That crying you hear is the Republican Party. That crunching is Obama eating their lunch.

[Hekate]

94. I found out much later that protestors lined the way at the Inauguration

That piece of news was pretty thoroughly suppressed in the media. I had the LA Times. I had the TV machine. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.

I felt absolutely alone.

It was not until the fall of 2002 that a friend steered me toward DU and I found a haven. (Note: DU is no longer a haven of sanity and information. But it certainly was then.)

In the run-up to the Iraq invasion I witnessed the media turning news into propaganda. As I joined hundreds and then thousands of residents of my small city in street marches, week after week, nobody in the media noticed.

We might have been the only ones in the entire nation protesting, for all the notice we got.

That was the point at which I joined DU, and found that people were engaging in protest all over the country. They posted photos and reports in real time that gave the lie to media reports of "a few dozen" or "a few hundred" wacko hippies showing up.

It took a very very long time for the media to bother to notice us.