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veracity Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 10:18 PM
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Protests Ignored by Media: Deja Vu all over again...
In case you forgot.... it's what happened every single time from before the war through the post war rallies...to the RNC convention in NYC.

One moving account of an earlier rally in NYC tells it all:

The Invisible Protesters
How the Media Campaigns for Bush

Thousands of us came to protest George Bush’s presence in New York City yesterday. We stood ten-deep in pens set up by the city’s finest, and filled four long city blocks near the Sheraton Hotel. Organized groups had come from Planned Parenthood and Brooklyn Parents for Peace. Others had been mobilized by International A.N.S.W.E.R. and United for Peace. And thousands of others had come on their own carrying home-made signs reading, Jail to the Chief, and Where are the WMD’S? or waving yellow flyers that simply said, LIAR! It’s difficult to believe, but all of us were about to become invisible.

Full article:
http://tvnewslies.org/html/readers_write.html#InvisibleProtesters


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elperromagico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 10:20 PM
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1. And you wonder why the GOP's so big on the Schiavo case?
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