I agree.
Posted on 08/28/2004 4:04:09 PM PDT by NYC GOP Chick
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thousands of abortion rights activists holding pink and black placards marched over the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, the third day of protests before next week's Republican convention in New York to nominate President Bush (news - web sites) for a second term.
The march was organized by the Planned Parenthood (news - web sites) group to support a woman's constitutional right to have an abortion. The Republican Party platform supports a constitutional amendment banning abortions.
There were several other protests and at least two people were arrested in a pro-union rally outside a Starbucks coffee shop, bringing the number of arrests to 288 since demonstrations began on Thursday.
About 2,000 people opposed to the Bush administration's military and diplomatic responses to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America by Islamic militants, surrounded the destroyed World Trade Center site and solemnly rang bells.
"We felt September 11 was being appropriated by (Republican) spin doctors and they were turning it into a grotesque endorsement of world domination and domestic repression," said demonstration organizer Christian Herold.
The Republicans are preparing to make Bush their official presidential nominee at the Aug. 30-Sept. 2 convention. He will face Democratic candidate Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) of Massachusetts in the November election.
The largest anti-Bush demonstration is scheduled for Sunday, when an estimated 200,000 people are expected to march past Madison Square Garden to decry the U.S.-led war in Iraq (news - web sites) and other Bush policies.
In the predominantly Democratic city, about 20,000 people, mostly women, took part in Saturday's abortion rights march.
Chanting "My Body, My Choice" and "Not the church, not the state, women should decide their fate," they spoke out against what they believe are threats to legal abortions, birth control and health care.
"The current administration needs to stop putting money into unproven abstinence-only education and support real medically accurate sex education for young people," said 28-year-old protester Adrienne Luzeroff.
Political activists who oppose Bush's economic, environmental and legal policies have vowed to make themselves heard to visiting Republicans.
On Friday night, 264 people were arrested for disorderly conduct when about 5,000 cyclists rode through city streets, some past the convention arena, shouting "No More Bush." On Thursday, police arrested 22 people in three different demonstrations.
(Additional reporting by Christine Kearney)
What a bunch of maroons.
Total Reuters propaganda! I walked over to watch the morons and was actually disappointed -- to say that 1000 were there is overly generous. They were supposed to have 3 concentric circles of bell-ringing twits, but the outer 2 routes were totally empty and devoid of them.
And there was noting solemn about these assclowns.
I have pics and vidclips that I'll be posting later.
"We felt September 11 was being appropriated by (Republican) spin doctors and they were turning it into a grotesque endorsement of world domination and domestic repression," said demonstration organizer Christian Herold.
What I'd like to say about this prick and his comrades would get me insta-banned here.
Uh huh. Okay.
Just think of how many MORE fellow protestors you morons and murderers could have had with you IF YOU HADN'T KILLED ANY OF THOSE MILLIONS OF UNBORN CHILDREN!
Ding-a-lings.
Geezzzzzz, the mediaWHORES were soooooo silent on the Boston protesters...CLYMERS!
see above
Weren't they told that "life begins at conception"?
Why the rest of the country hates NY......
"I'm John Kerry, and I approved these marches."
I'm sorry--what page of The Constitution is that on? Is it anywhere near the one that gives us the right to bear arms?
I agree.
I love it when I encounter a Bugs Bunny fan. And I agree the democrats are a bunch of "maroons" (and neo-communists).
You be carefull out there amongst those rats..
Stay safe Chick, Freep some losers for us, and have fun, fun, fun! Wish I was there.
I was looking for a post on the arrest of the two guys arrested for planning the blowing up of Penn Station in New York. That was a tragedy averted, yet another attack stopped.
Reuters still cannot bear to call them Islamic terrorists...
yeah, they say it is not a terrorist act, but one is Muslim and another is Pakistani???
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