Well that was underwhelming.

The guy with the tray was great. Until the punk ass delegate slammed into him and the cops tackled him. Dirty play, fuckers.

what is the mouse bloc?

What is the mouse bloc? Well, what symbolizes the republicans? An elephant, right? What better way to scare off elephants than to harass them with mice? He he he.

shouts out from st. louis to my amazing comrades there! ya'll look fucking amazing! wish i could be there... keep up the fight!

Thank you guys for everything! Ya'll are amazing!

KEEP IT UP!

.....better a "dead" elephant than a "scared" one !

I love the censorship on this board. If you say anything that remotely disagrees with the site, your post gets deleted.

It's so nice to see the champions of free speech crush it when they don't agree. Priceless.

who IS that guy in the suit?

Looks like cousin of Barney Frank.

Could he be one of those Log Cabin Republicans?

Looks like one. So fine and pretty.

The one guy I recognized was the guy w/ the black and white hawaiin shirt...I saw him first at  http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/106319/index.php with a badge around his neck (press?) Just so you know...

The mouse bloc was great, until they arrested us around 57th! I'm in the 4th picture from the bottom - I'm the half-person on the right with the white t-shirt. Walking backwards, in order to disperse as told and to film the arrests of others, I ran into the pole of scaffolding. Trying to turn around and put my camera away, the police chief at the scene ran up to me and grabbed the back of my shirt...
Thanks to all who offered support both on the street and while being detained. It was you who helped me through the long night.

you rock!

to all those who think that this is dumb -> you ought to know better.

this bush administration has been up to some nasty, major, f*&ked up sh*t, that is devestating people round the world. Like in Iraq. 10,000 dead or something like that. Those are all people like *you*. For what? Halliburton, Bechtel, Carlylye Group.

It's fun to get off on being above it all, but check it out for yourself. Find out where the Bush administration and its supporters stand on the Environment, Labor, Women, you name it!

These m*&f*kers want nothing but to make their top 1% friends more and more rich. This is not hype. It is real. Check it out for yourself. Just take a moment and check it out.

One by one. See how he fares.

Unless you are in the top 5% he is not your man.

(unless of course you believe in some kind of Great Decisive Leader crap)

What is going on, demands response. All kinds of responses. I am surprised that there aren't more people who jump on the bandwagon to shame all these fat cats and their brown-nosing, pathetic lackey-slaves out of their bubble.


Get with the program.

Isn't it amazing how one must revert back to insults when they have no intelligent comment to make? save your contempt for these so-called "dirty hippies" for conversation with people who give a shit about your opinions (or lack there of)

S...Kiss my ass. Tell me why you all are here other than to create chaos and stink up the city. You don't have an agenda and %99 of you don't have any sort of cause. You just want to hang out with other losers that don't shower or work or have any grip on reality. Tell me why you hate Bush and what Kerry has proven to you for your support. Until then, I think criticism is the best route for you lefty wackos. Think about that when you go to the group shelter tonight looking for dinner and a place for your greasy ass to sleep. Pick up a book as well. I recommend "UNFIT FOR COMMAND". VIVA LA BUSH!!!!!!! Kiss my ass.

This is for Rob and all other like minded people. You are so stuck in the stupid american mind frame that you don't even know what the fuck is going on. Just because people are against Bush does not mean that they are Kerry supporters. You are so blind that you think two parties are our only options. Most of the people I associate with hate Kerry almost as much as Bush. If we have a government at all, we need more than two parties if the people we elect are supposed to represent us. It scares me that so many people have been raised to believe in the two party system that it doesn't even occur to them that there are other options. Why don't you try taking off the blinders and looking outside the box.

B...Move out of the country. Get the fuck out of here. We don't need you. What is your idea of a perfect president? No one is perfect. What do you do for a living? Non-profit or volunteer work and still live with mommy and daddy? Seriously, wake up and realize how good you have it. If this was happening in a country you feel you are trying to support, you would be shot dead on site. Think about that. What gives you all the right to waste everyones time and tax dollars protesting in the streets? The very policemen and firefighters that were affected by the tradgedies on 9/11 have to put up with your shit now? Or did you forget 9/11?

