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Category: Protests/Rallies

  • Pallywood comes to DC [Jonn]

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    The anti-Hamas battle came to DC today. In front of the US State Department to be exact. On an email tip from William Teach at Pirate’s Cove and Right Wing News, Uncle Jimbo, TSO and I were there to bring it to you with all of it’s repetitious chanting blather.

    Today’s rally was organized by ANSWER’s National Coordinator guy Brian Becker;
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    If Becker was in on it, it was the biggest thing going on in the country hippie-wise. If you click on the link you can read what I wrote about him back in January after another anti-Israel protest at the Israeli Embassy. But, their budget must be dwindling because I saw him interviewing himself afterwards – he was the interviewer, interviewee and cameraman.
    This was his sidekick;
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    I know who she is, but I can’t remember her name now. (Editor’s Note: Raoul reminded me that she’s Mara Verheyden-Hilliard from the National Lawyers’ Guild – she’s got a page on Discover the Network) She was working the crowd up into a frenzy of paranoia about how we were ringed by police and people in the State Department were watching us with binoculars. She left out the tiny remote controlled mosquito things flying around the group.
    Here’s the video of her paranoid rantings;We were ringed by police, but we were on State Department property in downtown DC, not everyone there was protesting. I saw at least one panhandler fleecing the crowd.
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    And it was several hundred people;
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    At five o’clock some of them prayed, but certainly a small portion of them. I guess that’s as deep as most of them took those shouts of “God is great” I heard.
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    The most important thing is to listen to the rhetoric and lies in the videos. Notice there are very few Palestinians, very few Arabs speaking. The Arab Community, like IVAW, like every other group of “victims” are being used by the anti-war community to work us all up into a lather. But you can see that for yourself.

    If you look closely, you can see Uncle Jimbo trying to blend in with his “Don’t be a Dou-Che” T-shirt;
    And finally, while I was losing the light, they marched off some-damn-where with their mindless chants;

    If anyone in the DC area wants to counter-protest, they’ll be at the Israeli Embassy at 4PM Friday and then they claim they’re marching to the Egyptian Embassy – it’s about 1/3 of a mile. I’ll probably be there, too.
    Jimbo’s excellent camera work is here.

  • The shoe toss saga continues (Updated w/videos)

    Videos below the fold

    Today Code Pink took their shoe-toss road show to the Iraqi Consulate on P Street, in Washington DC to “demand” the release of Muntadhar Al-Zeidi, the journalist who threw his shoe at George Bush a few weeks ago. Code Pink has grasped this thing around the throat like grim death and refuses to let it go. The clowns were demanding that Muntadhar Al-Zeidi be compensated. I guess we should buy him some better shoes and pay for lessons so he won’t throw little a little girl any more.

    Needless to say, just like the protest TSO covered the other week, attendance was poor, even by the media;
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  • Medea, Millard and Uranus [by TSO]

    On 13 March 1781, Sir William Herschel announced to the world that he had discovered the heretofore unknown seventh planet in our Solar System.  Now, all of the planets up to this point were named after Roman deities.  This was not an idea which much appealed to Mr. Herschel who believed that such a discovery should be tied with the current King of England.  Thus, he decreed, the plant should be named “George.”

    Now, this would have ruined school children everywhere who would have been required in their yut to memorize the sentence “My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Geraldo Seven Pizzas” which doesn’t quite role off the tongue.  Luckily for 3rd graders and bloggers with a sophomoric sense of humor everywhere, the planet was instead named “Uranus” which my science has proven produces snickers like no other planet name EVER.  Unless planet X should be named “Booger.”

    Nonetheless, I tell this story because it segues nicely with the Jovian sized asshattery I just witnessed down at the White House.  Deciding to scrap a bad idea (George) with a potentially even stupider one (Uranus) always makes me melancholy about Code Pink.  But fear not, intrepid astronomer, because Code Pink has come through again.

    Here’s the short story:

    Peace Activists Take Shoes to White House in Solidarity with Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journalist
    Call for his release and tribute to Iraqis who have suffered under US occupation

    WHAT: Peace activists to gather with shoes in solidarity to Iraqi journalist
    WHEN: 11 a.m., Weds. Dec. 17
    WHERE:  In front of White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

    And what release would be complete without a quote from a phony CIB wearing PowerPoint Slide Clicker:

    “Having one shoe thrown at George Bush pales in comparison to the suffering that veterans and Iraqis go through everyday,” says Geoffrey Milliard of Iraq Veterans Against the War. “Perhaps if Bush can see some more of these shoes before he leaves office, he will feel some of our pain.”

    So, I braved the elements with my intrepid photographer, and down Ye Olde Whyte House.  Here are some pics, and here you are kids.

    You remember Geoff Millard from Jonn’s post the other day;

    A giant Bush decapitated head – BDS reigns supreme;

    And this guy was in another of Jonn’s posts last month; Jim Goodnow who defended the Impeachment Bus from a gang of wingnut facists (in his dreams);

    The press out numbered the protesters by about 3:1.

