[Doctor Raoul]

This was to Hippiedom what the Appalacian meeting was to the Mafia. A once in the lifetime chance to ID the bad guy leadership.

[Doctor Raoul]

Please add your recall of the event.

Thanks again for seeing this one did not go unopposed.

[dirtboy]

That pretty much covers the account. I wish I would have known they were gonna march up northbound Knights Road and obstruct traffic for over half an hour - I would have trailed them and had a sign to put in my rear hatch saying 'This traffic jam brought to you by hippie peaceniks'.

I figure if the Philly Civil Affairs cops hadn't been there, the peaceniks probably would have gotten violent at some point.

[TrueKnightGalahad]

I’d love to see some pictures - hope you have a few you can post. Video of the geezers would be even better, but given their limited, foul vocabulary, probably little that was family safe could be shown.

[concentric circles]

Thanks for your efforts. I searched google news for info and came up with a handful of stories including the following excerpts from a live, twitter account by GamePolitics.com - Where Politics and Video Games Collide. The writer also posted photos at Flickr.com including this one.

# Protest starting soon. My crowd estimate is maybe 100, so somewhat less than what protest organizers were hoping for. There is at least one counter protester here

# Looks like a peaceful crowd as u might expect for antiwar protesters. Generally older, average age 40+

# Philadelphia PD is on hand, both uniformed and plainclothes. They are low profile, seem to be coordinating w protest leaders

# Local Fox news crew just showed up. Crowd has swelled a bit, now about 150 here

# A bit late getting started with their rally but they are doing a sound check now... A counter protester is getting heated

# Speaker now starting. But being drowned out by counter-protesters with a very loud speaker system... Saying very bad things about protesters

# Protesters are losing battle of the speaker systems, but the counter protester seems to have left for some reason.

# Oops, I spoke too soon, he's back. 1 thing interesting about this protest, it is generally anti-war, not just against use of games.

# Now in the mall, outside the aec. About two dozen police lined up at aec entrance. Protest ldr now reading their complaint

# A few in crowd have donned plain white masks... Not sure but they seemed to come from inside the aec

# Wow, aec is really an impressive looking facility. Big comfy seating area. Looks like 15+ PC screens , half-dozen big flat screens

# Guy from protesters just took my pic because I have been on periphery taking pix. I explained that i am covering for GP