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| Not So Peaceful Peace Rally |
| 2005-01-20 |
| From the Washington Post Inauguration Photo Blog: Hundreds of people gathered at both ends of Meridian Hill Park in Northwest Washington for a peace rally sponsored by the D.C Antiwar Network. But there were interlopers: Thirteen members of ProtestWarror, supporting the Bush administration and its policies in Iraq. When the Bush supporters arrived, about 20 black-clad, self-described anarchists emerged from the crowd, shouting profanity and epithets and demanding that they leave the peace rally. When the Bush supporters refused to leave, the anarchists tore the signs out of the Bush supporters' hands and stomped on them. When ProtestWarrior leader Gil Kobrin objected, several male anarchists knocked him to the ground, kicking him in the back and punching him. Other anarchists punched and shoved Kobrin's 12 colleagues. After D.C. Antiwar Network members broke up the fight, the Bush supporters heeded their order to leave the park. Kobrin then called D.C. police, who are now guarding them at the entrance of the park as they hold up their pro-war signs. "We're going to hang tight," Kobrin said. "We're expressing our freedom of speech just as they are expressing theirs." --Robert MacMillan |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #15 Anarchist = militant = insurgent = criminal jack-booted thug = not so latent terrorist. |
| Posted by: John Q. Citizen 2005-01-20 10:42:55 PM |
| #14 nice pics jaf. to bad you wrent get them gals reactions. :) |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2005-01-20 9:36:20 PM |
| #13 One other thing, Gil is ok but he did take a couple of hits in the back and head. I do have video of the so-called peace protestors, but it is over 5 megs and I can't get it on my blog. |
| Posted by: JackAssFestival 2005-01-20 9:34:06 PM |
| #12 The JackAss was there and was one of the 13. Photos posted at http://stupidrandomthoughts.blogspot.com/. I didn't get a picture of the fight because I had my camera in my bag. Some of the protestors were trying to grab it. |
| Posted by: JackAssFestival 2005-01-20 9:32:21 PM |
| #11 I'm pretty sure the Nazis would have done exactly what the "peace protestors" did. Actually, I'm positive of it -- the Nazis made a habit of attacking anyone they disagreed with politically. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-01-20 8:27:49 PM |
| #10 I wonder what the nazi would do in this situation? Being that we neocons are considered Nazi and they are 'peaceful democratic' people. I will have to research what the Nazi storm troopers (in black) did to protestors in the 1930s. Probably just asked them nicely to move along and chatted friendly with them. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2005-01-20 6:33:03 PM |
| #9 us rantburgers should get tpgether and kick the shit out some anarchists some day If only for the irony of watching a bunch of anarchists go running for the police. ;) |
| Posted by: BH 2005-01-20 6:32:04 PM |
| #8 A squad of NYPD officers armed with plungers would teach 'em about anarchy!!! |
| Posted by: Janos Hunyadi 2005-01-20 5:37:04 PM |
| #7 hey , us rantburgers should get tpgether and kick the shit out some anarchists some day |
| Posted by: smokeysinse 2005-01-20 5:33:43 PM |
| #6 "Dude. Your dogma just peed on my karma!" |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-01-20 5:15:59 PM |
| #5 An enterprising lawyer would help the Protest Warriors sue the protest organizers for several billion dollars. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2005-01-20 5:03:39 PM |
| #4 The only thing I don't like about brawling with an anti-war protestor is the smell. The homeless smell better then many of those freaks. |
| Posted by: gb506 2005-01-20 4:14:34 PM |
| #3 Hmmm. Haven't had a good rumble in a decade. And never against Fascists. Sucks to be here with this poor outnumbered bunch of Americans being assaulted and denied their civil rights. I enjoyed the description of the Texas Highway Patrol and the bottom of the first page. Too bad the asstards in black, the self-described anarchists, didn't try their Fascism in front of the guys in the mirrored sunglasses. Would've been short, sweet, and bloody. There is a small core of seriously fucked up people in America. Surgery is required. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-01-20 3:05:51 PM |
| #2 Believe it or not, I got a robo-phone call at dinnertime LAST NIGHT from left.org, encouraging me to go to McPherson Square this a.m. to protest the inauguartion. They used a voice that kinda-sorta sounded like Dubya. Very odd. Did not receive a single call like that during the election. Oh well. I'm glad they wasted their money on me...but I'd like that 30 seconds back, LOL! |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-01-20 2:54:26 PM |
| #1 Kobrin shoulda pulled his 45 caliber from it's holster and shot the slimey communist. |
| Posted by: gawdamman 2005-01-20 2:44:57 PM |