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Daniel Ellsberg: Good Luck With Thursday’s Protest

December 15, 2010 at 10:15 PM Leave a comment

Per Dan Froomkin at the HuffingtonPost:

Even as President Obama on Thursday attempts to put a good face on the war in Afghanistan, Vietnam-era whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and several dozen other anti-war protesters will be chaining themselves to the White House fence, inviting arrest in the name of peace.

“We are dedicated to exposing the true costs of war and militarism,” explained Mike Ferner, the president of  Veterans for Peacethe group organizing Thursday’s Lafayette Square rally and civil disobedience.

“We’ve killed well over a million people. We’ve orphaned and displaced five times that number at least. And here in our own country, we’ve managed to throw millions of people of out work and out of their homes,” Ferner told reporters at a press conference Wednesday. “There is a connection there. That connection is the true cost of war.”

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A brief rally is scheduled for 10 a.m. across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House with remarks from Ellsberg, McGovern, Ferner, “Peace Mom” Cindy Sheehan, Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin, and others.

Protesters will then head for the White House, where organizers hope 100 or more people with chain themselves to the fence and get arrested.

Bravo for the organization and the effort but, sadly, this is what I think will happen:   (1)  The “liberal media” will ignore you.   (2)  It will laugh at your group because Medea Benjamin will have some sort of “silly” T-shirt on and they’ll concentrate on that.  (3)  They’ll superimpose video of Benjamin on the screen and say she’s “that girl” (who disrupted congress or whatever).   (3)  Cindy Sheehan will look frumpy and sound whiny so they’ll mock her for that.  (4)  They’ll show pics of you in the early ’70′s with all that curly hair and imply you were (and still are) an out-of-control hippy. (5)  They’ll air video of Nixon or Kissinger talking about how you were (and still are) a threat to our “national security.”  (What have I left out?)

Good luck though.  I’m with you all the way.

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