    I spoke with this young lady briefly.  She is from a Russian news station, and she is in quite a quandary.  She wants to come to the inauguration, but she has been unable to secure a place to stay.  I don’t want to give out her name, but if you know of anywhere, just email her at youmustbekiddingme@hotchicks.com

    She likes conservative men, bubble baths, frolicking naked, and drinking profligate amounts of alcohol.  Sometimes when she gets really drunk she likes to give massages, make out with other girls, and make samwiches.  If you can find it in your heart to help her out, won’t you please email now?  Because if not you, then who?  If not now, then when?

  • Today’s Profligate Hysteria of the Day award goes to:

    Douglas Carpenter of Democratic Underground, COME ON DOWN! You are the inaugural recipient of my semi-often Profligate Hysteria of the Day award! Your award winning post brings credit on you, Democratic Underground, and the United Peoples of Moonbatistan!

    Whatever the result of the November election, Sarah Palin is the scariest politician to appear on the national scene in a generation…

    Like many demagogues she has demonstrated an ability to wrap a right-wing extremist message in the language and imagery of working class populism to Orwellian levels – and she and her handlers are very, very good at it – so far, anyway.

    MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT!! This is a VERY dangerous development, whatever the result of the November election!!

    She can also make some killer flap jacks!! (note the use of 2 exclamation marks, which denotes actual fear, excitement or psychosis not properly signified by the use of only 1)

    Again it is entirely possible that the whole thing could fizzle or implode. For the sake of the country and the world and the future of humanity, I certainly hope so.

    For the sake of the country, the world and the future of humanity? What about animals, Gaia, the Romulan Empire and Charlie the Unicorn? Would they not also be threatened by a VP Palin?

    And seriously, are you telling me that Palin strikes more fear in your heart that Cheney? Thank you Douglas Carpenter, now go do that voodoo, that you do so well!!! (Three exclamations this time as I am up in cheering in my office, tears unashamedly streaming down my face at the patriotic dissent of this valiant man.)

  • Friday night drunkblogging Silver Spring

    Late yesterday afternoon I got an email from Blackfive‘s Uncle Jimbo inviting me to Walter Reed for the weekly Friday night FReep and, of course, I accepted. As soon as I got there, Jimbo started getting mischievous and went down to the Code Pink/union thug area and tried to join them with the above pictured sign, explaining that he only wants peace…just like them. But Bruce Wolfe, the union thug who has responsibility for manning the space (since it’s hardly on Code Pink’s radar these days) was having none of it.

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  • It’s Obama’s fault

    As I’ve said a few times, this year just isn’t a good year for protests. It’s difficult for me get decent pictures anymore of Code Pink trolls on rolling beds or flocks of SEIU purple-clad socialists being herded by their handlers on the subway.

    All this time I thought the anti-war peace movement was petering out because of their intellectually invalid message. But from Don Surber, I learn that Tom Hayden is blaming Obama in The Nation.

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  • It’s come to this (Updated)

    Last April 15th, at the first Ron Paul rally, Hooper (from Age of Hooper(The)) and I comisserated about how lame protests have become this year and how terrible it has been for guys like us who depend on protests. Little did we know it was about to get worse.

    I came across this protest for Food Not Bombs back in May which was scheduled for June 28th. When I went, they weren’t there, but luckily, the protest against Guantanamo was going on instead so I cut my loses and it turned out pretty good, blogwise, not protest-wise. So I got back home and checked the website again – they’d changed the date.

    We are very sorry about the change in date. Problems with the food and logistics. If Bush starts bombing Iran before August 6th we plan to start the Tent City two days later.

    So, I patiently waited until today. Since TSO works near Lafayette Park, he graciously agreed to do a good infantry recon before I committed logistics and communications to the mission at hand. Well, he called me several minutes ago and reported no hippiesque activity not discernable from normal tourist operations. I called the phone number on the website and the mailbox is full.

    So the only picture I have of this protest is this one;

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    Well, no one ever said hippies were dependable, did they? But, it’s like TSO said when he called; it’s getting so you can’t believe anything you read on the internet anymore.

    TSO sends this picture of himself looking for the hippies in Lafayette Park;

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  • MoveOn Won’t Part III

    There was more coverage of the Move On protest yesterday from Politico;

    Thomas Cannady, 53, a graduate student who lives in Hyattsville, Md., said he was on a MoveOn training call at around noon when someone broke in to say that the trainees were, to borrow a phrase from Bill O’Reilly, going to do it live. He spent the next few hours calling about 50 other MoveOn activists and then made his way to the Capitol.

    He said that the European tourists, here enjoying the cheap dollar, were especially receptive to his call. “A lot of the Europeans are very much for it. ‘You should see how expensive it is in our country,’” he said they told him. The Old Worlders, he said, insisted that drilling alone was no solution to the high prices and that conservation and renewable energy investments were crucial.

    Yuh, if a couple of European tourists say we shouldn’t drill, that’s who we need to listen to instead of policy makers and economists. Jeez, a 53 year-old grad student, for pete’s sake.

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