Joann Wypijewski had a good piece on the demonstration on Counterpunch on Monday. Her piece, entitled “Chirpy Slogans, Empty City,” noted a breakaway from the march:

“The anarchist kids, the revived SDS, a youthful band bearing red and black flags, one saying “An Army of None”, swept up the stairs of the Capitol. We joined them and for a brief time the whole thing felt like it should — electric and raw, impolite. We were chanting and drumming and some of the kids started spray-painting slogans on the landing where police had stopped our progress.

It was too bad the tagger I was watching couldn’t come up with anything more original than “Fuck You” or the encircled A. Not the best advertisement for Anarchism’s political program, but then the kids in black always have been better at theater and destructive energy than anything.”

Sounds plenty damn lame to me.

While we are discussing this veteran who was allegedly spat upon, I have this question. Is there any truth that monuments in front of the Capitol were sprayed with graffitti?

This something else the neocons on talk radio are hollering about. Over the years I’ve gotten to the point that anything they claim I assume to be a lie done for partisan purposes.

Thanks.

People need to find some way to rein in their rulers.

I’m not saying that the incident didn’t happen - I’m just not sure what transpired.

I spoke to a lot of folks and did not perceive anti-Veteran hostility.

I have no illusions that the average protestor is more savvy than the average member of Congress.

It would be easier and safer to ignore politicians if they were not starting wars.

On the other hand, the Maoists may have already overimbibed, else how could they become True Believers?

In that case the joke is on me. I’m glad you like the commeback. They weren’t amused to say the least which is typical of people who take themselves too seriously.

I don’t think those Maoists would be willing to go the Cosco route on the book. While it was way overpriced I did offer to read it for free if they were willing to give it to me, but they declined my counter offer. Come to think of it I should have ask them to not only give me the book, but pay me to read it.

The dude who wrote it was a Bob Avarakin or something like that. I can imagine what an ordeal this book would have been having one I found someplace of the writings of the late and unlamented Kim Il Sung. Ghastly!

Ya, any time there is a big public gathering there’s gonna be a certain number of boneheads.

That’s a great response to the pitch to buy Maoist books. Wonder if they would have been willing to haggle to reach a market-clearing price.

That was a tongue in cheek joke. I listen to those idiots on the radio and Fox just to see how they are distorting if not outright lying about a person or an event. They put on quite a show yesterday by making many uses of the “sandwich smear”, i.e., everyone who goes to one of these demostation is a leftist and by extentsion anyone against the war is a fellow traveller.

I’ve been to similar events and I know from being an organizer of one you attract all sorts of nutcases and fanatics. The one I worked at years ago had some members of the Revolutionary Communist Party show up and asked for the use of our sound system. I exchanged some words with them explaining that for what we were doing the last thing folks wanted to hear was a load of maoist crap. Having been rebuffed there they asked me if I wanted to buy one of their books. I asked them how much they wanted and upon being informed replied “that sounds like a capitalist ripoff to me” and declined to purchase.

Oh yeah, the event I was at? A pot “smoke-in” held in Atlanta.