Posted on 02/14/2007 12:47:21 PM PST by kristinn
The commies at International ANSWER are scrambling to cover their rears after Vietnam veterans and Freepers announced they were going to defend the Wall from desecration at the ANSWER rally in Washington, D.C. on March 17.
ANSWER made the mistake of poking a sleeping giant with a hot poker by announcing they were going to hold their so-called antiwar rally on sacred ground:
The March 17 demonstration will assemble at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Constitution Gardens) at 12 noon in Washington, D.C.and march to the Pentagon.
The response by veterans, military families and patriotic Americans has been ferocious. The Park Service has been deluged with phone calls complaining that the Wall was being abused by the left. The Park Service has made clear to everyone that the ANSWER rally will be held three hundred yards away from the Wall. There will be layers of snow fencing between Constitution Gardens and the Wall. Park Police will be out en masse and will not repeat the tolerance of the Capitol Police for desecration of out national monuments. (To be fair to the Capitol Police, their masters are 'Rats: Reid and Pelosi.)
ANSWER's boasting of holding a rally at the Wall has caused such a backlash that they have changed their announcement and have posted a disclaimer. Of course, they blame the D.C. Chapter (not by name, but we know, LOL!) for all the heat they're feeling. If they think it's hot now, just wait until March 17.
Here's ANSWER's, ahem, clarification titled Regarding the Vietnam Memorial:
Where we will Assemble on March 17
Tens of thousands of people will be gathering at Constitution Gardens at 12 noon near the Vietnam Memorial prior to the March on the Pentagon on Saturday, March 17. We will not be in the Vietnam Memorial and all speakers for amplified sound are turned away from the Memorial so as not to interfere with family members visiting the site. Constitution Gardens is the same location that ANSWER used for its mass anti-war rally on October 26, 2002. On March 17, 2007 we will leave Constitution Gardens and march on Constitution Ave. and then to Virginia on the way to the Pentagon.
The 58,000 U.S. soldiers who lost their lives in Vietnam and the millions of Vietnamese who were killed, died in a criminal war. The connection between Vietnam and Iraq could not be more clear. Iraq is also a criminal war of aggression. The central issue today, just as it was in 1967, is to bring the war to an end.
Thousands of veterans and military families, including those who have lost loved ones in Iraq, will be in the front ranks of the March on the Pentagon. Some tiny pro-Bush groups who support the war in Iraq, and who normally mobilize about 25 people to hold signs when massive antiwar protests take place, are now callously trying to manipulate Vietnam veterans by spreading rumors that the March on the Pentagon will defile the Vietnam Memorial. This lie should be treated with the same contempt that people have for the other lies promoted by Bush and his followers to justify an illegal war of aggression: Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction; Iraq was responsible for the September 11 attacks; and that the U.S. occupation would be greeted as an act of liberation by the Iraqi people. Enough lies. Enough deceit!
Well, well, well.
Just a Nobody's March 17 Resource thread is here.
Gathering of Eagles website is here.
The "You Don't Speak for Me, Cindy" caravan though was only put together in 5 days... of course we were literally planning stops along the way (via cell phones) and posting them here at Free Republic and sending out press releases literally hours before each event.
This time we have more time to plan, so we're hoping to do a better job.
How about Rolling Thunder to protect the wall?
Immagine thousands of bikers vs the hippie commies of ANSWER?
That will drive them crazy! Just keep the clenched fist at the ready behind your back. Wish I could be there! Tick one off for me!
I'll try.
Do us a favor, please? Take pictures (that scares them), post them along with an report.
I'll have two real cameras and a cell phone camera with me.
ROTFLOL!
Cell phone for police, and real cameras to frighten the Lefties with as well as document their vileness with. Can't wait to see the pics and report.
Make sure the batteries are good, etc, because this is a once-in-lifetime event. Good shooting!
Smiling, alot at the visual
I have a good friend who is against the Iraq war but is more against what these people are doing than that as the daughter of someone killed in Vietnam. She is also starting to change her war stance.
She has offered to put me up Friday night the 16th if I can change my plans to be there.
And this whole Iraq had no connections to September 11th thing.
Yes Saddam wasn't directly involved but he was giving Al Queda money, shelter and other support.
I asked a democrat "So if that's true if you were to commit a crime and I were to hide you in my basement and give you food and money as well as the shelter I wouldn't be an accesory to the crime even though I didn't do the crime itself?"
I know of 2 people that marched last year against the war that are trying to figure out a way to be a part of the answer to Answer.
They have told me ANSWER turns a lot of people against the anti war crowd.
ANSWER, appropriately, uses its old Marxist-Leninist lingo ("criminal", blah, blah, blah.)
Their statement could have come right out of the old Soviet Union or the present Venezuela.
These people are enemies of America and of free persons throughout the world. It is most appropriate that they be met with a show of patriotism and of utter contempt for that which they represent.
I guarantee you I'll be there..
We have an answer for ANSWER!
Love,
Jarhead
You have a permit?
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