Today is Tax Day, April 15th. All across the nation, there were Tea Party Protests. There was one here in Oklahoma City, so I thought that I’d check it out.
Here is what I saw.
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Tea Party in OKC
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009Voices From Around The World The Media Missed
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009When George W. Bush or his administration visited a foreign country, the news feeds were flooded with pictures and articles regarding the Anti-Bush protests and other similar stories to create a feeling that there was an Anti-Americanism being fanned across the World because of Bush’s policies.
Although there might be a valid argument for that point-of-view (one I cannot verify or reject insofar that I must rely on the news), the way that the mainstream media handles Obama and his administration’s visits to foreign nations (and in general) evidences the media bias, and the power the media has to shape the story, and thus the public’s response, and therefore the future. The election of President Barack Hussein Obama made that very evident.
Below are pictures from Obama’s trip across the world, and those of his administration that you wouldn’t have seen otherwise. (place cursor over picture for description)
Turkey
Indonesia
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England
SPAIN
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Barack Obama is making the world hate us. He is isolating us….ahhhhhhhh Worst President Ever!!!!! 
(*UPDATE- 16:40:36 P.M., April 7, 2009: Additional photos in comments)
Sweden: Islamists Attack Pro-Israel Rally With Bombs & Rockets
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009As was evidenced by the Anti-Israel/Pro-Hamas rallies across the world during “Operation Cast Lead”, the terrorists and their supports are getting more confident, and more violent everyday. This week in Sweden their brashness was taken to new heights as they attacked peaceful Pro-Israel supporters with rocket fireworks, and pipe bombs while the police just stood their and watched.
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Islamists Fire Rockets, Hurl Bombs at Pro-Israel Crowd in Sweden
(Thank You: Israel National News)
(IsraelNN.com) Islamists reached new heights of audacity in a face-off with pro-Israel demonstrators in Malmö, Sweden on Sunday, firing rockets and throwing pipe bombs at the pro-Israel group in broad daylight and under police’s noses. No one was hurt. The incident was videotaped by Swedish blogger Ted Ekeroth, whose blog contains videos showing the attack.
Between 400 and 500 people gathered in Stortorget Square for a peaceful pro-Israeli protest.
The police sealed off the entire square and only allowed in the protesters, as well as a smaller group of Islamists, and separated the two groups from each other.
Blogger Ekeroth wrote: “It didn’t take long until they started attacking us, this time with homemade pipebombs and fireworks. The homemade bombs were pretty powerful, as I stood not too far away when one of them exploded. According to what I heard, the police managed to arrest the ones that threw the bombs. However, they did not disperse the [A]rab crowd…”
In total, Ekeroth reported, the Islamists threw two pipe bombs, fired two rockets and hurled some glass bottles. The bombs did not reach the pro-Israel protesters but the rockets exploded over their heads.
The largest newspaper in the south, Sydsvenskan, chose to “distort and bend the truth,” Ekeroth reported. The news item about the confrontation was headlined “Several arrested during Israel demonstration” and, amazingly, reported that “The expected violence did not occur.”
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Videos of the attacks:
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This is just the beginning. As long as Western governments around the world continue to encourage and propagate Islamic victimology, while simultaneously excusing their violence, we can be assured that things are going to get worse and these now shocking events will become commonplace. You need only notice how the majority of the anti-Israel crowd cheers the attacks on the peaceful pro-Israel group.
“Long live Hitler,” “Put Jews in ovens”
Saturday, January 10th, 2009Direct quotes from the subhuman Palestinians and their lowlife supporters.
In Los Angeles. And I MISSED IT!
More and more every day I want to see Israel firebomb the goddamn Gaza Strip and exterminate this vermin, the shitstain of humanity.
Hattip to Jihad Watch.
The mother of all wraths?
Thursday, January 1st, 2009Gaza City – Hamas called on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and annexed east Jerusalem to mark a “day of wrath” on Friday by demonstrating against the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip.
Then they won’t have time to fire rockets.
At least 414 Palestinians, most Hamas members but including scores of civilians, have been killed in the Israeli blitz on Hamas targets in Gaza that started on Saturday.
You get that when that is where they work from. Nizar Rayan, for example and either two or four of his wives, and four , nine or ten of his twelve children, which may be six of his seventeen children or one of his wives and three of his children.
update: 8:49 pm
UK groups prepare major Gaza demo
Protesters are preparing for a major UK demonstration calling for a halt to the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
More than 30 organisations, including the British Muslim Initiative, the Stop the War Coalition and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, are joining forces for Saturday’s protest and a rally along the Embankment in central London.
