Posted on 03/18/2006 6:02:18 PM PST by livesbygrace
Marchers chanted anti-war slogans and carried "Get Out of Iraq" signs Saturday in the city next door to the Army's Fort Bragg installation, but even the most ardent protester was disappointed by the small turnout.
No more than 1,000 people came to a rally at a city park this year on the anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Last year, more than 4,000 jammed the same space, said Police Chief T.D. McCarthy. "This is pitiful," Raleigh lawyer Brian Upchurch said as he waited at a staging point with about 300 people before the march.
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"This is pitiful,"
LOL
There is no lie. Their polls do show that.
Well, looks to me that the media should report that only 25% of the people who used to oppose Bush's war efforts openly in Fayetteville, now now care to do so.
I attended the Fayetteville Freep, the protesters were a joke, they had almost no one there
Kind of like five white supremacists parading through Harlem. Stupid.
And yet, Our pols in Washington choose to believe polls rather than the evidence of their own eyes.
Oh, the people of the country are a bit worn down. Largely because our idiots at home won't shut up and insist on putting everyone in a bad mood because they are in a bad mood. But Americans don't want to run from terrorists, they want to win.
I fully expect to not see anything in my local Sunday paper about it. I drove by one of the protests in NW Phoenix Friday night and they had SIX protesters out with their cardboard signs. Nobody was honking or even paying attention!! What a waste of time, the MSM is not going to be building this up to a huge protest report simply because they CAN'T. Wonder what next Monday's TAKE THE WHITE HOUSE BY STORM protest will bring? Hope someone posts a FR thread on all the goings-on next week!! he he hope there are lots of arrests and even a missile launched from WH rooftop!
This is pitiful," Raleigh lawyer Brian Upchurch said...
He should have said "This is pitiful, the anti war movement is stuck in a Quagmire." LOL
If professional warriors have voluntarily enlisted to fight the enemy, and are there doing that, then how can you say you're supporting them by demanding they surrender and come home in shame and humiliation and let the terrorists destroy everything and everyone that you've fought for?
We love you as a person and just don't want to see you under duress, Gary Kasparov, so we demand that you resign at once before you beat Anatoly Karpov.
Driving down the main commercial street of my Philadelphia suburb late this morning, I spotted the local anti-war demonstration. A whopping FOUR demonstrators. They looked lonely and cold. Nobody was paying the slightest attention to them. I liked it :-)
"my Philadelphia suburb late this morning, I spotted the local anti-war demonstration. A whopping FOUR demonstrators."
That is pitiful for Philadelphia isn't it?
Here's a link to the live FReep in Fayetteville if any one is interested. Photos are now going up.
This should have been the sort of headlines we've read all along. When 1,000 burned-out junkies and paid "activists" show up to support Saddam and Al-Qaeda, in a nation of over 200 million people, 1,000 losers is very few, and not worth mentioning.
I'm out in the 'burbs, but still pretty densely populated with soccer mom types. I suppose there was a bigger one in the city, but I doubt it was very big. People are bored with sound bites on this issue. No matter what general "side" of the issue people are on, most understand by now that it's a pretty complex situation.
You forget the lamestream media and the magic magnifying glasses they use...
Yes, in our nation of 300 million, 3-350 losers is even less impressive. You need to understand the rules when reading media hype, which I have found is very accurate.
Note: The rule of thumb when interpreting MSM estimates of leftist rallys is to divide by three.) posted by Huber on Live thread
I notice the headline of 'Protests draw smaller numbers' was quickly withdrawn from Yahoo and replaced with something like 'thousands protest Iraq war.'
According to one local station they only got about 300 people in New Haven but they expect more in Hartford tomorrow. If 300 is the best they can do then that shows how badly their movement is doing. And as usual, it looked on the news as if few people there really cared about peace. Most were just the usual blame-America-first crowd that has had the same attitude for decades.
The efforts of FReepers and others over the past several years have exposed the leftist organizers for what they are. Now that the illusion of a broad-based movement has been dismantled, average citizens are simply less inclined to be associated with this rabble.
Thanks Huber.
Hey Huber. We missed you and TR. Wish y'all could have made it down here.
I was there with the NC Freepers...Booo Friggin Hooo Moonbats
Would have loved to have been able to get there. Did y'all start a new thread for this year? Would love to see some pix!
We have a live thread started by cf_river_rat while we were there. He had a laptop with a Verizon Aircard. It was slow, but it worked. He infiltrated the other side and got some good pictures.
I was worn out when I got home last night. After I finish unloading the truck, I'll start posting some pictures.
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