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If these protestors really want to experience what prison life is like at Guantanamo, I'm sure there are lots of people willing to oblige them. :)
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Protesters are hooded to resemble people captured during conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, during a march in New York on August 31, 2004, site of the Republican National Convention. They marched demanding better conditions for detainees captured and held at Guantanamo, the US base in Cuba. REUTERS/Chip East
Oooh look at the Birdie.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...toryID=6116679
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One man was arrested by about 10 police officers after he climbed a tree to obtain a better view of a rally by fellow immigration activists outside U.S. government offices, eyewitnesses said.
POSER!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,130782,00.html
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NEW YORK — Secret Service agents pounced on a man who came within 10 feet of Vice President Dick Cheney (search) at the Republican National Convention and shouted anti-war statements, authorities said Tuesday.
Cheney never was in any danger, and no weapon was found on the man, who was arrested following a scuffle with agents. The suspect, Thomas Frampton, was charged with assaulting federal officers and impeding the operation of the Secret Service.
Frampton arrived on the first day of the convention at Madison Square Gardt, the officials said.
A complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan said Secret Service agents spotted Frampton carrying a "Bush-Cheney '04" placard on the walkway behind Cheney's box at 9:30 p.m. Monday. One agent instructed him to keep moving.
Frampton began to move away, then turned back in the direction of Cheney's box and began shouting anti-Bush administration slogans. He then started to climb over a low wall separating Cheney's box from the walkway and got within 10 feet of Cheney before the Secret Service agents tried to restrain him.
As the agents grabbed him, Frampton swung his right elbow in the direction of one agent, the court papers said. He continued to struggle with the agents and shout at Cheney as he was dragged away and handcuffed, the complaint said.
Bright Lights - Big City - Big Dreams
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/....ap/index.html
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Gary Boston and Jeff Adler are just two guys with a dream: shutting down New York City for a day.
What they want is a general strike, with everyone from Broadway dancers to Madison Avenue street sweepers calling in sick Wednesday to protest the Republican National Convention, which begins on Monday. (Special Report: America Votes 2004, the Republican convention)
1500 arreste eh? Impressive! This morning on fox I noted that one of announcers noticed that the Green hat wearing lawyers that are supposed to be observing demonstrations to ensure that free speech rights are not violated; were grouped outside of fox news chanting "Shut up Fox!" Hmmm.... freedom of speech.....anybody else notice the bigotry here?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5822306/
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Total convention arrests top 1,500 after third day of demonstrations
Protesters wearing pig snouts, costumes and a Dick Cheney mask chant and toss “Hallibacon Bucks” in the air Tuesday outside the Marriott Hotel in New York
I think that this protest was one of the more thoughtful one. Made me laugh. Kudos.
<EDIT: Courtesy of MSNBC>
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The demonstrations continued Wednesday morning, with thousands of protesters forming a symbolic unemployment line stretching three miles from Wall Street to Madison Square Garden, where GOP delegates are gathering. The protesters stood peacefully in a single-file line for 15 minutes, raising bright pink fliers that listed unemployment statistics and read: “The Next Pink Slip Might be Yours!”
I rarely ever drop by Cosmos but this thread caught my attention. Why the hell are there 6 posts in a row by the *same* member? Normally, considering the fact that I have a very happy trigger finger I would neg and move on but is there more to this? Did this thread once have a big discussion and everybody else just came along and deleted all of their posts except for OverdueSpy? Or is he just being damned annoying...?
Responses have been low + he's had a lot of different info to post.
Remember keezel, we're not to use APs in Cosmos. Cool down there tiger!
More like "Cool down there Copito de Nieve the albino gorilla"Quote:
Cool down there tiger!
Keezel - If you would take the time to read posts on the first page of this thread, (the 3rd one to be exact) you would understand that the nature of this thread changed to be a place where you can post the wacko-left protests that you find disgusting, humorous, or just plain unfathomable, which happen to occur in New York during the RNC.Quote:
Originally posted here by keezel
I rarely ever drop by Cosmos but this thread caught my attention. Why the hell are there 6 posts in a row by the *same* member? Normally, considering the fact that I have a very happy trigger finger I would neg and move on but is there more to this? Did this thread once have a big discussion and everybody else just came along and deleted all of their posts except for OverdueSpy? Or is he just being damned annoying...?
Here I'll list it for you.
If you find something that fits the category feel free to add in.Quote:
Man Liberals are sure Zany! I'll have to hijack my own thread here and list all of the off the wall stunts the Libs pull leading up to and during the RNC.