They are being supported by MPs and celebrities, including the singer Annie Lennox, activist and former model Bianca Jagger and the comedian Alexei Sayle.
The demo will be the culmination of days of smaller protests around the country as well as outside the Israeli Embassy in London.
Zombie: The End of the Tree People
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008The trees! Somebody save the trees! Oh noes! They’re chopping them down! Berkeley Tree-Sit Finally Ends.
(Hat tip:Chuckles@LGF)
Zombie: The Democratic Convention Giant Puppet Parade
Thursday, August 28th, 2008(Cross-posted at Pajamas Media.)
On Tuesday, a group called The Backbone Campaign sponsored a parade they call “Procession to the Future,” but which is better known in journalistic circles as Giant Puppets!
Here’s a secret about parades: the best scenes are usually in the staging area, not the parade itself.
One of several symbolic figures: individual real women throughout history are used to personify various positive attributes. And who, in the long history of humankind, was chosen to exemplify Truth? Why, it’s left-wing talk show host Amy Goodman!
They were having quite a struggle inflating the Statue of Liberty.
She was never quite able to achieve full erection.
You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
This sad, overheated polar bear is here to remind us about global warming.
Amy Goodman was not the only symbolic figure. Justice, for example, is represented by Rosa Parks dressed up in what looks like a Harriet Tubman costume.
Ralph Nader’s 2000 running mate Winona LaDuke is Respect.
Sadako Sasaki, the Hiroshima vitim who folded a thousand origami cranes, is Peace — while that irrepressible Amy Goodman pulls a prank on a Code Pink member.
Because commercial radio stations say things we don’t like!
In a nod to Americana, they had a gigantic Declaration of Independence.
Members of the public had been invited to sign it with messages of their own.
Finally the parade began for real. The Backbone Campaign’s logo is a human spine on an American flag, meant to “embolden citizens and elected officials to stand up for progressive values.”
Ah, the chain gang of war criminals: Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, George Bush, and Donald Rumsfeld. Progressive values!
Señor Coffee Cup is a real enigma. Is he supposed to be a migrant farm worker? And is the one defining attribute of farm workers that they carry around giant coffee cups?
Bees! The people carrying them were chanting, “Keep the bees alive! Keep the bees alive!”
Here’s — um…Donna Shalala (???) — promoting nationalized healthcare.
Sometimes it seemed the sign-carriers went out of their way to wear the most inappropriate clothing. Here, for example, is a man with Soviet Union shirt who was part of a group carrying signs that demanded “Universal Human Rights” and “Dismantle Empire.” Excuse me, sir: Are you trying to look like a fool?
And then there was the woman who showed her support for “Separation of Church and State” by wearing a kaffiyeh.
Take a moment to soak in the whole scene.
My favorite puppet without any doubt was the polar bear, because the people inside actually somehow managed to make it walk like a bear.
Amy!
Winona!
Rosa/Harriet!
Sadako!
Watch out — here comes the national bullet train. Coast to coast at high speeds! The most environmental idea ever.
One way to pass the time at the parade was to play “Identify That Giant Head.” This one had me stumped. Edwin Meese?
Awwww: Finally — something cute!
Mother Vegetable was a crowd favorite.
For once, the song is actually true: He really does have the whole world in his hands.
And a droopy Lady Liberty towered over them all. Sort of.
Zombie: Pro-Hillary March
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008(Cross-posted at Pajamas Media.)
On Tuesday, some Hillary Clinton die-hards held a march along the “designated parade route” from Denver’s Civic Center Park to the “free speech zone” at the Pepsi Center, where the convention is being held. Their goal: a last-ditch attempt to secure the nomination for Hillary.
This is a sentiment the Democratic Party did not take seriously enough. I think we’ll be seeing a lot of “temporary McCainocrats” in November.
Despite a scheduling snafu at the start (the march was sent off early, before many supporters showed up), the group — numbering somewhere between 500 and 750 by my very rough guess (though I’m admittedly bad at crowd estimates) proceeded down in the street in a wave of enthusiasm.
Most people in the crowd believed that the nomination was stolen from Hillary by the bullying and intimidation of delegates and “super-delegates.”
They co-opted the “selected, not elected” meme from the disputed Bush/Gore Florida showdown in 2000.
Despite the surface enthusiasm and anger, there was a noticeable air of resignation, the certain knowedge that their cause was already a lost cause.
18 million people is a lot of people to piss off.
