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| Low turn-out for anti-Bush protests |
| 2003-11-19 |
| Peace campaigners say they aren’t disappointed at the low turn-out for George Bush protests across central London. Around 200 protesters gathered at Jubilee Gardens on London’s South Bank for a colourful parade. Only 200? Everybody must be in Miami for the trade talks, the weather is much nicer. But organisers from the Stop The War Coalition said they were not concerned with the relatively small number. Aiden Hutton from Suffolk, who played the role of George Bush in the procession, said: "There have been about 14,000 police, I think that’s a wonderful turn-out." Ha ha As the demonstrators reached Trafalgar Square, the water in the fountain pools turned a blood red colour after a demonstrator was thought to have released dye into the water. To a chorus of booing, "George Bush" and "the Queen" addressed a crowd which contained hundreds of demonstrators and scores of journalists. I’m sure by the time the journalists are finished, the crowd will have grown into thousands. Nancy Elan, a musician from New York who has lived in London for 10 years, said she welcomed the opportunity to register her opposition to Mr Bush. She said: "George Bush doesn’t represent many Americans, I mean he wasn’t even voted in. "Of course I’m not proud that he’s supposed to be our president." Wonder what they are going to do next year when they can’t use the "Selected, Not Elected" meme anymore? At the back of the procession was one of the three London buses which travelled to Baghdad before the Iraq war taking a group of high profile "human shields". That trip worked well, didn’t it? |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #19 Perhaps all the good puppets are in Miami - where the Police have their own embeds. So much to protest and so little dope. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-11-19 4:50:32 PM |
| #18 CNN is really disappointed. All morning in the US they've been saying "Well, you know, the real big protest is scheduled for tomorrow". I was thinking the same thing, poor ol' WOLF BLITZER looked lost, he probably planned his entire show around how violent and destructive the 'peace protests' were in reaction to Bush. They kept cutting to their London correspondents, and all they had was a handful of fat old hippies and reds leaning on their protest signs. I bet they hate it when they plan on showing how The World hates Dubya, and then nothing happens. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-11-19 3:09:26 PM |
| #17 RE:"Selected not Elected" True,George Bush like every President before him was selected by Electoral College. As a resident of Florida(Tampa area-the good side)I naturally followed voter mess in Florida.The one fact after all the hooting and hollaring is George Bush had the majority of votes in Florida.EVERY SINGLE news organization,public interest group and university study found that even with the most generous to Al Gore interpretation of the ballots,George Bush still had the most votes-differeces ranged from 100+ to 6000+.The only way for Gore to have won Florida would have been to count unmistakeable Buchanon votes as Gore votes.Whatever the intent of voter was,once you put your ballot in the box it's too late to correct any mistakes. |
| Posted by: Stephen 2003-11-19 2:23:42 PM |
| #16 CNN is really disappointed. All morning in the US they've been saying "Well, you know, the real big protest is scheduled for tomorrow". |
| Posted by: Joe 2003-11-19 2:13:46 PM |
| #15 I hate these schmucks that go to other countries and run their suck about our leaders. I didn't vote for Clinton but had enough respect for the office he held not to disparage the man in public. He was my president & c-n-c for 8 years though I often disagreed w/him. To me, it's disrespectful and disloyal - especially on foreign soil. Sucking up to foreigners like the Dixie skanks and mike fat fucking moore. As far as that Elan woman goes - stay in London pig. You been there 10 years already, how can you speak for any American living here now? |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2003-11-19 1:56:39 PM |
| #14 I thought the "Scud Stud" was Arthur Kent? I just remember Jaco panicking and acting like a scared little girl whenever the air-raid sirens went off. Kent probably was the Scud Stud, he has much better hair and makeup. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-11-19 1:43:47 PM |
| #13 I think the difference in the crowd estimates from 100,000 to 200 and such has to do with converting from metric to the traditional English system which is now outlawed in Merry Old England. I don’t even think they are allowed to use quartz watches anymore. |
| Posted by: The Kid 2003-11-19 1:35:25 PM |
| #12 Arthur Kent hosts "History's Mysteries" on The History Channel. Don't know if he's in journalism per se anymore. |
| Posted by: Dar 2003-11-19 1:28:53 PM |
| #11 I thought the "Scud Stud" was Arthur Kent? (I wonder what happened to him anyway?) |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-11-19 12:58:07 PM |
| #10 "At the back of the procession was one of the three London buses which travelled to Baghdad before the Iraq war taking a group of high profile "human shields". Wonder what happened to the other two? I remember stories prior to the war about the one organizer who had run out of money in Baghdad and couldn't get his bus home. |
| Posted by: john 2003-11-19 12:57:59 PM |
| #9 CNN should trot out the ol' Scud Stud himself Charlie Jaco so he can dodge the massive riots and incoming firebombs. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-11-19 12:38:07 PM |
| #8 Peace campaigners say they aren’t disappointed at the low turn-out for George Bush protests across central London. Around 200 protesters gathered at Jubilee Gardens on London’s South Bank for a colourful parade. It's hard to be disappointed when expectations were low to start off with. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-11-19 12:24:55 PM |
| #7 Nancy Elan," George Bush doesn’t represent many Americans." No Nancy, President Bush represents ALL Americans including (unfortunately) you. Why do European take the LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR and make it the ‘Common American Line.’ A list of people who DO NOT speak for MOST Americans: Mike Moore, Babs, Ed Asner, Sean Penn, Dixie Chicks, The Green Party, A.N.S.W.E.R., The World Workers Party, any Hollywood/Musical personality, and Ex-patriots. So quoting them is a waste of time and only shows your bias. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-11-19 11:45:00 AM |
| #6 Steve, the selected not elected will turn into stole the elections. They are already preparing the groundwork wtih claims about electronic voting (see, that way Democratic Election Commisioners are victims as well as voters and everyone because big business helped steal the election.) |
| Posted by: Yank 2003-11-19 11:40:30 AM |
| #5 The low turnout is part of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy™. Obviously all the |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-11-19 11:38:21 AM |
| #4 I think the biggest protest is supposed to be tomorrow. At first the British press was saying over 100,000 would turn out during the entire three days Bush is in England. Then this morning on BBC World I noticed they shrunk their estimate to 60,000. So counting today's 200 all they need is another 59,800-99,800 to show up tomorrow. |
| Posted by: g wiz 2003-11-19 11:32:57 AM |
| #3 You mean we had more in little, old Rochester to protest Dick Cheney? It was those lesbians, I know it was! |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2003-11-19 11:17:14 AM |
| #2 As many as 100,000 douche bags people were preparing to march through London to protest the Iraq war and occupation A snip from Jarheads article on Bush's visit. I'm sure it's really hard to mistake 200 people for 100,000 people. All those 1's, 2's, and 0's can be really confusing at times. |
| Posted by: Charles 2003-11-19 11:03:41 AM |
| #1 Huh? I thought this was supposed to be huge? What happened? |
| Posted by: Patrick Phillips 2003-11-19 11:02:54 AM |