Anti-escalation rally in Washington, DC, on Saturday.
By on Jan 25th, 2007 at 10:47 am
Anti-escalation rally in Washington, DC, on Saturday.
“Tens of thousands of peace advocates from across the country are expected in Washington on Saturday for an anti-war rally that could be among the biggest since the war in Iraq began, organizers said yesterday.”
(The organizers, United for Peace, have more information on the march here. Campus Progress is also providing funding for students who will be attending the march and organizing a discussion with American Progress scholars.)
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Bring some wet handkerchiefs to breathe through, as well as some eye protection.
Also, don’t bring anything you don’t want the police stealing from you.
Speaking from personal experience here.
January 25th, 2007 at 10:53 amThey looked like a bunch of late blooming 1960s flower children blooming their late blooming marijuana seeds.
They should have had Cheech n Chong as there guests of honor.
Jesus H. Christ, that really sent the antiwar movement back to the stoneage even more than Cindy Sheehan did breaking into interviews.
Talk about turning the majority AWAY from a cause.
My God.
January 25th, 2007 at 10:55 amFINALLY you post something about this!!!
January 25th, 2007 at 10:58 amHappy to see that at least some group of americans still have a heart and a soul! For those less sympathetic posters here, don’t knock what may be the last vestiges of this sacred “democracy” – which is the right to peacefully demonstrate. After all, we’re now spied on, bank accounts broken into, and voting machines hacked so what else do americans have left??? You tell me!
January 25th, 2007 at 10:58 amIt appears that the sleazy trolls have hit this thread pretty early…..getting nervous that a moral majority will quash your pro-military war profiteering plans, eh?
January 25th, 2007 at 11:00 am#2,
January 25th, 2007 at 11:00 amCheech & Chong have way more credibility than Bush.
They’re also more intelligent.
Obviously over 70% of the population who oppose escalation must be late blooming 1960’s flower children adolfo lither.
You’re one of the less than 30% of the dead enders. Talk about out of the mainstream!
The culture wars are over adolfo, you lost. Get over it.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:02 amAs I posted yesterday,
January 25th, 2007 at 11:04 amNeosluts are today’s DoDo birds.
Extinct, but too damn dumb to know it.
At least one million Americans are needed at that protest for the Congress to take notice! Keep it peaceful, so Bush will not beat the protestors using Blackwater mercenary goons!
January 25th, 2007 at 11:09 amComment by adolfo lither #2
You aren’t a “majority”…
…your kind are a viral infection…
…upon the nation’s brain…
January 25th, 2007 at 11:17 amI think it is a valid question to ask, do our peaceful demostrations negatively affect the general population opinion on our goals?
IMO, without evolution comes revolution!
January 25th, 2007 at 11:19 amTo much Yang brings sudden Yin. Balance is lost.
Write your local news organizations and make sure they cover this!!!
January 25th, 2007 at 11:21 amThere are not one million patriotic americans that will assemble in this country.
They are all afraid to be the guinea pigs in the sense of NSA national security repurcussions.
A march on Washington could end you up in Gitmo or out on a concentration camp out in Wyoming.
Or worse yet be scullied away never to be seen again to far away CIA sanctioned gulags in Romania and the Ukraine.
Dont think it doesnt happen?
How do YOU know exactly how many people have just
January 25th, 2007 at 11:24 am-disappeared- in this world since the 2000 election?
They looked like a bunch of late blooming 1960s flower children blooming their late blooming marijuana seeds.
Comment by adolfo lither/rachel — January 25, 2007 @ 10:55 am
Do you even think before posting, or is the Ritalin not helping you slow down all those thoughts in your head? Next time, add 1 more blooming to make your position clearer.
By the way, Jane Fonda and Danny Glover, flower children, but not late blooming, say “hello”
Jesus H. Christ, that really sent the antiwar movement back to the stoneage even more than Cindy Sheehan did breaking into interviews.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:25 amTalk about turning the majority AWAY from a cause.
I’m sorry, what is the percentage of people who support the invasion of Iraq? Oh yeah, 28%. Kinda debunks that asinine post.
My god.
Like you have any idea about Christianity, about compassion. But hey, at least you can constantly change your posting name. At least you’ve got that going for ya.
You’re Welcome
They looked …
They should have had …
that really sent…
Comment by adolfo lither
This post MAY have had more credibility if you had waited until AFTER the event had actually happened. LOL! Thanks for the joke, bum dass.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:26 amIf they can have their pro-life demonstration on the anniversary of Roe v Wade, they should have no problem with a peace rally.
