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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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To: SandRat

What's the question?


41 posted on 09/25/2005 3:08:39 PM PDT by Beckwith (The liberal press has picked sides ... and they have sided with the Islamofascists)
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To: beckysueb

So true. The more reasonable, quiet people nowadays get tossed aside by those who talk louder nowadays.


42 posted on 09/25/2005 3:09:49 PM PDT by moog
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To: martin_fierro

I love the music.

BTW - notice the black bandanas on their faces. Lots of these at the protest. Some removed them when we heckled them, others refused. Generally, these are the anarchists.


43 posted on 09/25/2005 3:10:45 PM PDT by Hoodlum91
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To: Reactionary

Yes. But being ridiculous leftist clowns holds them all together.

So that's where Bozo got his name.


44 posted on 09/25/2005 3:10:52 PM PDT by moog
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I had two favorites from yesterday (btw, only about half of the signs actually dealt with the "peace" protest).

1. Some poor creature tried to make a peace sign w/an American flag background. Unfortunately, she forgot a line, so it ended up as a pie chart of the flag.

2. Move to solar power! (yes this actually was a sign)


45 posted on 09/25/2005 3:13:20 PM PDT by Hoodlum91
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
They're just a bunch of cobbled together groups - environmentalists, feminists, socialists and communists.

Yes and no. These organizations deliberately share many of the same leadership, which coordinates all of the groups in collusion. They create many small groups in order to appear larger than they really are, and to hide various parts of their agenda from people who only interact with one group, and therefore don't see the whole picture.

46 posted on 09/25/2005 3:24:32 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
The cops had a good laugh. You gotta wonder whether the Lefties had too much the night before they came into town.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
47 posted on 09/25/2005 3:49:10 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: moog; Cincinatus' Wife

Somehow, she lost her falsies.


48 posted on 09/25/2005 3:53:35 PM PDT by bert (K.E. ; N.P . I smell a dead rat in Baton Rouge!)
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To: Bahbah

Maybe Cindy Banshee-han is just a frustrated lesbian. All these people are a bunch of kooks. Scary!!


49 posted on 09/25/2005 4:19:46 PM PDT by SeniorMoment
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

"What a side-show."

I though the circus freak shows ended years ago.


50 posted on 09/25/2005 5:20:27 PM PDT by hophead (" Enjoy Every Sandwich" WZ)
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To: Beckwith
It's not an interrogatory sentence it's a declarative sentence.
51 posted on 09/25/2005 5:22:07 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This is from salon.com? Bwaaahahaaa

This is wonderful


52 posted on 09/25/2005 5:23:26 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
"They're just a bunch of cobbled together groups - environmentalists, feminists, socialists and communists."

And they all stepped in it!


53 posted on 09/25/2005 5:23:55 PM PDT by GloriaJane (http://music.download.com/gloriajane "Seems Like Our Press Has Turned Against Our Country")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
What a side-show. Freak-Show was what I had in mind CW :)

Like most of the looney left.

54 posted on 09/25/2005 5:55:27 PM PDT by America's Resolve (I've just become a 'single issue voter' for 06 and 08. My issue is illegal immigration!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
quote They're just a bunch of cobbled together groups - environmentalists, feminists, socialists and communists. /quote

Also known as the Democratic Party.

55 posted on 09/25/2005 7:36:04 PM PDT by Surtur (Free Trade is NOT Fair Trade unless both economies are equivalent.)
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To: martin_fierro

That is so freaking sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!

I hope my joy in her pain isn't uncovering tendencies that will require years of expensive therapy and medication.


56 posted on 09/25/2005 7:38:29 PM PDT by nhoward14
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To: RichInOC

Freddie Mercury: man that QUEEN could sing.


57 posted on 09/25/2005 7:41:59 PM PDT by Surtur (Free Trade is NOT Fair Trade unless both economies are equivalent.)
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To: GloriaJane

Why does that picture of Cindy and Je$$e together make me think they've tried to "make love, not war"?


58 posted on 09/25/2005 7:43:38 PM PDT by nhoward14
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To: FairOpinion

New Orleans is mass murder? This people are just out of their minds!!!!! It was a HURRICANE YOU MORONS!!!!


59 posted on 09/25/2005 7:44:21 PM PDT by ladyinred (It is all my fault okay?)
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To: ladyinred
They're so uneducated it is embarrassing, as the example above illustrates.
60 posted on 09/25/2005 7:59:19 PM PDT by unsycophant
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