Where are all of the protesters?

Wall Street Journal’s Stephanie Simon writing at on the Washington WIre asks where are all of the protesters. Just like I’ve complained over the last few months, she discovered the anti-America Left just can’t turn out the numbers they used to command.

They’ve produced some striking visuals. Demonstrators in orange prison jumpsuits, with black hoods over their heads, protested the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Others marched in Mardi Gras masks, black bandanas, or pink princess hats. Some toted giant puppets.

Yet their numbers have been modest, their impact small.

Glenn Spagnuolo, leader of the group Recreate ’68, says crowd size is unimportant. “All I hear now is ‘How many numbers [of protestors] do you have, Glenn?’” he said. “No one says, “How many dead Iraqis are there? How many incarcerated African-Americans are there? I don’t play the numbers game. If I have to march alone, I’ll march alone.”

He blames the low turnout on the massive police presence. Law enforcement is everywhere – on horseback, on motorcycle, on foot, often in full riot gear. “You have guys looking like robo-cops coming in with all this gear on and it’s very intimidating,” Spagnuolo said. “Even I’m scared.”

“I don’t play a numbers game”. You can bet if the numbers were in the thousands he’d be shouting it from the rooftops.

Well, you know, the answer could be that it’s a lie that 65% of Americans condone the protesters as they like to tell us. Seems to me that if that figure were true they’d be able to attract a whole lot more. Their message is old and worn out. Their chants are empty platitudes. They live in an echo chamber and prey on the young and stupid – and everyone is beginning to see they’re only in it for the money and fame.

Michael Heaney…blames activist leaders as well, for using confrontational rhetoric as they geared up for the convention. “Both the protest organizers and the police, over the course of this entire year, have been overreacting to each other,” said Heaney…

Well,, again, if they had the numbers you would have see the confrontation. The last big protest the anti-American Left assembled was in January 2007 when they stormed the Capitol and spray-painted their slogans on the steps. That triggered the Gathering of Eagles and Eagles Up movements across the country which has also caused the anti-America crowd step back and take a look at themselves and their behavior. Now they can’t get ten protesters together without attracting counterprotesters. That hurts their morale and affects their numbers.

Category: Antiwar crowd, Gathering of Eagles, Liberals suck, Politics