If they try to roll out the talking point of why are these people not working, which someone will no doubt… it’s the weekend. Why those pro-life people out at a rally Monday when, but conservative logic, they should have been working? (or for the younger, in school)
January 25th, 2007 at 11:27 am#3- Brisdeah na Faire
Well said. I am always amazed how the liberal blogs rarely cover events which deal with the anti-war movement. Last weekend in Tacoma, Wa., there was a mock tribunal on the war entitled the Citizens’ Hearing on the Legality of U.S. Actions in Iraq: The Case of Lt. Ehren Watada, which featured a panel which heard testimony from witnesses such as Daniel Ellsberg, Iraq War veterans Geoffrey Millard and Darrell Anderson, Ann Wright, law experts Richard Falk and Benjamin G. Davis. Outside of After Downing Street.org, I could not locate any other so-called liberal blogs which thought it fitting to mention this powerful and moving forum dealing with the illegal war/occupation of Iraq.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:28 amet tu brute > a million protestors in DC is a bit hard for the government to put into secret camps, or rendition to Egypt, but if just 100,000 show up then the new Halliburton camps in Utah can be utilized to imprison some of them. The bigger the protest, the less likely Bush will do anything about it. In fact if one million or more show up in DC, then Bush will flee to his ranch in Texas until the protest is over.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:32 amI know that Rep. Maxine Waters and Rep. Barbara Lee are going to be at the protest, so Bush will not dare to accost them in any fashion or the entire Congressional Black Caucus will be on Dubya like glue!
January 25th, 2007 at 11:37 amAnd it will NOT be televised.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:40 amEven if one million people show up the corporate whore media will direct the majority of their film coverage to those on the fringe of the rally and try to ignore the true anti-war nature of the crowd.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:41 amI still think Rachel is a freak.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:43 amForTruth > if the protest is bigger than expected, then it will get exposure on CNN, but if it’s smaller than expected, then FOX News will say hippies had a protest in DC. I hope at least a half million show up!
January 25th, 2007 at 11:45 amQUIT FEEDING IT.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:45 amI hope the DC police department arrests each and every individual involved.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:47 amWell post 23 et tu brute > it is not so easy to fly into DC anymore, so some who want to attend the protest will not be able to get airline tickets to the event. Plus hotels in the area could fill up fast too.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:48 am#18 -Jay and even if one million marched, the number will be disputed by Fox network as usual next day, and the network will put their own figure and claim that it was just around few thousands of ‘misguided’ people were there.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:49 amtarazan > yes FOX News will distort the number of protestors for sure. They overinflated the number who showed up for the Anti-Abortion rally > which was just a couple hundred.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:53 amDaryll > we all truely hope you get arrested someday and sent to GITMO camp in Cuba > lol.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:54 amI hope the DC police department arrests each and every individual involved.
Comment by Daryll
Looks like Daryll had enough time in between polishing his boots and ironing his brownshirt to post some drivel.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:56 amM. L. King A time comes when silence is betrayal.
Who are we betraying? Ourselves, the country, or both?
January 25th, 2007 at 11:56 amDaryll does not understand that the Anti Iraq War protest has been issued a permit to gather in DC, so the police have zero authority to arrest them unless some of the protestors riot. It would look bad for Bush to fire tear gas at the protestors and turn it into a melee.
January 25th, 2007 at 12:02 pmDaryll,
You co-mmu-ni-cate more like [D.A.R.Y.L.]
It’s really cute.
*****
MLK was referring to African Americans betraying themselves by the lack of standing up for their right to equality.
We are betraying ourselves, because this country was founded on personal freedom FIRST AND FOREMOST. It’s the basis for a true Democracy.
January 25th, 2007 at 12:03 pmI hope the DC police department arrests each and every individual involved.
Comment by Daryll — January 25, 2007 @ 11:47 am
Ummm, on what merit would the arrest be?
January 25th, 2007 at 12:05 pmHey, I can play that game, too.
I wish all self-professed Christians who really don’t follow the teachings of Jesus were arrested.
I wish all homophobic virgins who proclaim to have served in the military were hanged.
See how much fun that is, St.Daryll, SRGT at LARGE
Daryll sez:
I hope so too. The mass arrest of all those protesters would have to be reported on. Plus, being arrested by the D.C. Police and given due process is certainly better than being black-bagged by Blackwater thugs and thrown in Swift Luck Greens.
