I Honestly Forgot What The Protest Was About

Why can't all protests be like this? At least these Raelians have decent looking women as opposed to anything the liberals or progressives or Dems can trot out. For those folks, please continue to do us a favor and keep your clothes on.

I am only linking to the video via Mediaite since it may be, heck it is, NSFW or small children.

Here is a hint: They are protesting for the right to go topless....I think.

'Arrest That War Criminal!'

George W. Bush may be long gone from office, but that hasn't deterred the rag-tag far-left anti-war cranks from having a temper tantrum.

Thousands of protesters - many directing their anger squarely at President Barack Obama - marched through the nation's capital Saturday to urge immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

At least eight people, including activist Cindy Sheehan, were arrested by U.S. Park Police at the end of the march, after laying coffins at a fence outside the White House. Friday marked the seventh anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

"Arrest that war criminal!" Sheehan shouted outside the White House before her arrest, referring to Obama.

At a rally before the march, Sheehan asked whether "the honeymoon was over with that war criminal in the White House" - an apparent reference to Obama - prompting moderate applause.

An apparent reference?

The protesters defied orders to clear the sidewalk on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House and park police say they face charges of failure to obey a lawful order.

Others, meanwhile, are still feeling kind of hopey-changey.

Others were more conciliatory toward Obama. Shirley Allan of Silver Spring, Md., carried a sign that read, "President Obama We love you but we need to tell you! Your hands are getting bloody!! Stop it now."

Allan thought it was going too far to call Obama a war criminal but said she is deeply disappointed that the conflicts are continuing.

"He has to know it's unacceptable," Allan said. "I am absolutely disappointed."

The protest drew a smaller crowd than the tens of thousands who marched in 2006 and 2007.

Protesters stopped at the offices of military contractor Halliburton - where they tore apart an effigy of former Vice President and Halliburton Chief Executive Dick Cheney - the Mortgage Bankers Association and The Washington Post offices.

The Mortgage Bankers Association? Huh?

Instapundit links. Thanks!

Photo of the Day: Lonely Protestor

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These anti-war protests are getting quite lonely of late. This photo was emailed to me and it's not clear exactly when or where it took place, but it appears to be on a college campus (H/T Vince and Jim).

Speaking of anti-war apathy, Ace notes this sparsely attended protest in Pittsburgh which is conveniently blamed on the economy.

Three protesters, a half-dozen signs and a missing petition.

"People walk past and say, 'I'm glad you're doing something,'" said Marty O'Malley, a Forest Hills council member who has attended more than 100 anti-Iraq war events, as he stood in front of Democratic U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle's Downtown office last week with the small gathering of activists.

"I want to shake them and say, 'Why aren't you doing something!?' "

After $500 billion in spending and 4,000 military deaths, this was supposed to be an election year dominated by the war.

Both Democratic presidential candidates, Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, support a withdrawal, while Sen. John McCain, a Republican, argues that the U.S. risks losing Iraq to terrorist groups and Iranian influence if troops leave before the country is stable.

In Washington, D.C., Congress is preparing to consider President Bush's latest emergency funding package for the fighting, with a price tag of $108 billion.

But a worsening economy has easily overtaken Iraq as the top concern for voters, according to a New York Times/CBS poll released last week. Only 17 percent of respondents picked the war as the "one issue" they'd like to hear the candidates discuss more.

Update: Thanks to Lawhawk, we now know the origin of the photo.

It previously appeared here, here and here a couple of weeks ago.

If anyone else linked it, let me know and I'll update further.

Update II: Thanks to Glenn Reynolds for the link.

Fire All the Bastards

And after you fire them, replace them with veterans, non-union employees. There are plenty of vets looking for jobs and I am sure you wouldn't have to worry about them supporting communist causes or staging anti-war protests or any kind of other protest for that matter. Of course since this is in the socialist left coast state of California, you probably can't even walk into the port without a union card, much less get a job.

You want to carry on infantile moonbat gestures, do it on your own time. Disrupting shipments on the left coast proves nothing other then you can skip work and not be punished. Let them get by with it this time and next it will be Cinco de Mayo, St. Patrick's Day, or Earth Day. Whatever strikes their fancy.

I first spotted the news of this over at Little Green Footballs so credit to Charles for bringing attention to this.

I am sick and tired of everybody being able to get away with anything they want by using the anti-war shield. This is pure BS and everybody knows it. And since when did it become permissible to excuse bad behavior as long as the perpetrators defended their actions by either saying it was free speech or it is an anti-war gesture? Proclaiming something to be anti-war seems to be the golden get out of jail free card, blanket amnesty for any sort of juvenile behavior.

Well, I hope all of you smug, self-righteous, holier then thou, stuck in the 60's libtards don't get too big of a shock when the responsible people of this country finally reach the breaking point and start dishing out some of what you have inflicted on the rest of us all of these years. Now by my saying that, folks start dishing out what we have been taking does not imply violence, unless you are acknowledging that all these years you have been engaged in acts of violence, and as we know from all of your many statements, you all are a peaceful bunch of folks.

Yeah just like Al Qaeda is an example of the moderate Muslim.