*Who* Hates Our Freedoms?
Dan Clore
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo
[Note that these incidents occurred despite the police attempting to
keep protestors and counter-protestors separate. One might also note
that the counter-protestors, largely Vietnam Veterans, were motivated by
utterly baseless claims of possible plans to vandalize the Vietnam
Memorial. No visible counter-demonstrators have appeared at most other
peace protests, including Sunday's demonstration in New York City. The
article from _Human Events_, by a prominent conservative (an editor for
Regnery Books), must be read in full to be believed, with its outright
gloating at repression by counter-protestors and police.--DC]
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http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070318-085732-8776r
Some war supporters confronted the peace activists, tearing up and
spitting on anti-war signs while chanting: "USA! USA!"
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http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/story/7329235p-7224022c.html
Some demonstrators supporting the war effort engaged in good-natured
banter with antiwar protesters. But others blocked paths and prevented
marchers from getting near the wall, particularly anyone carrying a
sign. Washington D.C. resident Eric Anderson, 47, had his sign ripped
from his hands and thrown in the mud.
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http://www.news1130.com/news/international/article.jsp?content=w031759A
Police on horseback and foot separated the two groups of demonstrators,
who shouted at each other from opposite sides of Constitution Avenue in
view of the Lincoln Memorial before the anti-war group marched. Barriers
also kept them apart.
But war protester Susanne Shine of Boone, N.C., found herself in a crowd
of counter demonstrators, and came out in tears, with her sign in
shreds. "They ripped up my peace sign," she said, after police escorted
her, her husband and two adult daughters from the group. "It was really
pretty scary for me."
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http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/03192007/nhnews-ph-p-protest0319.html
Although there were dozens of police officers on hand, a few small
altercations did break out. Hedrick said a large man from the counter
protest pushed her and made threatening gestures to her husband.
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http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=19862
I fell in with the anarchists, since that's where the action usually is.
There were around 100 of them, although the number of face piercings
exceeded that by a factor of 10, even with most of their nose rings and
tongue rings hidden by masks and bandanas. Their banners proclaimed
slogans like "Destroy all government" and "No war but class war." The
vets yelled out to them "Come over here!" and "Show your faces!"
Declining either invitation, the anarchists responded by chanting "Whose
streets? Our streets!"
But the chant lacked conviction, seeing as the only thing protecting the
anarchists from a smackdown by the vets was the line of police officers
separating the two sides. I spotted a group of four anarchists carrying
an upside down American flag and wondered how far they'd get with it. It
turned out to be about 50 yards. Then, a vet managed to infiltrate the
parade and snatched the flag from them, causing all four members of the
revolutionary vanguard to run scurrying away.
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Dan Clore
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-- Clark Ashton Smith, "Epigrams and Apothegms"
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"Dan Clore" <cl...@columbia-center.org> wrote in message
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One more reason for concealed carry.
Don Stockbauer
"They hate our inverted nipples."
"They hate our burst condoms."
"They hate our plunge to extinction though excessive consumerism."
"They hate our Texas ranchers."
"They hate our hatred."
They hate our insipid poltical speeches."
"They hate our Nutty Buddy Conical Ice Cream Cones."
"They hate our IQ = 34 elected political "leaders"."
"They hate our.....they hate our......they hate our tendency to start
wars from which there is no redemption."
By golly - maybe "they're" right!
"We have met the enemy, and it is us."
- Walt Kelley
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"Don Stockbauer" <donsto...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Well, now that you put it like THAT......