[Cincinatus' Wife]

Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville, California asks a Secret Service uniformed officer to allow her to meet U.S. President George W. Bush, at the gates of the White House in Washington September 26, 2005. Sheehan, whose vigil outside Bush's Texas ranch focused attention on the anti-war movement, was arrested on Monday in a sit-in at the White House after refusing to obey police orders to leave. REUTERS/Jason Reed

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(in-fighting among "grassroots" anti-war organizers)

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.)

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***....The crowd outside the White House included Buddhist monks in saffron-colored robes, who beat drums in support of the protesters, and young, black-clad anarchists who danced on an American flag and kissed one another in a symbolic "love-in" demonstration. ....*** - S.F. Chronicle

[Nathan Zachary]

"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."

All the moonbats protesting everything were out. If we deduct all these nuts from the anti-war ranks, how many of the 9,000 or so were really anti war protestors?

"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.

That's amusing as well. Idiots.

[billnaz]

The name Berrigan rings a bell. I seem to recall there was a looney-tunes leftie back in the 1960's named Berrigan who ran around protesting everything military. I wonder if there's any family connection.

[Mr. Jeeves]

"Vacaville mother"

For accuracy, the Chronicle headline should instead read "Radical Left-Wing Activist".

[freekitty]

How can anyone tell about the other people. The Vacaville Voodoo Lady is surrounded by nothing but the press. I bet she likes it.

[Shazolene]

""We came with this very simple invitation to Pentagon employees to think about what they are doing and the war machine they are part of," said Frida Berrigan, a Brooklyn activist with the War Resisters League. "We invited them to do something different with their work and their livelihood."

I bet some of the Pentagoners (and probably SEVERAL of us Freepers!) would like to 'invite' Frida to do something different with THEIR work and livelihood - rather than be paid anti-Americans!