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2003-10-25 Fifth Column

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Posted by Cyber Sarge 2003-10-25 10:51:52 AM|| || Front Page|| [11136 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I say we start a fund to send these people to North Korea. I'm sure kimmie-boy would like some help mining limestone or making combat boots on 50 yr old machines. As an added bonus they will get fed a diet of 1/4 cup cracked corn and sour cabbage soup. Hmmm.... a good vegitarian meal....

Think of the weight they will loose!

I hope that protest warrior is able to get their signs visable on the TV coverage. Unfortinately it will probably be edited out

Posted by CrazyFool 2003-10-25 11:35:51 AM|| 2003-10-25 11:35:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and Martin Luther King III"

There is a sinister irony to this. Ramsey ~~Quisling~~ Clark was AG at the time of the Martin Luther King Jr and Robert Kennedy assassinations in 1968; he was J. Edgar Hoover's boss. Left-wing conspiracy theorists accuse practically everyone who held office at the time of complicity in the assassinations, except, strangely enough, the most obvious suspect, Clark himself.
Earlier, Clark had definitely been involved in the unlawful harrassment and monitoring of anti-war protestors.
In the years since, Clark has shown an almost comically dogmatic (and often degrading) adherence to all things red and anti-American, from his trips to Hanoi during the war, to his service as a registered agent of the Iranian government during the hostage crisis of 1979-80.
More recently, he was Saddam Hussein's lawyer in the United States, providing an obvious but widely ignored financial conduit from Baghdad to ANSWER.
Is this ideological slavery the result of ass-covering by Clark? Or perhaps even a kind of blackmail? Does some old commie somewhere have the goods on his misconduct as AG, possibly including the RFK and MLK assassinations; to be revealed only if Clark ever stops his idiotarian dog and pony show?

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2003-10-25 11:43:03 AM|| 2003-10-25 11:43:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 With the giant collection of homeless in San Francisco, it ought to be easy to collect some protesters. They will be the ones that take a slug out of a bottle in a paper bag every fifty yards.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-10-25 11:47:20 AM|| 2003-10-25 11:47:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 UPDATE! If you have CSPAN they are carrying the protest live. The speeches run the gamit from repugnant to just plain funny. BTW: I saw no more than 5k at the Capital Mall (give or take a k).

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2003-10-25 1:16:20 PM|| 2003-10-25 1:16:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 BTW: I saw no more than 5k at the Capital Mall (give or take a k).
The BeachBoys gave a free concert on the mall in 1980, while I was working in DC. There were about 400K there, maybe more, including about 8000 DC undercover police and narcos. They didn't make any arrests for two weeks after the show, then nailed 42 dealers, including one closely linked to Marion Berry.

On a good day, there are more than 5000 people on the mall just enjoying the sunshine!

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-10-25 3:27:39 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-10-25 3:27:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Believe it or not, an NPR reporter at the scene has actually been confronting the protestors with hard questions, asking them for example whether they would have the US simply abandon Iraq to its fate.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2003-10-25 5:35:19 PM|| 2003-10-25 5:35:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Believe it or not, an NPR reporter at the scene has actually been confronting the protestors with hard questions, asking them for example whether they would have the US simply abandon Iraq to its fate.

Oh c'mon, quit yanking our chain AC, you know NPR doesn't do that!

Posted by Steve White 2003-10-25 6:06:10 PM|| 2003-10-25 6:06:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 No, Steve, I know it's like bin Laden contributing to Mogen David Alom, but it's true. She's probably gotten her pink slip by now, though.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2003-10-25 7:01:08 PM|| 2003-10-25 7:01:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 UPADTE 2: I guess the crowd grew when the cameras left. DC Cops estimate the crowd @ 20-30k. Far below the ANSWER estimate of 100k. In SF the crowd numered 2k. Heck there are more hippies in SF thatn that.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2003-10-25 9:34:14 PM|| 2003-10-25 9:34:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Chicken soup from chicken sh!t, I guess.

Posted by BMN 2003-10-25 10:32:17 PM|| 2003-10-25 10:32:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I was catching the protest on C-Span in between innings of the World Series....pretty funny stuff. Every other speaker had an ajenda which had nothing to do w/Iraq; i.e. - free Cuba, reparations, lesbo/homo equality, Paleo problems, blah, blah, blah. Not one coherent argument for leaving Iraq or how to do so. All of them just made blanket statements condemming Bush w/out any sort of facts or cogent train of thought. Heck, I'll give any American citizen a fair chance to make a logical argument. Unfortunately, logic is lost on these morons.

Posted by Jarhead 2003-10-25 11:52:25 PM|| 2003-10-25 11:52:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Morons=Anyone not marching in ~~goosestep~~ lock step with the Republican views of yours I'm sure

Posted by NotMikeMoore 2003-10-26 12:01:09 AM|| 2003-10-26 12:01:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 NMM: negative, my friend. If someone makes an argument based on facts (unlike you) with some sort of logic (again, usually unlike you) I will ceede(sp?) them the point. However, if they get up and blather insane rhetoric (like you) about things that have nothing to do w/the topic (again, like you) and make personal attacks on people (like you) I don't give them much respect. BTW - I'm not a Republican much to your dismay, although I will tell you the goosestep is a hard close order drill to perfect especially in jungle boots :)

Posted by Jarhead 2003-10-26 12:50:50 AM|| 2003-10-26 12:50:50 AM|| Front Page Top

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