Salt Lake sounds off in protest and support

By Heather May
and Christopher Smart
The Salt Lake Tribune

A crowd of thousands cheered Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson for calling President Bush a "dishonest, war-mongering, human-rights violating president" whose time in office would "rank as the worst presidency our nation has ever had to endure."

The group - including children and elderly and some hailing from throughout Utah - then marched to the federal building Wednesday to deliver a copy of a symbolic indictment against the president and Congress for abuse of power and failure to uphold the U.S. Constitution.

With their signs labeling Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld the "axis of evil," calling the Iraq war a "mission of lies" or comparing the invasion of Iraq after Sept. 11, 2001, to invading Mexico after Pearl Harbor, the estimated 1,500 to 4,000 protesters hoped their demonstration at the Salt Lake City-County Building sent a message about the reddest state in the country.

"If they lack support in Utah, my God they're in trouble," the Rev. Tom Goldsmith of the First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City told the lively gathering between protest songs and banner waving.

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course there are a lot of good people there.

the heads of the Church of Latter Day Saints that the feds should investigate for making the state into a theocracy. However, not this federal government but the next one that still thinks the Constitution is the law of our land.

none on Yahoo that I have seen.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2018747

It is one of the best speeches I have heard!!!!

He and KO have set the tone to call what they see as GOP Fascism via the BushCo... Awesome SHIFT we are witnessing....