Post pics,news,speeches on the Fight for Victory Tour/Gathering of Eagles Pro Troop Rally
Posted on 09/15/2007 9:17:16 AM PDT by mdittmar
You and me, Sistah!!...:)
Michelle Malkin reporting via phone now!!!!!
M’wah, Michelle!!
Are these the same moonbats who disrupted the Petraeus hearing this week?
I hope someone caught Morgan’s snarl at the antis... and them running. ROFL
Fantastic!!!!
We need Melanie to put up a transcript as soon as she gets a chance so we can email it out to the press.
I hope someone captured video/audio of Hunter’s speech!
Are you able to listen somewhere? I still can’t get it on the earlier link.
It’s time for, ‘What’s wrong with this column?’
Ooh, they moved us up to the 13th paragraph.
Antiwar Protest Held in Washington
The first major protest against the Iraq War in Washington since January kicked off today with speeches near the White House, to be followed by a “die-in” at the U.S. Capitol featuring the playing of taps and a mock 21-gun salute.
Protesters and counter-protesters started to gather by 8:30 a.m. for the event, which is expected to be followed by a week of civil disobedience in the Washington area intended to shift the anti-war movement to a more confrontational phase. Organizers were predicting tens of thousands of protesters, though their permit is for 10,000.
Like the last major anti-war march in January, when tens of thousands descended on the Mall, today’s events come at a tense time in the fractious debate over the U.S. mission in Iraq. Today’s rally and march on the Capitol follows this week’s congressional testimony by Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and President Bush’s speech to the nation on Thursday. The president ordered the first limited troop withdrawals since voters elected an antiwar Congress last year, but Democratic leaders immediately criticized his plan.
The event today is organized by the ANSWER Coalition, which stands for Act Now to Stop War and End Racism. It formally began at noon at Lafayette Park, on the north side of the White House, with speeches from at least two dozen speakers ranging from former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark and Ralph Nader to Washington Wizards player Etan Thomas and Michael Berg, whose son Nicolas was a contractor killed in Iraq.
In Lafayette Park, hundreds of protesters gathered to wait for the day’s speeches. They walked around with signs that said the country should “drop Bush, not bombs” and declaring the President guilty of war crimes. They also listened to songs such as “the revolution will not be televised” and Edwin Starr’s classic antiwar song “War.”
Juan Torres Sr., 52, of Chicago, held a poster with a photo of his son, Juan Torres Jr. in his Army uniform. Torres said his 25-year-old old son died while serving in the war in 2004. Military officials, he said, told him his son committed suicide by shooting himself, but Torres doesn’t believe it.
He said he opposes the war because “I don’t want to see other families like mine” lose a child.
The demonstrators were immediately confronted by several hundred counter-protesters, who came to the Mall to demand that politicians see the war through to victory. At a large stage on the Mall at 7th Street, speakers said they did not want to abandon the Iraqi people, as they said America had done in ending the Vietnam war, and that they wanted soldiers to be shown respect when they returned from Iraq.
Anti war protesters who approached the fringes of the counterdemonstration on the Mall were quickly chased off. One man in a tie dye t-shirt was surrounded by several screaming counterdemonstrators who called him a traitor. He replied, “Is this what we’ve come to,” before being escorted away by police.
Organizers said at least 1,000 people had registered for the “die-in” at the Capitol. Most people registered online earlier in the week, but others did today at the site of the rally.
Those who registered were given a four-page handout instructing them to be “willing to risk arrest.’’ In case they are arrested, the handout said, protesters should bring their medication and make sure they have eaten.
“You should eat prior to risking arrest,’’ the handout said. “It may be several hours before you have access to food.’’
Two counterprotest groups, the Gathering of Eagles, made up of Vietnam veterans, and the D.C. chapter of the conservative group Free Republic, led today’s counterdemonstrations.
At the U.S. Navy Memorial, members of the Gathering of Eagles set up a command post in anticipation of counter protesters who planned to line Pennsylvania Avenue near 7th St. NW. Organizers said they plan to counter antiwar protestor’s chants but had no plans for civil disobedience.
“It will be a lot of bull horns, a lot of ‘singing God Bless America’, “ said Betty Kilbride, 48, of Arlington, a writer who described herself as supporting the troops. Deborah King-Lile, 55, of St. Augustine, Fla. said the Gathering of Eagles prided themselves on not being arrested at protests. “We just want a chance to show America we don’t agree with the vocal minority.”
Staff writers Nelson Hernandez, Katherine Shaver and Michelle Boorstein contributed to this report.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/15/AR2007091500826.html
In other words, “We don’t care about the oppositions numbers and feel free to bait the counters into violence”.
Yep fair... and balanced.
Beautiful picture!
Thanks for taking the time to share it with us!
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Supposedly, C-Span is taping today and will air tomorrow, but I have no idea of content.
Last March, C-Span got slammed for covering only the commies but not the Eagles.
heh.
WOW!!!
Yeah, I’m using the link you posted... I had to go back and start over at the BlogTalk page.
What an incredible contrast Debbie Lee is to the despicable cindy sheehan who dances on the grave of her brave son Casey, and all the others that gave their lives, so that she can have the freedom to push her political agenda.
God Bless The Eagles.
They never start on time.
Big shout out for those at the site/on the broadcast:
Michelle Malkin
http://michellemalkin.com/
Aaron from Lifelike Pundits on the scene:
http://www.lifelikepundits.com/
Concrete Bob from PW
http://hq.protestwarrior.com/
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