Code Pink/VFP/WCW at the White House (Updated w/video)

Not feeling the hope and change, a coalition of anti war groups marched on the White House. I’ve got some pictures and videos to put up for now – but I’ll be adding more tonight.

There was no IVAW presence today, so the Geezers For Sitting On Our Hands was at the front of the march. For some reason, anti-war protesters think they need veterans in the front to give them legitimacy.

That’s retired Colonel Ann Wright carrying a mock-up coffin with Jim Goodnow behind her. Goodnow drove the Impeach Bush bus which caught fire in a New Jersey rest stop and Goodnow claimed he was firebombed by right-wing extremists;

Listen to the speaker in the first portion of this video as she equates the war in Afghanistan to Southeast DC. The moonbattery runs deeply in this one;

Cindy Sheehan was there – but I didn’t need to say that because you know there were cameras.

A couple of Guantanamo prisoners chained themselves to the fence – I volunteered to help the cops beat them, but they only chuckled and told me they could handle it.

They waterboarded one old hippie and when I shouted for them to behead him instead of bathing him, they called me a “Nazi”.

I guess you could take this sign a hundred ways, but anyway you parse it, it’s a slap against the troops;

It’s not a protest against Bush anymore.

They needed more cowbell;

Cindy and Medea have made up apparently;

The National Lawyers Guild tried to intimidate the Free Republic folks;

Probably because they were getting more interviews than the hippies;

If you need more pictures, I have about a hundred at My Flickr Photostream. I kept the photos of the comely news ladies over there.

I talked with Dana Milbank from the Washington Post and gave him my (unsolicited) impression. He told me that he’s writing this like it’s the “canary in the mine”. I told him that it’s more like a desperate play for donations. All of the “big guns” were there; Cindy Sheehan, Media Benjamin, Jody Evans, Michael MacPhearson (VFP’s ED) and some minor guns like John Grant (VFP in Philly and Hugo Chavez fan). They were there because they’re hurting for money what with the Democrats at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue and MoveOn sucking up the Left’s money.

By the way, no MoveOn today, either.

I’m really surprised that IVAW wasn’t there. I wonder if it’s a policy shift or a lack of participation. Since they recently officially condemned the Afghanistan War, it seemed the perfect venue.

UPDATED AGAIN: Apparently, some of the protesters got arrested after I left for not keeping the sidewalk clear. I saw a couple of them giving crap to the Park Police and told them to quit being dicks and let the cops do their job. Of course, i got called a “Nazi” for that, too. So these bozos deserved to be arrested.

Category: Antiwar crowd, Code Pink, Protests/Rallies, Usual Suspects