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| 2004-10-18 | ||
Several thousands joined an anti-war rally Sunday to mark the end of the three-day European Social Forum. The thousands who turned out were a fraction of the estimated million who came out to protest Feb. 15 last year against an imminent invasion of Iraq. But given strong public reactions against a redeployment of British troops to Falluja from the relatively safe Basra that was proposed earlier this week, the anti-war rally took on a new urgency. The anti-war rally was in effect an anti-occupation rally. And it went beyond calls to end occupation to resolutions to support the Iraqi resistance against occupation... "We will not allow the resistance to be trivialised as some sort of terrorist movement," Chris Nineham from the Stop the War Coalition told IPS. "It is a popular insurrection resisting occupation..."
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| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #16 Were these the so-called human shields that were supposed to go to Iraq before the war? There's still time. Let them go to Fallujah with their signs. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2004-10-18 7:04:45 PM |
| #15 Funny thing Mrs. D is that these yahoos actually believe that they are mainstream. No matter that they put in notices in half the states paper for a rally and barely 10K show up (out of a population of 35 MILLION). Are you sure these aren’t pictures from the DNC convention? Some of the LLL glazed-over faces look familiar. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2004-10-18 10:17:45 AM |
| #14 No fair, Mrs. D, I just about pissed my pants. I especially liked the parodies at the end: "Don't make me ask twice, m*therf*ckers!" |
| Posted by: Spot 2004-10-18 10:10:12 AM |
| #13 spleenville.com my, my, all I can say is my, my. Mrs D those folks look very "normal" mostly. Howard is trying to tell you some of the Moonbats he is refering to are not so normal looking. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-10-18 9:44:58 AM |
| #12 LOL! Just fell off my chair! |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-10-18 9:42:47 AM |
| #11 Thanks, Howard. That went right over my head. You are correct about the Bay Area. I suspect a very high proportion of these people hail from there. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-10-18 9:37:44 AM |
| #10 Phew - must be the poster's (Anonymoose) Europhile tendencies coming into play. MrsD - I've heard SF is a hotbed of eccentricity too... at least was. There's nowt wrong with a dose of British eccentricity - these people are largely drug addled sheep out on a spree. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-10-18 9:18:44 AM |
| #9 Howard, I just looked and there is still a File Under: Britain. Perhaps it is being blocked by MI5. As to these moonbats, the nice thing about living in the US is that you can admire the British penchant for eccentricity from a distance. Sort of like how eating Harris Ranch steak in San Francisco is so much more enjoyable than eating it at the Harris Ranch feedlot. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-10-18 9:11:59 AM |
| #8 Some Scottsman got POed about Britain. Maybe they filed it under United Kingdom? |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-10-18 9:06:37 AM |
| #7 I've just noticed that there's no longer a 'British' section on RB. WTF? We've been dumped in with the garlic-eating hordes of the unwashed. Europe? Come on... |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-10-18 9:00:25 AM |
| #6 I'm losing my touch. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-10-18 7:50:03 AM |
| #5 That link didn't work for me Howard. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-10-18 7:34:23 AM |
| #4 I think I heard this was a group effort organised by the Stop the War Coalition, a Muslim group, and CND. Talk about a Coalition of the Wrong. (I nicked that phrase from someone who applied it to last year's Million Moron March which consisted of the above, plus a few hundred thousand idiots (and their numerous offspring) who proudly proclaimed that they 'didn't normally pay any attention to politics or current events but just knew they had to protest against whatever it was that was happening, this time'.) |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-10-18 7:07:48 AM |
| #3 Seemingly a meeting of the European branch of the Comintern, from the pictures I've seen. fruitcakes the lot - the Socialist Worker crowd have to have something to shout about or life gets terribly dull for them. Pics from Aunty |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-10-18 6:19:23 AM |
| #2 The thousands who turned out were a fraction of the estimated million who came out to protest Feb. 15 last year against an imminent invasion of Iraq. But given strong public reactions against a redeployment of British troops to Falluja from the relatively safe Basra that was proposed earlier this week, the anti-war rally took on a new urgency. To translate: Even though there are fewer and fewer of us, we are even more important than before. And while we can't stop a war, we can sure peddle an agenda to a 'journalist.' |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-10-18 2:00:31 AM |
| #1 "We will not allow the resistance to be trivialised as some sort of terrorist movement,… Typical moonbat imperial "We" and frothery. I consider talk like this sedition. I wonder if Britain still has sedition laws? Pity if they don't. I see they trotted out Paul Bigley's brother who is likely responsible for having engineered his brothers demise by convincing him to go to Iraq against the advice of his own government along with other hi jinks. Possibly being in contact with the kidnappers via internet by news accounts. Also present was the lovely ever frothing Mrs Rose who dishonors her sons death everytime she opens her mouth. The decrepit Tony Benn was in attendance as well luckly he didn't keel over while in full froth. What a lovely bunch of shit heads. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-10-18 1:46:15 AM |