61 WHITE HOUSE ARRESTS: 100's demand Obama to end wars, close Gitmo & Bagram, surge housing & job spending
As the U.S. led war in Afghanistan begins its ninth year this week, 61 were arrested yesterday at the White House. Demonstrators' message: war, torture and drone bombing are outrageous, unacceptable and must end immediately. National anti-war groups and individuals from across the US converged to say "No to War in Afghanistan. No to Torture and Vengeance."
Hundreds gathered yesterday morning in McPherson Square for song, poetry and speeches to kick off the day's action. The group marched to the White House in a solemn procession, carrying large photographs of war victims, signs and banners and led by a banner that read: "Mourn the dead, heal the wounded, end the wars."
Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004 while serving in the U.S. Army, welcomed the group of over 500 people on the sidewalk in front of the White House.
The Protest Action
A "March of the Dead" wound through the crowd, wearing white masks and carrying the names of dead U.S. service people and Iraqi and Afghan war victims. Others dressed as Guantanamo prisoners assembled near the White House fence. Members of "Witness Against Torture," a group committed to the shuttering of Guantanamo and the quickly enlarging Bagram air base in Afghanistan, chained themselves to the fence. On their backs they wore the names of Guantanamo detainees cleared for release who remain detained under the Obama administration despite the White House's heralded decision to close the prison.
The group read the names of those killed in war from U.S. bombings in Afghanistan and Iraq. Code Pink, World Can't Wait and other groups participated. Carrying large American and peace flags, Veterans for Peace processed with three coffins representing those killed in war. Each coffin was draped with a flag--America, Iraq and Afghanistan all represented. Members of the War Resisters League wore white shrouds emblazoned with the pictures of Afghan civilians and carried a banner declaring "End the War in Afghanistan."
All who remained on the White House sidewalk were eventually arrested. In total, 82 people were taken into police custody as the reading of the names of the war dead continued.
Meanwhile, the National Call for Nonviolent Resistance, the group that convened the day of action, and members of PeaceAction left the area to deliver a letter to the Obama Administration. Rebuffed at the press gate, the group members held a die-in, read statements and later accused the Secret Service of removing them from the area with unnecessary brutality. Initial estimates of the total number of protesters arrested erroneously included this group in the figure, under the assumption that they would undergo arrests that never materialized.
Protesters say their action sends the message that Americans are sick of war and are gravely concerned that the Afghan conflict is spinning out of control. They hope President Obama will listen and end the occupation. Continuing--and surging--Bush era policies will mean more American deaths, more civilian casualties, an intensified insurgency and the further waste of U.S. resources that are badly needed at home.
At the top of this post you'll find video images of the protest and interviews from the protesters from The Real News video news coverage.
The October 5 Anti-War Coalition includes: National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance, the War Resisters League, Witness Against Torture, Code Pink, Peace Action, World Can't Wait, Veterans for Peace, and Voices for Creative Nonviolence.
Source: Press Release, Anti-War Coalition. No copyright restrictions.
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There's a discrepancy in number of arrests cited in the YouTube video. I use the number cited in the press release for this news event story.
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Post a Comment Comments: 26
This is terrible.
obama sux as prez
I agree!
Thank you for posting this video... Gracias
Lindolfo Carballo
Lindolfo Carballo
tbh i dunno about obamas presidency thats because im from the middle east .. so honestly blv that obama should STOP this war .. its going too far .. i mean we all know that the war is because of taking the oil iraq has but america is spending more money on the army than they are gaining in the shipped oil .. so COMMON SENSE!!!
This isn't about oil at all, it is about world economic control and the ones pulling the chains are the bankers, just as they have control of this nation and its economy. And also are zionists for whom Israel is just another real estate investment for them.
Who also are British and now own significant interests in U.S. nuclear power plants. And the oil is for Israel, not the U.S. since after World War II when the U.N. and Great Britain under its leadership "created" the Nation of Israel, Iraq then recognizing this "new" state's sovereignty from the former Palestinian led state it was, discontinued providing oil to Israel through a pipeline connected to Haifa.
So in other words, these British zionists bankers wanted recognition of the sovereignty of the Nation of Israel as a claimed "Jewish" state, but still wanted the benefits of it's former Palestinian government and status.
And no matter what you "give" these people, they are never satisfied. Since it is only world dominion and control that will suffice. Their insanity at this point is without equal, and so is their greed.
And progressively since, these English and British bankers have shifted the costs and responsibility for the protection of their investment of Israel, along with the British government itself, to the United States in order to also control this country and its people and economy - through also the massive immigrants that were allowed to migrate here then also after World War II.
And by the way, the legal agreement for the creation of Israel was between two British zionist lords after World War I, and pre-existed World War II by literally twenty five years.
So even World War II was manipulated in order to facilitate their ends.
Who also are British and now own significant interests in U.S. nuclear power plants. And the oil is for Israel, not the U.S. since after World War II when the U.N. and Great Britain under its leadership "created" the Nation of Israel, Iraq then recognizing this "new" state's sovereignty from the former Palestinian led state it was, discontinued providing oil to Israel through a pipeline connected to Haifa.
So in other words, these British zionists bankers wanted recognition of the sovereignty of the Nation of Israel as a claimed "Jewish" state, but still wanted the benefits of it's former Palestinian government and status.
