Friday Repug "Oxymoran" - Tight Constraints on Freedom Walk

[Democrat 4 Ever]

Not sure how anyone can have freedom if you aren't allow to march unless you "sign" a loyalty oath. And you can call this "walk" anything you want but it is still a political move by this repug to use 9/11 again....

Tight Constraints on Pentagon's Freedom Walk
Event Remembering 9/11, Troops to Be Kept 'Sterile,' Limited to Preregistered

By Petula Dvorak
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 9, 2005; A01

Organizers of the Pentagon's 9/11 memorial Freedom Walk on Sunday are taking extraordinary measures to control participation in the march and concert, with the route fenced off and lined with police and the event closed to anyone who does not register online by 4:30 p.m. today.

The march, sponsored by the Department of Defense, will wend its way from the Pentagon to the Mall along a route that has not been specified but will be lined with four-foot-high snow fencing to keep it closed and "sterile," said Allison Barber, deputy assistant secretary of defense.

The U.S. Park Police will have its entire Washington force of several hundred on duty and along the route, on foot, horseback and motorcycles and monitoring from above by helicopter. Officers are prepared to arrest anyone who joins the march or concert without a credential and refuses to leave, said Park Police Chief Dwight E. Pettiford.

The event, the America Supports You Freedom Walk, is billed as a memorial to victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks and a show of support for those serving in the military, topped off with a concert by country singer Clint Black, known for his pro-troops anthem, "Iraq and Roll." Organizers said they expect 3,000 to 10,000 participants.

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read rest of article here -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090802140.html

[skooooo]

1. Ok, everyone LOCKSTEP now!

Nazis. Screw them.

[meegbear]

2. Nothing says freedom like absolute control

:crazy:

[Dudley_DUright]

3. Orwellian just does not seem to cover it anymore

This is well into Kafka territory.

[JHB]

4. What does an elephant call a goose step?

A Freedom Walk. (badum-bump!) :spray:

[bigbrother05]

5. They are afraid, very afraid

3 to 10,000, not much of a freedom walk. Time to move on, he screwed
that up, and he is still screwing up, big time. Fighting for our Freedom, my ass.

[PA Democrat]

15. I wonder how many of the participants will be government employees

who are forced to go.

[lisby]

6. Freedom?????????

Unfuckingbelievable.

:freak:



Lisby

[Democrat 4 Ever]

8. Unbelievable? Yes. Unexpected? No. This is a repug idea of freedom. n/t

[zbdent]

7. Pick up the DVD "The Great Dictator" by Charlie Chaplain, and look

at the special features.

You'll see a similar "parade" group in the old Madison Square Garden in the 30s . . .

[neweurope]

9. No free press though at the freedom march in the land of the free

"One restricted group will be the media, whose members will not be allowed to walk along the march route. Reporters and cameras are restricted to three enclosed areas along the route but are not permitted to walk alongside participants walking from the Pentagon, across the Memorial Bridge to the Mall."


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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

10. route not specified

they don't have much choice. either the gw parkway to the memorial bridge or the bike path to the memorial bridge. i wonder if DoD employees are being ordered to go.

this should be a hoot.

[Jacobin]

11. WaPo's irony meter broken, or something?

good lord

[elehhhhna]

12. Kim George il.

[Jacobin]

13. .

:rofl:

Perfect!!!

[Southpaw Bookworm]

14. Now that needs to be photoshopped

Four-foot-high snow fencing to keep the route "sterile"?

[growlypants]

17. And in the 10th paragraph... "Animals will be SEIZED"

I wish some administration reacharound would SEIZE my dog.

[growlypants]

16. "so we have those fences to keep the public out." OH.