Iraq War protester-hippies poured red paint on the sidewalk outside of an Army recruitment office today. When a recruiter — who, along with his colleagues, was counter-protesting — noticed the spill, he asked some hippies what impact pouring red paint on the sidewalk has on the war. One hippie responded along the lines of, "It's the blood of foreign countries that you've spilled." The recruiter responded with something about bringing peace to the Middle East. This really happened. They each went their own ways after a minute or so — the hippie back to his hippie mob which was chanting "fuck the war!"; the recruiter back to his Army friends who were responding with "win the war!" (although it might have been "bring the war!" which is, well, terrible). Between these two groups was a puddle of red paint on the sidewalk, claiming naive pedestrians one-by-one.
Worst protest in the history of protests. Our last pictures are below, so you can see for yourself.

That would be the paint-blood hippie on the left, and the curious Army recruiter on the right. They are arguing about paint on the ground, yes; but really they're arguing about completely separate issues, with themselves.

Various local Fat Cats gaze in confusion, especially the one holding that strange purple pad.

The hippies wave at the construction workers across the street from the Army recruitment office, who seem to like the attention. That one on the middle floor, left, is actually a clown on clown stilts. Does he have any idea where he is?

Ha ha, this was one of the many cars on L Street that got stuck in the "K Street Protest." Professional photographers kept pointing their big lenses through the car's windows to catch the driver's reaction, which was VERY VERY ANGRY. If this driver got through this episode without killing a single dancing polar bear, he deserves a fucking Medal of Freedom.

And here's the famous Rage Against The Machine cover band, uh, testifying against the government! Lest we forget, Rage Against The Machine (the real one) put on a protest concert outside the 2000 Democratic National Convention in L.A. Later that year they broke up, around the same time that George W. Bush was elected president. But Al Gore and George W. Bush are the exact same people with the exact same policies, just like Rage Against The Machine is a good band.

Oh and here's that dumb polar bear and his lovely human-wife. The end.








