FREEDOM WALK - Bush Style - How can we be made to look so ridiculous?

[wurzel]

washingtonpost.com
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.

[Rainscents]

1. It would be interesting to see, how many people show up for this

I bet, lot of people is going to bail out after what happen to Katrina.

[Radio_Lady]

8. God, I hope so. Is CSPAN supposed to cover this "event" tomorrow?

I hope to see it live because it's just horrific...

[rocktivity]

2. I think the barbed wire makes them look quite ridiculous already!

We're doing our march in two weeks, on September 24. However, the organization bushville.org plan to camp out in DC on 9/11.

On edit: Here's the link. What's the point of a parade if you're not allowed to watch it?

:headbang:
rocknation

[Rainscents]

3. They're expecting 3,000 to 10,000?

Wow... I thought, they would do better than that! :sarcasm:

[Radio_Lady]

9. Let's hope that a misplaced comma -- maybe just 30 to 100???

::crossing her fingers::

[Rainscents]

11. LOL... That's it!!!

[Radio_Lady]

7. rocknation, thanks for the Washington Post link. It's a fabulous article!

[PsychoDad]

27. It's only for the party elite.

Remember Animal Farm.

It'll give Snowball a chance to fantasize again about being Prezzadent.

[tsuki]

4. to be filmed by Leni Riefenstahl. eom

[Radio_Lady]

5. Majority Report treated this last evening -- I couldn't believe what

I was hearing. DOD is sponsoring this, along with Rumsfeld.

You had to have signed up by yesterday (Friday) at 4:30 PM for get the credentials to even attend the parade. You would not be allowed to just join in.

The march details (what streets they would be on) were not released.

A high fence around the streets would be in place.

Police in riot gear everywhere.

Washington Post article was mentioned.

Isn't this what we see in Cuba for a military parade put on by a government? Or China? Or when Saddam was in power in Iraq?

I think I'm living in an Orwellian nightmare.

[FreedomAngel82]

26. Seriously?

And they have the word "freedom" in their title? Oh yes. This is so much freedom. :eyes: How pathetic!

[OldLeftieLawyer]

10. Oh, that's funny

You absolutely nailed it, absolutely. Thanks for a great big laugh....

:woohoo: :applause:

[tsuki]

19. Thanks, OldLeftieLawyer. Southern woman of an indeterminate

age here. I happen to know who she is.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

20. That makes two of us, then -

Southern women of indeterminate age, that is.

We so rule.

:yourock:

[tsuki]

21. Yea, ain't it great. No one talks back to us now, and they all address

us as Mzzz. To bad for those youngsters, they'll never know the distinction. All those creams and surgeries...hmmmm.

:rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. Cool — B&W with 'arty' angles

And a heart-rendering soundtrack.

"Bush*land, Bush*land, über alles..."
:nuke:

[rocktivity]

6. Posted in wrong place, please delete

on second thought...



:evilgrin:
rocknation

[electron_blue]

12. what does "troops to be kept sterile" mean?

?

[rocktivity]

14. Unscathed by impure liberal thoughts I guess...

Or maybe they're just afraid that they'll be laughed at. That's what everyone lining the sidewalks to watch them should do--just point at them and LAUGH!

:eyes:
rocknation

[electron_blue]

15. and are "troops" the word they're using for parade marchers?

or are real military troops going to be there?

that clip makes no sense to me at all.

[rocktivity]

18. they're going to be given t-shirts

so they'll certainly look like uniformed trooops, LOL!

:headbang:
rocknation

[July]

22. And plastic dogtags.

'Cause you're really honoring the troops when you dress up like them.

[Radio_Lady]

16. Obviously, they will be pre-castrated and made into eunuchs or they

won't be able to march in the rank and vile... er-r-r... file.

Good luck to them. I don't have the retching smiley face to go with this post.

Edited to correct misspelling of EUNUCHS.

It just isn't a word I use in most ordinary situations...

[alarimer]

17. Some freedom march

I guess the irony is lost on the people who would choose to participate in such a farce.

[July]

23. I can't believe this will be a success.

It sounds so bogus. Will the press really make a big deal out of it?

[Bleacher Creature]

24. Are government workers being pressured into going??

If so, the number of attendees may be larger than we would expect.

[FreedomAngel82]

25. And I wonder

how many people will show up? I wonder if Clint Black will just be performing for himself?