Lockdown in DC: Unprecedented Security For Bush Inauguration and Protests

[ASsman]

Washington DC is in a state of lockdown for the most heavily guarded presidential inauguration in history. Along with the customary inauguration address and parade, a number of protests are being planned in Washington and around the country. We speak with Shahid Buttar, a member of the Guerilla Poetry Insurgency affinity group for the anti-inauguration protests and Mark Goldstone, of the Demonstration Support Committee for the National Lawyers Guild. Washington DC is in a state of lockdown amid unprecedented levels of security. Fences, barriers and roadblocks have been erected across the city and 7,000 law enforcement agents from more than 100 federal, state and local agencies are on patrol. Heavily armed Coast Guard boats will patrol the Potomac River. Snipers have taken up positions on rooftops, bomb-sniffing dogs are on patrol and so-called Patriot anti-missile batteries are stationed near the Capitol.

The entire area around Capitol Hill and the White House has been cordoned off, and more than 100 streets will be off-limits to traffic with the inauguration designated a national special-security event.

Flight restrictions over Washington for private aircraft have been expanded, and pilots are being warned that they risk being shot down if they stray into restricted areas and don't respond to warnings.

The so-called nerve center for the most heavily guarded presidential inauguration in history is in a futuristic command post in Northern Virginia. Inside a gleaming steel-and-marble complex, the Secret Service and 50 federal, state and local agencies will monitor action in the sky, on the ground and in the subway system. Giant plasma screens will beam in live video from helicopters and cameras at the U.S. Capitol, along the parade route and at other areas. Officials will be able to track fighter jets patrolling the skies and call up three-dimensional maps of downtown.

Washington officials are upset that the federal government has told them to use homeland security grants to pay costs associated with the inauguration. Mayor Anthony Williams estimated the inauguration would cost the city over $17 million.

More than half a million people are expected to attend the ceremony today and along with the customary inauguration address and parade, a number of protests are being planned in Washington and around the country.

Along the parade route, thousands of people will "Turn Their Backs on Bush." An anti-war march through Malcolm X park will conclude with a "die-in."

Military families and veterans will speak out at an "Eyes Wide Open" exhibit. The exhibit includes a pair of boots honoring each U.S. military casualty in the Iraq war and a wall of remembrance to memorialize the Iraqis killed.

A "Black Gold and Boots" event will be held outside the official "Black Tie and Boots" inaugural ball and a "Got Freedom?" Ball, outside the official Freedom Ball. Across the country, a campaign called "Not One Damn Dime" is calling for a 24-hour national boycott of all forms of consumer spending.

More than 100 counter-inaugural events are planned in communities throughout the country - from Omaha to Fresno to Atlanta to New York City. They range from picnics against the president to funerals for the American Dream to drumming circles for peace.

* Mark Goldstone, chair of the Demonstration Support Committee of the Washington DC chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.
* Shahid Buttar, a Washington DC-based lawyer and a member of the Guerilla Poetry Insurgency affinity group for the anti-inauguration protests. He also is a member of the Resistance Media Collective in DC.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/20/1522241
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Missed the speech.. but I doubt I missed out on anything spectacular. Anyone like to outline it for everyone..point out all the BS and such.

[100% ILL]

Here's a good one.

Anarchists Against the Bush Inauguration

http://auto_sol.tao.ca/node/view/1075

This January, let the world see not a display of American Patriotism from the right and American ?free speech? from the left but a massive resistance to the latest representation of 200+ years of murder, slavery, greed and genocide that has been the American way from George Washington to George W. Bush. There's nothing left to salvage in this empire that is the U.S. government. It's time to bring it down.

We Are Resisting

[Whois]

Anyone else laughing at the fact that the president of a representative republic says he'll bring democracy to the world?

:rolleyes:

[Whois]

I saw pics of Carter and Clinton walking down Penn Ave during their inaugurations....why can't Bush?

Too many eggs and rotton tomatoes?

[EN[i]GMA]

Here's a good one.

Anarchists Against the Bush Inauguration

http://auto_sol.tao.ca/node/view/1075

This January, let the world see not a display of American Patriotism from the right and American ?free speech? from the left but a massive resistance to the latest representation of 200+ years of murder, slavery, greed and genocide that has been the American way from George Washington to George W. Bush. There's nothing left to salvage in this empire that is the U.S. government. It's time to bring it down.