Comments
Bush lied -- polar bears died.
Um -- and why is that army recruiter guy dressed like a mailman?
the purple pad is a yoga mat...he's a big fat cat hippie!
Jesus, that beast of a woman should worry less about winning the war and more about losing weight. No wonder her husband wears a fucking polar bear mask in public.
Also, I fucking hate hippies. Go Army!
Well, now that they've gotten that out of their systems, they can return home and play Halo 2 on their xBoxes.
I was thinking about the Anonymous v. Scientology protest today. That was a far better protest, it seems like, though the wars are a bigger problem. The irony of this is driving me a little mad.
But clearly fucking up the daily commute isn't going to change anybody's mind. And the recruiters aren't the ones that got us into this, anymore than they're the ones that can get us out.
Also: News Hour on PBS has been running, since the wars started, photos, names, ages, and hometowns of dead soldiers. I know it doesn't address all the foreign red paint spilled, but it's simple, eloquent and doesn't get anybody stuck in traffic.
Also: "They are arguing about paint on the ground, yes; but really they're arguing about completely separate issues, with themselves." That's some good political writing. Thank you.
Ah that takes me back to 1968 Chicago...
Except, not really. This country boasted far fewer pussies and numbskulls, on both sides, back in those days.
I've never understood this impulse to go after military recruiters. It's not like they're responsible for the dumb wars. Wouldn't it make more sense to dump red paint on WALNUTS! or something?
Also, the Ron Paul Freedom March is going to make this thing look like a fuckin picnic. I hear the Pope is going to be there.
@SayItWithWookies: "Well, it's my job. And I'm pretty damn serious about it. In addition to being a postmaster, I'm a general. And we both know, it's the job of a general to, by God, get things done. "
@hawsquire: well said. Its a crappy position to be in and the one's I've met would rather be in Iraq themselves than do it. They deserve to be treated civilly. Walnuts, however...
You know what? We don't deserve Obama. We deserve Hillary, we deserve to be held in contempt by our ruling class overlords, branded, categorized, focus grouped, systematically bled dry, enslaved in debt for worthless poisoned crap.
@hawsquire: Or, here's a thought, how about at the white house or the steps of congress? Soldiers only do what the goddamn politicians tell them to. Maybe a few less protesters on K Street and a few more getting arrested for unlawful assembly on the Mall. I might be able to admire that.
It's not like it takes a lot of bravery to agree with 80% of the American Public and say this war is not a good thing. How about taking it to the people who actually make the decisions, instead of pissing off people who probably agree with you?
@hawsquire: Oh, and say what you want to about the paultards (I do) but they're gonna make the DC cops earn their pay for once when they March.
The building across the street houses the Army Mathematics Research Center....
There has to be some way to kick people in the balls to take the cost of life and freedom seriously, without having to blow shit up on a massive scale ... You know what I mean?
Yes, let's have civil disobedience by committing a potential felony (red paint)!
Don't worry. I'll be in SF tonight with my "Say no to Freedom of Assembly" with about 5 of my friends. I'll do my best to cause riots, bleeding and mass hysteria.
... I met "Say no to Freedom of Assembly" sign, as well as whatever they bring. Anybody in SF should join us in our stride towards protesting these stupid hacks....
Civil Disobedience these days means knowing shit past the stale platitudes of the cowardly consensus view. Just knowing shit is a political act. Think about it.
Burn Washington down?
No, just leave it standing as a monument to all the bullshit in the world.
I am so fucking over the right to assemble peaceably.
@PaultardsForever: Who do you support for president?
@Johnny Zhivago's Cat: Can we be a separate country from Washington D.C. please, and let them rule themselves, like a kind of North American Luxemburg?
@JimNewell: Ron Paul. Natch!
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It Came from the Swamp: Your Federal Government at Work (Hardcover)
by Susan Trausch (Author)
@JimNewell: I'm talking to Jim Newell! That is so cool. It's like holding up a 9/11 Was an Inside Job banner at a Bill Clinton "rural hitman" rally."
@JimNewell: Oh, gods, you see one out in the open, and it means there's more in the walls.
@JimNewell: OK, OK, OK, so I'm kind of exicited about interview Jim Newell ...
Jim (may I call you Jim): Do you make more money than me, or is awesomeness not related to personal income?
I'll bank my hope on HOPE and suggest that Ron Paul become President of Texas, where he was born a native american 600 years ago. I think they can still secede, right?
@Godless Liberal: Sure, but do it where it'll do some good.
@PaultardsForever: Is this the latest iteration of Tony the Tiger?
@shortsshortsshorts: I met a blonde white kid who was a card-carrying Cherokee. The biggest neocon I ever met in real life. At a Dharma center doing volunteer work for the preservation of the Tibetan Buddhist culture. I didn't trust him in the end, although he was fun to hang out with. Anwyay ...
@JimNewell: Tony the Tiger is a Shillary-tard. I am a Paultard. Even McCain knows the difference.
* Token Paultard
You can't ban me. Civil rights!
Wow, way to insult and denigrate the guy who has the power to ban you and writes the site you spend all day on, making idiot Paultard remarks. Stay classy, douche.
Proof again that all Paultards are insufferable retards.
I can't recall the last time I saw all the loopy protest cliches all together in one place at one time. Concentrated. Costumes, bandanas, confusing signs, fake blood, simulated corpses, I mean, it's all there! The magnum opus of demonstration-tardery. Oh, and the best part, Congress and Cheney are out of town. Pissing off the locals and the pols miss the whole thing. Brilliant. We'll be out of Iraq by next week at the latest.
@PeteJayhawk: I am trying to be funny here ....
@PaultardsForever: Not working.
@PeteJayhawk: So sue me. That's the Ron Paul way.
@PaultardsForever: I am unsure what to do with you. We already have a token Paultard (Proud Paultard). Just don't cause fights or talk about the Sheeple, please.
