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Note: A previous entry here, including reports from my corner of the world.
A couple of illuminating comments from Smash's entry on the protests:
There are always freaks at these events, But don't let that blind you to the truth.
and
Yes, please don't take these people as the norm. There are extremists and morons who don't know how things really are on both sides of the issues. Liberals like me have to deal with people like these, and conservatives have to deal with people such as extremists within the religious right.
Exceptions to the rule? Extremist? Comparable to those on the religious right?
You decide.
Start with a mirror of the overloaded San Francisco photo site, via Swanky Conservative.
Then visit Michael Totten, who has a collection of photos from anti-war rallies from around the world. (A commenter on Totten's blog dismisses them as "mostly foreign".)
Matt Margolis, Aaron and Tyler and others joined with a recently returned OIF vet in crashing the NY protest. They handed out Bush/Cheney buttons along the way.
Much to our surprise, as we walked back across the viewing area of Ground Zero, our worst fears were realized, for the protesters were standing in front of Ground Zero, with bullhorns, screaming words of hate and swearing, holding utterly tasteless signs in the shadows of the worst domestic attack of terrorism on American soil.
One of those signs was a "Stop Bush" banner with the 's' in Bush replaced with a swastika.
Not the norm? Out of the mainstream? For humanity, yes; for the left, no. And it should surprise no one that it's impossible to differentiate between the "throngs" in New York and their cousins across the Atlantic (on my current side of the pond, if you will), captured here.
Though there is a subtle difference in the Australian crowds. Which reminds me: Note to British and American socialists: Could you please remember to include Australian PM John Howard in your next "Axis of Evil" signs and banners? Really, your Aussie Komrades are feeling "left" out. Get it? Haha!
But really, visit the links, and after a while you'll realize they're all the same. Books, hate-filed signs, slogans, support of "Palestine", Bush is a Nazi! But fortunately, there's another similarity. Take a close look at the following two pictures and see what the "young socialists" literally "carrying the banners of their cause" have in common.
London (left) and San Fran (also left, but not below)
"Young" socialists?
And while Blackfive found himself almost alone at the Chicago rally, another youngster discovered she was "an Army of One"
Even with the rallies planned well in advance, at least one protester got a little lost.In Washington, one person found out too late that there would be no protest in that city. A woman in a baseball cap and sunglasses stood in front of the White House with a sign reading, "U.S. Out. U.N. In."
"It's always nice to do a protest with other people," said the woman, Linda Wilscam, 43, of Vernon, Conn. "It feels lonely today, to be honest."
Just wait another 20 years, darlin'.
Update: Via Instapundit, more youngsters reliving the glory days of 'Nam. Well, at least what they heard about 'Nam. Nice try, morons. Guess where those big sticks would be if I was at your protest?
Finally, sorry, I can't resist. From the San Francisco collection, the protestors have endorsed Not Bush for President:
