Anti-war protesters arrested near White House

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HarveyDarkey  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Mar-19-11 07:20 PM
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Anti-war protesters arrested near White House
   
By ERIC TUCKER
The Associated Press


WASHINGTON — More than 100 anti-war protesters, including the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, were arrested outside the White House on Saturday in demonstrations marking the eighth anniversary of the U.S.-led war in Iraq.

The protesters, some shouting anti-war slogans and singing "We Shall Not Be Moved," were arrested after ignoring orders to move away from the gates of the White House. The demonstrators cheered loudly as Daniel Ellsberg, the former military analyst who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon's secret history of the Vietnam War that was later published in major newspapers, was arrested and led away by police.

Similar protests marking the start of the Iraq war were also planned Saturday in Chicago, San Francisco and other cities.

The demonstration in Washington on Saturday merged varied causes, including protesters demanding a U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan as well as those supporting Bradley Manning, the jailed Army private suspected of giving classified documents to the website Wikileaks.

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They were protesting against the scary black man in the oval office. 

Critters2  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Mar-19-11 07:21 PM
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1. Suppression of free speech. Someone should insist on a no-fly zone! nt

The Northerner  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Mar-19-11 07:24 PM
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3. K&R for the protestors

WHEN CRABS ROAR  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Mar-19-11 07:25 PM
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4. Freedom to assemble has been revoked, rebels beaten,
   
call China for help.

If there were calls for frogmarching, impeachment, etc I would swear this was an old thread from before 2009. 

[BEG]

They must have finally noticed their hypocrisy and decided to save face.

[LC EFA]

They must have finally noticed their hypocrisy and decided to save face.

The story does specifically state they're protesting the Iraq war.

Oh the irony.

[BEG]

The story does specifically state they're protesting the Iraq war.

Oh the irony.

LOL, pathetic.