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DC museum closed after protest; pepper spray used (Obama, Pelosi and Reid support the Communists)
boston globe ^ | 10/9/2011 | Jessica Gresko

Posted on 10/9/2011, 3:23:11 PM by tobyhill

The National Air and Space Museum in Washington was closed Saturday after anti-war demonstrators swarmed the building to protest a drone exhibit and security guards used pepper spray to repel them, sickening a number of protesters.

Smithsonian spokesman John Gibbons said a large group of demonstrators, estimated at 100 to 200 people, arrived at about 3 p.m. and tried to enter the National Mall museum. When a security guard stopped group members from entering, saying they could not bring in signs, he was apparently held by demonstrators, Gibbons said. A second guard who arrived used pepper spray on at least one person and the crowd dispersed, he added.

A number of groups have been demonstrating in the city in the past week. The group that arrived at the museum Saturday included individuals taking part in the October 2011 Stop the Machine demonstration in the city's Freedom Plaza, which has an anti-war and anti-corporate greed message. The group also included protesters affiliated with Occupy D.C., a group modeled on the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City. Occupy D.C. has been holding marches and meetings in Washington's McPherson Square.

David Swanson, 41, of Charlottesville, Va., said he was among dozens of people sickened by the pepper spray. He said he got sick even though he was outside the building when the spraying began.

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1 posted on 10/9/2011, 3:23:16 PM by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill
...the October 2011 Stop the Machine demonstration in the city's Freedom Plaza, which has an anti-war and anti-corporate greed message.

Sounds like they are finally tightening up their message. Good job, stoners! Last week, my local protest depicted a couple of college scuzzbags who were too stoned to even hold up their signs and they couldn't even tell the reporter why they were there. But I have no doubt that their ex-hippie Vietnam-protest-era parents are totally proud of them.

2 posted on 10/9/2011, 3:29:38 PM by ponygirl (People are calling our President the Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers; that's not allowed is it?)
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To: tobyhill

“When a security guard stopped group members from entering, saying they could not bring in signs, he was apparently held by demonstrators,”

So what really happened was that the crowd overpowered and imprisoned the security guard.


3 posted on 10/9/2011, 3:35:17 PM by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: tobyhill

Hey, if those loopers are Vegans they can stop by the White Hut - where they're having Gunga-Lagunga Saladin for dinner every night...

"Oh, uh, there won't be any money,

but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness."

...so at least they still got that going for them - which is nice.  [CarlSpacklerVoice -OFF]

 

TOSS THE Czar/Tsar/Caesar SALADin in 2012


4 posted on 10/9/2011, 3:35:38 PM by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: LomanBill
If Re Elect Obama was playing Texas " EM.

These protests are is his bet.

He is all in.

5 posted on 10/9/2011, 3:39:19 PM by scooby321
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To: treetopsandroofs

It is comical in a way...the protesters would only be in DC...for the anti-Wall Street rally, and for some reason, got all peppered up and confused, then parted off from the anti-Wall Street folks. At some point in their interviews with the MSM...they wanted to refer to drones as “weapons of mass destruction”....which didn’t really go over too well.


6 posted on 10/9/2011, 3:39:43 PM by pepsionice
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To: tobyhill

I often wonder if this country will wake up before we end up in another World War. As long as we allow communism to exist in our midst, we will have these problems. Especially since it continues to grow. People use the idea of Freedom of Speech to justify other peoples views on communism. The problem with this is that they have to take responsibility for their speech. When it gets to the point that the average American no longer wants that speech, they will flush our system of communism. Communism does not fit in our society and its only purpose is the destruction of the United States. Communism has never worked in any other country and destroys everything it touches. Will our people ever wake up to this fact? Yes, we need changes in our country but communism is not the change we want.


7 posted on 10/9/2011, 3:46:45 PM by RC2
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To: tobyhill
I'm still looking for those "No American Blood For Libyan Oil" signs. Just don't see them yet. Oh, I forgot... they are the ones that took off their "bedroom slippers".

When things get bad, I wonder if Obama can get those bedroom slippers back on as easily as he got them off.

