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An unidentified member of a counter protest, center, yells at anti-war demonstrators as they march down Pennsylvania Ave., towards the U.S. Capitol grounds, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007, in Washington. At least 150 protesters were arrested Saturday as thousands of demonstrators marched to the Capitol demanding an end to the Iraq war. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
I just found out from someone at the CPD that there were about 200 arrests, he had the not such a nice job of searching and transporting some of them. Good thing they give the officers rubber gloves.
Sure, there are also a cabal of 20 somethings who only enlisted for college money and then got bent because they actually got deployed to a combat zone.
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark takes part in antiwar demonstrators calling for an end to the war in Iraq in Washington September 15, 2007. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (UNITED STATES)
Justin Cliburn
College Republicans from George Washington University show their support for the war in Iraq, as protesters march calling for an end to the war, in Washington, September 15, 2007. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (UNITED STATES)
I was stationed in Quantico, VA at the time of the May Day riots. I happened to be on the rifle range for requalification. We had to wait a long time for a cattle car to take us back at the end of the day because all the available transportation was up at DC.
This little skirmish doesn’t hold a candle to that one.
I’m with Buzz!
Demonstrators supporting troops in Iraq confront protesters opposing the war in Iraq Saturday Sept. 15, 2007, in Washington. Thousands of demonstrators marched to Capital Hill chanting against the war. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Army National Guard Spc. Justin Cliburn. September 10, 2007
"No, I am not going back to participate in that war."
"Over the course of our many bullshit sessions at drill, the topic of Iraq inevitably came up. We exchanged stories and shared laughs as the new guys who didn't deploy looked on with wonder. Stories about clandestine drunken nights, the anger that comes with being kicked out of the chow hall for being sweaty, and getting to the point where you ignore gunfire took up most of the time, but not all of the stories were so innocent. The same set of soldiers that in 2005 said they couldn't wait to kill "ragheads" were now bragging about times they scared Iraqis, bent the rules of engagement, and generally enjoyed playing bully for a year. I like these guys a lot, but I don't know why I was surprised. I had thought that maybe being there for a year would eventually change them and open their eyes to how their actions were inhumane, but I was wrong."
"What are you going to do . . . become a conscientious objector?" one soldier and friend said with a smirk and a chuckle.
"In fact, I just may do that. That's what I am, essentially, isn't it?"
I then spent about twenty minutes explaining why I had a moral objection to scaring Iraqis for the fun of it, occupying a country that didn't attack us, risking my life and the lives of my comrades for a war that does nothing but make the world more dangerous and less stable, and giving complicit approval to policy that has failed on every front.
"it takes balls not to go when you don't agree. The courage to resist is oftentimes more honorable than the courage to enter a foxhole."
"I am done with the military. I don't know how exactly I will leave the service just yet, but I know that I will. I entered the army in an honorable fashion and I will leave it that way, but leave it I will."
I leave Friday for Washington DC to take part in the September 15th protests in DC with tens of thousands of other concerned Americans, including representatives of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Gold Star Families, and the ANSWER Coalition. I am taking more and more responsibility within IVAW to end this war, take care of our veterans, and provide reparations for the Iraqi people and it feels right.
Spc. Justin Cliburn (right) helps lead march at VFP convention in St. Louis 8/19/2007
Sandals & a uniform?!
Deja vu all over again...
Who says communism is dead.
“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.”
P.J.O’Rourke
Iraq War resisters Camilo Mejia, Agustin Aguayo, Stephen Funk, Eugene Cherry, and Suzanne Swift.
IVAW formally voted this weekend to launch a campaign this Fall in support of the GI resistance, in effect, encouraging troops to refuse to fight. To underscore the point, IVAW elected Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia chair of its board of directors. In the winter of 2003, Camilo was the first soldier to refuse to return to fight in Iraq after an initial tour in the war zone. "There's a sort of revolution taking place in the streets. It's not being reported by the mainstream media, but we in the antiwar movement know what's going on. There is a rebellion going on in the ranks of the military that is not being reported," Camilo noted to reporter Aaron Glantz.
The Washington Post says, “A law enforcement official, who declined to be identified because authorities no longer provide crowd counts, estimated the gathering at closer to 10,000; the march permit obtained in advance by ANSWER had projected that number.”
10,000 of them, 1,000 of us, and you guys took away their spotlight. I wish I could have come, but I had to take care of a bad leg. I prayed for our guys though.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2007/09/live_from_the_mall_why_huge_cr.html?hpid=topnews
the Partnership for Civil Justice, a civil rights litigation firm, filed a Freedom of Information Act request on behalf of the ANSWER Coalition and the National Lawyers Guild. The request demands information maintained by the Pentagon on anti-war protests and political activists and leaders.
ANSWER Coalition national coordinator Brian Becker agrees: “The Pentagon and other government agencies are routinely violating the First Amendment rights of people in the United States who are coming together to demand an end to the criminal war and occupation in Iraq. No amount of government intimidation can stop the anti-war movement, now that opposition to the war has become a majority sentiment.”
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark (center), Brian Becker (left), Chairman of the U.S. Get Out Of Korea Committee, and Rev. Jong Gi Ryol (right)
"We should raise international public opinion to put pressure to make the U.S. withdraw from Korea. That is why we wage a campaign to accuse the U.S. of its war crimes and to tell the truth about its wartime massacres of civilians to the world."
It does appear as though Mrs. Cliburn’s little Justin is wanting to get his “15 minutes” the easy way. He looks like a punk to me also.
There's plenty of young hippies from the 2000s. Drugs, free sex, and perpetual studenthood is still a powerful lure for the weak minded.