We Are Resisting

12:12 p.m. ET
Not So Peaceful Peace Rally
Hundreds of people gathered at both ends of Meridian Hill Park in Northwest Washington for a peace rally sponsored by the D.C Antiwar Network.

But there were interlopers: Thirteen members of ProtestWarror, supporting the Bush administration and its policies in Iraq. When the Bush supporters arrived, about 20 black-clad, self-described anarchists emerged from the crowd, shouting profanity and epithets and demanding that they leave the peace rally.

When the Bush supporters refused to leave, the anarchists tore the signs out of the Bush supporters' hands and stomped on them. When ProtestWarrior leader Gil Kobrin objected, several male anarchists knocked him to the ground, kicking him in the back and punching him. Other anarchists punched and shoved Kobrin's 12 colleagues.

After D.C. Antiwar Network members broke up the fight, the Bush supporters heeded their order to leave the park. Kobrin then called D.C. police, who are now guarding them at the entrance of the park as they hold up their pro-war signs. "We're going to hang tight," Kobrin said. "We're expressing our freedom of speech just as they are expressing theirs." --Robert MacMillan


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/administration/inauguration05/blog/day_4.html



Resisting by beating up people who disagree with you? How magnanimous.

[Whois]

GMA']

Resisting by beating up people who disagree with you? How magnanimous.

If they acted like any of the PWs I've met then they pretty much brought it on themselves.

They go and find the groups most likely to respond to insults and then egg them on with a stream of insults and other crap until someone gets pissed off and takes a swing.

Then the PWs are all "LOOK, THEY'RE BEING VIOLENT!"...

Fuck'em

[D_Raay]

Der Fuehrer must be protected!!!!!!!

[100% ILL]

Der Fuehrer must be protected!!!!!!!

you might like this then


http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200210/NAT20021023a.html

[Echewta]

Freedom is security.

[EN[i]GMA]

If they acted like any of the PWs I've met then they pretty much brought it on themselves.

They go and find the groups most likely to respond to insults and then egg them on with a stream of insults and other crap until someone gets pissed off and takes a swing.

Then the PWs are all "LOOK, THEY'RE BEING VIOLENT!"...

Fuck'em

So because someone says something you don't like, they deserve to be physically attacked?

Whatever happend to freedom of speech?

It's the point of PW to illict those responses. They are attempting to show the "intellectual bankruptcy" of the left, and people like that are making it easy.

Honestly, reread your post. You condone violence in order to quell someone's political opinion and than try to act indignant? That shit doesn't fly.

[Whois]

GMA']So because someone says something you don't like, they deserve to be physically attacked?

Whatever happend to freedom of speech?

It's the point of PW to illict those responses. They are attempting to show the "intellectual bankruptcy" of the left, and people like that are making it easy.

Honestly, reread your post. You condone violence in order to quell someone's political opinion and than try to act indignant? That shit doesn't fly.

Wow, too fucking bad...seems to work for those in power.

Violence seems to be the 'in' thing...

:rolleyes:

"Whatever happend to freedom of speech?"

Good question...what did ever happen to it?

[EN[i]GMA]

Wow, too fucking bad...seems to work for those in power.

Violence seems to be the 'in' thing...

:rolleyes:

"Whatever happend to freedom of speech?"

Good question...what did ever happen to it?

That's great.

Now do you have anything worthwhile to say?

[ASsman]

Honestly, reread your post. You condone violence in order to quell someone's political opinion and than try to act indignant? That shit doesn't fly.
Violence should only be used to remove the government currently in power.. not to shutup ignorant little pricks.
Now spitting in their faces... that's different.

[EN[i]GMA]

Violence should only be used to remove the government currently in power.. not to shutup ignorant little pricks.
Now spitting in their faces... that's different.

Good luck with that revolution, you're going to need it.

[ASsman]

Yah you wait and see, I'll get all those 15yro Pro-Kerry veagan girls on my side. Then I will be unstopable!... We, we will be unstopable.

[EN[i]GMA]

Yah you wait and see, I'll get all those 15yro Pro-Kerry veagan girls on my side. Then I will be unstopable!... We, we will be unstopable.

Those girls are sluts. Their STDs will prevent them from fighting with you.

Your plan is doomed.

