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[EstimatedProphet]

Finally I'm back on line after last week's protests and the Progressive Democrats of America conference. I had tried to post somewhat from the protests themselves, but I think the local bandwidth was exhausted, because I couldn't get anywhere-it was taking 30 minutes or more to load a DU page!
I have some pictures, but they need to be developed and scanned. Hopefully I will be able to post them in only a few days.

[EstimatedProphet]

1. And this is the kind of crap that really pisses me off...

Not that I didn't expect it, especially from FrontPageMag

http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16719

The peace activists must be feeling the sting of the well-deserved mockery they receive at the hands of the Protest Warriors, because today in Washington DC they actually fought back! with physical force! against an enemy!

Of course, the enemy was their own fellow citizens, as usual: Protesting the Protesters.

Ten minutes after telling his fellow protesters to stay safe, Gil Kobrin lay huddled in the slush and mud as two anarchists repeatedly kicked him in the back.

How he got from point A to point B is simple enough. Kobrin, accompanied by a dozen members of the conservative group ProtestWarrior, crashed a rally of hundreds of anti-Bush demonstrators at Meridian Park in Washington, D.C. Holding aloft signs that read “Say no to war unless a Democrat is president” and “Not to brag, but Bush won, so shove it!” they had set off earlier on inauguration morning in search of their opposites.

The ProtestWarrior contingent didn’t have to search for very long; the party came to them.

The rest is 3/4 of the way down the page.
Hey folks, WE weren't the ones getting violent! NOT ONCE did I see a single case of our side initiating a fight. However, I did see several of them start fights, and afterwards of course the protesters were the ones that went to jail.

[KurtNYC]

2. That article is incomprehensible

I guess you had to be there.

[EstimatedProphet]

5. It helped to be there

because if you were there, you would have seen protestors who may have yelled at Republicans, but didn't start anything and then actually turned to help them if something happened-there's one case that sticks out in my mind where one of them was walking through the crowd and slipped, and a protester helped her get her balance. You would also have seen the Republicans with such obvious fear and revulsion in their eyes-they were convinced we were monsters from outer space or something.

[New Earth]

3. hi

:hi: wish i could have stayed longer for the conference.

[EstimatedProphet]

4. Hey Faye

Yeah, it was a very good conference. I only saw a little of it because of the weather, but I got to see the session WillPitt was in about the media, and he was great-no surprise there.

[EstimatedProphet]

6. Another story...Mr Scorpio will back me up on this too...

We were in line on the order of 3 hours, and we were finally getting near striking distance of the checkpoint. So this young girl (I'd say about 21), dressed up in contrast to all of us protesters is standing right in front of us. Clearly she has been in line as long as we have. Keep in mind that this line is FULL of obvious protesters, who keep chanting and singing protest songs, and have signs and shirts with slogans on them-there is NO POSSIBLE WAY to mistake this crowd.
So, while we are waiting, several people started talking about how far we will have to go to get to the official area, and how this checkpoint is not big enough for the protesters. She then turns around and says "This is the checkpoint for protesters? I didn't know that. I must be in the wrong line"
3 hours of protests screamed around her, remember. Oy gevalt.