Cool it Rob.…..there aren't enough jobs to go around for the jobless in America anyway so don't blame some protestors for not working. The world doesn't evolved around America, each country has its problems especially in creating jobs. Well, take a look at Iraq, they’ve over 50% unemployment since the war started, if you tell (sarcastically) some Iraqis to get some real jobs and most likely they’ll cut your head off.

The war in Iraq is destroying the infrastructures of this poor country and Iraqis will take many years to rebuild their country so democracy through a barrel of a gun will not work until jobs and security is established. Please look at Vietnam, 40 years later people there are still live in poverty.

When the Bush administration is creating unemployment across America instead of creating jobs, sending young kids to kill and get killed in Iraq, incapable of hunting down Osama bin Laden and diverting the blame on Saddam Hussein plus invading Iraq – all the peace loving smart thinking citizens of America will have him removed on 11/2.

"What gives you all the right to waste everyones time and tax dollars protesting in the streets?"

Well ROB, what gives us the right is a little document called the Bill of Rights. Dumb ass . . .

This is starting to get fun. 1ST of all, not 1 of you has an agenda. You say Bush will be removed on Nov. 2nd? By Kerry? No one else can touch him. That is your idea of a better USA? You all are more ridiculous than I thought. And as far as the jobs go...get some education and then you will have the opportunity to make $$$$ and move out of mommy and daddies roost!!!!! I can tell by much of the spelling on these comments that I am not dealing with educated human beings. I think NEV must have someone taking care of him/her because that is 1 of the most uninformed blithering idiots on this site. How can someone who is protesing something be so uninformed and misled?? Did a cult brainwash you?? I am glad I'm not drinking out of the same Fucking KOOL-AID jar. You are dead wrong on the whole Iraq issue. Women can get jobs there now, WE are rebuilding the country and WE are liberating MILLIONS of people. So you think Saddam is a great person? How would you feel if he was gassing you in his torture rooms, raping your wife and killing your children? His sons would have already killed the entire olympic teams for no gold medals. On finding Bin Laden, he was handed to Clinton several times. Do you have any idea how hard that is? You can't even find a fucking minimum wage job and move out of your parents home at age 35 and you are giving Bush shit for not being able to find one man? Terrorism wouldn't end with his capture anyways. This job thing? Bush isn't sending companies overseas. If you are "peace loving" citizens, why are you not peaceful while protesting? Fucking HIPPOCRATES!! You all deserve a slap in the face. You say you are proud to be Americans? Bush was cleaning up Clintons mess. As I said previously, get the fuck out of this country. We don't need you. If Kerry gets elected I promise I will move out of the country. If Bush gets re-elected will you PLEASE GET THE FUCK OUT?????Thanks. Don't forget to watch the RNC tonight. It should be great.Bye Bye then....

Hay Rob……do let us know which country you want to go after 11/2.
Guess the European don’t want an angry guy like you there, as most of them don’t give a toss about what you say especially you’re ProBush. You should divert your anger and use your ‘well educated background’ to understand why there are so many intellectuals (people with much higher IQ than you and me) are deeply disappointed about the way Bush Administration is handling our country instead of telling us to fxxk out of this great country. Where did you get your education by the way???????????
May be the army would love to send you to Iraqi to kill some more Iraqi insurgents because you got more anger than Rambo. Finally, I really hope you can visit Iraq and help those poor people who were raped and tortured by Saddam and his sons…. better still securing some oil fields for some Texas companies (guess who own them) and get blasted by a 6-year-old kid with an AK-47. This is the world you want and you should go there.

