Weekly Report on Saturday White House Protests
August 6 2005
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Photos from Alana B, thanks!
This beautiful Saturday at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue it was Matt C, Matt R,
Danielle G, Eric A... and best of all...guitarist and singer Midge P playing
her original protest anthems!! Joe "Tricky Dick" H. would like to make one
thing perfectly clear...he will be back next week.
Photos from Alana B, thanks!
Many of our other colleagues attended the anti-nuke-war rally in Lafayette
Park that same morning, the 60th anniversary of the destruction of Hiroshima.
Our weekly White House protest gets more international each week, and our
tactics change and improve.
Now we just lay our couple dozen placards out on the ground where tourists can
pick up the ones they want for their photos. This way several photo sessions
can be going on at once. And there are always blank placards and pens for
those willing to make a neatly lettered and clever one for us. One photo that
is increasingly popular is a shot of all the placards in a dozen languages and
colors arranged on the pavement.
The damn thing just runs itself now. I estimate several hundred photos are
taken of tourists holding our protest placards with the White House in the
background every single saturday...photos carry our protest message around the
planet.
I love our new German placard "RASIER DEINER BUSH" ( Shave the Bush! ).
Our Arabic placard is toned down a little and says simply:
"No Peace is No Life".
I still don't know what the Russian placard says, but when the Muscovites see
it they start to chuckle and won't stop clicking pics until everyone has one.
Some Polish grandmothers were at first indignant at our Polish placard. I
think it means something naughty! I don't read Polish! The Grammas'
indignation soon gave way to schoolgirl giggling while they ALL posed with the
placard.
The Italian placard says "BUSH IN GALERA", Alexis...is this OK or can ya come
up with something better? That's "Bush In Jail", right?
We can now offer White House Protest photo ops in English, French, Spanish,
Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Finnish, Persian, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, and
Italian. The Chinese and Korean signs have a dot in one corner so we know
which side is up.
Every saturday, at least one or two idiots will try to stir up trouble:
Some Israelis came by and gave us a real hard time, but we gave it back much
harder. We have heard it all before, and are always prepared to debate. While
I love the jewish people in general, I think most of us Americans can agree
it's time to get the Israelis out of our government. Time to stop fighting
wars for Israel, and time to stop bankrolling Israeli aggression. It seems
that the intelligence community and even the justice department is getting the
message...witness the long-awaited indictments of Israeli spies Keith Weissman
and Steven Rosen last week.
The Likudites informed me that I was a Nazi. Any criticism of Likud government
policy makes you a Nazi, didn't you know? It doesn't matter how many of your
relatives bit the dust for the allies in 1945.
It's a shame because one Israeli family invited me to lunch in Lafayette Park
a month ago. Wonderful folks.
One lardazz Texas beeyotch-in-boots inexplicably dropped a dollar at my feet,
then grabbed my "BUCK FUSH" sign and tore it in half. I ratted her out to the
Secret Service who took her to the woodshed. The dollar sat at my feet for a
while then the wind blew it away, damned if I was going to touch it. Bush fans
are such idiots.
Six days a week I search for software engineering work in a Bush economy has
given me the choice of
1) selling out my principles and working for the military-industrial
complex...or
2) fighting for the leftover scraps with the hundreds of thousands of H1B
engineers he lets in to make sure my wage is a quarter of what it used to be,
should I be lucky enough to land a job. And never having any idea what my FBI
( or Mossad ) file is saying about me.
One day out of the week I come out to the White House to complain about this
disastrous war that is nothing more than a scam to further concentrate wealth
and power in the hands of Bush's buddies.
YOU should come out and complain too. See everyone there next Saturday...every
Saturday until the last American soldier comes home.