But that’s what you meant, isn’t it, Daryll?
January 25th, 2007 at 12:06 pmjay Randall sez:
And there’s the rub. The police have all the authority they want, after plainclothes operatives in the crowd start destroying private property and throwing rocks at the police.
If this protest gets too big to ignore, count on this happening. The administration will do anything it needs to to discredit and disperse the anti-war effort.
January 25th, 2007 at 12:08 pmTripMaster > Bush would be unwise to allow that to happen, because if a riot is caused and the police gun down protestors, then its Kent State again and could lead to Bush being impeached too!
January 25th, 2007 at 12:13 pmI will be willing to place a wager on the fact that the march will not REACH 1 million.
Any takers?
-ate you Brute
Isn’t that the name of really bad men’s cologne?
I’ll take you up on that wager, though.
I’ll bet you two Freidmans & a Cheney we’ll see 1M protesters.
(Zooey?)
Of course, 1 Cheney means I can hedge my bet, but you knew that already, right Geek?
January 25th, 2007 at 12:14 pmI hope the DC police department arrests each and every individual involved. …Comment by Daryll
I agree.
It would be nice to see the arrests of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, McCain, Lieberman, Hannity, Limbaugh, Kristol, Perle, …
January 25th, 2007 at 12:19 pmJay Randall sez:
Oh, the police won’t be using lethal force…there’s a plethora of nonlethal measures they can employ: tear gas, mace, rubber bullets, bean bags, tasers, and sonic weapons, to name just a few. They’ll be very careful to keep fatalities to a minimum, as a dead protester is a martyr to the cause.
The best thing that can happen for this administration is for the anti-war effort to be marginalized as a bunch of violent extremists that are more interested in taking a poke at the police than they are in saving what remains of this country.
January 25th, 2007 at 12:19 pmTripMaster > my bet is that the protest remains peaceful and therefore deprives Bush of making them look like terrorists and agitators.
January 25th, 2007 at 12:24 pmthe police have zero authority to arrest them unless some of the protestors riot.
Comment by Jay Randal
Here in NYC the police have inserted undercover cops into the crowds and helped to incite and invoke the crowd and when the crowd did something “offensive” these cops would come out of the crowd and go to a kneeling position and say a code word and be removed from the area. It has been going on for a while now and no national coverage. The Police State is growing.
January 25th, 2007 at 12:30 pmHelp send a blogger to Washington to cover this important march.
January 25th, 2007 at 12:32 pmHOO-RAH! HOO-RAH! What would really be funny is if everyone wears George Bush and Dick Cheney masks. V for Vendetta was one great flick and here is reality imitating art, once again. -heh-
January 25th, 2007 at 12:34 pmI hope the DC police department arrests each and every individual involved.
Comment by Daryll
Why?
January 25th, 2007 at 12:36 pmI heard a radio host yesterday ask where are all the 68% of the anti-war protestors? He said ” they are all on the internet”. Good point. Why aren’t the streets filled with protesters??
January 25th, 2007 at 12:40 pmI’ve been to every major Iraq war protest in DC since 2004. There has never been an incident of violence against the police. The DC cops are actually bored during the protests. We’re peaceful darryl, unlike you who advocate arresting peaceful people (for vengeance? I thought you were a good Christian….hmmmm). By the way, did you advocate the police arrest the anti abortion protestors that were in DC the other day as well? You sure do seem to hate protestors, so I will assume you did.
One more question darryl; how does it feel being so “out of the mainstream?” Must be pretty lonely being one of the last in the country advocating for more violence in Iraq.
January 25th, 2007 at 12:50 pmThere will be escalation at the anti-escalation rally.
Daryll’s always been out of the mainstream, he likes it, it makes him feel special and “above” most people.
January 25th, 2007 at 12:55 pmTripMasterMonkey #1
Good call on the wet handkerchiefs and eye wear. Better to be safe than sorry.
I like Randy Nason’s idea of Bush and Cheney masks! HA.
Ever since I head of the march, I’ve been praying that is is peaceful. I do have it in the back of my head that it would be a great “Pearl Harbor”.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:00 pmMorbid, I know, but……I’ll be there.
What I find very sad is that, in a country of 300 milion people, it’s really hard to find a demonstration with more than some tens of thousands of protestors.
And it’s not because the USA is a sort of Wonderlad. Au contraire.
