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By Kimberly Thorpe, Sunday, Mar. 22 2009 @ 2:24PM
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Categories: News You Can Actually Use, Actually
antiwarprotest1.jpg
Kimberly Thorpe
Anti-Iraq War protestors marched through downtown Dallas on Saturday.
Yesterday, about 35 people marched from City Hall to the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse to protest the Iraq War, which began six year ago. They dressed in black shirts and pants and wore white masks over their faces to represent the dead. From their necks, they hung cardboard signs with names of the many soldiers who have died in the war. The Dallas Peace Center organized the march.

The procession walked mostly in silence and through empty streets. Only a few heads turned at a bus stop on Commerce Street. This had some of the protesters grumbling. "We're in the wrong place," whispered one to a man in front of him. "I don't understand why we're here. We need to be in a mall." Several heads nodded. Then a 59-year-old man who gave his name only as Hank spoke up.

"It's a little too milquetoast for me," he said. "I like things to be more radical. Dallas downtown, on the weekend? Chicken shit."
But the march was more of a symbolic effort, explained Dallas Peace Center director Lon Burnam, also a state representative from Fort Worth, when asked if another location should have been picked for today's protest.

"No, it's perfect," said Burnam, pointing up at the Cabell building. "You have to take it to the power."

Several protesters got down on the sidewalk and lay on their backs, as if in a grave.

antiwarprotest2.jpg
Kimberly Thorpe
The scene in front of the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse yesterday
Almost immediately, a federal guard rushed over. "You've got to move. This is federal property." The director nodded and motioned everybody to stand back up. The group crossed the street and set up on the sidewalk across from the building.
antiwarprotest3.jpg
Kimberly Thorpe

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Comments (26)

Michael in LH says:

A day late and a dollar short. The war in Iraq is done for the most part. Come on Peace Center! Protest the war on drugs. It has killed far more people than the war in Iraq.

Posted On: Sunday, Mar. 22 2009 @ 2:39PM
leftwingerarehaters says:

thanks Michael for your comment
The war on drugs is seen as a GOP vs. the left battlefield where the anti war effort NOW APPEARS TO BE AGAINST OBAMA AND THAT, AS WE KNOW, IS A HUGE NO-NO

YOU LEFTIES ARE SO HATEFUL

Posted On: Sunday, Mar. 22 2009 @ 3:06PM
Toots says:

"NOW APPEARS TO BE AGAINST OBAMA AND THAT, AS WE KNOW, IS A HUGE NO-NO"

Stop drinking.

Posted On: Sunday, Mar. 22 2009 @ 3:46PM
Jason says:

Look at those photos. It's nothing but a bunch of old hippies who never grew up and are still stuck in the 1970's. No one gives a shit about these people or what they are saying.

Posted On: Sunday, Mar. 22 2009 @ 10:12PM
cp says:

Wow, with all these protesters it looks like there's a little "life" in DTD... too bad they're symbolizing the dead, oh wait that's called irony...

Posted On: Sunday, Mar. 22 2009 @ 11:45PM
scott says:

Those two war supporters in the first picture's foreground sure got FACED.

Federal property? On a Weekend? The federal guard needs an enema. Who was inconvenienced by their laying down? Protesters are supposed to get arrested for nothing, that is the point.

This whole operation sounds like an abortion.

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 23 2009 @ 7:37AM
VJ says:

There were people all over downtown this weekend. The West End and Dealy Plaza areas were very active as was the area around the Arts District because of the King Tut exhibit. Also, there was something gay going on this weekend, because there were burly gays guys all around the Sheraton. I went with a friend to look at apartments in Victory and there we peeps everywhere. Just because no one was hanging out at the Federal Bldg doesn't mean downtown was dead.

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 23 2009 @ 10:52AM
James says:

City Hall to the Federal Building?? That's the deadest part of downtown after 5pm.It's mostly homeless people around. I live on Main St. and as VJ said downtown was quite busy this weekend. They should have planned their route better.

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 23 2009 @ 10:57AM
TomT says:

The real story behind the scenes... http://www.ae911truth.org/

-
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You had better ask yourself why there was absolutely no mention of Building 7 in the "9/11 Commission Report".

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 23 2009 @ 11:28AM
noah says:

The general public seems to have its priorities wrong. They have been socially conditioned to laugh and snicker when brave patriots take a stand. We are all so lazy,complacent,and self assured while our govt is exploiting the people. The govt orchestrated the terror attacks of 9/11, now your children, friends, and family are being sent off to Iraq/Afghanistan to kill innocent people and be killed themselves in some cases. Meanwhile the American sheeple are tuned in to "the family guy" and beleiving Obama is going to bring "change". Get up off the couch America, get your priorities straight, take a stand, quit letting the govt have their way with your children!!!

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 23 2009 @ 11:55AM
Obama's Seat says:

@ Noah

Brave ineed. With the limited visibility caused by the masks, someone could have stubbed a toe.

However, if they keep this up until about 2012 or so, their efforts will have paid off.

Assuming they all make it that long, given the danger and all.

