Those wacky lefties and their goofy outfits
Posted on 09/30/2006 4:46:13 PM PDT by armymarinemom
Bangor Maine had a large antiwar rally today on the waterfront. By saying large we are talking about around 250 people, it is a small city. The Peace and Justice Center of Bangor had announced they were expecting hundreds if not thousands to attend. It will be interesting to see what numbers they report.
AMD and I were both bummed the entire morning just thinking about a protest going on with no plans to counter protest. We couldn't stand the thought of at least not going down to check things out. Maybe just maybe we would run into group of kindred spirits if we drove down just to look. We took our camera just to go and take photos of protesters if we couldn't find anyone else.
We drove around the block where the protest was taking place on the waterfront. Low and behold if we didn't find a counter protester standing on the corner. He was standing on the grass behind the sidewalk with a beautiful sign that said "Support Our Troops and Their Mission". We quickly stopped the car just in order to get a photo with a promise to return.
Those wacky lefties and their goofy outfits
We headed off to the grocery store across the street and fashioned our own signs. AMD had a sign that said "Caution Anti-American Supporters of Terrorism Around the Corner". My sign said "3 Sons Serving and I support Them". We then joined the lone troop supporter to start our own three person counter protest.
The lone troop supporter
We got a surprising number of thumbs up from people who passed and fewer one finger salutes than we expected. Before too long we had two young men stop by who were high school students from Bangor High School. They stated they were going to be back after they gave another check of what the protest had planned. They proudly announced they had their own signs.
Behold the students who joined us also showed up in one of our random group photos that we took when we had arrived .
We were soon confronted by a Sunni with a horrible speech impediment. He appeared to be American but left his Middle Eastern wife across the street on a bench while he took part in a long discussion. Nix the one on one girl talk. The guy proceeded to give us all a revisionist version of history and just wouldn't shut up. We were nice and tried to have a discussion with him but he proceeded to tell us that Shia aren't Muslims, Spain invited the Muslims to rule, etc, etc, etc. Thankfully the high school students showed back up with an SUV and told us that the protest was going to march from the waterfront to the front of the Federal Building. We left the Sunni guy to pile into the SUV in order to be seen by the entire crowd in front of the Federal Building.
The students had large support the troops signs and a tall staff for an American Flag. When the protesters arrived we were not a welcomed site! A woman decided to have a looooong drawn out discussion on what we watch for news. She seemed determined to think that we were only misinformed and not up on our news. Her big concern was human rights for everyone in the world. What was ironic is that she wanted rights for the world but only spoke about defending her country if trouble knocked directly on her door. Typical of the left her entire discussion was predominantly ME related.
When the marching crowd began to thin out we all piled back into the SUV and went back to where we started in order to wave out the crowd that was leaving the protest. Surprisingly we only received a few one finger salutes from the protesters who were leaving. Mostly we received the peace sign and quite a few thumbs up from motorists who were stuck in traffic with the lefties. The highlight came when some wacky woman incised by AMD's sign actually stuck her thumbs in her ears and gave the neener neener sign while sticking out her tongue. She then yelled that she loved American but hated the war. Our first response was to only laugh which really ticked her off. A motorist who was stuck in traffic between the nut job woman and us had a wide eyed look of disbelief at the woman's childish antics. I finally yelled back that it was after all a free country and she and I were both entitled to our own opinions. I also added "but you sure are a nut!" The exchange brought a fit of laughter to the stuck motorist.
Just as things were winding down we picked up two more supporters. One just got off of work and has a daughter in the Military and the other was a Veteran. We exchanged cards and promised to get together for future counter protesting.
Done with the spirit of Joshua Chamberlain. Thank you for defending our great State.
"Let them [the Nazis] take possession of your beautiful island with your many beautiful buildings. You will give all these, but neither your souls, nor your minds." - Gandhi, urging pacifism in an open letter to the people of Britain during WWII.
"As a mom, I can almost imagine an Iraqi mom's terror at having a child threatened or killed," she said. "It's the universal parents' nightmare."
Yes, I'm sure Iraqi moms have only felt like that since we've gotten there...
Found in a shallow grave.
Gassed at Hallabja, this mother and child probably drowned in their own bodily fluids, executed for the "crime" of being born Kurdish.
Great minds think alike. See post 42.
At least they have the excuse of youth. Not many of the others at these gatherings do.
I thought the Joan Baez type song-fest was a nice touch, didn't you?
As they used to say at the hanoi Hilton, Joan Baez sucks [censored animal genitalia reference]
Bravo!
Man, how can they be so dumb? If the duct tape represents silence, you don't get to write a message on it!
It's all about THEM...
thanks to you for a good job
and please say a special thanks to your sons.
Semper Fi, and Go Army too.
Next time you see Medea would you please tell her she needs to come to Maine and hold some seminars because our hippies are just to stupid to be much fun.
You should have seen Pat LaMarche's (Green Party gubernatorial candidate) jaw drop when I told her that even a crazy lady would make a better governor than Baldy.
Low and behold if we didn't find a counter protester standing on the corner.
Bless this man for the courage of his convitions. He became a rallying point for four others. An important leson to us all.
Yep. It does mess with their heads.
Now that is an inspirational compliment! You are most welcomed.
Anyway the BDN says 1500, but you have to read the picture captions to see that they got the number from the organizers:
There would have been a lot more traffic if 1500 people had been there. Now I'm really kicking myself for not talking a photo from the bridge while we were driving over to the Bangor side. We could have embarrased the Daily snooze with it.
I knew they'd do it!! The Bangor Daily News reports today(Monday) that there were 1500 people protesting the war Saturday.....
Well done!!
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