And no matter what you "give" these people, they are never satisfied. Since it is only world dominion and control that will suffice. Their insanity at this point is without equal, and so is their greed.
And progressively since, these English and British bankers have shifted the costs and responsibility for the protection of their investment of Israel, along with the British government itself, to the United States in order to also control this country and its people and economy - through also the massive immigrants that were allowed to migrate here then also after World War II.
And by the way, the legal agreement for the creation of Israel was between two British zionist lords after World War I, and pre-existed World War II by literally twenty five years.
So even World War II was manipulated in order to facilitate their ends.
This is ridiculous. Everyone has a right to voice there opinion and what right does the President have to step in and make arrests.
Our country, once again, is not a democracy. It is a Constitutional Republic and the spins the liberals make in even misrepresenting our form of government at this point are incredible.
And in Cindy Sheehan's positions, she is showing true Constitutional conservatism, since the War in the Middle East is at this point an Israeli lobby facilitated one, and not about 9/11 whatsoever - the circumstances for which are still rather unclear at this point, since the Bush family also did business with the bin Laden's and we also funded the Afghan troops in their fight against the Soviets.
And the fact is, the 9/11 perpetrators for the most part were Saudis.
And in Cindy Sheehan's positions, she is showing true Constitutional conservatism, since the War in the Middle East is at this point an Israeli lobby facilitated one, and not about 9/11 whatsoever - the circumstances for which are still rather unclear at this point, since the Bush family also did business with the bin Laden's and we also funded the Afghan troops in their fight against the Soviets.
And the fact is, the 9/11 perpetrators for the most part were Saudis.
But I also wonder why Ms. Sheehan also does not realize in her continued grief also, that her son volunteered and would stop using that as her reason and focus, but the entire fact that this war at this point is clearly unconstitutional in every respect due to both its focus, and the manner in which it has been conducted and was even sanctioned by Congress. As a "resolution" and not an "Act of War" in any manner whatsoever, and Iraq nor the terrorists "sects" there were not "directly" responsible for 9/11 and that is the only legal authority that was given Bush to begin with - to track down and bring to justice any and all that were DIRECTLY involved in 9/11.
Not conduct a willy nilly war against branded "terrorists" no matter what their stripe or mission, creating now even more and future enemies for this country and its people in the process due to the fundamentally "unjust war" manner in which this has been carried out.
Not conduct a willy nilly war against branded "terrorists" no matter what their stripe or mission, creating now even more and future enemies for this country and its people in the process due to the fundamentally "unjust war" manner in which this has been carried out.
And as far as "surging housing and job spending" that could be cured quite easily by doing their jobs. Regulating the banks and banking practices in this country, especially those of California that are now writing mortgages using the British economy as the basis for loan terms and interest rates, and also securing our borders and beginning now at this point in our history to start protecting domestic labor, and tightening up or issuing a moratorium on any and all further immigration to this country by foreigners.
Since the founders were protectionists, not globalists, as Mr. Bush and Obama clearly are, as were Clinton and the first Bush before him.
Since the founders were protectionists, not globalists, as Mr. Bush and Obama clearly are, as were Clinton and the first Bush before him.
And thus, four presidential Administrations have created this mess, in conjunction with the British bankers who are the owners of our Fed, and who are manipulating our dollar and economy to increase the worth of the U.S. gold they now hold as security for all those "debt" notes.
And have been manipulating all these wars sicne 1913 for their own further economic gains at the cost of this nation and its people.
And have been manipulating all these wars sicne 1913 for their own further economic gains at the cost of this nation and its people.
And just why is it that the liberal element in this country believe that in order to effect change and improve the U.S. economy, you need to spend more money "creating" new jobs, instead of protecting through Constitutional measures, the ones we already have?
Unbelieveable, really, the liberal mindset. Truly.
Unbelieveable, really, the liberal mindset. Truly.
Unless, of course, the writer is a recipient of one of those "stimulus provided" new jobs for the telecom industries for the California Murdoch (a Brit, not American, all representations to the contrary in his political ideology and beliefs) organization, also a zionist whose father was a British lord from all reports.
And is now spinning the propaganda that his Fox news station and his media venues are "Conservative" when they are actually the definition of "conservatism" in Britian, not in the U.S., in any manner whatsoever.
And is now spinning the propaganda that his Fox news station and his media venues are "Conservative" when they are actually the definition of "conservatism" in Britian, not in the U.S., in any manner whatsoever.
Ross sure believes in freedom of expression.
cool thanks
yea very cool
I wanted to point out that the early reports from D.C. were incorrect and that I have corrected the total of arrests to 61, as The Real News reported in the attached video. The discrepancy in the numbers came from a group that approached the Press Entrance of the White House in an attempt to meet with Obama. They were held for a few hours while their fate was discussed, a fate that looked likely to be arrest. However, that is when the scene rapidly changed. The group alleged that the Secret Service stepped in, and that the situation degenerated abruptly. The complete story is "Secret Service Accused: Pushing, Dragging Peace Demonstrators?" and it is found here:
http://bit.ly/9CQtv
Thank you for reading this report and for sharing your thoughts in the comments!
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