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Category: Protests/Rallies

  • One Nation fizzle

    So the reportage for the One Nation rally lasted less than a whole day. By the end of Sunday, there was nothing. So in the cost analysis was it worth busing in union members, socialists, communists to wave whatever vile banner they chose to wave?

    El Marco captured the excitement (this looks like the front row of the event at the Lincoln Memorial) with this one photo;

    Blackfive put up a video of the immediate aftermath at the World War II Memorial;

    So what just happened? Fiery speeches that no one heard, a trail of garbage left behind for the taxpayers to clean up. Why did they even bother?

  • That “One Nation” rally

    I was debating with myself last night whether I wanted to go to the rally in Washington today or not. Instead I spent the day at the range blasting little paper targets with my three new pistols. Sorry, I know I’ve let you down. But here’s a video of somone who announced to the crowd that their numbers exceeded those of the Glen Beck event last month;

    Yeah, I really don’t think so. This is from CBS;

    There are a lot of people, but it’s not as dense as the videos I’ve seen from the Beck thing. You’ll notice that every single news report begins with “hundreds of groups” – because you know, groups is more important than actual bodies. Like I’ve said, we seen rallies, like the protest against the Army Experience Center in Philadelphia, that boasted 30 or 40 groups and like 25 people showed up. So that must be their new strategy – if they can’t force enough union members to show up, if free bus rides to DC don’t bring in the numbers, if a town full of college students are so lazy they won’t even walk across the street to get to the rally, they can boast about the number of two-member groups who announce their support.

    I watched some CNN interviews today (I know, me watching CNN, right?) and the people who were interviewed were very careful to explain that they were rallying against Congress…NOT the president. Every single interviewee…like it’s been rehearsed or something. I wonder what that’s about.

    Anyway, Donald Douglas, at American Power has aggregated some of the news and blogs that are covering it.

    I’m glad I didn’t waste my time and blasted paper targets in Blue-assed Maryland instead.

    ADDED: More photos at Marooned in Marin, Pirates’ Cove and at El Marco‘s joint.

  • The “Ground Zero Mosque” protest

    Our buddy, DanNy at Gathering of Eagles NY has some pictures and videos of the protest at the so-called Ground Zero Mosque that you need to see. Not the least of which is this union carpenter whose sign reads “As an out of work Union Carpenter, I’d rather starve than earn a bloody check from this job”

  • Religion of Peace

    I just came across this little gem in the Daily Mail via Drudge. Seems that the 1st Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment came home from a tour in Afghanistan and the home town had a welcome home parade for them…pretty standard stuff until protestors from MAC (Muslims Against the Crusaders) showed up.

    Around 40 members of a group called Muslims Against the Crusades (MAC) arrived with inflammatory banners featuring slogans such as ‘Butchers return’ and ‘What are you dying for? £18k’.

    As you can imagine, this went over like a fart in church.

    They were soon confronted by 100 people, some wearing English Defence League T-shirts, who shouted ‘scum’ and ‘Muslim bombers off our streets’.

    …like a REALLY rancid, foul, lingering fart in church…

    But violence flared after 200 soldiers from 1st Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment – who lost five men in a recent tour of Afghanistan and had been granted freedom of the borough – marched past thousands of well-wishers.
    MAC supporters shouted slogans such as ‘murderers, murderers’ and ‘British troops go to hell’, while the mainly white crowd opposite, some of whom are believed to have been BNP supporters, threw frozen pork sausages and chanted ‘scum’ and ‘Allah, Allah, who the f*** is Allah?’

    Maybe if we just tried to understand….
    RoP

  • Stop the Mosque protest at Ground Zero

    Stop the Mosque

    Our buddy, El Marco has a post up with the pictures, videos and a report from Ground Zero of the protest there on June 6th at Looking at the Left.

  • Shaky cameras mischaracterize protesters

    I knew Fox would turn out a side-by-side comparison of the Tea Party activists and the riots in Arizona last weekend – they were hinting all morning that it was coming. So here it is from Hot Air, by way of Ace of Spades (bonus Megyn Kelly appearance);

    The “n” word hurling and spitting has become a foregone conclusion with no evidence, the media has been able to attach the myth to the Tea Party activists. Now they’re doing their best to attach the “mostly peaceful” lie to rock and bottle hurling crowds in Arizona.

    I’ve noticed that, for some reason, the folks who aren’t from the US behave the worst of all groups at these protests. I’ve seen Palestinians tackle counter protesters at the Israeli Embassy, I’ve seen Arabs assault counter protesters in front of the White House, and now this. I guess they’re bringing their third world incivility to the US. Good thing for them our police are civilized, too.

    The problem is that Mexican police let their criminals get away with shit for a long, too. Now look at the problems they’ve got down there. And they have the gall to warn their citizens about travel in Arizona.

  • WH closes Lafayette Park during DADT Protest

    The most transparent administration ever, apparently didn’t like the press showing gay military activists protesting the White House’s inability to end the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy.

    More at Politico.

    I can’t help but wonder what the left would have done if the Bush Administration had done this during one of the countless protests against his administration. Oh, sorry, was that a racist question?

  • Tea Party links

    Our friends across the country have been sending me links to their Tea Party photo essays so here they are;

    Our buddy Zombie sent me this link to his/her expose` on infiltrators at the San Francisco Tea Party.

    El Marco was at the Washington, DC Tea Party.

    Rochester Conservative was on the scene in Upstate New York.

    Check out Jimbo’s video at Blackfive for more DC signage.

    Feel free to drop off links to other Tea Party reportage in the comments or email them to me.