Protest Pics

When Breland was in town two weekends ago we went to the anti-war protest on the mall (much to her objection, she's a Republican, don't ask). It's taken a while but I finally downloaded the pictures to my computer.



The protest was interesting, I don't have any pictures but I wore one of the "no troop surge" stickers for a little while... Then I took it off because I still can't get over that whole journalistic ethics thing.

There were lots of students there, holding banners and yelling for and end to the war. I understand why people are so passionate about this issue, I know I feel strongly about bringing our troops home, and it felt good to see that many people rallied together for one cause. It was quite a scene. Providing background music was the group of guys dressed in black armed with a megaphone, shouting the clever protest phrase: "Hey Bush, what do you say? How many kids did you kill today?"



My favorite was the "Impeach Cheney First" posters. Can't say I disagree with that one. News reports said that there were close to 50,000 people there. Didn't look like it at this point, but this was well before the marching part of the protest.



Back later this weekend with more information about DC Mardi Gras. What a week this has been. The ball is tomorrow (Saturday) night.