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Chrenkoff - The inauguration blues
“Mr Hollenshead said he was not a traditional activist, but he decided to take part in the protest because ‘I’m against everything that Bush is for and I’m for everything that he’s against’.”
President Bush is against cutting off children’s ears with chainsaws. He’s also not a great fan of peeing in your soup. Oh, and he is not in favor of executing Mr Hollenshead. Over to you, Mr Hollenshead.
“Garrett Meigs, 23, of Ithaca, New York, said he came to Washington to ’show the rest of the world that many Americans are opposed to the Bush agenda’.”
Sadly, having been delayed in traffic, Garrett Meigs missed the election by two and a half months.
And this:
” ‘I can’t believe people of my generation allowed for this to happen again,’ said Kathy Liggett, 52, of Indiana, recalling the Vietnam War era. Ms Liggett, whose son is a marine stationed in Fallujah, slammed the conflict in Iraq as an ‘unjustified war’, sporting a button saying ‘Bush lied; people died’ and holding a sign reading ‘Iraq: Arabic for Vietnam’.”
Actually, Iraq is ancient Persian for Lesser Iran.
Information he gleaned from this impressive Wikpedia entry: List of country name etymologies. I love this stuff. I am such a dork.
Not so funny is this:
“A small group of Bush supporters who had entered the park, only to be shoved out by demonstrators, shouted ‘Four more years’, waving four fingers in the air as they left.”
Could this be the same incident as this?
“When the Bush supporters arrived, about 20 black-clad, self-described anarchists emerged from the crowd, shouting profanity and epithets and demanding that they leave the peace rally.
“When the Bush supporters refused to leave, the anarchists tore the sign out of the Bush supporters’ hands and stomped on them. When ProtestWarrior leader Gil Kobrin objected, several male anarchists knocked him to the ground, kicking him in the back and punching him. Other anarchists punched and shoved Kobrin’s 12 colleagues.
“After D.C. Antiwar Network members broke up the fight, the Bush supporters heeded their order to leave the park.”
Anarchist: Arabic for idiot.
Actually it’s greek, and I think it means something worse than idiot, but I’m trying to keep this page clean. (er. than what comes out of my own mouth.)
This is the Mission Page for Protest Warrior’s Operation Hail to the Chief. If they had a permit and were asked to leave, instead of the ANARCHISTS, who, traditionally, are, ah, prone to violence, we should all be pissed.
Date: Jan 20th, 2005 ·
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