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November 19, 2003
Rude Awakening?
Apparently the anti-Bush protestors are planning to come out in full force in London on Thursday.
"We haven't got started yet. You just wait 'til Thursday!" vowed protester Ann Butler, 63, who had taken the train into London from suburban Kent county in hopes of getting within shouting distance of Bush. "He thinks he's Wyatt Earp, but he's nothing but trouble for our country."
But as Charles notes, the protestors may be in for a rude awakening on Thursday. Muslims are being warned to stay away from the protests.
However, this time around many Islamic Movements will not be demonstrating due to the overriding grave and very real threat of an operation, similar to 9/11, against the US President in light of the various specific warnings and threats which have been made by Sheikh Usama Bin laden and Al-Qaa'eda in their press releases against the US and UK.
With this in mind we, Al-Muhajiroun, urge those within the Muslim community to be responsible and not to encourage Muslims to demonstrate on the 20th of November 2003, which might thereby make Muslims part of a target if any operation does take place.
I certainly hope an terrorist attack doesn't happen, but it might make the protestors realize that paper-mache puppets aren't going to protect them....they're targets just like the rest of us.
But I suspect even that would somehow be twisted into being Bush's fault.
Posted by Rita at November 19, 2003 07:37 AM
Comments
Interesting that foreigners who envy and hate us refer to our President with words such as pharaoh, fascist, tyrant, and dictator. None of these apply to him in any sense, but are very revealing regarding the speaker. People who fling these words around often live them. They accept the tyranny of those who are stronger and inflict tyranny on those who are weaker. Meanwhile, American and British twits are dancing at the same protest and calling our President, "cowboy" and "Wyatt Earp". Is he supposed to feel insulted? Are we? Cowboys take care of cows. Wyatt Earp enforced (a type of)law and made the West less dangerous for the average person (those who eat beef, drink milk, and need protection). Are those bad things? Do these groups believe they are actually connecting with each other or with anyone on some level? Will Ann Butler be taking an arab back home to Kent with her or is that just not safe. Does Susan Sarandon have muslim brothers in her car or at her house, or does the stench turn her off? Just for information, in the early 1970's my friends and I attended all of the Vietnam war protests staged at UNM (they were almost required freshman level courses) and here is how they worked. One, or at most two people had a speech or an opinion and a microphone and would posture, gesture, and babble until they were shut down. The audience ignored the speakers and used the event to consume massive amounts of LSD and marijuana and have sex. I doubt that much has changed except the quality of the refreshments and the std's available.
Posted by: kenneth at November 19, 2003 03:44 PM
I didn't get how "Wyatt Earp" was such an insult either. Astute observation that their choice of words reveal more about the speaker than their target. I think you're absolutely correct.
And your description matches the descriptions I've heard from other attendees of the '70s protests...the honest ones anyway.
Tune in, turn on and drop out. Some peace movement.
Posted by: Rita at November 19, 2003 05:02 PM
Kenneth... If you mean the University of New Mexico, I attended a few of those in '71... a roll of reds, a gallon of Red Mountain wine then we got in a fight with some mexican bikers in that park across 66 from the campus...
Did a few in DC too... and New York... lotsa drugs and sex... and violence...
Peace and love but if you bogart that joint I'm gonna kick your ass.
Posted by: Mike S at November 20, 2003 10:16 PM