Posted on 10/01/2001 12:44:49 PM PDT by rabidralph
“I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
[Thomas Jefferson, letter to Benjamin Rush, 1800.]
Anybody notice the unkept appearance of these maggots? The pictures do not do them justice. Truly the great unwashed, unkept, long-haired, dope-smoking, etc., etc. useful idiots. Most of them were a waste of skin, IMHO.
“I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
[Thomas Jefferson, letter to Benjamin Rush, 1800.]
“I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
[Thomas Jefferson, letter to Benjamin Rush, 1800.]
her sis in Va. Beach says her pic showed up in the Pilot,
and her dad called to say it's in the Hagerstown paper too.
~(:-]_s
"Pro-Terrorist ersatz Pacifist Krypto-Nazi Camel Butt Traitors Demand America Surrender to Terrorists."
Thanks for posting them for us all.
I'm glad that you made it to the FReep Saturday, and I hope we get the chance to stand guard again some day.
count on it!
It's about some of our signs being dumped in the trash...
However, (and I don't want to throw cold water but we have to fix this) as we were going down the escalator to the Navy Memorial Metro I saw several FR protest signs that had simply been dumped on the side of the escalator passage. I an a fellow counter protestor (a flag-carrying marine whos name I don't know) policed up the signs and put them in a can at the bottom of the escalator.
I don't know who put them there but even the smallest infraction or disrespect on our side will be used by the media to balance the outrageous behavior of the protesters. We need to keep our skirts perfectly clean, or our message will be lost in the 'moral equivalence' noise.
Well, that explains what happened to some of the signs I made. :-( I tried to tell everyone who took one of my signs to return them to me when they were leaving. I "lost" 8 signs with sticks attached. It's not a big deal, but I try to save money (and trees) by recycling supplies. I guess we were so busy, and folks were coming and going, and sharing signs that the message didn't pass along with the signs. Oh well. I'll try to be more attentive next time.
Thanks for letting me know what happened to the signs. I had thought that people took them home. I wish I had seen them by the trash... I would have rescued them. Some FReepers never throw anything out. :-)
I have about 150 pics, so I'll just provide the link to where they are later tonight.
The Protests of Disgust House Editorial
They had to come, the anti-International Monetary Fund/World Bank protesters who gathered in Washington over the weekend. A little thing like 6,000-plus dead Americans wasn't about to change their minds—besides, it had taken them minutes and minutes to redo their cardboard placards to announce that violence isn't the answer and that America is the problem.
Perhaps those sentiments, more than any other, explain why they gathered on Saturday at Freedom Plaza. One protester wore a t-shirt that read, "I'm afraid of Americans." Another shirt proclaimed, "Columbus was the original terrorist." Others denounced "America's racist war" and "American imperialism." A few speakers actually expressed regret for the terrorist attack, but most seemed to think that the United States had it coming. They were denouncing America at such an aggrieved pitch that all dogs within earshot were barking and small furry rodents were scurrying away at top speed.
Perhaps the critters couldn't bear the sight of the crowd, where dirty yellow signs screamed that revenge is bad, youths in burnt umber costumes decried the famine in Afghanistan, and anarchists in black sweatsuits suspiciously lingered in the background.
There was also a heavy pink patina: Passing out pamphlets were what seemed to be every communist not tenured at Berkeley, attired in suits whose manufacture (and last laundering) probably occurred during the October Revolution. Not that anyone was reading the pamphlets. Perhaps they simply couldn't.
The organizers of the protest certainly couldn't count, which, coupled with their probable room temperature IQs, might help explain why they estimated the crowd at 25,000. After all, a sixth-grade level of math does little good when you run out of fingers and toes and body piercings ("Seventeen, eighteen . . . 25,000"). Arresting the lot of them would have rocketed up the test scores at campuses around the country. Police estimated the crown marching up Pennsylvania at 4,500, far fewer than were brutally murdered during the Sept 11 terrorist attacks.
There were no commemorations for the people who perished at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon or the crash in Pennsylvania. No one seemed to care about the widows and the orphans. The large-denomination donations requested were not even set aside for disaster relief. In fact, aside from journalists and a few courageous and patriotic counter-protesters, not a single person seemed to be thankful for their hard-won freedom, that which enables protesters to spit in Uncle Sam's face. Nor did it seem to matter that such behavior would have gotten them bloodied in Beijing and killed in Kabul.
America is too good for these people — the major-league practitioners of the protests of disgust.
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