{"id":9051,"date":"2009-03-22T08:14:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T13:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=9051"},"modified":"2009-03-22T09:43:52","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T14:43:52","slug":"numbers-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=9051","title":{"rendered":"Numbers war"},"content":{"rendered":"

In regards to the ANSWER protest yesterday<\/a>, I estimated the crowd at less than 3,000, based on nothing in particular, just my experience with protests in DC. Well it seems that the Virginia’s Arlington County Police agree with me, and, not surprisingly, ANSWER doesn’t;<\/p>\n

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But then, I’ve seen ANSWER report a hundred thousand protesters when there were maybe ten thousand about two years ago<\/a>. Of course, last year Code Pink was calling less than a thousand<\/a> protesters, ten thousand. In this story, ANSWER also reports that a thousand groups sponsored the protest – as TSO wrote the other day<\/a>, some of the “groups” consisted of only two members. Barely a group at all – hell, our “group” of blogging friends was five people.<\/p>\n

I’m sure they counted the media types and there were probably a hundred or so media that I saw.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a> counted them at “thousands” – just their way of being neutral I guess, but they offered an excuse for the low numbers;<\/p>\n

Cynthia Benjamin, 56, a registered nurse from Upstate New York and a Code Pink activist, said the march seemed smaller than others she had been part of in Washington. She wondered whether tough economic times kept some people away and whether “a lot of them are thinking, Barack in, problem solved.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Washington Times <\/a>also called their numbers “thousands”. They quoted a sage youth;<\/p>\n

Alan Kline, 17, of Fairfax said his future depends on “the state of this country.” <\/p>\n

“I don’t want to be part of country that is sponsoring genocide,” he said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

‘Bye, junior! A few thousand people show up out of a population of 300,000,000, and we need to change the whole country because they say so (Or more accurately, because Brian Becker says so)? Yeah, good luck with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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