunch of people praising the palestinian terrorists.
Yowzers!!!
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