Guantanamo Theater; Wear Orange Day
Since today is the sixth anniversary of the first group of terrorist thugs to arrive in Guantanamo, the ACLU and Amnesty International pooled their resources in DC and organized Wear Orange Day to protest the isolation of murderous thugs from the rest of the world. And this blogger was there.
It began down on the National Mall on 12th Street in the pouring-ass rain
The theme was “Counter Terror With Justice”, which was a pretty phrase for infantile disregard of the realities of the world. Especially since the jihadists are countering justice with terror.
Of course, those are fake Guantanamo detainees on the stage (out of the rain) but they had extra detainee uniforms if you didn’t have your own. And apparently they had psychologists if you needed one of those, too;
There was a lot of speechifying about how we’ve lived under a dictatorship for the last six years, and how the people dressed in detainee clothes was the future of the country if we don’t have some change soon. There was even some guy who claimed to have been a prisoner in the Philipines and somehow his imprisonment there for some unspoken crime gave him insight to the torture in Guantanamo the detainees were “suffering”. I missed his point but he got big applause for his bravery.
After standing in the rain for an hour or so, they announced that everyone who borrowed their detainee suits should turn them in – apparently because they’ll need them again. Then after a half hour of herding cats, they got everyone lined up two-by two and marched the half-mile to the Supreme Court, carrying five coffins.
I don’t know why there were five – only four have died out the hundreds of detainees. Three from suicide and one because of colon cancer (at the age of 68).
This one of the evil US troops (hippie pretending to be an evil US troop) that herded the hooded actors to the Supreme Court;
And her pony-tailed partner
Taking Capitol Hill with the media in the lead;
When I first got to the Supreme Court, there was a guy singing “Guantanamera” (YouTube link) I guess he thought the song set to lyrics by Jose Marti (who inspired the revolution against Spain) was appropriate. But other than the name, it has nothing to do with Guantanamo. Lucky for you, my readers, I turned off the camera before he started harmonizing for himself and decided to try and rap the song in English. You’re welcome.
In this video (YouTube link), we learn that the detainees are poets, which makes them human – I guess their humanity was a product of their imprisonment because be fore they arrived there, they were thugs and murderers.
Well, the Capitol police were waiting for us when we got to the Supreme Court Building;
For good reasons – the organizers and the police had collaborated to stage arrests. There’s a YouTube video link here – I think my camera was wet but the important is part is the “Arrest George Bush” rants. More video of the crowd here – serious cases of BDS. The worst I’ve witnessed in person.
I got some pictures of the most orderly arrests in history (since the perps were already handcuffed when they got arrested);
But it was all very carefully crafted. While I was taking pictures behind the podium, one guy ran up to another and said “OK, the police want to go ahead and arrest them now”. That was a pretty good hint to me.
Associated Press reports 81 people were arrested. Not while I was there. I doubt there 81 protesters – but the only people I saw arrested were the 15 or so who went up the steps of the Supreme Court Building against the warnings of the Capitol Police. The Washington Post writes about the arrests;
They were charged with violating an ordinance that prohibits demonstrations of any kind on the court’s grounds. Those arrested inside the building also were charged under a provision that makes it a crime to give “a harangue or oration” in the court building. The maximum penalty is 60 days in jail, a fine or both.
BBC has pictures of events around the world.
Michele Malkin (whose work Thursday alerted me to the protest on Friday) has more on the protests in rest of the country. And now, Michele has linked to this post – thanks tons. Thanks to the Gateway Pundit for linking, too. Welcome readers of other gracious bloggers who’ve also linked here; my buddy the Bloodthirsty Liberal, Jay at Stop the ACLU, Pirate’s Cove, and Darcey at Dust My Broom.
Category: Antiwar crowd, Politics, Protests/Rallies, Society, Terror War
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Hey Jonn, looks like the moonbats were out in quarter-force, per usual. I still think that the protest we went to last September with the “Take-Your-Ass-To-Iraq” lady “mooing” the same thing for half an hour is still is my favorite video of yours.
There probably would have been more, Kate, but, like I said it was pouring down rain at the beginning. I just wish they’d have these things on the weekend so I don’t have to use my vacation time. But I guess when you’re an unemployed Leftist, everyday is Saturday. Yeah, I like that video, too.
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Another circus orchestrated by clueless nihilists. Every miscreant in GITMO earned their way there. They were captured after firefights and arrested as part of counter-terrorist operations. The Left pisses and moans and complains incessantly about the measures we have to take in order to extract information that will save American lives. I’m supposed to lose sleep over that? I don’t fuckin’ think so.
They support members of a terrorist subterranian culture that would gladly kill all “infidels”, the “orange day” idiots, included. Gawd, if we could only trade scum like them for all the innocents killed on 9/11….
John; FANTASTIC photos, video and overall coverage!
As for the commies, I’d say “unbelievable” about their antics but I’ve seen too many of their protests myself to be shocked anymore. The left does love their street theater, don’t they? I haven’t seen any of the orange jumpsuits at any of the protests I’ve covered, but I have seen the coffins. Watching them is like watching a circus freakshow. PT Barnum would have hire these nuts.
The ritual arrest is also, of course, part of the leftie show. I was at the ANSWER protest last September (GOE III for us), when they did their “die in” up at the base of the capitol building. A bunch of them jumped the barricade and got themselves arrested. I guess it makes them feel like they’re doing something for their cause, but in reality it just makes them look stupid.
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I bet the DC cops were thrilled to have to be out there on a rainy day having to deal with dirty smelly hippies.
William Teach; Welcome. That’s why I took a lot of pictures of the police. They deserve recognition for doing the heavy lifting maintaining our national security on the local level. If they weren’t on the job, it wouldn’t be safe for those moonbats to gather on the Supreme Court steps (whether the moonbats will admit it or not). I made it a point to thank several officers – like I do at every rally I attend.
[…] Those who staged a protest outside the court building obviously haven’t been in the real world for the past six years, four months and 1 day. Why do they think those pigs are locked up? Is it because they were passing out cookies at their local mosque? Or perhaps patting their children on their heads, telling them stories of Aladdin and the lamp? No, you feckless weasels! It’s because they want to KILL YOU! Is it so hard to understand that these are NOT nice people? They don’t want to be your friend, they want you DEAD DEAD DEAD! […]
The ONLY thing these cretins has right was this: they were appropriately attired. Tape over their mouths so moonbat-speak did not spew forth and orange jumpsuits as the criminals they are.
I wonder if they included the guy who sued to stay at Guantanamo? He said it was better than Algeria.
Excellent job with the coverage, Jonn!
There was a lot of speechifying about how we’ve lived under a dictatorship for the last six years, and how the people dressed in detainee clothes was the future of the country if we don’t have some change soon.
Well….15 or 81 “people dressed in detainee clothes” were detained and arrested by the police, so…..um….yeah!
An interesting factoid regarding the orange jumpsuits modeled by the peace protesters is that the color represents the most dangerous criminal detainee at Gitmo.
These detainees are considered less cooperative. The less cooperative detainees are those who spit at or throw urine and excrement at guards, refuse to leave their cells when ordered to or break other camp rules.
These are detainees that pose the most threat to American soldiers guarding them. Perhaps it is rightly so that peace protesters sport the this jumpsuit as well, reminding all that they are just as dangerous to the American soldier.