[ASsman]

Hahaha, if they aren't they soon will be! Hahah, weeh, free STDs for everyone underage.

When cherries are red they are ready for plucking. When girls are 16 they are ready for..

No but really, I wanted to see Bush in a Pope-Mobile, just waiving.

[EN[i]GMA]

Hahaha, if they aren't they soon will be! Hahah, weeh, free STDs for everyone underage.

When cherries are red they are ready for plucking. When girls are 16 they are ready for..

Holding hands?

It's either that or fucking. I'm not sure which.

[ASsman]

French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin

"President Bush has built up enough experience ... in the past four years, so I expect he will continue to actively contribute to world peace and stability under international co-ordination."

What a cock sucker.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair

"We congratulate President George W. Bush. We are happy that one of our best friends is going to lead his nation."

Bloody cock sucker. Total bugger too.

Oh but they forgot about everyone else.

Everyone Else
Fuck you asshole! Thanks for spreading peace around the world, and contributing to the stability by blowing the foundation to shit! Best friends? Best friends don't let other friends do drugs... or start illegal wars based on a bunch of fucking rubish!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4193047.stm

[Whois]

Bush wants to stop tyranny?

He should start by fucking shooting himself...
(y)

[GreenEarthAl]

I agre with Enigma again. It would be beneficial if we all had a unified revolution all posessing the self-discipline to abstain from responding to the agitators.

We're not likely to get that. The PWs know that if they go around poking at enough people they will find the young passionate 18 year old kid who has a friend serving in thes oil wars or a really pissed off granola-radical who never knew anything about imperialism and just suddenly read Chomsky and is now so pissed that she want's to "really" demonstrate. If they go around aggitating, some of the protesters are going to react. All they need is a tiny spark to start a flame.

[ASsman]

I say leave it to those crazy Anarchist, they'll start shit. Then everyone can say "Meh, wasn't us peaceful protestors.. it was those crazy Anarchist kids".

[EN[i]GMA]

I say leave it to those crazy Anarchist, they'll start shit. Then everyone can say "Meh, wasn't us peaceful protestors.. it was those crazy Anarchist kids".


They associate with you even if you don't associate with them.

[ASsman]

Bigger circle eats the smaller one.

[EN[i]GMA]

Bigger circle eats the smaller one.

Circle with the lead pipes beats the crap out of the hippy circle until it learns to shut up.

[QueenAdrock]

GMA']Those girls are sluts. Their STDs will prevent them from fighting with you.

Your plan is doomed.

Hey, they may be sluts, but democrats believe in handing out condoms so I doubt the STD part.

Hey did anyone see when the motorcade had to speed up because fruit was thrown at the car and hit it? The commentator was like "Whoever did it is going to regret that decision big time." I disagree. It was well-worth any prison time to see them run like that. Stand-up job. (y)

[ASsman]

I'm suprised the person didn't get sniped first. Probably too many people around him, too much collateral.

[Whois]

GMA']That's great.

Now do you have anything worthwhile to say?

It's just as worthy as your verbal spew...now suck it up and deal with it chuckles.

..weren't you the one whining about free speech?
:rolleyes:

[EN[i]GMA]

It's just as worthy as your verbal spew...now suck it up and deal with it chuckles.

..weren't you the one whining about free speech?
:rolleyes:

Your post didn't even make sense.

It didn't have anything to do with the topic at hand.

But yes, ad hominems will get you far in life.

[Whois]

GMA']Your post didn't even make sense.

It didn't have anything to do with the topic at hand.

But yes, ad hominems will get you far in life.

You jumped on that one fast...

Aw..poor baby.

[EN[i]GMA]

You jumped on that one fast...

Aw..poor baby.


Yes. I was very hurt by your post. Really.

[Whois]

What, no 15 page essay on why I need to listen better to the words of you lord and savior Ann?

*Waves bye-bye*

[EN[i]GMA]

What, no 15 page essay on why I need to listen better to the words of you lord and savior Ann?

*Waves bye-bye*

You really aren't very good at comprehension.

[Whois]

Your OCD is showing...

[EN[i]GMA]

Your OCD is showing...


Truly it is. God forbid I respond to posts directed at me.

[Whois]

Spoon!

[Ali]

I'm suprised the person didn't get sniped first. Probably too many people around him, too much collateral. Wouldn't have mattered if they hadn't been Americans