So the Gore "new aristocracy" plans to have 20,000 there? I imagine of this 20,000 over a a third will be security agencies - everything from the CIA to the Special Ops to the FBI to the Army, Navy and Marines....... History repeats itself - oh the prophecies of Daniel and Ezekial they would fulfill - but none dare call it premeditated murder by prophecy? Remember JFK......the date he was sworn in a elderly man had planned on bombing the stand but was caught by secret service in advance - he said JFK stole the election, and bought the election for this is the propaganda Jean Dixon was putting out - this self ordained "divine" prophetess astrologer who passed herself off as a Catholic......and once said she slept in bed with giant snake that was he anti Christ - and this guy was born February 5, 1962? This woman was on payroll of the Hearst family.........and King Syndicate........ Imagine Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson's crowd - the ones they threatened to turn loose in the street - with thousands of eyes watching them? And Hill and Bill - departing finally - it is like the week before Christmas when you are a kid and you can hardly wait to see them leave. Now the ratings are high - for the parade route is being advertised and CNN and MSNBC hope for a few fatalities to boost ratings - maybe Clinton can arrange something before he leaves.......why does he look so afraid? The conspirators using the Holy Bible as a Master Plan for Murder better be most careful for there are those in the Eagles Nest who have birdseye view and advance warning of the conspirator's plan..... Will the Black Panthers be there with their little Uzis? What is more fun than a protest - the Gay Flag will be waving over the Stars and Stripes - but I am waiting to see the Southern Cross on the horizon. Saba Here is planned route - almost like JFK's trip to Dallas and route which was highly publicized and changed at last minute?.......hope Eric Rudolph is there in disguise - so who will be raising the Baby Body parts for sale? Parade route to see pomp, protests New era of demonstrations, policies make unusual mix Scott Scheffer gets help from Sue Kelly in mounting a speaker on a vehicle so they can protest the inauguration. By David Montgomery THE WASHINGTON POST Jan. 14 — The renaissance of political street protests, bolstered by a bitterly close election and abetted by a change in National Park Service practices, is transforming Saturday's inaugural parade route from the familiar flag-waving corridor into a gantlet of demonstrators. 'We know now a big part of the population actually agrees with us, but they don't want to come to a demonstration and get beat up by police and get tear-gassed.' — BRIAN BECKER Co-director of the New York City-based International Action Center A HALF-DOZEN GROUPS have received Park Service permits to protest directly along the 13-block section of Pennsylvania Avenue that George W. Bush will travel, and there are permits for rallies at McPherson Square, the Ellipse and Dupont Circle and near the Supreme Court. Still other groups plan to sow the area with squads no larger than 25 — small enough that they don't need a permit. More Post coverage•Security tightened for Inauguration Day•The 2001 Inauguration: Post stories, features, more The quadrennial patriotic celebration, which is usually spared outspoken expressions of ideological rancor, this year is likely to look more like other large public gatherings in contemporary America, where partisans of all stripes seek to command attention. The traditional pomp and circumstance will be shaken and stirred with camp and remonstrance. MORE THAN 20,000 PROTESTERS EXPECTED Altogether, protesters predict upward of 20,000 demonstrators mixed into a parade audience that inaugural planners expect to number 150,000. The Park Service resisted giving permits to demonstrators along America's Main Street four years ago for President Clinton's second inaugural parade. But an antiabortion group sued, and the day before the parade it won a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. This year, citing the case, Mahoney v. Babbitt, the Park Service approved all 13 requests for demonstration permits. Some groups had applied for multiple permits. While organizers have vowed to conduct peaceful and legal gatherings, 16 federal and local law enforcement agencies led by the Secret Service are taking unprecedented security steps. More officers than ever will be on duty—at least 6,800 — and it will be the first inaugural parade in American history for which those attending must pass through police checkpoints. The demonstrators range from the professionally outraged who had planned to be in town no matter who won the election, to first timers radicalized by the vote count in Florida, to those who oppose the protesters and want to stage counter-demonstrations. MILITANTS AND THE MAINSTREAM Young militants who blocked streets and were arrested protesting the World Trade Organization in Seattle and the World Bank in Washington will rub shoulders with the middle-aged moderates of the Gore Majority and the self-styled "good government Americans" of Voter March. "We're mainstream middle America," said Jim Mazur, 39, a management consultant from Vienna who founded the Gore Majority, which plans to rally at Third Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW with signs saying "Silenced Majority." "We're not the radical protesters of the WTO; we're a bunch of men and women in khakis," Mazur added. "We're ticked at the way Bush stole the election." And yet, for this inauguration, someone like Mazur, whose clients are oil companies, can find common cause with a critic of global capitalism like Adam Eidinger, 27, organizer of World Bank and inauguration protests. Mazur explained the amount of protest energy with almost the same sentiments as Eidinger, of the Justice Action Movement, who said, "There are a lot of people out there who now realize that the government is not in their hands anymore." But there are also a lot of people who firmly believe the system worked and democracy is strong. Tens of thousands of them will be in the crowd as spectators. Others will be in the streets, conservative activists committed to countering the messages of their opposite numbers. The National Patriots' March is a pro-Bush demonstration set to begin at the Supreme Court and proceed to the Mall. It is being organized by LoudCitizen.com, a group started after the election by a 23-year-old computer programmer in Jacksonville, Fla., and the Northern Virginia GOP Political Action Committee, headed by a more established political consultant. According to Kevin Conner, the founder of LoudCitizen.com, the purposes of the rally are to celebrate Bush's