{"id":1646,"date":"2008-05-11T16:37:27","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T20:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2008-12-03T05:51:14","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T10:51:14","slug":"mothers-day-peace-nik-now-with-ivaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1646","title":{"rendered":"Mothers’ Day Peace-nik (now with IVAW)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I went to the Code Pink Mothers’ Day protest in front of the White House two years ago and they were able to scrape together a few hundred people;<\/p>\n

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They even had giant puppets;<\/p>\n

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But those heady days of yore are gone. Today, they couldn’t even get in front of the White House. The closest they could get was about twelve blocks away up Connecticut Avenue at DuPont Circle. On their website, they called it a Mother’s Day “Peace-nik” and they urged people to bring their children for fun and games. I expected a hundred or so, but, by my count they were a little over thirty;<\/p>\n

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They had activities for the children, but not too many children showed up, so why waste all of that face paint stuff, huh?<\/p>\n

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No media was there, it must’ve been tough for them. They couldn’t get the giant puppets, so they brought tall people instead;<\/p>\n

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It was a little hard to tell who intentionally dressed like a clown and who didn’t;<\/p>\n

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Nothing is sadder than a bunch of old hippies trying to recapture their respective youth by acting like they’re…well, hippies;<\/p>\n

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But since it was the only show in town the big guns were there;<\/p>\n

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They started begging as soon as they got there. Apparently they thought the thirty or so people there were flush with cash.<\/p>\n

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Geoff Millard (the guy who’s going to testify to Congress that our troops are all racist<\/a>) from IVAW was there with his mother;<\/p>\n

He pleaded with the Code Pink to attend their testimony in Congress next Thursday and pack the room to keep out people that might disrupt the hearings. Like this I suppose;<\/p>\n

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He went on to say that Congress should hear about Iraq from soldiers on the ground, not just from “Generals and pundits”. Well, then I suppose he supports Veterans For Freedom because they tried to talk to Congressmen, and I doubt they got to talk to too many of the members of the Progressive Caucus. I also wonder what soldiers who haven’t been in Iraq in the last two to five years can tell the Progressive Caucus about what has happened there in the last year or so. So what Millard meant was that Congress should hear from the drama queens and sociopaths of the IVAW who haven’t been able to find their collective ass with both hands in the last year or so.<\/p>\n

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Then it was time to leave. I thought they’d march on the White House but they went in the opposite direction. So I just filmed them leaving;<\/p>\n

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The anti-war movement is coming undone. They’re unable to announce their events in a timely manner anymore without being countered. Their members are losing interest and their antics turn off more people than they can attract. They claim to have the support of the American people, but the reality is that they don’t. In a city with more than 30,000 college students, they couldn’t get any of them out for their lame showing. This “peace-nik” was nothing more than pan handling – and they were probably out numbered by the regular panhandlers in DuPont Circle today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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