Wow... ya' don't say..... "monkeys flinging poo" are getting it flung back at 'em. Anti-Bush protesters beget the pro-Bush kind link to article The Associated Press NEW YORK — Groups planning to demonstrate against the upcoming Republican National Convention will have some unfriendly company outside Madison Square Garden. Members of a new group of young GOP conservatives plan to protest the protesters. Tom Paladino, who leads the New York chapter of Protest Warriors, a nationwide organization, said members want to show the protesters that “there are Republicans that will protest them right back.” Added Jason Sager, a member from Brooklyn: “We are the right-wing freedom fighters. We are out there and are just as animated as the protesters can be.” Protest Warriors, which claims about 3,000 members nationwide, expects about 200 in New York for the four-day convention, which begins Aug. 30 and is expected to draw tens of thousands of opponents of President Bush. Leaders say they know they won't have equal representation but hope the contrast helps them stand out. They will be armed with picket signs and T-shirts, and video cameras to capture their mission. “It's going to be the protest Olympics. They're all going to be trying to outdo each other,” said Kfir Alfia, of Austin, Texas, who formed the group last year with Alan Lipton after they crashed anti-war demonstrations in San Francisco. link to article
Wow, 200 vs tens of thousands, should be interesting. Will the "freedom" fighters have to go to a free speech zone half a mile away from the convention?
I hope our right wing posters wear something identifiable like a rocket jersey so I can finally see what they look like. don't worry about getting your ass kicked the secret service has got your back.
Good luck to them. The 2004 Republican Convention is going to make the 1968 Democratic Convention look like a Girl Scout Jamboree. I plan on watching it the same way I watch fireworks displays on the 4th of July....on a lawnchair with popcorn and lots of cold beer. It will be very entertaining.
Oh, God - please no. I think it makes more of a statement to not engage in a "protest Olympics", but hey, that's just me.
New Yorkers abhor the current administration so much so that just a mention of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, etc turns their faces red with anger. One can only imagine what the marches and protests are going to be like come September.
Who said I'm hoping for a riot, shill? Read my post. There's going to be a riot and there is nothing anyone can do about it. Want to blame someone? Blame the squatter at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue!
Sorry...I don't how I could have misinterpreted your post. Maybe you should be more for dense people like me who interpret entertainment as something pleasurable.
I said it would be entertaining, shill. Entertaining like watching a building burn. I suggest you purchase a dictionary.
en·ter·tain·ing ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ntr-tnng) adj. Agreeably diverting; amusing: The children staged an entertaining puppet show. Sorry, I misinterpreted your post, but come on...you have to admit it wasn't very clear.
What's the difference between a "prediction" and a "hoped-for outcome"? DCkid - do you really think anybody hopes for a riot?
The only time rioting is acceptable is after a major college football upset or any major sports championship. That being said, I think anti-Bush faction will be fun to watch in Times Square during the Republican National Convention. Hopefully it won't turn violent, and the NYPD won't have to use force.
No. But I expect, at the very least, a show of disapproval. Sometimes you have to wonder how clueless some people can be to not realize that their actions could start a riot. And I don't buy that it's out of their control or that Bush made them do it. People should be responsible for their own actions, and if the protestors take actions that help to start a riot then they have noone to blame but themselves and I'll despise them for it. I'll show just as much disdain for any "Bush Supporters," who are serving no purpose but to antagonize the rest of the protestors. I won't go as far as to say there will definitely be a riot, but I'm very skeptical that it will end a "peaceful protest."
If there is a riot... I'm blaming DCkid and RocketMan Tex... but not necessarily in that order. Why should there be a riot? This ain't Kent State or Watts is it?
Evidently, you've picked up one recently. Once you get the use of the word shill down, maybe you can move on to other words.
Easy... people that teach Revisionist History to school children can only alter so much of their vocabulary at a time without getting things mixed up. "Shill" has five letters, so that'd be "a bigun'" in his book. Several others here are still hung up on "neo con." Way to run that slang, homies.
"Shill" is nicer than "idiot" or "moron", so that's the word I used. If you would like me to use the alternatives, just ask!
