Now that he just appointed Pickering, do you get it?

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I'm with the angry dingy underpants:

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I've been actually working this afternoon.

Oh and BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! in advance.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/01/16/national1515EST0683.DTL


BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

The way to deal with a bully is not to lay down and take a beating but to fight back.

Not REAL DUers I hope!

;)

Were there really? I didn't read any of the threads so this takes me surprise.

Lot of 'em around lately.

and mighty plentiful as of late

Seems like a recent surge lately. More strategically thought out. The Busheviks gotta do something with that $200,000,000, not to mention all the skim from the stolen loot from the Imperial Subjects of both Ameika and Imperial Freedomstan (formerly Iraq).

I think they succeeded.

What a fragile thing such a movement is. I've never really realized that before.

It's actually pretty scary to think that they've been able to infiltrate us so successfully. I'm not saying that all who disagree with the party line are infiltrators, but I've noticed a lot of "measured" responses lately.

:hi:

I'd say respect for the office of the Presidency is no longer a constant value, like it once was. The MLK protesters that boo'd in front of the cameras were heard. Some of us cheered them on; others were probably offended. The tide rolls in; the tide rolls out. You gotta go where your heart tells you.

They might have had a "silent" protest. She did hold hands with bush* after all. Oh, well.

to Rev King's widow. He invited himself, in a blatant move to grab a photo op and let the taxpayers pick up the tab for his fundraising trip. Boooooooooooooooooooooooo to Chimp.

Not a time for the political. I am only speaking of the protestors.

by showing up uninvited when he was really there for a $2,000/plate fundraiser.

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discussing Bush is PROBABLY germaine to the conversation.

If the birthday of Martin Luther King is not time for the political, which is actually a convenient method for Republicans and the Bush Administration to shame people into submission, (remember Trent Lott at Paul Wellstones funeral - what in the HELL was he doing there? I would have thought it totally appropriate for someone to politely escort him back to his car with him having a temper tantrum all the way back).

so when is a convenient time to be authentic?

He worked for political change his entire adult life.

And B*sh gets protesters practically EVERYWHERE he goes, in the US and overseas. Get used to it. He is hated.

And hating Bush is not enough to win the election with.

"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection. "

"Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured."

"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

"As T. S. Eliot has said: 'The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.'"


I do believe Dr. King would have been booing the loudest.

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But, I believe King approves of what happened. Bush is such a rotten, money grubbing, croney pandering individual. The likes of which would never had power bestowed on them during King's lifetime.

Please do not defile his memory by spouting crap like that.

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Hmmm......

He was more disheartened by that "appalling silence" than by anything.

He would not have been silent, I assure you.


Tansy Gold, who doesn't call people names but thinks them loudly.

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in the face of injustice.

* is injustice personified, and there should never be silence. Never.

You will not silence me.

Because I am

Tansy Gold

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Now, I am not usually one to, as we politely say here, "feed the trolls, but since it's Saturday morning and the poster with whom I was, shall we say, "dialoguing" has been, um, tombstoned, may I simply ask, as rhetorically as I can in this delightful forum, just who got silenced in this exchange?


Ohhhh, I am soooooooo naughty,

but then,

I am still,

Tansy Gold :evilgrin:

And hating bunkerboy is just the first step to win the election with.

All other actions to terminate this piece of shit and all his turds occupying our government fall into place easliy after that!

The protesters booed Bush out of respect for Dr. King's legacy.

It would be like Fred Phelps showing up at Matthew Shepard's grave. It doesn't honor his memory to play nice with a jackass.

Hmmm.....I smell sumthin'

:evilgrin:

He's illegitimate and so is anything he does.

that SOB deserves to be picketed EVERYWHERE HE GOES

in another light... doesn't it. Wanted public "fair and respectful to African Americans" images (on the way to a corporate fundraiser) - to balance out or overshadow any quiet (friday afternoon newscycle) story about Pickering.

Guess they didn't count on the negative PR (the publicity around the protests - there are always protests, but the story is never carried beyond the local news.)

I thought the best thing the protesters did (some of them, anyway) was to challenge those damn "protest zones."

The protesters pushed past Secret Service barricades. They pounded on the sides of three city buses parked on the street in front of King’s tomb to block them from the president’s motorcade.

Two people were arrested for stepping into the street and refusing to move.

I wish more people had done that - massive civil disobediance would highlight the absolute idiocy of limiting protesters' access to the event/person they are protesting.

Of course, its easy for me to say, as I'm here in New Hampshire and wasn't facing Secret Service agents and God knows what other armed federal forces.

They did more then boo the idiot, they struck a blow for the Constitution. They're heroes.

I find the whole concept of removing protesters out-of-site to be repugnant. Apparently they call these things, "free-speech zones." I heard one protester (in another context) say to a secret service agent, "I thought all of America was a free-speech zone?"

Not Bush's America, I guess.

approved of the protestor's actions and reasons. Oh, and a hearty BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO to the Chimp-in-Chief!

Someone here thought it was wrong to boo Bushwa yesterday?

there's some little freep still complaining about it. I haven't seen the original thread.

I advocated that the protesters should have worn all black and everyone had signs saying, GW Bush Hypocrite!!! The booing at that particular occassion put the protesters in a negative light to TV viewers that are not strident anti-Dubya. Seems to me that protests should sway people to join a cause not turn away from it.

I see your point, but the media would have ignored them without some kind of spectacle being created. Anyway, its important that people see that there are a lot of people out there that truly HATE Bush. Moderates and Independents may just start to ask themselves why that is.

towards the CHIMP.

and you can be sure they had LOTS of positive response for their coverage of the story. (CBS esp. and yes, i know, they killed the moveon ad, but that was the business side, NOT the news side)

Everyone needs to make as much noise and as big a stink as possible, otherwise, you will be ignored.

