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Thread #112422 Message #2381834
Posted By: Mrrzy
05-Jul-08 - 02:45 PM
Thread Name: Song Request: Protest Bush/Monticello
Subject: RE: Song Request: Protest Bush/Monticello
Actually, Rick Provost, we were very careful to also honor the new Americans. Many of our posters and slogans were directed straight to them. If you look at the pictures, none of them seem to have minded...
And the nice, helpful cops, every time they had to take a particular protester outside of the grounds, actually drove them individually back the join the greater protest! They were incredibly helpful, state and county both. Not a pig in the bunch.
It was GREAT! Some of us sang This Land Is Your Land, I also sang Phil Ochs' Power and Glory (which should be our national anthem, I think), and some of us also sang snatches from both the Draft Dodger's and the I Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die Rags. There was one obnoxious guy who tends to come to our peaceful protests and try to rile people up to be in-your-face, which isn't to my mind peaceful, but very few people went with him this time.
And we had to be ignored directly by Dubya! It was MAGNIFICENT! And demonstrating constitutional rights probably not heretofore available to the new citizens was also magnificent!