Mindless moonbat/polar bear/Bush-haters’ protest of the day
U.S. Capitol Police arrested dozens of protesters who blocked Independence Avenue for short intervals during rush hour this morning, part of a demonstration intended to voice a broad list of complaints about global warming, war and sexism.
Demonstrators from an amalgam of organizations sat down in the road about 8:15 a.m. near Independence and New Jersey avenues, arms and legs intertwined, snarling the usual line of Monday morning commuters.
Police reopened the street after arresting 26 people, prying them apart and dragging them face down to the sidewalk, where they were searched, handcuffed and loaded onto a waiting bus.
But a few minutes later, another small wave of demonstrators stepped onto the asphalt and blocked traffic again. Police took an additional dozen people into custody and reopened the street within about 30 minutes. Demonstrations continued on sidewalks and green spaces nearby, but had shrunk considerably by 10 a.m.
The protest — involving an estimated 200 people at its peak — was part of a series of disruptions and demonstrations that have taken place since Friday, the first day of the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
You’ll love this…Arts and Crafts, moonbat-style:
“War pollutes our democracy, sexism militarizes our bodies,” read one protester’s sign. Several protesters — including some who were eventually arrested — wore polar bear suits, a statement against global warming.
There was a person sporting a giant papier-mache likeness of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and another wearing a similarly oversized mask of President Bush. Yet another demonstrator lugged around an enormous cardboard windmill, erected on three bamboo poles.
The crowd chanted long-familiar street slogans such as “No justice, no peace,” along with newer mantras like “Resistance is forming. No war, no warming.”
As the police closed in, the demonstrators shouted, “Arrest Bush, not kids.”
Guess they decided they got their fill of hitting innocent women with bricks.
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So that’s what those pants with words on the butt do!!!
again the insanity of the left and the inability to be able to keep their thought process on one item at a time is hilarious……..idiots.
This is what some colleges produce…
Sure wish I had that kind of free time. Being an actually useful member of society keeps my schedule kinda full.
The institutions must have allowed freedom to the loonies for a short time (they do need fresh air once in awhile)…..they also promote arts and crafts on a regular basis as therapy.
Mass graves prevent exhalation,
More Saddams are our salvation!
/ sarc
The wind shifts, moon bats appear from nowhere, tangled in people’s hair, leaving vile excrement in their wakes. Is it just me or are these left-wing nutjobs unfunny?
OK…Now I’m really serious…Go get a job!
Wow, do these people work or are they all trustfund babies?
This is classic bleeding heart liberal strategy and it isn’t the first time it has been used. Whenever the liberals want to expand government (frankly any politician for that matter) what they do first is pick an inviting victim. Remember, in the SCHIP debate, it was the children. Well, how about the farmers nearly a hundred years ago? They were struggling when the prices of crops fell and the Federal Farm Bureau was created. That was a six hundred million dollar program then, and in 2012 it is expected to grow to 117 billion dollars.
Here we have the polar bears. We must protect the polar bears, and we must do it at all cost including significantly expanding the size of government. It works everytime. Pull at people’s heart strings and watch them melt. Next thing you know the size of government is bloated, and we wonder how it happens. We all laugh at these tactics and mock them, but make no mistake, they work.
In this post on SCHIP I listed several other examples of politicians finding victims and using them as an excuse to increase the size of government
The only answer is to expose the emotional ploy for what it is and then to throw it back in the politician’s face. Instead of just taking it, we need to proclaim that liberal politicians are using polar bears as political tools so that the size of government gets bloated. No one likes being played and that is what they are doing, but unless we shout to the whole world, no one will know they are being played.
Saw a great bumpersticker, in liberal CA no less!
“Visualize…getting off your hippy ass and getting a job.”
Love it.
If you beat the tar out of them with a stick couldn’t you just claim you were thinking candy would come out?
soap,
hahahahahhahahahhahah
Other than college professor or politician, what are they qualified to do?
Well, let’s see. There’s always “rent-a-mob” because, you never know when or where the World Bank members are going to meet.
They have a job.
Many of these are paid political protesters. They have organizers and PR people and all the other little things that go along with it.
It would be interesting to see the rap sheet on some of these people.
I bet there are some with 15 or more arrests for similar activity and some you will find all spread across the country.
Their organizations fund their travel, books and pamphlets they put out and they are a network that just does not have the body count they did in the VietNam days which was more about people chicken to go put their butts on the line in fighting the war than from the heart anti-war like most wanted you to believe but was plainly just a crock.
Heck of a carbon buttprint.
LOL Heather!
Hey…Hey…Ho…Ho…LBJ’s Got To Go!
Oops…sorry…wrong war!
If you wonder how the polar bears will survive with global warming, go back to 1000 A.D., when there was global warming deluxe. Seems the bears survived. They are still around today. I think they will do just fine. It was so warm then, Northern England grew vinyards. Grapes need a warm environment. Anyway, agriculture boomed, and there was no mass extinctions. People, even animals, did great. And…no…Greenland wasn’t given that name, back then, to trap would-be settlers, either.
Personally, I am glad about the global warming thingy. After the ice age we went through, I am up for some warmer temperatures.
ICE AGE – NEWSWEEK
Last paragraph:
Sound familiar?
Soap, I remember that ice age. It was Dec through Feb of that year…and Newsweek hasn’t gotten any more accurate since then either.
Everyone is against wars, but when has the world been at total peace? The closest perhaps Pax Romana but it still wasn’t total world peace. Those who believe what Jesus said in Mathew 24 that there would be an increase in wars, pestilence and other horrible things in the end days. The Middleast seems to bare this all out. The Islamics will never rest and the resisters won’t submit so therefore there will always be wars. Do these protestors even think on such thoughts?