Whom will you ladies vote for in November: Obama or McCain? That is the question around which everything hinges.
Meanwhile, back at the beginning of the parade route (to which I returned after following the march for a while), scattered groups of Hillary supporters who had shown up at the announced time (11:45) were seriously deflated and disappointed to learn that the city officials had for some reason sent off the Hillary contingent over 15 minutes early, leaving many of the would-be marchers stranded when they showed up too late. It was the only time I’ve seen one of the permitted marches be sent off early. Hmmmmm….
Zombie: Prisoners’ Rights “Recreate 68″ Protest – Mini Report
Monday, August 25th, 2008(Zombie’s reports are cross-posted at Pajamas Media.)
Recreate 68 scheduled a “major” protest for “prisoners’ rights” on Monday afternoon. The event seriously fizzled, with perhaps 200 protesters at most. The march ended outside the Federal Courthouse in downtown Denver. Here, a Recreate 68 devotee watches two masked wannabe terror boys “guard” one of the speakers (out of the frame off to the left). Notice radical firebrand and fake Indian Ward Churchill in the background.
Here he is up close, in his typical off-putting pose.
Sometimes, even a feeble, flopped protest can take all the energy out of you.
In the protesters’ fantasy world, they were going to assault or invade the courthouse in some way, but several massive contingents of police guarded every entrance. In fact, overall, the police outnumbered the protesters.
Zombie: The Denver Games — Opening Ceremony
Monday, August 25th, 2008Although the Democratic National Convention doesn’t start until today, Monday, August 25, the protests against the convention started the day before on Sunday.
The PJM/LGF/zombietime photo team had not yet arrived in Denver, but luckily fellow photojournalist and LGF/zombietime stringer “El Marco” was on hand to record the day’s goings-on.
(For this one report, all the photos are courtesy of El Marco; captions and layout are by zombie.)
Let the games begin!
The day’s theme was “End the Occupations” (yes, that’s occupations with an “s,” since anything the US does counts as an “occupation”). Recreate 68 — the organization formed specifically to protest this convention, using as their guiding principle a desire to recreate the riots outside the notorious Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968 — were the primary instigators, with various radical, anarchist and left-wing groups joining in. Later in the day was a more loosely organized “Reclaim the Streets” protest (shown here) which basically entailed anarchists confronting the police for the sake of confronting the police.
A banner from the “End the Occupations March.” It is truly astounding that people can openly support Muqtada al-Sadr (depicted on the left of this banner), the hard-line Shi-ite religious leader, especially in light of recent revelations that his “Mehdi Army” operated a torture chamber inside a mosque and routinely executed people. Keep in mind that these are the same kinds of protesters who endlessly whine about Abu Ghraib. If opposing and defeating people like al-Sadr’s torturers counts as “imperialism,” I’ll take imperialism any day.
The march kicked off with a rally in front of the Colorado State Capital, with various left-wing celebrities such as Cindy Sheehan, Ward Churchill and Cynthia McKinney speaking while standing next to this banner, which purports to merely make a case for moral equivalence (bad enough), but which is actually pretty obviously anti-US and pro-Saddam.
Yes, Virginia, there really are communists in this day and age. And most of them seem to have convened in Denver, as this banner from the “End the Occupations” march attests.
Later in the day, the Reclaim the Streets protest arrived at the state capital, where a series of heated but essentially fruitless confrontations between the protesters and the police ensued.
The police did their best to try and keep a lid on the proceedings.
When they needed to rapidly reposition themselves at the protest, they hopped on these specially modified “troop transport” SUVs.
Wait — is this a protest, or a fashion show?
The communists shown in the earlier picture protested against capitalism as a concept. And here we the see the anarchists doing the same. This is in fact their only point of agreement: otherwise, the communists want to institute total state control of society, whereas as the anarchists want, well, anarchy. But hatred of the United States makes strange bedfellows, and for now the natural enemies — communists and anarchists — seem to have set aside their differences and agreed to bring down capitalism together.
Shades of what is likely to happen throughout the week: counter-protesters showed up to voice their opinions as well.
I just love the sign on the right: “Hey Liberals: Can’t get no satisfaction? Try liberating an entire nation from tyranny.” Ouch — that’s gotta sting.
I must say, the messages put forth at this counter-protest were extremely astute, and highlighted the greatest weaknesses in the left-wing protest philosophy.
That’s it for our first report! Thanks to El Marco for capturing some excellent images while we were still en route to Colorado.
The convention itself kicks off today, and the protests are sure to escalate. Stay tuned!
(Hat tip:Zombie)