It looks bad, but the red paint was still better than their idea of dumping mercury in the water table.
@JimNewell: OMG OMG OMG Jim Newell is talking to me.
:Takes deep breath:
@PaultardsForever: I take it that people talking to you is a rare event?
@PaultardsForever: oh dear. your name is "paultardsforever" and you were somehow about to escape bannination, but now you done gone frightened me again. try again some other time.
@SayItWithWookies: I'm pouring some seal blood out for my bear homies that didn't make it.
That's some messy sh*t!
Did anyone notice that Obama is under fire because Rev. Wright said 9/11 was the fault of America but McCain isn't under fire despite the fact that he worked hard to get into the late Jerry Falwell's good graces in 2006 and Jerry Falwell blamed 9/11 on AMERICANS! McCain knew Falwell had blamed Americans before he courted and became pals with Falwell. Why do you think the press gives McCain a pass? Is it because of race?
Read about it here! [beertap.wordpress.com]
This shit just makes me fucking sad. If there were ever actually real protests, I'd come join. But this is just a bunch of failed hipster retards just trying to annoy everyone into acknowledging their existence.
How can we mobilize to have the draft reinstated? THEN you'll see some shit! Once America's spoiled, lazy youth are told they'll have to give up creating seizure-inducing MySpace templates for basic training, maybe they'll start giving a fuck.
And then maybe we'll have some decent fucking music, too!
/rant
In the top picture it looks like the camouflaged person had the presence of mind - or self preservation if it was real, terrorist blood - to wear rubbers on his shoes.
Smart.
Guess what suckers?!
Dick Cheney poisoned the rain.
Hope Wonkette had a poncho...
@MrWonkette: The good Rev exposes that the MAN invented HIV, which makes good white liberals nervous, because they're all for the UN sticking needles in black people.
@Senator Boomdog: A-fucking-men. That's exactly how I feel.
@MrWonkette: OH BOY! A new commenter who's trying to pimp their schizophenia-fueled rants? This'll last.
@LeadFoilHat: We are screwed! Damn you Cheney and your extra-terrestrial abilities!
@hawsquire: I don't think it's going to happen. The secret plan is for the Paultards to march on Minneapolis and hope McCain has a heart attack.
That's not a "clown on clown stilts;" that's a normal worker using a common piece of equipment that makes it easier to work on ceilings, light fixtures, and other things that are high off the floor. I'm assuming you weren't trying to be funny here, though it's often very hard to tell.
@BobMunck: Yes, I was being serious when I said there was a clown, like they have at the circuses, arbitrarily among the construction workers in this building.
Jesus Christ, Jim...you assholes will let anyone comment nowadays.
Why is it that the crazies really come out at night here? Don't these schizo fucks have jobs?
Oh...right.
@JimNewell: Proud Paultard lost his cookies and will never ever sign on again.
Come one, come all and meet Proty the Protesting Polar Bear! Bring your kids! You'll have a true blast!
[Cringe.]
Well, you can't say that the typical anti-war protest is much different from this. I was at the big protest in NYC on the eve of war in 03, and I was appalled at all the people dressed as babies in strollers and whatnot. War is Bush! Giggle giggle. Shake shake.
Still, it's strange how protests in the US are treated like crap--no matter how many millions are protesting, TV anchors kind of laugh them off--whereas protests in other countries are treated as political shifts (protests against Ahmadinejad this week, for one).
@Joe Dog: 2 plus 2 equals body count. Seen that, been there.
@Steverino: It takes balls to protest in Iran. Here, it takes enough drugs/alcohol to act like a douche in public. How many furries you see protestig in Iran?
I could understand all of this if these people were dropping acid, smoking dope, or trying to make a fashion/cultural statement like our favorite self-absorbed generation, the Boomers. But...I don't think anyone's doing that here. Nope.
@senator boomdog
And the other thing that's good about the draft (and, hey, who'd be popular enough to instigate it, if not Obama?) is that it immediately makes it possible for people to talk about the military in honest, skeptical terms, without biting their lips and weeping like Tom Hanks, talking about his band of brothers who died storming Boola Boola Atoll.
30th anniversary of My Lai this week, and the only person who damn remembered that was Amy Goodman.
Instead of protesting the recruiters (which seems utterly pointless), why don't these people start a campaign to discourage high school kids from actually signing up.
Like, recruit a bunch of hot college co-eds to visit high schools and have the horny little high school boys pledge not to join the army. Make it cool to avoid military service.
I know, it's unpatriotic... but it's not really any worse than protesting outside the recruitment offices anyway.
@Botswana Meat Commission FC: High School kids don't generate rage, unlike Army recruiters (unless they TP your house, in which case GET OFF MY DAMN LAWN!, but I digress). These people are there for the cameras, not to do effective things.
How bout the Wonketeers all take a day off and go out in the streets and show 'em the real way to make signs, slogans and critical swarm?
If only there was some sort of group dedicated to fighting to defend their right to protest...
Loves how the paint throwing douchebag is so committed to his cause he wears a bandana and sunglasses to cover his face from worldwide broadcast.
Douche probably doesn't want to f-up his chances of getting that $200K corporate job after he gaduates from law school this spring. I hope he was arrested and held in the DC jail last night.
Congrats to the protesters! They did a great job in D.C. with a small number of people, they did great in San Francisco, and they did great in many other cities! Congrations to the protestors!
@thefrontpage: Yeah, great job pissing off the wrong people. Kthanxbye.
@thefrontpage: Protesters suck. Protesters got Nixon elected twice, and extended the Vietnam war for at least an extra four years. You want to actually get shit done, go find a rich person to get on your side and hire a good lobbyist.
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