{"id":2350,"date":"2008-08-24T09:56:15","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T13:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2350"},"modified":"2008-08-24T09:58:56","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T13:58:56","slug":"counter-convention-looking-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2350","title":{"rendered":"Counter-Convention looking good"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ComeuptoDenver.org <\/a>has been begging “progressive social change groups” from across the country to do just that for the Democrat Convention this week, and it seems that every one without a job is complying;<\/p>\n

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And the police seem happy, too;<\/p>\n

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PBR seems to be the beverage of choice for the sign-makers at Tent State<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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And Veterans For Peace are just there to be in rallies – it doesn’t matter what the rally is for or against (CBS4<\/a> Link);<\/p>\n

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Robert McLaughlin held aloft a banner supporting abortion rights. He avoided eye contact with a man with a guitar who belted out an anti-abortion song: “It’s a baby, not a molecular glob!”<\/p>\n

McLaughlin tried to ignore the heated exchanges around him, shifting his weight between his feet and looking like he was trying to find his ride home.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know. It’s weird,” said the decorated 67-year-old former staff sergeant, wearing a “Veteran for Peace” T-shirt at the dueling rallies Saturday outside the Planned Parenthood of the Rockies’ headquarters.<\/p>\n

McLaughlin is one of several thousand demonstrators in Denver for the Democratic National Convention that begins Monday. When pressed why he was a counter-demonstrator at an anti-abortion rally, he confessed it was his first one.<\/p>\n

“I’m really here to protest the Iraq war,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But in the meantime, you can hold a poster supporting infanticide while you’re waiting for the Iraq Veterans Against the War. Pathetic, actually.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, police are on the lookout for Weapons of Mini-Destruction<\/a>;<\/p>\n

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Denver police are on the lookout for stockpiles of a dozen items ranging from pipes to bikes — things they say could be used to disrupt the Democratic National Convention next week.<\/p>\n

A police bulletin sent to officers and other emergency workers asks them to look out for “medium and large numbers” of things that violent demonstrators could use as weapons.<\/p>\n

Also on the list are shields, helmets, gas masks, chest protectors used in baseball or softball, protest sign handles, hand-held radios, chemicals and maps.<\/p>\n

Police said some of the items on the list have been used by protesters before during demonstrations at events like the DNC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not from people like Wayward Bill, the top photo in this post, who writes at his blog “Deadheads United”;<\/p>\n

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(ps; Don’t forget Counter Delegates that while you are in Denver, your surname is Amerika. Afterall aren’t we all Amerikans!)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Well, you sure are, Bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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