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"Make levees, not war" (in-fighting among anti-war organizers)
Salon ^ | September 25, 2005 | Jeff Horwitz

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.)


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antiamericans; antiwar; cindysheehan; jeremyhammond; lefties; protesters
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They're just a bunch of cobbled together groups - environmentalists, feminists, socialists and communists.
1 posted on 09/25/2005 2:08:41 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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They're just a bunch of cobbled together groups - environmentalists, feminists, socialists and communists.

Divide and be Conquered

2 posted on 09/25/2005 2:12:01 PM PDT by msnimje (Hurricane KATRINA - An Example of Nature's Enforcement of Eminent Domain)
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'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.


3 posted on 09/25/2005 2:12:03 PM PDT by I still care (America is not the problem - it is the solution..)
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Yeh ... but they share one thing ... they're all anti-American scum


4 posted on 09/25/2005 2:13:09 PM PDT by tarzantheapeman (Cindy and the Cranks - Moonbats Gone Wild!)
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They're just a bunch of cobbled together groups - environmentalists, feminists, socialists and communists

And that's just the Democratic Party!

But these protesters sound lots worse.

5 posted on 09/25/2005 2:14:49 PM PDT by linkinpunk
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6 posted on 09/25/2005 2:15:13 PM PDT by FairOpinion
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Bet you'll move next time, hippie
7 posted on 09/25/2005 2:15:52 PM PDT by martin_fierro (|\/|4R71|\|_P|-|13RR0)
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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.


8 posted on 09/25/2005 2:16:00 PM PDT by McGavin999 (We're a First World Country with a Third World Press (Except for Hume & Garrett ))
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What a side-show.


9 posted on 09/25/2005 2:16:15 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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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.


10 posted on 09/25/2005 2:16:25 PM PDT by moog
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This explains why they kept changing the sign back and forth on the podium... haha!
11 posted on 09/25/2005 2:16:51 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
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Their rally included a bunch of people praising the palestinian terrorists.


12 posted on 09/25/2005 2:17:06 PM PDT by FairOpinion
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Thanks for the LINK.

She looks like a follower of Black Bloc.

13 posted on 09/25/2005 2:18:31 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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"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


14 posted on 09/25/2005 2:18:33 PM PDT by Kimmers (I neutered my cat, now he's French)
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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.


15 posted on 09/25/2005 2:19:22 PM PDT by moog
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Gimcrack' how befitting for these leftists

I thought that was what happened if your jockstrap got too tight.


16 posted on 09/25/2005 2:21:01 PM PDT by moog
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LOL. That's a toasted hippie.

What gets me about these protesters is the masks. It makes you think they are either embarrassed and/or paid to be there. Maybe they are just masks to stop the smell.
17 posted on 09/25/2005 2:21:13 PM PDT by varyouga (Reformed Kerry voter (I know, I'm a frickin' idiot))
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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.


18 posted on 09/25/2005 2:21:44 PM PDT by Cyclopean Squid (Social Darwinism will claim me first.)
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Their rally included a bunch of people praising the palestinian terrorists.

Yowzers!!!


19 posted on 09/25/2005 2:22:44 PM PDT by moog
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The anti-war site Indybay.org features this photo of anit-war protesters in San Francisco on March 13, 2003.
20 posted on 09/25/2005 2:25:19 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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