Posted on 10/27/2007 8:16:19 PM PDT by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO -- On cue from a bullhorn's blast, thousands of protesters fell to the pavement on Market Street today in a symbolic "die-in" as part of a protest staged in cities across the country against the war in Iraq.
For about three minutes the demonstrators lay on the pavement, representing what organizers said were more than 1 million Iraqis killed since the war began in 2003. The protesters then resumed their march from San Francisco's Civic Center to Dolores Park.
March organizers put their number at 30,000 - old, young, workers, students, religious leaders. Police declined to give a formal estimate, but onlookers said the demonstrators definitely numbered more than 10,000. They filled up Market Street for several blocks, shouting that U.S. troops should be brought home and carrying banners decrying the war.
At the head of the marchers was a band of Native American drummers who pounded a steady beat as protesters chanted, "No more war!"
Before the march began, demonstrators gathered in front of City Hall to hear speakers berate the Bush administration and call on Americans to stand up against the war. Organizers said part of the reason for staging this protest was to mark that it is now five years since Congress voted to authorize the use of U.S. force in Iraq.
"Silence shows compliance," Nicole Davis, a leader of the Campus Anti-War Network group, told the crowd at the San Francisco event, which was organized by the Oct. 27th Coalition of several groups, including ANSWER - Act Now To Stop War and End Racism. "If you disagree with this war," she added, "it is your duty to stand up and let the world know."
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“Don’t worry, they all got up again.”
Actually I wish they had not.
Next year they are going to give everybody in the group stilts to march around town as a symbolic gesture of taking the moral high ground above Bush. 10,000 people on stilts... you gotta see it.
They should been sprayed with that sticky foam. That would have been great to see on You Tube.
I actually attended a die in in Cincinnati.
While they were laying there dead I gave them a big lecture about Saddam’s killings that you note. I pointed out that none of those people were going to be getting up after being gassed by Saddam.
The protestors became so angry about my lecture that the leader of the group yelled “We don’t have to take this— let’s move somewhere else”
So they started getting up. I yelled, “no your dead— just like the Kurds— don’t get up and move— youre dead”
They stopped being silent after that.
12.6 earthquake———hey, it could happen!
Thank you for confronting those people. They are as aware of life and death as cartoon characters.
War is the defender’s reply to the aggressor’s question.
Surrender is the serf’s reply.
Aggression is continual. Defense against the aggressors is optional — at least in the minds of Liberals and Moonbats.
“Give therapeutic violence a chance!” — Rummyfan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1889224/posts?page=39#39
Those anti-war protests and die-ins are so 60’s San Francisco...the difference is the Viet Cong was not out to kill us.
I accidentally stumbled into it when I got off the freeway today to go to an old favorite sandwich shop, , traffic was all backed up,(strange for a saturday), turns out it was an anti-war/(anti bush) protest.
A mob of the goofy looking hippies were crossing the street in front of me at the light with their ant-bush signs and I honked,
the whole crowd looked over and gave the peace sign as if I was honking in solidarity.......I stuck my head out the window and yelled in a booming voice " where were you when Clinton was bombing Sarajevo ?....idiots !,....go home ! the Iraq war is over anyway ! we won....!( my throat still hurts)
you should have seen them turn all white and confused looking !
some cops standing there started busting up laughing
I guess you had to be there, it sounds pretty stupid now, but I couldnt just sit silent while we have troops over there
...like the trained sheep that they are.
Just......damn.
sinister piffle
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
reliving our hippie generation.
“Don’t worry, they all got up again.”
Don’t worry? I was only worried that they would get up again. Dang.
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