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 23 2009 @ 12:42PM
just another vet says:

As someone who did bother to show up and march in two protest marches Saturday, the one in Dallas and one earlier that day in Fort Worth organized by Iraq Veterans Against War, what was most striking was how few people were there. The war in Iraq is still going, and Afghanistan is ramping up. The anti-war movement is a pathetic shell of what it was only 4 years ago, figuring Obama will save us all. Obama is not anti-war, and has said as much. As a veteran I marched because someone has to remind our fellow citizens that soldiers and Marines are still dying for lies and corporate profits in foreign lands. But I guess no one cares anymore about supporting the troops.

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 23 2009 @ 12:46PM
scott says:

Vet, This article is the first I've heard of these events. I would like to support anti-war efforts, sadly, they are not well publicized before or after.

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 23 2009 @ 12:49PM
Anonymous says:

The anti-war movement is a pathetic shell of what it was only 4 years ago, figuring Obama will save us all.


Um, no. The anti-war movement is a shell of what it was because it was complete bullshit, intended only to get people to vote for democrats. Now that dems are in power, the anti-war bullshit isn't needed to gin up votes anymore. The people who actually bought into it just got played like the fools they are.

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 23 2009 @ 1:02PM
TomT says:

TRUTH has been hidden by the media.
http://www.ae911truth.org/

Who would you tend to believe?
...A government report compiled by ten listed authors at NIST and a few dozen contracted and employed staff,
...or would you tend to believe over 623 independent architects and engineers who put their reputations on the line?

WATCH THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE (or don't...and suffer from glibness)
http://www.ae911truth.org/

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 23 2009 @ 1:12PM
just another vet says:

Scott, I don't disagree. Unless you dig deep its hard to find any information on these things. Why? Anonymous makes a good point. Now that the Dems are in power, most of the left will not protest them. Which is sad, because loyalty to party is not the same as loyalty to country. As an independent I could care less about the parties, and see them both as part of the problem. But that's another arguement for another day. What is happening now is that this IS Obama's set of wars. The Dems voted for them in the beginning, funded them all the way through, and used them to drum up votes as Anonymous pointed out. What they do from here on will tell us how they really feel about these wars. Funny how we are set to be "out of Iraq" just in time for the next presidential election.

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 23 2009 @ 1:23PM
GreenEyedLady says:

VJ - it was the annual "Bear" run in Dallas. Lots of overweight, bald gay guys prowling around for some young whipper snappers!

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 23 2009 @ 1:27PM
just another vet says:

"VJ - it was the annual "Bear" run in Dallas. Lots of overweight, bald gay guys prowling around for some young whipper snappers!"

Isn't that every weekend in Oaklawn?

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 23 2009 @ 1:49PM
Smart Guy says:

Didn't the Nazis also wear black? I'm just saying...

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 23 2009 @ 2:08PM
just another vet says:

"Didn't the Nazis also wear black? I'm just saying..."

So do people at funerals. What is your point? Because the people this article is about wore black to mourn the dead.

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 23 2009 @ 2:11PM
Tellstruth says:

It is pathetic that there once existed an alternative press in this country that told the truth where the mainstream press promoted the STATUS QUO. The WARS have been proven to have been launched on False pretenses and the programmed "to be complacent" masses are encouraged to attempt to ridicule those who still have the ability to think and act, those who have the intelligence, compassion and courage to try to end the illegal wars.

This Rag is an embarrassment. Most of America is oblivious to what is really going on here and in the world in part because of an alternative press that is too cowardly to have a conscience.

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 23 2009 @ 5:33PM
Jeff W says:

Interesting, the tin foil brigade showed up. :)

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 23 2009 @ 6:51PM
Tellstruth says:

Jeff W says:

"Interesting, the tin foil brigade showed up."

tin foil brigade? Don't they wear those to be shielded from forces that would influence their thinking or read their mind?

Odd thing is that those accused of wearing tin foil hats are the ones who perceive reality clearly and can see how those without them are being manipulated, conned, deceived, into believing all that BIG BROTHER tells them.

The THICK SKULL brigade are followers, conformists and the norm. We with the tin foil hats are way ahead of you. You will learn eventually. Everybody's gonna learn sometime.

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 23 2009 @ 7:57PM
TomT says:

Tellstruth said it right!!
Great job!
This newspaper no longer reveals what is really going on. It is a mainstream lie pretending to be alternative news.

Noah, you know your stuff.

________________
Some of the cynics on here strain at criticalness. They have lost their humanity.

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 23 2009 @ 9:22PM
Alexandra says:

"If an Anti-War Protest Marches Through Downtown Dallas and No One Is Around to Hear It, Does It Make a Sound?"

Obviously, it does...because quite a lively discussion is going on here.

Posted On: Tuesday, Mar. 24 2009 @ 11:21AM
George W Bush says:

Anti war protest? you mean some people are AGAINST killing 1.3 million innocent Iraqis? Americans are OPPOSED to the occupation of innocent and defenseless third world nations? C'mon Amerika! I thaught yall were patriotic. Give up your bill of rights and constitution for FREEDOM! you want to be free dont you? We had to stage 9/11 so we could invade Iraq... I mean we had to let the attacks succeed... I mean Al queda did it! Remember Amerika, fool me once...you dont get fooled again.

Posted On: Tuesday, Mar. 24 2009 @ 1:37PM

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