NEV...Still up to your rambling. Not proving a damn thing about what you stand for. I don't think you know. You just love the fact that you can not have a job, hang out with spineless libs, not do anything productive and still be accepted by people in our society. That is why you love our great nation. By the way you spell and punctuate, seems you yourself just got off a boat. Welcome to America. Have you tried our soup kitchens or shelters or drawn unemployment yet? There are people in this great nation that actually do feel sorry for you. I DON'T. And NEV, I was born in New York. Moved to Atlanta and have lived here most of my life. I have an architectual engineering degree from Georgia Tech and am doing very well for myself. I don't accept handouts or look for meaningless protests to be a part of in my spare time. I work hard for everything that is mine. I have hobbies. Hiking, camping, fishing, traveling, biking and hanging out with friends that share my same positive interests. Tell me about yourself. Education? Hobbies? Probably pretty drab. You never told me who you wanted in office and why. Thus, explaining your meaningless time wasting liberalism. You will never be happy. Accept it. I can take the bad with the good as long as the bad doesn't outweigh the good. I learned long ago that not one person can meet or exceed ALL of your wants and needs. Right now I am concerned about the safety and well-being of my friends, family and this great Nation I live in. Bush is doing a FANTASTIC job. Until next time...-Rob

FYI.
I’ve a Master degree in computing and design in architecture in University of London UK. My hobbies are golf, tennis, badminton and skiing.
Have traveled everywhere around the world expect Middle East and New Zealand.
Live in Orange County and work in far east all the time.
I employ over 900 workers in a clothing factory in Macau and supplier top quality garments to Europe, Japan Australia and the United States.
The unnecessary war in Iraq has damaged the world economy so much that our business is 30% down.
I feel sorry for you Rob, you only think about yourself, your family and friends – very selfish indeed. You’re a goldfish in a fish tank and never want to know how other people see us (our government). Don’t talk to me about security cos I fly all the time.

Apparently we live in the most hypocritical nation in the world. The only Freedom we have is to continue Buying and Consuming.

NEV, You should pack up shop and move it to Iraq. You can then show them the support you want to offer. Wages have to be very low. OR, you could bring it back to the states and pay all your buddies to work for you. Or would you not make the profits then??? GREED!!! You are a hippocrate. You admitted that by telling me you own an outsourced clothing company. It is probably a lie anyways. I bet you are a corporate slug. Maybe a buyer? Or maybe you fly around looking for the newest in fashion. To rip off your competition. F.Y.I.- my girlfriend is a designer for Carters. I know how the industry works.How about that Bush speech? Great, I know. And I do own 3 large fish tanks. No goldfish though. Too dirty. Sleep well PAL!!!

Er, yes, for the information of this "Rob" person in particular... "Hippocrates" was in fact a famous ancient Greek physician; the man the "Hippocratic oath" is named after, which all doctors are supposed to take but some obviously don't abide by.... "First do no harm" being its central tenet!

It would seem to this Net browser that the majority of people posting on fora and bulletin/discussion boards can't spell very well and/or can't be bothered to check what they write before they post it. Perhaps a spellchecker should be provided on all boards. (But would most people bother to use it?)

Mmm yes, Rob, well if you don't know the difference between "Hippocrates" and "Hypocrite" then I personally have no time for you, whatever your income or university education... It obviously wasn't very comprehensive or humanistic, however much it fitted you to get a well-paid job in the cesspool that is modern America.

As for you other chaps - Nev etc. It interests me that far from being "Jobless hippies" etc, most people protesting in New York and certainly on this forum are in fact middle-class well-paid salariat or business owners; again taking advantage of the low-wage economies overseas... But that's global capitalism for you!

Rob: I tell you what. As well as the complete works of Michael Moore, Al Franken et al, you might very well like to read - benefit from reading "The Great Unraveling", by Princeton economist Paul Krugman. Which I am just about halfway through plowing through myself right now. HARDLY a "hippie", a runaway liberal or a disbeliever in the free market system, Krugman's collection of columns for the New York Times demonstrate with chilling clarity how 1) Bush's economic ideas do not and CANNOT work - especially his ideas on privatizing Social Security, ie pensions and 2) proof that his policies are all a big scam anyway. None of what he says means what he says it does...

Conservatives posting on this forum would do VERY WELL in their own interests as much as anybody else's to read this book. Also take a look at the article "A Day In the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican" on Michael Moore's site, www.michaelmoore.com. Home truths!

