Crowds protesting * in India today (WOW)

[madinmaryland]

That is a sea of humanity!!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/02/international/asia/02cnd-prexy.html?hp&ex=1141362000&en=7dacedac58916c34&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[CrazyOrangeCat]

1. Wow!

[AzDar]

2. Wow! is right.. we need to follow their lead. n/t

[malaise]

6. Yep

and the rest of the world is waiting.

[tridim]

35. Do you really think that type of gathering would be allowed

in the land of the free* known as Bush's Amerika? No freaking way they'd let a crowd gather in those numbers. If we do it, we need to bring torches and pitchforks and go all the way.

[helderheid]

3. WOW! K & R

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[stellanoir]

4. and the media will dutifully report

a several thousand protesters. . .

on edit-woh have I morphed into a pessimist?

[RubyDuby in GA]

9. Pessimist? No. Realist? Yes.

The corporate owned media doesn't want the stupid masses to think that their golden boy isn't liked everywhere. It's just when Doofus-in-Chief goes to other countries, they can't hoard them into "free speech zones" like they do here, so if anyone shows up to protest, it will always be " a few thousand" even if it's 800,000 strong. And really, compared to the population of the world, that is just a few thousand.......let's have some perspective please :sarcasm:

[bullimiami]

5. the article mentions NOT ONE WORD of the protests. just the picture and

caption."Indians protested against President Bush today in Bombay"

[madinmaryland]

8. That got me really upset.

They don't mention anything about the protest or the size of it in the artical. Considering the amount of people in just the picture, there had to hundreds of thousands there protesting.

:grr:

[Redstone]

7. Ah, he doesn't give a shit. He already told us that he considers

protestors to be no more consequential than "focus groups."

He could ignore a couple hundred thousand in DC, so why should the same number of Indians bother him?

He simply does not give a red rat's ass about what ANYONE thinks.

Redstone

[Bok_Tukalo]

10. "Karl, are they saying 'Booo?'"

"No, Mr. President. They are saying 'Boooosh.'"

[Caoimhe]

11. If you needed support from Dell or Gateway yesterday

you were on hold ALL day...

[The Backlash Cometh]

16. I said it before. All those American corporations that decided to

go overseas are going to learn that it's easier to negotiate with American unions, than it is with a mono-culture foreign nationalist labor force.

[barbaraann]

12. Bush haters!

They have been brainwashed by the liberal US media to have an irrational hatred of George W. Bush! Oh,...wait...that couldn't be it!!!!!!!

[underpants]

13. you have a much better pic madinmaryland

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x555054

That is quite the photo.

[madinmaryland]

15. From the NY Times.

They made no reference to the protest in the artical.

:grr:

[kentuck]

14. That looks like Woodstock!

With a sea of humanity protesting the war in Vietnam and Richard Nixon.

[4 t 4]

19. Ohhh My God!!! n/t

[Bethany Rockafella]

17. Wow!

Will we see this on our local news?

[Dinger]

18. Dare I Say It?

Is * safe?

[CottonBear]

25. Chimpy has 5,000 US & Indian military and police securing his bubble.

5 freaking thousand. :(

[Rageneau]

20. Someone should post this at Free Republic.

They will ban you, of course, and probably pull the thread, too, because -- as we liberals all know -- Freepers cannot handle the truth.

But it would be worth a banning to put this little snippet of the the truth under their noses. Lord knows, they'll never post the whole truth themselves.

Without putting blinders on, putting their fingers in their ears, and chanting 'ya,ya,ya,ya,' so no unfiltered information gets through, even Freers can no longer ignore the obvious truth: Bush is the worst president in American history and the whole world knows it!!

[Norquist Nemesis]

23. Nah. They'll marvel at how lucky and blessed those people are

to be in the presence of Bush!

:puke:

[myrna minx]

24. Just like Harry Whittington should have been *honored* to be shot

by someone as important and pius as Cheney. :eyes: Their delusions are endless.

[myrna minx]

21. Boy-there's a good ten to twelve people there.

Per corporate news. :eyes:

There are dozens of us. DOZENS!!!!!!
--Dr. Tobias Funke.

[in_cog_ni_to]

22. We have never had a president so hated by the WORLD.

What a badge of honor the bastard will have.

Holy Moly! Would you look at all the people?!

[Dinger]

26. How Many Is That?

I'd say 500,000+

[kentuck]

27. Anticipating Limbaugh....

"That's the 'drive-by' media once again...The fact is that most of those people were there to support Bush and democracy..." :)

[Tesha]

28. FYI: There are about 13,000 people in that picture.

FYI: There are about 13,000 people in that picture.

My method:

It's a trapezoidal area that's about 80 people wide
across the bottom, about 240 people wide across the
top, and about 80 people deep from front to back.

That gives us (80+240)/2 * 80 = 12,800 people.

Feel free to recount the picture and fix my numbers;
I just made a quick assessment.

Tesha

[Jose Diablo]

29. I see little patches of green in the picture, is that open space, grass?

Nope, they are flags. Gosh sure is a lot of protesters.

Well, Bu$h is a uniter alright, I bet there are both Muslims and Hindu in there, side by side.

[eppur_se_muova]

36. Green is the color of Islam. A green flag is in support of Islam. nt

[leveymg]

30. That photo contains @ 7500 people

There are some 50 people in the front row,and I count about three times that number at the rear. There are approx. 75 rows front to rear. Rule of thumb estimate is done by averaging the distribution at the front (3750) versus the rear (11250) in order to come out with a mean value of 7500. No doubt, someone with better math will give you a more exact figure.

That's a lot, but the crowd would have to be ten times that size to reach 75,000.

The front row is about 120 feet while the rear is 360 for a total square footage covered of about three (120'X360') football fields.

Next time you're at a demonstration with a densely packed crowd, take some photos from a distance, do your own calculations and compare them with those provided by the media.

Note: My estimate's a little less than Tesha's, but we're in the same ballpark, so to speak. If you average the two estimates, you come out with 10,000 in the picture. :hi:

[OneBlueSky]

31. how quickly can we get visas for all these folks . . . n/t

.

[leveymg]

32. Not quickly enough - not even if they had Ph.Ds

I'd rather they were working here, rather than in Chennai.

[troubleinwinter]

33. Then there is this (also in India)...

[madinmaryland]

34. Ahh! Back when we had a real president and we were

respected around the world!!!