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NUMBER OF PROTESTERS - *N0T* CONFIRMED BY D.C. POLICE CHIEF
The Seattle Times ^ | 26 September 2005 | Lokki

Posted on 09/26/2005 10:46:14 AM PDT by lOKKI

The Left are all using D.C. Police chief Charles Ramsey to confirm their claim of a huge turn-out for the 24 September 2005 Anti-War rally held in Washington. Most accounts say that the Chief "...did not dispute..." the claim of 100,000 people or more after viewing the protestor's along their marching route.

What the Chief said was actually quite different:

From the Seattle Times Protest organizers estimated 300,000 people participated, triple their original target. District of Columbia Police Chief Charles Ramsey, who walked the march route, said the protesters achieved their goal of 100,000 and probably exceeded it. Asked if at least 150,000 showed up, he said, "That's as good a guess as any."

This shoulds more like a "No Comment" that a confirmation.... IMHO.

(Excerpt) Read more at archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com ...


TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: antiwar; dcrally; lefties; liesbytheleft; protest; sheahan

1 posted on 09/26/2005 10:46:18 AM PDT by lOKKI
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To: lOKKI

And it was still a flop.

Who cares?


2 posted on 09/26/2005 10:47:25 AM PDT by nuffsenuff (Don't get stuck on Stupid - General Russ Honore Sept 21, 2005)
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To: nuffsenuff

cindy was arrested outside the WH!!


3 posted on 09/26/2005 10:48:49 AM PDT by pitinkie (revenge will be sweet)
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To: lOKKI

,,,,this "protest" was nothing but a flash-back to the '60's Vietnam anti-war protests.....same great unwashed, same irrelevant, same life-losers, and the same self-absorbed liberals...nothing new....


4 posted on 09/26/2005 10:49:21 AM PDT by auto power
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To: lOKKI

what a waste of gasoline, the enviro's should be livid


5 posted on 09/26/2005 10:51:38 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo ("When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk!")
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To: lOKKI

300,000,000 call the U.S. home

300,000 (maximum)waste a good days work to show up at a rally.

1/1,000 in the U.s.

.1% of the populace.

More than likely, it is .05%, or even less.

Who cares?


6 posted on 09/26/2005 10:53:45 AM PDT by IL Republican
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To: lOKKI

coming soon: cindy streaks at the Met.


7 posted on 09/26/2005 10:55:57 AM PDT by CaptainKeyword (it takes a college education to make a human believe he's a monkey.)
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To: lOKKI

They make it a point not to engage in crowd estimation for just this reason. Once teh overhead helicopter pictures are made available we'll all know what the "true" number is, in spite of what these folks say.


8 posted on 09/26/2005 10:57:30 AM PDT by AbeKrieger (Islam is the virus that causes al-Qaeda.)
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To: lOKKI

I believe it is standard policy for officials NEVER to offer a comment on the turnout of a protest or support march.


9 posted on 09/26/2005 10:58:43 AM PDT by Eagles Talon IV
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To: auto power

Actually, probably some of the same people.


10 posted on 09/26/2005 11:00:02 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (All democrats are ENEMIES of the Republic!)
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To: AbeKrieger

Doesn't matter whether they had 100,000 or a million, the only way we would get out of Iraq now is for congress to shut down funding of the war and that's not gonna happen. They can protest, throw tantrums or whatever they choose but they are wasting their time.


11 posted on 09/26/2005 11:00:19 AM PDT by Russ
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To: pitinkie

Good! She has earned the right to be locked up in a rubber room!


12 posted on 09/26/2005 11:01:42 AM PDT by Humidston (It's Bush's fault)
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To: lOKKI

SIN-dy and the Loonettes (Rev Al, Belafonte, Cynthia?) all joined together at the rally sign. If you didn't think SIN-dy was looney before the march, just look at who she associates with.

She's toast.


13 posted on 09/26/2005 11:02:30 AM PDT by BushisTheMan
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To: Russ

Nowadays with tracking satellites and other forms of technology you'd think there'd be a way to figure out how many people are at these things.

In any case, i wonder how many were actually working taxpaying citizens who seriously believe we should get out of Iraq. Surely there were a tiny minority. All I saw on TV were professional leftist activists and people who hate America and all we stand for.


14 posted on 09/26/2005 11:03:29 AM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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To: pitinkie
cindy was arrested outside the WH!!

I guess she didn't know what to do with herself today...

15 posted on 09/26/2005 11:20:29 AM PDT by TaxRelief (Freedom isn't free!)
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To: lOKKI
I have no doubt the numbers could be that high. After all, it's pretty easy to join a protest when one or more of the following conditions apply:

* You believe working for a living only benefits greedy Republican Capitalists.
* You are a snot-nosed underachieving punk going to college on your Daddy's dime and decided protesting is more important than getting an education.
* You live in a van down by the river.
* Your clothes are made from hemp and you practically live at Starbucks.
* There are things growing between your toes and under your armpits that would make an emergency biohazard team retch uncontrollably.
* You scream bloody murder about the ozone layer disappearing and consumerism destroying the Earth while chatting on a cell phone and shuttling back and forth from protest to protest in a pollution-belching automobile.
16 posted on 09/26/2005 11:21:56 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence - R. Kirk)
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To: AbeKrieger

My husband and I had always heard that pro-life rallies were notoriously undercounted. So he, the Ph.D in math, counted a march in Boston, as it went by - no more than six abreast on the sidewalk, with a couple hundred left on the Common. He got 4000.

Police said 15,000. Organizers said 20,000. We really would have liked it to be that many, but it wasn't. I tend to doubt any really large estimate, unless you have a mathematician counting people as they file past, or looking at an aerial photograph.


17 posted on 09/26/2005 12:05:02 PM PDT by heartwood
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To: lOKKI

I have seen the DC police Chief, I have listened to him , I doubt seriously he can count to 1,000, much less 100,000.

Ask the Vendors how many Hot Dogs they sold.


18 posted on 09/26/2005 12:21:56 PM PDT by sgtbono2002
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