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Home Front: Culture Wars
Cops have to feed 160 (moonbat protestors arrested)
2007-09-16
Several thousand fools rubes loonies rustics dupes protesters marched Saturday from the White House to the Capitol to demand an end to the Iraq war, and at least 160 people were arrested when they jumped a barricade at the foot of the Capitol steps.

Many of the protesters were arrested without a struggle after they jumped over the waist-high barricade. But some grew angry as police attempted to push them back using large shields.
Do the police shields have the little spikes in the middle?
At least two people were showered with chemical spray. Protesters responded by throwing signs and chanting: "Shame on you."

The arrests came after protesters initially decided to lay down on the Capitol lawn with signs on top of their bodies to represent soldiers killed in Iraq.
How can they represent soldiers? Soldiers are honorable.
When police took no action, some of the protesters decided to start climbing over the barricade. Before arriving at the Capitol lawn, the demonstrators marched on Pennsylvania Avenue holding banners and signs and saying, "What do we want? Troops out. When do we want it? Now."

Counterprotesters lined the sidewalks behind metal barricades. There were some heated shouting matches between the two sides.

The protesters gathered earlier Saturday near the White House in Lafayette Park with signs saying "End the war now" and calling for President Bush's impeachment. The rally was organized by the Stalinist ANSWER Coalition and other communist groups.

Organizers estimated that more than 100,000 people attended the rally and march. That number could not be confirmed; police did not give their own estimate. But there appeared to be tens of thousands of people in attendance, and the march stretched along multiple blocks of Pennsylvania Avenue.

Anti-war nutter goof loon screwball activist Cindy Sheehan told the crowd is was time to be assertive. "It's time to lay our bodies on the line and say we've had enough," she said. "It's time to shut this city down."
Time to shut something, anyway ...
Army veteran Justin Cliburn, 25, of Lawton, Okla., was among a contingent of Iraq veterans in attendance. "We're occupying a people who do not want us there," Cliburn said of Iraq. "We're here to show that it isn't just a bunch of old hippies from the 60s who are against this war."
Mostly a bunch of old hippies; the rest are young hippies.
About 13 blocks away, nearly 1,000 counterprotesters gathered near the Washington Monument, frequently erupting in chants of "U-S-A" and waving American flags.

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson, speaking from a stage to crowds clad in camouflage, American flag bandanas and Harley Davidson jackets, said he wanted to send three messages. "Congress, quit playing games with our troops. Terrorists, we will find you and kill you," he said. "And to our troops, we're here for you, and we support you."
Posted by:lotp

#6  Green Baloney sandwiches for the meat eaters

and Slimy Okra sandwiches for the vegans.

all chased down with purple green

Blue Kool Aid.

Posted by: Red Dawg   2007-09-16 14:17  

#5  Demonstrations like this let the old codgers feel young again. They can forget they haven't done anything for 40 years (except smoke dope and spend Daddy's money).

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al   2007-09-16 13:49  

#4  Did you see the pictures? "Dude the sixties were over 40 years ago."
Posted by: whitecollar redneck   2007-09-16 08:56  

#3  Victory Caucus

Posted by: lotp   2007-09-16 08:18  

#2  We really need an unapologetically pro-involvement group with a catchy message like, "Every dead jihadist makes the world a little safer - support America's armed forces."

We also need our political leaders to constantly reiterate for an apathetic and uninformed public that Islamic extremist groups consider Iraq the focal point in their battle against the forces of civilization, a battle taking place all across the globe which we can not afford to lose.
Posted by: Thrineng Munster6911   2007-09-16 07:16  

#1  Several thousand protesters marched Saturday from the White House to the Capitol to demand an end to the Iraq war

I believe the operative word in the vernacular of the communist dialectic is 'tool'. Which can also be applied to their MSM water carriers who cover for them. If this had been a march put together by any right wing organization we'll hear and read stuff laced with references to the KKK or Nazis.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2007-09-16 06:22  

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