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May 13, 2006

Assault Rifles Aimed at Protesters in America!

The Daily Kos has some eye-witness accounts of peace protesters at whom assault rifles were aimed from the Presidential motorcade.

We stood with about 50 others on rte 674 and when the motorcade came by there was assault rifle OUT the window pointing at ALL of us and the cars all looked like I remember seeing in the Hitler motorcades in the movies when I was a child, all boxy and black and one had the Pres seal and American flag on the sides. It was absolutely chilling!

I have been in such a situation before - when I was in Zimbabwe. The Korean-trained Fifth Brigade soldiers were on the rampage. I was in Ndebele territory, and they were trying to intimidate and subjugate the Ndebele on behalf of the ruling Shonas. When shopping in Bulawayo, I would see tanks rolling down the street with guns pointed at civilians for purposes of intimidation. And it worked.

Is the President trying to intimidate protesters? One protester had this to say:

At the time September 11th happened, I worked at a military base near where I used to live before we moved to FL. Immediately after 9/11, our base was at Threatcon D, meaning that the military personnel guarding our base had to be armed. Yeah, I saw sharp-shooters and automatic rifles; but I took some kind of comfort in the notion that these measures were meant for the "bad guys."

On Tuesday, the message that the sniper hanging out the window with his automatic weapon had for us was that we peacefully-protesting Americans were the "bad guys." And that thought alone gave me the chills.

Or does the President actually believe these peace-loving people would turn violent and attack him? That was what one protester concluded:

It wasn't the rifle that was scary it was knowing that this madman is so insecure and scared and psychotic that this is how he must travel.

Either way, I never would have thought this would happen in the U.S.A.

Posted by Becky at May 13, 2006 07:31 AM

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