[Ciexyz]

What's the background to this photo? Is this one of the human shields from Iraq?

[Spyder]

Nah - one of the folk who were throwing rocks and trying to prevent shipment of military supplies to Iraq (Oakland). The cops took control.

[swilhelm73]

Judging from the url it is a pic from some oakland based peacenik protest.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Oakland "peace" protester who tried to block the movement of supplies from America to a shipping vessel to our troops overseas.

[Objective Reality]

nope, one of the sacred hippies from the Oakland protest, the first attempt by green types to take their vaunted "direct action" to stop the war, by interfering with military shipments at the Oakland port. Then, to quote Bill Cosby, "these brain damaged children have the nerve to look surprised!" - when they get a stingball to the face.

Here's the image again, since democrap.defeated_forever seems to be getting swamped:

And the attendant crybabying: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0407-07.htm