Yes, I too wish I could have been in New York on the day in question I hope to visit it some day. But not now; I'm not in good enough health - certainly not well enough to risk being gassed or arrested by fascist cops - and I don't have the money for foreign trips.

Never mind! The Net means you can travel virtually everywhere without leaving your home...


Self-educated British person without benefit of university degree or large income! (But it helps to be an invalid sometimes because it means you can read a lot! So much for conspicuous consumption - books are all that I spend my money on!)

Get rid of Bush. Then get rid of Kerry. Elect yourselves a socialist as president! Then you would get universal health care and that, and only that, could be classified as "a good job".

Drop Dead Liz!!! I am glad you love your country. I am glad you aren't healthy enough to fly. However, it would be amusing to watch your ass get kicked by a few cops while protesting. HA HA!!! Fucking stay in "BRITAIN"!!!!! We have enough of your tired lazy asses here already. By the way, my wonderful job pays for my insurance %100. You are fucking nuts. I wonder if you were sane before you became restricted to your home.

Rob- you sound very misled and ignorant. For you to poke fun at Great Britain citizens is highly offensive. I am a New Yorker and my boyfriend is from the UK. How dare you call them lazy you don't know every British person you ignorant ass. As for you going to college and making a "good" life for yourself- CONGRATS- without the help of Liberals you wouldn't be where you are today. You wouldn't have health insurance that covers you completely, The products you and your family use would not be regulated. We live in America which means you are entitled to your own opinions, but for you to criticize other people for their opinions is just plain stupid. Who the hell do you think you are? I am majoring in Political Science and I read constantly. You should obviously open up a book before you go off on the people who post here. I probably know more about foreign affairs and the Bush administration then you and I am not going to sit here and tell you that you should get out of the USA and criticize your views just because I do not agree with them. I am just going to encourage you to read because that is the only way to see what is really going on in OUR country. The media is owned and controlled by a small group of conservative capitalists. Opinion polls prove that most of America is not. That is not fair representation. So I do not blame you for your views- you just do not know- that is the bottom line- YOU DO NOT KNOW. So stop acting like you know everything just because you are a damn architect engineer. I just keep wondering- Do you have children?? Would you send them to war? I have my brother over there and my cousin. I want them home more than anything else. They write letters constantly about how under supplied they are and how noone there wants to be there. The conditions for our soldiers are horrible- so how dare you say your President is doing a good job- tell that to my brother. READ!

Im glad you guys had the wrong time. The Lion King started at 3:30 and we had a wonderful time.

READ....Hey. I love how all of you get so offended by my opinions yet you feel free to tell me yours. As for your brother and your cousin, God bless them. I am a Marine myself and I did not get sent to war. I was stationed the majority of the time in London and 29 Palms. I served for 4 years and was out in 2000. I didn't necessarily want to see war but I knew what I was getting in to. You have to take that risk. I pray for them every night. I do read a lot. I may not read the things you do, but I do read the books that interest me and I listen to Neal, Rush and Hannity. Keep in mind: I served for my country, put myself through college and I am very proud of how things have turned out for me. There are some very fucked up things going on in the country. Every politician is crooked. As I said, the most important thing to me these days is national security. Bush is the man for that job. I don't agree with about %40 of the things he stands for but I feel a hell of a lot safer with him than I do with any of the other candidates. Did you forget about 9/11 like %50 of the US? If the same attacks happened tomorrow who would you vote for? I think we need to put these terrorists out of commission before I am going to worry about 2 guys getting married or abortion. As far as telling me where to go, I love my country. I'm not going anywhere. I don't sit back and point fingers as to why my life didn't come together. I wake up every day proud to be an American and I hope that more people around the world can experience the freedoms that we have here. You have to take the bad with the good in every situation. People need to learn to point the fingers at themselves when things don't turn out the right way. It is not always the governments fault that things don't work out the way you want them to. The comment I made about the British was very wrong. I apologize for that. She was a bitch though. I hate to generalize. I do not have children. When I do, they choose their own path after 18. If they want to serve in the military which doesn't mean "send them to war" I will proudly stand behind them in that decision just as my parents did for me. But, listen to the way you ask questions and see if you can pinpoint where the problems come from in this country. You asked me "Would I send them to war?" if I had children. Did your parents "Send" your brother and cousin to war? Or did they support the decision that they made and hope they didn't have to go? That is one of the problems with you Libs. You always ask questions with the worst possible results. My friend was killed in a car accident. I didn't call his parents and ask them why they allowed him to get behind the wheel. You have to think with more optimism. Where do you get off saying I wouldn't have health insurance without the help of libs? Or things wouldn't be regulated? Please explain. I am %100 behind the fair tax. I hope that comes through for us 1 day. Get rid of the IRS. Enjoy your Labor day READ. XOXOXOXO

