Awwwww! The Little Children Protesting The Monster in the White House!

[leftchick]

What great parents they have!

:loveya:



Nine-year-old Madison Wilson, left, of Highlands Ranch, Colo., joins her 7-year-old sister, Riley, in banging their spoons against pots during a protest against the appearance of President Bush at a fundraising event for U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colo., Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2005. Protesters marched from the State Capitol to the downtown hotel where Bush appeared to voice their opposition to the president's policies and the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

[BamaLefty]

1. Why Does Musgrove Wish To Be Defeated?

Bringing Bush in will do her in. PFG Marilyn! PFG!

[Double T]

2. Democratic Activists need to be taught and raised from birth

[BamaLefty]

15. *raising hand*

I love my parents. :P

[...of J.Temperance]

3. self-delete...I COMPLETELY misread the title and caption

Thought it was a PRO-Junior rally.

[leftchick]

4. ???

this is brainwashing??? Did you know this was an anti-bush/anti-iraq war protest in Denver today?

[...of J.Temperance]

6. Oh heck...sorry I misread...you put "Monsters" you see in your title

Dammit, I'm dim sometimes! I'll delete that post. I just saw "Monsters", I didn't read the actual caption under the picture...I therefore just thought it was a pro-Junior rally!

I thought it said "that the children were monsters..." but it was that they were PROTESTING the Monster in the WH.

Misunderstanding, my fault.

[leftchick]

7. it is okay...

I took my little monsters to DC in Sept and they screamed at the WH!

:)

[...of J.Temperance]

10. Screaming at the pig in the WH is fine

It's okay now...I've put a new battery in my head...the last battery was OBVIOUSLY running down :)

[malta blue]

9. Phew. you scared me...n/t

[...of J.Temperance]

11. Hey, I scared ME too...I can't believe I read that heading the way I did!

Golly :)

[nunovyurbiznez]

16. Most confooz-ed

It's brainwashing when it's pro-chimp but not when it's anti-chimp?

[Alcibiades]

18. Yes.

Except that we should prefer to call truthful brainwashing "political education." Besides, if its reasonable that fundamentalists can teach that the flat earth was created in seven days by a giant fairy, its perfectly reasonable for us to teach our kids decent values.

[newyawker99]

20. Hi nunovyurbiznez!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[RoyGBiv]

5. So ...

I'm a warped POS because I took my daughter to a peace rally a few months ago to give her some practical experience with peacefully expressing dissent?

Weird ...

[...of J.Temperance]

8. Sorry, read my above comments...I got it wrong

Yeah, I was dropped on my head at birth...at least sometimes I THINK I actually was ;)

[RoyGBiv]

12. Fair enough ...

I thought that might be the case, but I wanted to make sure ... the misreading part, not the dropping on the head part. :-)

[newswolf56]

13. Very interesting, this beating of pans: a form of protest used...

by the courageously socialist women of Central and South America for protesting fascism, a tactic that in Pinochet's Chile, Batista's Cuba and the various other U.S.-owned despotcies could literally get you tortured to death.

I have heard -- though I have seen no evidence to support the claim -- the pan-beating tactic originated in the Spanish Republic of the 1930s, employed by socialist women to disrupt fascist demonstrations and interrupt fascist speakers.

In any case, especially from the perspective of the semioticist, the emergence of this particular tactic at this particular time in the U.S. is surely worthy of note. Hope-inspiring, too: perhaps a sign of political awakening far greater than materialistic vexation at fuel prices.

[leftchick]

14. geez

and here I thought it was purely for the noise! Thank you for the history lesson.

:)

[BamaLefty]

17. Cool

Well, I guess as a 17 year old I'm beating my pans right here on DU!

[Alcibiades]

19. It's called cacerolazo

And I'm pretty sure it originated in Argentina. I could be wrong, though. Pots and pans are natural noisemakers, and even the poorest of folks have them, so it would seem that this form of protest must have been tried sometime before.