CNN: Just showed protesters at Bush rally WOW...........

[Joanne98]

Did anybody else see it?

[calimary]

1. No. Explain, please.

WOW good or WOW bad?

[Brotherjohn]

7. I think just the fact that they SHOWED them! (nt)

[Joanne98]

9. Good. Wolf Blizter just showed a video clip of people being dragged out

of a Bush rally. I only saw the end of it. It looked like protesters snuck in pass the "loyalty oath". Bushbots were mad yelling 4 more yrs while the people were getting dragged out. I'm waiting for them to show it again. :)

[Pigkiller]

10. That is illegal

[redqueen]

12. What's illegal?

Going to a campaign rally without swearing loyalty to bush?

[Pigkiller]

29. No silly..

stealing a pass and sneaking in somewhere you don't belong. Of course you could get arrested. I want to go to the Playboy Mansion and look at women who present themselves as sex objects but if I sneak in I could get arrested.

[Dookus]

30. only

if Bush manages to designate every campaign appearance as a private event, which would be ludicrous.

The constitution guarantees us the right of free assembly, as well as the right to petition the government with our grievances.

It's a huge stretch to believe that every public appearance of the US President is a private event.

[Pigkiller]

31. Your right..

I am sorry..sneaking into a private event is legal...my mistake..

[Ravenseye]

33. Yeah but to be fair...

going to a public event doesn't give you the right to disrupt it without consequence.

Yes people have the right to free speech, but excersizing your free speech specifically to impair the right of another to speak, I would say, entails the police, or event organizers to remove you. When they're doing that they're protecting the free speech rights, and the disruptor is the one trying to prevent that from happening.

You cant use a 'right' to stymie someone else's exact same 'right'.

You cant own a gun, and use it to prevent other people from owning a gun.

[billybob537]

2. The writing is on the wall

BUSH* can't win!

[dubyaD40web]

37. Here's a pic of one of the protesters...

[Jo March]

3. CNN showed protesters?

You've gotta be kidding me. That's amazing.

Where was Bush at? Were there lots of protesters?

[bookman]

4. It was live on MSNBC

Just managed to catch it. Shrub didn't say a thing..just continued with his script. I saw two disruptions. Crowd chanting 4 more years.

[TahitiNut]

14. Smirk smirked ... and plowed on with his scripted stump speech.

Twice he was interrupted; twice they forcibly removed (mostly female) protesters; twice the reichbots yelled down any dissent with their habitual "four more years" chant; and twice Smirky McFacist demonstrated absolutely no accommodation of dissent.

This is the most detestible pResident in the nation's history. Truly disgusting.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. they did WHAT?

There are no protestors in this country, everybody is behind the Presidnet...

So they did... WOW expand please

[Old and In the Way]

6. Watched it live on MSNBC

Just before Bush started speaking, a couple of women got up and started protesting George. They were forcibly removed (one by her hair)....George just stared with that shit eating smirk. No extemperaneous comment though....started in with his "my policies are good for small business" BS.

[Joanne98]

15. It looked like 4 people to me. n/t

[Trailrider1951]

8. Details, please for us cuberats!

Heheheh, I've been dreaming of this!

[No Mandate Here.]

11. Probably Johnstown, PA

He is scheduled there for a Noon "rally"

Several associates were disappointed they couldn't get tickets, and were amazed and didn't believe me when I told them they would probably have had to sign a loyalty oath.

This is all pretty surprising, considering that the part of PA we are in is sometimes described as the Alabama section. (with all due respect for the thinking people there)

edited for spelling

[redqueen]

16. It amazes me that people are amazed by the loyalty oaths

Does anyone pay attention anymore?

[DemBones DemBones]

23. If they pay attention but it's never reported on television or

in te newspapers, how can they know? Not everyone has internet access and many who do have AOL. AOLers, and some others, tend not to explore, out of fear of perverts online and/or because they don't "know enough" about computers.

Who has made them fear perverts online and the complexities of cyberspace? The corporate-controlled media, who want us to shop online and chat about hobbies online, not to read news online.

If a tree falls in the forest, but no one is there to hear it, did it make a sound when it fell?