Well, there you go: (Rob said:) "I listen to Neal, Rush and Hannity..."
Read, you had it right. (Rob) "you just do not know"

FUCK OFF BLOOP!!!!!

I do not have much time right now but I wanted to clear up something with you Rob. I know When you turn 18 you make your own choices what I meant is would you VOTE for them to go to war- if you had children. Because that is what our Representatives did- they voted for us to go to war when not one of their children serves in the military. That is what I meant. Obviously the people in the military made that choice. But think about it- most of the infantry is Black and Latino. I never said I was a liberal either so do not assume that. This nation is a single party pretending to be a 2 party state. What it comes down to is GREED. You say your biggest concern is National security? Isn't that right? Well where is Osama(or in some translation Usama)? where the hell did he go? If you are really concerned with security just think about it for a second- who attacked us? Do you know? Do you know why? The hijackers- 15 of them were Saudi Arabian. Did you know that? Why did we blow up Afghanistan and now the war in Iraq- Did that ever cross your mind? They did not attack us. There is no evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction. There was never even a threat to us by them- but now after we bombed countless innocent civilians- now we do have a problem- they are going to grow up to HATE us. Think about it- WE killed their entire family and destroyed their homes. We are only breeding further Terrorism. So as for your biggest concern being Security- ask questions. Why did we not attack Saudi Arabia? oh I will tell you why- Because George "Dubya" has major connections with the Princes of Saudi Arabia. Oh and another reason is because if We waged a war against Saudi Arabia- that would set us into a worse depression than the Great Depression. If Saudi investors took all their money out of our companies let's say tomorrow- wow forget about it you have no idea- we would go spinning into such a depression. It is so funny to me- people are like oh National Security - which believe me I am concerned about that as well- but listen to what you are saying: We were attacked while George Bish was in office, he was aware of the threat and did nothing, yes we do recieve many threats- I know that but if you were aware a group might use box cutters or razors an educated person would send an alert to the airlines.Airlines should have always had stricter security in the first place. When he first found out about the WTC's he sat in the Florida classroom and did NOTHING. Did you forget that? I don't know about you but I would be out there making phone calls and getting to work. But not him. And are you also aware that he is illiterate? Recently people smuggled an ELEPHANT over the Mexican borders- does that make you feel safe? Oh George Bush does a great job securing our borders. I don't know about you but color codes and duct tape does not make me feel any safer, I do not feel safer since 9/11- I feel much worse.

Just wanted to fix George BUSH i meant- not Bish- As I said I am in a rush. take care -READ-

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I'll be back to rub it in on 11/3!!!! Enjoy your ridiculousness for a couple more months.You will soon go back into hibernation and then you can pull your head back out of your ass in 4 more years!!! HA!!

You seem to be a bit of an arse if you ask me Rob. Get a life you sad sad man.

BY...Tell me about your interesting life so I can see what mine is missing. Let me know what makes you better than me. Prove to me that you aren't the scum of the Earth.

You know what is funny? The amount of actual time you have spent on this comment page of an obscure article on this site. You are fucking pathetic. Don't bother responding to this, because I assure you..... I won't be back to waste my time. Loser.

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