the Die alte Sau at Bradley Manning protest

[franksolich]

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Oh my.

proud2BlibKansan  (1000+ posts)        Sat Jun-04-11 03:24 PM
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Live blogging from the Bradley Manning rally at Fort Leavenworth 

A couple hundred in attendance. Cops everywhere. A helicopter has been following the rally all day. Started in a park and marched up to the base. Standing in front of the base now.

About 10 counter protesters across the street. Signs calling Manning a traitor. And a guy dressed like a knight - armor suit and all - with a sign that says 'Fry Bradley Manning'. He'll probably die of heat exhaustion. Idiot.

Only a couple of primitive one-sentence comments.

[formerlurker]

hfojvt   (1000+ posts)             Sat Jun-04-11 03:08 PM
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In a Chevy in a hurry on a very warm day to free Brad Manning
   

 
After he got drenched and froze during the making of the video for "The day she left Tulsa (In a Chevy in a Hurry in the pouring down rain)", Wade Hayes joked that he was gonna make his next song "in a Chevy in a hurry on a very warm day".

Having just gone out for an hour on a sweltering summer day in Kansas to see the protest for Bradley Manning, I think there are some obvious disadvantages to very warm days that he might want to consider. I sorta feel like I am melting.

It seemed to be a crowd of about 100, including some newspeople. I recognized Mike Mahoney from KMBC 9 and a van from Fox 4 was driving up as I left. The police presence was not that huge. Not like it was when some dozen anarchists were protesting and metropolitan street was lined with police cars. But there were a number of vehicles at various locations and planes and helicopters flying overhead.

The first speaker (that I heard, I may have been late) was pretty good, and got the crowd involved. He was talking about materialism and militarism, although I could not help noticing some nice cars that had presumably driven hundreds of miles to get here. After sitting back in the shade, I offered a cold bottle of water to a couple standing in the sun. After watering my plants before going, I thought I should bring some water for the protestors, but I was happy to see a guy handing out water bottles from a case.

I talked to the couple a bit. They were standing back, so I wondered if they were counter protestors. They said they were curious, having no idea what this was about or that this guy was even here. So I talked to them a bit and talked to the cameraman from KMBC. There were more speakers and as the third guy asked the veterans to come forward, I left to check out the scene on metropolitan, which was less fortified than I expected.

They said they were anticipating 300 to 1,000 but it did not seem nearly that large to me, but people were trickling away or standing over a block away in the shade even when I first got there, and three more were leaving even as I left. I think I saw Proud2Blib there, so she may have a different report, and I will see what the local media says.

Ahg, I have been home twenty minutes now and still haven't cooled off. I got a shipment of books today, before I left. "American Indian: Holocaust and survival" by Russell Thornton, "American Holocaust" by David Stannard, and "A little matter of genocide" by Ward Churchill. So better to be inside reading, than outside listening to speeches on a very warm day.

Oh yeah, there was a guy with a big sign that said "Free Manning, Jail Obama" and plenty of cameras. One guy towards the front was apparently being interviewed even while the others spoke.

I don't know which to believe -- a lot of cops, not a lot of cops.  A lot of people, not a lot of people.

So confusing. 


 

So better to be inside reading, than outside listening to speeches on a very warm day.

Absolutely.   That's standing for something misfit!

[Ballygrl]

It's at 0 recs, hmm.

[GOBUCKS]

Even poor, stupid Beth seems to have abandoned the pathetic homo traitor. I wonder what's up with that.
Maybe Beth is preoccupied by her eviction from the camper. Her living conditions may be worse than Li'l Brad's.

[Big Dog]

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Oh my.

Only a couple of primitive one-sentence comments.

After hearing Kansas Public Radio's "ad" for the protest (not-so-cleverly disguised as a news story), I thought about riding over to Ft. Leavenworth and checking it out. But then I thought of seeing the menopausal Die alte Sau primitive sweating in the summer sun and hearing her screeching like a raccoon with a rash, and I decided to ride to Kansas City for a cigar, a beer, and some barbecue instead.

I made the right choice. 

[ArmoredSaint]

And a guy dressed like a knight - armor suit and all - with a sign that says 'Fry Bradley Manning'. He'll probably die of heat exhaustion. Idiot.

Hello.

I am the guy dressed as a knight in armour who carried the "Fry Bradley Manning" sign as a counterprotestor yesterday.  It might disappoint the Democratic Underground fellow to learn that I did not, in fact, succumb to heat exhaustion (though I did suffer from a bit of dehydration).

