Posted on 08/28/2008 9:16:32 AM PDT by subterfuge
DENVER (MyFOXColorado.com) – An anti-war concert headlined by the reunited Rage Against the Machine drew thousands of fans to the Denver Coliseum, many with tattoos, body piercings or "Iraq Veterans Against the War" T-shirts.
The mood was both laid-back and political as the show got under way Wednesday morning. A juggler performed on the sidewalk near a replica of a Guantanamo Bay prison cell.
The band State Radio opened while activists met backstage to plan a march once the show is over.
By the time Rage Against Machine took the stage, police estimated the crowd at 9,000.
When the concert concludes, Iraq war veterans and other protesters plan to march about four miles from the coliseum to the Pepsi Center, where the Democratic National Convention is being staged.
About 8,000 free tickets were handed out by lottery for the show, sponsored by Tent State University and Iraq Veterans Against the War.
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And where did they give away the tickets? At the "protest coral" where the anarchists gathered, of course!
And this part kills me too!
An anti-war concert headlined by the reunited Rage Against the Machine drew thousands of fans
RATM is such a heavyweight, no one ever realized they broke up!!! Ha!
I’m still chuckling over this one!
More crap music not worth downloading even for free.
What “war” are they protesting? The Iraq War has been over for a while now.
I can't believe these guys are still stuck on this - stuck on stupid, as they say.
And Bambi the Pooh is still doing the concert trick, I see...
The MSM won’t show these commie pinko hippe freaks on TV. It could embarrass the empty suits in the convention hall
I hope Obama doesn't get elected otherwise we'll never hear the end of how he ended the war. What a thought.
9K?!??!! LMAO RATM has played venues with 4 times that number EASY LOL Apparently this time they had to hand out 8/9ths of the tickets?? LOL Either RATM is REALLY suckin now a days, OR the MESSAGE they tried to send with the concert was a TOTAL bust. You make the call LOL
“The “war” for the most part is over, if you want to call the reconstruction efforts over the last few years a “war.””
A point lost even here on FR where folks (if they are truly conservative and not knee-jerk anti-war liberaltarians) should know better.
We won the war, and we won in historically easy fashion years ago.
That was my question also. What war are they protesting?
[Clever RATM joke Alert]
I sincerely hope they do end the war, and all wars everywhere forever. When the bong-smoke clears, may it be so....
However, I won’t hold my breath... or give up my gun.
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You are joking, right?
Over 150 US military dead in iraq in the past 130 days...tell their families that the war is over, I’m sure that they’ll know what you mean.
The Rocky had a little feature about one of these Iraq "veterans" who said he was a 40+ year old former lance corporal in the Marine Corps. I guess that's possible, but it sure made me wonder how many of those "veterans" are impostors.
The past 130 days equates to a little over four months. Here are the figures for total deaths due to hostile causes in Iraq for the following months:
April--42
May--15
June--23
July--8
Aug--10
So, the total number of deaths due to hostile fire in Iraq for the past 150 days is 98 KIAs. In the past two months, the figure is 18. We have lost 194 KIAs for the entire year. Some cities in the US have more homicides than this. Every death is a terrible loss, but in terms of the level hostilties, the war in Iraq is essentially over.
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
Leave it to asshats like Rage Against the Machine, et al to spit in their eyes.
9,000 is hardly a “large crowd” for a concert.
When we hit that number for 4-6 consecutive months give me a call. Until then the war is not over.
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