The protest was an anti-war protest. It was led by ANSWER which is an honest to god communist front organization, with it's board being members of the SWP(Socialist Workers Party) and CPA(Communist Party of America).
The biggest thing that brought me out was the Anarchists threatening to spray paint and take hammers to the Vietnam War Memorial (the wall), after I signed on we found out we weren't going to be permitted to carry flags, so of course the order of the day was bring a flag. Needless to say none of the cops there was about to wrestle a flag away from a vet. I even met one DC cop there who was in American flag face paint, just got off duty, he had his riot helmet strapped to his backpack, it was kind of funny. There were a great many people there talking about and protesting over things that had nothing at all to do with the war in Iraq. Some guy from SWP was walking around wearing a shirt with Chairman Mao's picture on it, shouting about totalitarian practices of our government and how they were murderers and war criminals. The best was this one dude from China got all in his face. His family had gotten out when he was an adult, and he was screaming at this dude about how he should go check it out and live there some time, he didn't think that the PRC would allow him to do what he was doing they'd probably just mail his family his remains and the bill for the bullet used to execute him. Another great thing was when one speaker got up and talked about how badly we needed peace, and the next was chanting "No justice, No peace". > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Ihrig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 11:35 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Gathering of eagles > > what was the protest over? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:230645 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