But people has been spoon feed for so many time that protesting is bad, and being a good drone of the swarm is the best compliment to the democracy…
And the delusion that writing to senators works really… maybe sometimes, but direct action is needed more often.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:03 pmBTW, I emailed the major news networks telling them to make sure they cover this. We must be heard.
I hope we surprise the non-believers and post in huge numbers. Bush must be stopped.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:09 pmSouthPaw: could you (any any other posters here that plan on attending) drop us a post here on this thread to let us know the situation? Obviously, we can’t trust the ‘liberal media’…
January 25th, 2007 at 1:23 pmTripMasterMonkey~
I’m not taking anything with me but a sign, Metro fair, and a hanky, now, thanks to your advice.
But as soon as I’m back to a computer, I’ll fill you in.
(Actually, I’ll take my camera phone, too.)
January 25th, 2007 at 1:30 pmDaryll; why do you hate America and it’s Bill of Rights?
January 25th, 2007 at 5:40 pmSouthpaw; I’ll see you there, I’ll be marching with the veterans.
January 25th, 2007 at 5:47 pmGood to hear Uncle Ho. And I, among many, thank you for your service as well!
For TripMasterMonkey, if you’re still around, here’s a link to local events (assuming you won’t be attending due to where you live)
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/calendar.php
I’ll look for you on other threads and post it for you.
January 25th, 2007 at 5:54 pmSouthpaw, the e-mail I got from VVAW(Vietnam Veterans Against the War) said the veterans will lead the march. I have a ringside seat, right up front.
January 25th, 2007 at 6:22 pmWell-earned, Uncle Ho, no doubt. I’ll be honored to march behind you! Quite appropriate that those that served the country lead the march. Unlike those that lead more to harm’s way. I bet it burns you to the core.
I find it uplifting that those that served in the armed forces continue to serve today, the way you and other veterans do, by speaking out. Again, thank you.
January 25th, 2007 at 6:41 pmOK guys- I’m out of here for a few days. All night bus ride to D.C. from the Detroit area on Friday, & back on the bus Saturday night to home.
January 25th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Stay safe, Uncle Ho.
January 25th, 2007 at 7:08 pmI hope the DC police department arrests each and every individual involved.
Comment by Daryll
On what charge, baby?
You certainly have wished a bit of a nightmare on the DC police, haven’t you.
January 25th, 2007 at 7:09 pmMost of the loud mouth supporters ARE chickenhawks. That’s why you are going to call their bluff tomorrow. Pu$$ies.
Goodnight Uncle Ho. Thanks for making the trip. “See” you there. :)
January 25th, 2007 at 7:09 pmComment by Daryll — January 25, 2007 @ 11:47 am
You may get your wish, “Christian.” But it won’t be the D.C. police. It will be the Department of Homeland Security.
And Jay, you’re right. There will most likely be undercover operatives with orders to try to incite a riot. When I participated at the State of the Union Protest a year ago there was a minor scuffle, and one of the members of the rhythm band got up to assist the police.
Once arrested, the individuals might find themselves treated as Jose Padilla was. If you recall, Jose Padilla was declared an unlawful enemy combatant by the Commander in Chief, imprisoned, tortured, and denied a hearing on any charges for three years. Lawyers are now arguing he is no longer sane enough to stand trial.
American citizens can be labeled an “unlawful enemy combatant†under the Military Commissions Act of 2006. An “unlawful enemy combatant†means “a person who has engaged in hostilities … against the United States …†The MCA distinguishes between “unlawful enemy combatants†which includes citizens and “alien unlawful enemy combatants†i.e. legal immigrants and non-citizens. Since “hostilities†is not defined, an American citizen participating in an anti-war rally could be declared an “unlawful enemy combatant.â€
Even knowing this, if I could go to the rally, I would go.
I pray for the safety of all concerned.
January 25th, 2007 at 8:00 pmThanks Briseadh na Faire….I felt bad posting my fears, like I was going to deter attendance, or be accused of doing so. Others posted their fears as well.
We can’t let fear keep us from going forward. We wouldn’t be where we were 6+ years ago if we were afraid.
I am a little, but it ain’t stoppin’ me. Or folks I know.
January 25th, 2007 at 8:14 pmI wonder what communist group organized this rally?
January 26th, 2007 at 12:18 am#67 We know towards where you lean, michael.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070126/ap_on_re_us/justice_delayed
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