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.)
Heh heh heh heh heh
Good one!
ANSWER = Angry Nutty Socialist Wrecking EnviroNazi Radicals
ANSWER = Asner's Neverending Sewer Water Egomaniacl Radicals
ANSWER?
NOT!!!
Question, ANSWER.
ANSWER is not the answer
That too LOL
Thanks. Nice to see you.
Pro-troop group blasts anti-war mom***....“I was happy for him when he joined,” Williams said. “I’m tired of hearing Cindy Sheehan trashing America.” ....***
I think they're referring to themselves. That's the REAL reason why there's so few of them nowadays.
To be frank, who the heck would think of putting up a sign like that and think they would have it taken seriously?
Yeah, I know, I know.
and they all have access to Soros' deep pockets!
(sitting here while Freddie Mercury's voice runs through my head: "Get down, make levees...get down, make le-veees...get down, make levees...get down, make leveeees!!!")
"Divide and Be Conquered"
She must really sink her teeth into the issues. But she would do well in a full cavity search.
Lieberman is one of the more reasonable Dems.
Good word anyways.
Cindy Sheehan truly does look like Joe Camel.
see post#13
I honestly never thought I would see this again after WWII, but I was very wrong.
Thats the reason the radicals at DU hate him and have rendered him irrelevant. Anybody who has any sense in their party is denegrated.
Yes. But being ridiculous leftist clowns holds them all together.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Thats their motto.
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