Amid a wall of noise, some quiet voices (NY Protests)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04243/370081.stm

Among the stories to be told from yesterday's anti-Bush march, a roiling mass of invective that stretched two miles through Manhattan, was the small, poignant tale of Nora Williams.

She had come from her home in Ridgewood, N.J., short one friend.

"A woman I've known from childhood disinvited me to her daughter's wedding because of my 'Democratic leanings,' " Williams said. "And I'm not even a Democrat."

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In the clamor that buffeted Nora Williams, there was one other quiet woman. Celeste Zappala, of Philadelphia, carried a sign with a young man's photograph. It read, "We mourn Sgt. Sherwood Baker, killed in Baghdad April 26, 2004."

The name was familiar. Sherwood Baker was the first Pennsylvania national guardsman to die in the Iraq war.

"He's my son," Zappala said. "He was part of the security detail for the people who were looking for the weapons of mass destruction. He was blown off his Humvee." Amid the roar and whistles and loudspeakers and curses fouling the air, Zappala was hard to hear. Her voice was soft.

[Generic Other]

1. Those stupid freepers.

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There actually were Bolsheviks at the march yesterday. More properly, there were Bush supporters who dressed as Bolsheviks. They had put together some brilliant signs, illustrated in Soviet realist style, showing John Kerry wielding a worker's hammer, depicting Marx, Lenin, Engels and Kerry in heroic profile. The signs were emblazoned "Communists for Kerry," and "The next generation building communism for America."

"We're just spoofing," one of the men told me. They'd linked up on Free Republic, the ultra-right-wing Internet site and, well, when these people link up, stuff like "Communists for Kerry" is one of their more polite ideas. They slipped into the march and nobody seemed to notice, object or recognize that they weren't actually communists and weren't actually for Kerry. Many of the signs yesterday said, "Bush Lied," but when his supporters do it, it still works.
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[The Traveler]

2. God that hurts

"He was blown off his Humvee." While looking for mythical weapons of mass destruction. Jesus. If the people give this asshole another four years, they deserve what they will get ...

[NJCher]

3. problem with that is

"If the people give this asshole another four years, they deserve what they will get ... "

yeah, and people like you and I, who detest this moran, will get it, too.

Cher

[The Traveler]

4. Such is the nature of our collective karma

I sure hope the country surges in a different direction. Guess that means we better stick to our guns and keep working, eh?