Looking at this WP pic of Reagan parade, looks like 10s NOT thousands!

[dArKeR]

A Day of Ritual and Remembrance
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29719-2004Jun9.html pic at right top side.

[Malva Zebrina]

1. this AP photo on the Yahoo news says "Waves of Mourners Honor Reagan"

Looks like more of a ripple to me.

[MallRat]

3. WTF? Don't you people have dresses and suits?!?!

Lemme get this straight:

You're paying your last respects to a former President of the United States... why are you wearing baseball caps, T-shirts, and short shorts?!?!

You're not waiting in line for Toby Keith tickets, you insensitive, disrespectful dumbasses. Show some fucking decorum.

-MR

[JI7]

5. some of them are just tourists who want to be part of "history"

i heard some ofthem talking. while some are big time reagan worshippers some others are just there for other reasons. some of them just said things like they don't get this kind of opportunity that often and since they have the time why not go by and experience it.

[MallRat]

7. They're tourists? Fine.

Go back to your hotel and DRESS PROPERLY!!!

[0007]

14. Man, these are paid shills from the Dennis Miller show

who's shitin' who?

[ET Awful]

15. Not to mention shirts that Ronnie would have. . .

beat up Abbie Hoffman for wearing :).

[notadmblnd]

4. I see 13 people

and none of them are waving.:shrug:

[BurtWorm]

16. If they're on a line that ends at the Rotunda, there's more than a ripple

to be fair. But my brother who's in DC is reporting that the city feels like a ghost town. He and a friend went to capitol on a whim last evening and estimated the crowd around there to be in the neighborhood of 6,000. The atmosphere, he said, is bizarre--quiet, cold, unfriendly. Of course it may be that they felt like strangers in a strange land. They decided not to actually go past the casket because it was taking too long, probably because of security.

[underpants]

2. Hold it-I thought the Parks Dept. doesn't estimate crowds anymore

They stopped after the Million Man March. Remember the "tens of thousands" at the anti-war marches?

[Betty The Younger]

6. "They" said 100000 showed up in Simi Valley

to see his dead body. I don't think they know what 100000 people looks like on a narrow winding road and in a relatively short space of time. Probably 10000. 100000 was wishful thinking.

[On the Road]

8. I Have to Say I'm Shocked

a the poor turnout. If this pic is really representative, that is. I was wondering if spectators were kept away from Memorial bridge, but no -- a few of them are there. Just very few.

[louis-t]

9. The unemployed

and people they pulled off the rides at Six Flags. I think they extended the public viewing time because not that many people were showing up, not because there were so many. 'Course, I'm a pessimist.

[dArKeR]

13. LOL! All you guys here make my day so happy. I can't stop laughing

I wonder how many of these are Repuke staffers being ordered to the lines?

[louis-t]

20. THAT never even occurred to me!

[LittleApple81]

10. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! But they said that the Women's march was just

10's of thousands... which they altered to 100's of thousands to avoid saying over 1 million.

[readmylips]

11. Yesterday, TV said thousands waiting outside....

then, they showed a photo of the whole area and there were no thousands. When they said thousands, I expected the center mall to be filled. The main mall was empty. The same with SimiValley. They kept repeating thousands into the late night, by 7:pm there was no one around. There was no one after 7:pm last night in DC either. The Spanish TV station said that yesterday 35 hundred common people went to the viewing in DC, not including DC politicos.

Besides, DC has been shutdown to traffic and the metro closest to the center of DC was also shutdown. There were no bus services to the Capitol Building like in Simi Valley. People who went to the viewing in the daytime were DC workers. Nobody visits DC after 7:pm.

[NashVegas]

12. That's Just the Capitol

If you watched the motorcade from the start of it, you'd have seen people 7-10 deep on Constitution (?) Ave.

Don't know why it's so thinned out there, unless maybe for security.

[nomatrix]

17. What a difference a day makes

I was at Nixon's second inauguration, protesting the war in Vietnam. There were thousands (majority were protesters) It was freezing & there was no violence to speak of.

When Reagan president, we toured the WH. In D.C., there could be several parades or marches going on in a day, no barricades, all kinds of events going on throughout the Mall area. All the Smithsonian buildings were packed with tourist. Cherry blossom blooming, and it is a sight to see.