The people there booed because they're pissed, and rightfully so.

Are you saying they should just shut up and be polite as the Chimp egregiously politicizes and tries to make a disgusting photo op out of MLK's b-day while on the way $2,000 a plate dinner and plotting to install Pickering the next day?

They booed his disgusting ass and had every right to do so. There will be NO backlash. What cause are they trying to sway people to? Blackness? No, he brazenly and arrogantly inserted himself into the ceremony and rightfully got booed.

FUCK the Republiclowns.

(By Dion)

Anybody here seen my old friend Martin?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people,
But it seems the good they die young.
I just looked 'round and he's gone.

Didn't you love the things that they stood for?
Didn't they try to find some good for you and me?
And we'll be free
Some day soon, and it's a-gonna be one day ...


So here's to you, chimpy: Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Unless they thought that booing was too good for him.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!



:thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown:

...until Bush packs the Supreme Court if he wins in November. That's an issue that isn't being stressed enough, but is probably the most serious, most long lasting issue that faces this nation, - the character of the Court. Very scary times.

Free speech zones are a small step.

:grr:

Most of the time, I don't have a problem with protesters booing Bush. I yell "Booooo!" at the TV every time I see him, after all. I hate his effing guts.

However, he was the U.S. president, laying a wreath at the grave of Martin Luther King. Though we can view it cynically -- say it was a total photo-op, rude to invite himself, etc. -- I think it shows a lack of respect to a great man (I'm talking MLK, of COURSE) who embodied the liberal ideal, to booooo during the wreath-laying itself.

MLK would ABSOLUTELY have agreed with the protest. But, in this case, a silent protest would have been more appropriate. The protesters would have been shown doing just what MLK would have wanted; they would have come off as respectful to King's memory ... just standing there, silently, with their signs. Our side would have looked so much more classy than the Freeper protesters usually do!!

Once Bush was getting back in the car, however, the booing could start up again.

I don't so much care about showing respect to King's FAMILY ... I think they've besmirched King's memory by being so baldly avaricious -- charging everyone for the use of his words and image and all that. They make me sick.

hardly wait to "hang " him. And snickered.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Leaving a bounced check at the grave of MLKing does not earn Bush any thing but my utter contempt.

and behind a wall of busses, neither seen nor heard. Yup, that's what the cabal wants. Preferably all herded into some "free speech zone" in the middle of a desert. And the "good folks" here can go on riding their moral high horses about King's family being impure. I'm sure King got a lot of advice about how he should have been more polite and respectful and never made any noise.

I don't think the TV Media would have ignored the protesters if the protest was along the lines of my suggestion. In fact I feel that my suggestion would have gotten more attention because it would have been a unique protest.

The booing worked. MUCH PUBLICITY! Case closed.

Being polite doesn't/hasn't.

Guess we should've listened to you during the 60's! NOT!

Thank god we didn't!

Wherever possible, they should have gotten as many people as they could to disregard the "Freedom of Speech Zone" or whatever the f*ck they're calling it now, and push out into the streets as those other two did. Let the police round up and arrest dozens and dozens of protesters peacefully disobeying this practice that is an assault on civil rights.

I suspect that would have brought a lot of publicity, it would have been a little classier than booing someone (even Chimpy) laying a wreath at King's grave, and it would have been as bold a memorial to MLK as there ever could be.

Otherwise a rousing "We shall overcome" might have been sufficient. But for someone who has attacked affirmative action and started an unjust war to honor MLK's grave site is the most inappropriate thing of all.

These Were Truly Patriotic Citizens And I Hope Their Example Will Be

Followed By Others.c

Then they had every right to do what they wanted. Take back America!

Try singin' it sometime.

What it is is spiritual. Not "a" spiritual, but it drives into the spirit, makes the singer take the words to heart. It's a song of dedication and determination.

But rousin', it ain't.

For rousin', I'll take the boos.

Dictionary defines rousing as stirring which is defined as moving. Bush's act should have been moved.

;)

It's our duty of citizens of this country to call him and his cabal on every single thing they do in the raping of this country.

We've seen what sitting back and being polite has gotten us. No more!!

It's not a matter of a difference of opinion anymore.. it's the survival of this country as the democracy our fore fathers fought for.

Certainly not to live in pain and FEAR..."

John Lennon, 1971


Next time you think it's more appropriate to keep silent than to scream when something desperately wrong is going on, you are giving into the forces of FEAR.

Oh, and by the way:

BOOOOO!

100%

the screwed over masses.

"I'm surprised King's arm didn't reach up through that granite and grab that monster by the throat." Or some such. Booing, jeering, throwing turds - nothing would desecrate that site more than allowing that vile loathsome racist murdering hypocritical bastard the opportunity to walk onto that revered spot unopposed. Thanks to those who refused to be caged up and silent and raised their voices against that putrid act. Thanks to them, the site retains its significance as a place where civil rights are honored, and greed and bigotry and warmongering are not tolerated.

Why? It was *ever* so appropriate.

link is funny

nt

W Was appropriately booed. I don't think it is a matter of cause and effect. I think it shows how counterfeit this guy is and people are not allowing MLK's Bday to be held hostage to W's politicking.

BUT, since there was a fundraiser there THAT SAME DAY, he could pawn off the expense on the taxpayers claiming that the trip was officially to lay the wreath at King's grave.

George Bush is a motherfucker.

nt

FUCK bush and his redneck self.

FUCK bush and his racist policies.

FUCK bush and his evil, mean spirited actions.

FUCK bush and his lying, hypocritical, anti-freedom, anti-economy, anti-human, illegitimate, corrupt, smelly ass.

FUCK BUSH!

and I don't really give a FUCK who is offended by it.