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Anti-war protesters vow more office takeovers
 Peace nimrods activists armed with really bad poetry occupied the Capitol Hill office of Rep. Chris Van Hollen (Md.), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Tuesday to protest Democrats support for a bill funding the Iraq war.
| "This is the song that never en-n-n-nds, it goes on and on my frien-n-n-nds ..." |
They camped out in his office for nearly eight hours, reading bland verse and insulting the memmories of reciting the names and biographies of soldiers killed in Iraq, punctuating each by banging on a gong they had brought with them.
| KLANG! How'd you like that going off -- KLANG! -- in your office every minute? |
The protesters also taped pictures of soldiers onto the walls of Van Hollens office. They were finally led out of the office at 11:35 p.m. by Capitol Police, said Kevin Zeese, the director of Democracy Rising and one of the organizers of the protest. Zeese and his fellow fools activists live in Van Hollens Southern Maryland district and are angry with him because they say his anti-war rhetoric does not match his support for legislation funding the U.S. military mission in Iraq.
We want his actions to line up behind his words, said Stuart Morris, an idiotic activist from Mt. Rainier, Md., ...
| ... he's a politican, you idiot ... |
... who added that Van Hollens staff tried to ignore the protesters but made no attempt to evict them during the height of the protest.
| More charitable than me; I'd had them out on their ears in minutes. |
The activists said 16 to 20 hooligans protesters occupied Van Hollens office. The group included Tina Richards, whose son is a Marine reservist required to report for duty on March 24. Richards said she would attempt to occupy more congressional offices on Wednesday.
| Gotta imagine your son is grimacing over this. |
Obviously, when you have a group of people in your office sounding a gong and reading off names its somewhat distracting, but it did not disrupt the workflow, said Marilyn Campbell, Van Hollens spokeswoman.
| "We don't get a whole lot done here anyways, to be honest," she added. |
Campbell said she was not aware of any vandalism in Van Hollens office. She said that fewer people showed up than the activists claimed.
| "It's the new math," she noted. |
Posted by: Steve White 2007-03-22 |
