Posted on 11/26/2005 9:08:16 AM PST by radar101
CARLSBAD – About 350 demonstrators clad in black lined Carlsbad Boulevard yesterday afternoon to tell the government to bring U.S. troops back from Iraq.
Each demonstrator wore an 8½-by-11-inch sheet of paper on his or her chest with the name of a service member killed in the war.
They stood single-file along the west side of Carlsbad Boulevard with their backs to the ocean. In places along the line they stood shoulder to shoulder. Many waved peace signs to passing motorists, and many drivers honked their horns in response.
A couple of demonstrators held signs that read "Killed in Action: 2,108." Other signs read, "Support our troops. Bring their buddies home."
Jeeni Criscenzo, who organized the demonstration and is a candidate in the 49th Congressional District, which includes Carlsbad, said she was gratified with the turnout.
"I want people to see the human cost of this war," Criscenzo, a Democrat, said from the center of the demonstration, Tamarack Avenue and Carlsbad Boulevard.
A couple of demonstrators held signs that read "Killed in Action: 2,108." Other signs read, "Support our troops. Bring their buddies home."
Jeeni Criscenzo, who organized the demonstration and is a candidate in the 49th Congressional District, which includes Carlsbad, said she was gratified with the turnout.
"I want people to see the human cost of this war," Criscenzo, a Democrat, said from the center of the demonstration, Tamarack Avenue and Carlsbad Boulevard.
She called the protest "Bring Their Buddies Home" and said it was in honor of Camp Pendleton Marines who fight in the war. She said she wanted to offer a way to protest the war while showing respect and gratitude for the fallen.
"It's not just a number. It's somebody's friend, son, daughter," said Criscenzo, of Oceanside.
Demonstrators lined the boulevard from 2 to 4 p.m. for about a half-mile, from the Agua Hedionda Lagoon inlet to Maple Avenue. An earlier news release from the Criscenzo campaign called the protest "a living work of art" and said the line would stretch nearly 2 miles.
Martin Eder of City Heights, a member of Activist San Diego, was one of the protesters. He said the response among people driving by was overwhelmingly positive, and passers-by saluted "using two fingers far more often than one."
Michael Parker of Mission Beach said he does not regularly go to peace demonstrations but attended this one.
"I wanted to honor the people that have gone to war and fallen and I thought (this) was a good way to make a statement about my dissatisfaction with the war and at the same time honor the sacrifices" of those who died, Parker said.
The sign on his chest read "Larry E.D."
Michael Burge: (760) 476-8230;michael.burge@uniontrib.com
Here's a question for ole Criscenzo - suppose our ancestors had succeeded in bringing the troops "home" from Bunker Hill, Valley Forge, Lexington?
Would you still be able to stand along Carlsbad Blvd making a fool of yourself?
As the saying goes, "when the going gets tough, the whiners come out and surrender".
I think you're logged in now.
the truth is the going hasn't become tough yet.
these people surrendering, at this point, begs
the question, "do they have french in their blood?"
These people can't be Americans! Can They?
The human cost will be worse if we leave Iraq before the job is done. Americans honor their commitments and we won't be back till it's over, over there!
LOL
Should send those ideas to the Protest Warriors.
I'm unimpressed with these numbers. I still recall how many they got into the streets before the war started, that resulted in thousands of Patriots counter protesting them in about euqal number which is unusual considering our side isn't usually the activist type. So far, they haven't been able to replicate those numbers. This tells me the movement hasn't grown, if anything it's shrunk in those motivated to do so.
350 media measurement = standard right 3500/ metric left 35
Of course, being a Democrat she doesn't have the depth to even consider the cost to the world if the terrorists in Iraq think they drove us out by killing enough Americans. This simplistic thinking simply boggles the mind.
Hundreds of millions disagree.
I don't know.....
maybe she thinks berkas (sp) are becoming,
or maybe she thinks she would have a better
chance if all women wore berkas (sp)
I don't know.....
350? Not much...and all bused in.
Criscenzo, who organized the demonstration and is a candidate in the 49th Congressional District
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yes sir, this is exactly the type of person who will
fit in quite well with the same types of persons who
currently walk the hallowed halls of Congress.
Benedict Arnold would be proud.
Most were bused in. The "normal" antiwar demonstration in Carlsbad is 6-15. Carlsbad is for the most part conservative and Republican but we do have our pockets of idiots.
I was in the area around 2:30 and saw them. Kind of a pathetic looking bunch, IMHO. Lots of older, 1960s aging hippie "West of I-5" retreads. Most of them probably think the leader of Al Qaeda is Ho Chi Minh.
I'll bet they did, dumbass....it's the 'V' for VICTORY, not the peace sign of surrender.
And .. anybody who votes for that twit needs their head examined because they are definitely "stuck on stupid".
Carolyn
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