If you can't get to D.C. today, Vidiot has linked to a few sites suggesting an internet Blackout in protest of Bush's inauguration. If I had my way, I'd be in the Bayou attending a funeral.
News sources say thousands plan to protest in Washington today, although the figures would have been much, much higher had 'the President's safety' not trumped the whole freedom of expression thing (as it is wont to do) causing the majority of those who applied for permits to be denied. Due to the sheer volume of people who murderously loathe this president, the federal government and the District of Columbia saw fit to (borrow? allocate? steal?) tens of millions of tax dollars from those denied the right to speak or assemble, so they may turn what was a parade route into a "steel cocoon".
Perhaps I can get to you 51 per-centers through your pocketbooks. If you haven't already, forget about human and civil rights and those darn gays and the environment and all the little dead fetui and such for a second, and consider this: Having an abomination for a president--a man so despised worldwide, that a city must be converted into a maximum security prison in order to protect him--is not only bad for America, but is darn costly. If it had been Kerry's inauguration day, you know what the price tag would've been to keep those Swift-boat for Justice dudes behind some yellow tape? Like twenty bucks. Tens of millions, twenty bucks, tens of millions, twenty bucks. You feel me?
Posted by Antigeist at January 20, 2005 09:49 AM