In 2002 we went to D.C. The W.H., Washington Monument were closed since 9/11. It was a ghost town compared to the other times we'd been there. Tourist were trying to enjoy it, but it was not the D.C. I have seen in the past.

School is out in some states & there should be serious tourism going on. It didn't seem like there were a significant increase for the funeral.

[WLKjr]

22. I hear that

I had the opportunity to go in fall of 2000 when clinton was still prez. DC was like a big party with a butt load of people there having fun. Since then I have heard the same thing, there is hardly anything like that now there in DC

[nostamj]

18. i'll bet the box is empty...

wouldn't want a terrorist to deface a national treasure...

[NoVaGator]

19. if the original post....

refers to the picture of the hearse crossing the Memorial Bridge with the Lincoln in the backround-

That was before they loaded the casket onto the cassion. Spectators couldn't really see anything from there...except for the motorcade.

[dArKeR]

21. Reuters pic - Looks like 10s not 100s or 1000s

http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=ZFFRGMNNALGDYCRBAELCFFA?type=topNews&storyID=5399643

I haven't watched any TV on Reagan. I don't like him or most anything he did and I'm not going to pretend I respect him now that he's passed. That would be betraying honesty and morality to 'bear false witness.' http://www.topical-bible-studies.org/21-0024.htm

I personally saw that Reagan brought, 'it's Okay to cheat to win' to modern American politics.


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My 2 experiences with Reagan;
1. Saw him come to De Anza sport field, CA, in 1984? I am a hobby photographer. I personally saw and took pictures of people being push away and not allowed inside the field gate by Santa Clara County Sheriffs. These people had missiles painted on their t-shirts, small cardboard signs... I saw people try to enter by themselves. There was not shouting or disorderly conduct. Vaguely I believe there was a 15 year lawsuit running about this illegal act. (In conclusion, the people were NOT any threat and were not shouting or causing a disruption and were trying to enter public property. I have pics stored at my Dads house, if he didn't toss them while I was overseas.)

2. Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, through the entire plant, all behind closed doors, restricted areas not open to the public, put up pro Reagan signs, with his picture and slogans. They weren't official election posters but they were Vote for Reagan signs.

3. LMSC made a pro Reagan video which every employee had to watch with their project group. With government contracts you always have to have a charge number to use as you do tasks so that the correct contract is billed. But there are allowances for going to the bathroom, a drink, make a personal phone call... but it must be less than 15 minutes. If less than 15 than you don't have to change charge numbers (you continue billing to your current task/contract.) So LMSC made this pro Reagan, Vote for Reagan video that every employee HAD to watch. But the video was made to be 14 minutes and 30 seconds so that the United States of America tax payers paid their millions of dollars for the employees to watch the video. I am sure this was illegal. Not only against some kind of election laws but I'm 100% sure this was a type of Government accounting/billing FRAUD. Surely punishable by prison time and not just a fine. I can depose this happened at the Sunnyvale plant and I'll bet it happened at all the Lockheed plants so there are about 100,000 witnesses. It's just the Whore Media who never reported it to you.

A. I was arround LMSC long enough to know that 40% to 50% of the employees were Democrats in political idealology. They all believe in a strong America but within reason not to bankrupt the nation and/or killing innocent people in foreign countries. All the people I knew believed in fair and honest political election systems. What LMSC Corporate leaders did was well past 'Fair and Balanced'. It was immoral and illegal.

In my opinion, Reagan brought America real government/corporate corruption. Reagan brought America Elitism Corporate stealing from the Middle and Lower sectors of American society.

[VolcanoJen]

23. CNN International: As of 11:00 pm edt 6/11/04, 69,000 viewed casket

CNN International quoted the Military District of Washington with the 69,000 number. They haven't updated it since.

That seems low to me, compared to the earlier numbers they've been fawning over all day...

[SoCalDem]

24. How many republican politicians and aides are there in DC??

nuff said:eyes:

[VolcanoJen]

25. Throw in the random bored tourists, and BINGO!

You're a WINNER, SoCalDem!!!

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