inauguration, "defend the will of the people as expressed in the election," promote "a more diverse conservative movement" by including minority speakers and show that liberals aren't the only people who can be activists. LITTLE PROTEST MOST YEARS Most years, demand for protest permits on the parade route is small. Members of the party that won the presidency show up to celebrate, along with respectful losers and tourists. Richard M. Nixon's second inaugural in 1973, when the country was torn by the Vietnam War, drew the largest protest demonstrations in memory, but they took place largely near the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument. Some demonstrators did line the parade route that year, and a group at 14th Street NW threw rotten fruit and stones. Advertisement The Case Against Hillary ClintonHillary's ChoiceAn Invitation to the White House This year is different. There's not a single burning issue, like a war. But the 10 major groups are animated by a variety of reasons. As in 1973, they are moved to take to the streets—this time with permits to get close to the parade. "It's because the country and the voters are so closely split, and because the split is along issue lines that are passionately held," said Patricia Ireland, president of the National Organization for Women, which plans to rally on Pennsylvania Avenue between Eighth and Ninth streets NW, and fan out in groups of 25. "The advocates feel that the consequences are so much longer-term than just this administration. It's kind of extreme in all ways." A couple of blocks from the NOW protest will be the Christian Defense Coalition, led by the Rev. Patrick Mahoney, who said he is savoring the irony of facilitating, through his 1997 court battle, the protests of so many people he disagrees with. Even though Bush has staked out antiabortion positions, the coalition does not plan to let up the pressure and is calling on the next president to rescind pro-choice executive orders that Clinton signed when he took office. "It's very easy to make campaign promises," said Mahoney, 47, a Presbyterian minister. "But will they be fulfilled?" CONTINUATION OF 1999 DEMONSTRATIONS Brian Becker, co-director of the New York City-based International Action Center, said that for many groups, the inaugural protests are a continuation of the series of demonstrations that began in Seattle in November 1999, continued last spring in Washington outside the World Bank, and were followed by demonstrations over the summer at the political conventions and at World Bank meetings abroad. "The Seattle protests signaled the beginning of a new era," said Becker, 48. "The class polarization of society has given birth to another kind of civil rights movement." And yet, he acknowledges, the "new era" would have produced a much smaller gathering for the inauguration without the voting controversy in Florida. Becker's group, with an anti-death penalty, racial justice agenda, had planned to protest the new president, whoever he was. Suddenly, after Florida, there were more protesters to join them. Sensing an opportunity to graduate to more of a mass movement, the radicals are toning down their methods. Before the World Bank protests, they promised to blockade streets. This time, they say they will eschew civil disobedience. Their lawyers have asked the police to describe in detail what actions are legal. "We fashioned our tactics to the moment when the movement is on the verge of broadening its base to a large section of the population," said Becker, whose group obtained permits to rally at Freedom Plaza and the Justice Department on Pennsylvania Avenue, as well as at McPherson Square. "We know now a big part of the population actually agrees with us, but they don't want to come to a demonstration and get beat up by police and get tear-gassed." KEEPING THE PEACE Becker and other organizers said they suspect that police may use the checkpoints to confiscate banners or deter protesters from reaching the parade. D.C. police respond that they will be checking bags for weapons at the checkpoints, and they will not allow signs with wooden stakes larger than three-quarter of an inch square, the Park Service standard for signs in front of the White House. With so many Bush protesters in close proximity with Bush supporters, the police say they may have to keep the peace between partisans. Protest organizers also admit that small clusters of activists whom they can't control could attempt civil disobedience. As Bush's limousine begins the crawl up Pennsylvania Avenue, the scene will offer a primer on American dissent at the dawn of the new millennium. First will be the Gore Majority. Next to it will be the Oral Majority, a Miami-based group founded 25 years ago to support gay rights but now in the thick of investigations of alleged voter disenfranchisement. "Our focus is going to be to make sure the entire parade knows that Bush stole the election," said Bob Kunst, 58, founder of the group. Next will be the Christian Defense Coalition . . . then NOW . . . then International Action Center with permits on both sides of the avenue. All along the route will be small clusters organized by the Justice Action Movement, anti-corporate activists protesting what they call the "InaugurAuction." In Pershing Park, near the White House, will be the Day of Outrage crowd. "Bush represents to us a white, particularly a white male, backlash against black progress," said Malik Shabazz, a lawyer and an organizer of the group. 'AN EXTREME ISSUE' Arriving like reinforcements at this point in the parade will be the Voter March. "I don't normally do marches," said Robert Rogers, 63, a retired test pilot from Oakton, an organizer of the march drawing people from around the country. But this time he and his allies feel so strongly that something wrong happened in Florida that they are marching. "The public will forget Florida if we don't try to get something going here soon," he said. "By taking to the streets, I hate to use the word 'radicalize,' but we've made it an extreme issue in terms of energy and time." Meanwhile, up at the Supreme Court, civil rights activists led by former D.C. delegate Walter Fauntroy, and New York's Al Sharpton will have "sworn in" the participants in their rally to protect the Voting Rights Act of 1965, while the pro-Bush patriots march will have left the court to come down to the parade. Finally, when Bush turns the corner onto the section of Pennsylvania Avenue at the White House, he should be in the clear. The reviewing stands he sees there will be teeming with VIPs and supporters with connections, people who have passed through special checkpoints. Their permits will be their exclusive tickets. 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