[Bunny]

18. My sister just update me on the Johnstown scene.

She lives near there. Said town was just full of people, everyone apparently just chomping at the bit to see Bush. A clerk at the store she was in asked her if she was going to "see the President". She said: only at gunpoint. Her daughter (my neice) told her to be careful, there could be Secret Service around.

It is indeed Pennsylbama there. Sigh. It used to be such a strong Democratic area, too. What the hell happened?

[No Mandate Here.]

19. Sanatorium is a very good hypnotist...

You will follow me... You will follow me.

I don't really know, although I have nearly lost a very good plaster contractor over his intolerance for Kerry (In one discussion that turned into an argument, he actually mocked Kerry by saying..."Oh I got a scratch. Give me a Purple Heart!" This guy is even a veteran!)

I am very careful here to not show too much disdain for the *istas, because the other side is very rabid.

[calimary]

20. Is he the only good plaster contractor out there?

I hope not...

I hesitate to patronize businesses where I don't approve of their politics. I don't reward bad behavior in my kids for the same reason.

Whatever. Believe me, I understand how challenging it is to find a good contractor or subcontractor. But it's just a thought.

[PittLib]

25. I know what you mean ...

Not that I have a choice. I rely on those big tax cuts to go in my pocket, unfortunately... which means, I have to bite my tongue. Hard. I wait tables at a high end steakhouse in the city, and while we have some obvious liberals - the majority are ridiculously conservative (our regulars). I never paid much attention ... until it became such a hot topic that nearly every table now engages in political discussion. I have a hard enough time kissing ass as it is ... I just hope I can make it through this election without losing my job and with my tongue intact.

[No Mandate Here.]

32. Unfortunately, he is...

...the only one who is as good as my clients deserve. Even more undforunately, most of the clients agree with his politics.

I really have to keep my thoughts to myself most of the time.

I was at a party the other day where almost everyone was a Dem. What a pleasure talking about public radio and the environment and such- with people who think for themselves.

[Bunny]

21. It's a shame, isn't it?

You gotta watch what you say, because they are indeed a rabid bunch.

Do you think they blame the Dems for the failure of the steel mills? It makes no sense, but then a lot of things don't make sense these days...

[hiphopnation]

24. Just seeing that photo

gives me warm fuzzies. It's been a long, long four years.

[Jack_Dawson]

13. They broke their Loyalty Oaths?

[Joanne98]

17. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.......................

[Surf Cowboy]

22. It's Chalfont, PA--the business is called Byer's Choice.

I don't know what they make, but they apparently make it here.

Chalfont is a very wealthy conservative enclave in Bucks County, PA (*just north of Philly). Bucks is a very wealthy conservative area in and of itself, actually (although the New Hope area is well known for its artistic population).

At any rate, I posted a thread asking that we DU KYW-1060 AM in Philly for their coverage of this appearance (2 hrs. of Repub talking points during drive time this morning).

It's in the General Discussion forum if anyone cares at all.

[Joanne98]

26. CNN just showed it again... 2 members of ACTUP

The gay rights org. If Kitty Kelly's book says Bush is gay we can use this video as an example of him betraying his own. :)

[ElsewheresDaughter]

27. MSNBC showed all of them...they actually dragged one women around

by her hair...it was disgusting!...the fucking repuke thugs are evil...Kerry at least sometimes engages the repuke protesters in dialoge at his rallies...repukes just batter and stomp on protesters


i was screaming at my TV when i saw that white hair repuke man jerking the women aroun by her hair :grr: :grr:

[Sugarcoated]

28. I was at the anti-Bush rally

Lots of protesters, about 100 where I was. We got alot of ugly republican fingers and ignorant loud mouths, but just as many if not more thumbs up and honks. A fist fight almost broke out between a pro-Bush person, don't know the story on that. It was pretty charged, I was surprised. And I've never considered a suburb so close to Philly part of the "bama" part of Pennsylvania. The burbs have gone Democrat in the last three elections, we make or break the election in this state.

[Marnieworld]

35. Go to the Kerry rally tomorrow at the Allentown fairgrounds! n/t

[Marnieworld]

34. My boss went to this rally today

He's a big freeper. I wonder if he'll say anything when he gets back? I'm going to a Kerry rally in Allentown tomorrow. I was worried that I'd get grief for taking a half-day but if he could do it so can I! :-D

[heebyjeebus]

36. Saw it days ago on BBC parliament here in Britain