I'm not sure that I accept their estimate of 200-250 people at their protest; it looked like maybe 100 or so at most.

[franksolich]

Hello.

I am the guy dressed as a knight in armour who carried the "Fry Bradley Manning" sign as a counterprotestor yesterday.  It might disappoint the Democratic Underground fellow to learn that I did not, in fact, succumb to heat exhaustion (though I did suffer from a bit of dehydration).

I'm not sure that I accept their estimate of 200-250 people at their protest; it looked like maybe 100 or so at most.

Oh my.

You're not aware of it, sir, but you were within reach of the Top Primitive of 2010, the bitter old Die alte Sau.  It's a very rare and high honor, being named Top Primitive.

It's too bad you didn't know, because maybe you could've gotten her autograph.

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,53374.0.html

But at any rate, sir, welcome, and make yourself comfortable here.

[JohnnyReb]

Hello.

I am the guy dressed as a knight in armour who carried the "Fry Bradley Manning" sign as a counterprotestor yesterday.  It might disappoint the Democratic Underground fellow to learn that I did not, in fact, succumb to heat exhaustion (though I did suffer from a bit of dehydration).

I'm not sure that I accept their estimate of 200-250 people at their protest; it looked like maybe 100 or so at most.

Well, seems one of us is prepared to go on a crusade.

[miskie]

I'm not sure that I accept their estimate of 200-250 people at their protest; it looked like maybe 100 or so at most.

They are prone to exaggerate or underestimate as it suits them.  Just look at their number estimates for the Restoring Honor rally vs the One Nation rally. And if one presents photo evidence to the contrary, they immediately claim the photo was doctored, taken at the most/least opportune time,  or from another unrelated event.

BTW - they claim Restoring Honor got +-87K and One Nation got +-175K, even though photos claim otherwise.   

[Skul]

The latest and greatest.

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Looks like maybe a hundred people.
Check some of those tee-shirts.

 

[GOBUCKS]

Is there a smiling moonbat in the lot?
They don't exactly look like people you'd want to have a beer with.

[DumbAss Tanker]

After hearing Kansas Public Radio's "ad" for the protest (not-so-cleverly disguised as a news story), I thought about riding over to Ft. Leavenworth and checking it out. But then I thought of seeing the menopausal Die alte Sau primitive sweating in the summer sun and hearing her screeching like a raccoon with a rash, and I decided to ride to Kansas City for a cigar, a beer, and some barbecue instead.

I made the right choice. 

Reading between the lines of her post, it sounds like about 80% of those in attendance were there to see the freakshow rather than protest themselves.

[Big Dog]

Reading between the lines of her post, it sounds like about 80% of those in attendance were there to see the freakshow rather than protest themselves.

Imagine the smell, DAT. Patchouli, stale marijuana smoke, and unwashed armpits.

Kinda like an old VW van sitting in the sun with a cheese sandwich left under the seat.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Imagine the smell, DAT. Patchouli, stale marijuana smoke, and unwashed armpits.

Kinda like an old VW van sitting in the sun with a cheese sandwich left under the seat.

That's why they always burn incense, it's not to cover the smell of the pot (Which it isn't strong enough to hide anyway), it's to cover up the funk.  Same reason the Arabs use it, of course they have the excuse of coming from a region and culture which didn't have any water to spare for bathing. 

[Karin]

Took a look at the pictures.  Quite a bunch of aging hippies.  At least Code Pink kept their clothes on. 

[true_blood]

proud2BlibKansan  (1000+ posts)        Sat Jun-04-11 03:24 PM
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Live blogging from the Bradley Manning rally at Fort Leavenworth A couple hundred in attendance. Cops everywhere. A helicopter has been following the rally all day. Started in a park and marched up to the base. Standing in front of the base now. About 10 counter protesters across the street. Signs calling Manning a traitor. And a guy dressed like a knight - armor suit and all - with a sign that says 'Fry Bradley Manning'. He'll probably die of heat exhaustion. Idiot.

Let's see. A guy dressed up in a knight's armor suit to protest a traitor's rally and you psychotic liberals all support a traitor. And you're not the crazy ones?!?!
 

[Ballygrl]

Hello.

I am the guy dressed as a knight in armour who carried the "Fry Bradley Manning" sign as a counterprotestor yesterday.  It might disappoint the Democratic Underground fellow to learn that I did not, in fact, succumb to heat exhaustion (though I did suffer from a bit of dehydration).

I'm not sure that I accept their estimate of 200-250 people at their protest; it looked like maybe 100 or so at most.

Very cool!