8 posted on 10/9/2011, 3:47:46 PM by tsowellfan
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To: pepsionice
I never realized that there were so many stupid people in this country. These demonstrations show how bad the school systems in our country are, or don't they teach Americanism any more. Another answer would be to reinstate the draft.
9 posted on 10/9/2011, 3:47:59 PM by ANGGAPO (Layte Gulf Beach Club)
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To: treetopsandroofs
When do they break out there, in DC, and up in NYC, into rousing choruses of THIS.

10 posted on 10/9/2011, 3:48:16 PM by AmericanInTokyo (To all good FRiends who supported Gov. Palin. I never badmouthed her. Please now join us w/ MR. CAIN)
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To: tobyhill
The anti-war crowd always used the collateral damage argument as the reason we shouldn't bomb the bad guys. Drones are providing the nearly perfect method for killing the terrorist and sparing his grandkids. You would think the peaceniks would support this.

And besides...The Air and Space Museum? What next? the enviro-nazis storm the Botanical Gardens to free the shrubs?

11 posted on 10/9/2011, 4:08:23 PM by Tex-Con-Man
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To: tobyhill

David Swanson is a professional Left wing agitator. He was one of those clowns who interrupted President Bush speaking at a naturalization ceremony at Monicello back in 2008.


12 posted on 10/9/2011, 4:13:00 PM by stratman1969 (Run, Sarah, Run - 2012!)
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To: ANGGAPO

The schools are Marxist indoctrination centers and the Media is their reinforcement. These mobs are products of books that deconstruct everything good about America and teach them that lies are “truth”: heather has two mommies;homosexual acts are “good”; capitalism is “evil”; feel good, do it; the idea of God is stupid and irrational; Che is a hero; all white men are rapists and oppressors; “colored” people are saints and good.

After years of lies, they can’t think. The ex-KGB in the 70’s said that they have inserted “cognitive dissonance” into the textbooks and after years of listening to the nonsense, it is virtually impossible for them to reason and use logic. That is why Michael Savage has said that leftists are mentally ill....he is right—these people are ignorant and have no foundation of logic and truth—they are irrational. Not only that, their immaturity level is that of a 5 year old.

They have been plied with “self esteem” and overprotectiveness for decades and removed from reality, and, therefore, made into useless crybabies. The men are de-masculinated and the women are taught to hate men and their own nature, bodies and children—so they can kill them. Lenin devised this plan for “useful idiots” and to destroy the natural family. He put in “daycares” and destroyed marriage contracts so the kids would be his alone.....just like mothers now have been conditioned to give up their children for indoctrination centers—forced into “work” that never includes raising and nurturing their own offspring who become easily emotionally manipulated and controlled and led into Marxist ideology. The US adopted Marxist-Leninism in the 50’s. Even established Stalin’s ‘Separation of Church and State’ then.

Mother and Fathers transmit knowledge and morality—and if they are not around 24/7 the institutions do it. They do not even raise their “children” anymore—they have allow the state to do it.

John Stuart Mill stated well over a hundred years ago....if you allow government schools to educate your children....it will make slaves of them. They have no care except for power.

We need government OUT of education and to burn all textbooks...otherwise, we will get more stupid fools like those on wall street and at this museum.


13 posted on 10/9/2011, 4:26:31 PM by savagesusie
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To: tobyhill

‘...security guards used pepper spray to repel them, sickening a number of protesters.’

Only fair. Those long haired, dope smoking, maggot infested, Ron Paul types have been sickening hard working Americans for decades.


14 posted on 10/9/2011, 5:46:09 PM by edge10 (Obama lied, babies died!)
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To: savagesusie

“The schools are Marxist indoctrination centers and the Media is their reinforcement”

Had the local station on during luch and they had on High IQ(high school team quiz show). Neither team could answer how many are on the Supreme Court. Sad


15 posted on 10/9/2011, 6:10:41 PM by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: freeangel

Good grief....they probably didn’t even know there are three branches of government. We really do have to get back to local schools....create our own textbooks...kick out government school board members—parents from local schools are the ones to sit on boards and to decide everything. Get back to explicit phonics, logic, mathematics and rhetoric.

The homeschooling networks have some excellent textbooks on every subject.


17 posted on 10/9/2011, 11:05:35 PM by savagesusie
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