LGF reader Alexis Z. forwards a first-person account of yesterday’s Idiotarian Circus from a Protest Warrior named Ryan.

And Hootinan.com has another report from the freak show front lines:

The peace and love crowd was anything but. Sitting here I can’t even count how many times we were accused of being cia-ops, on the Bush/Cheney payroll, on Halliburton’s payroll, called fascists, racist, bigots, anti-gay (even though we didn’t have any signs that even touched on any gay rights issues), anti-Muslim, anti-women…shoved, pushed around and told to die, to “fuck off whitey” and the list goes on and on (told you I couldn’t count ’em all). At one point we encountered a massive wall of idiots (I think they were catching on to us so one of them radioed ahead to their comrades to watch out for us), where some were adorned with the symbol of Palestinian terrorism, the kaffiyeh and after bemoaning that we were anti-everything under the sun, they began chanting long live the intifadah!, long live the intifadah!, long live the intifadah!!! with blood in their eyes and sheer violence in their voice. It was truly scary. If the police weren’t there to hold back these nuts, it could have turned ugly, and fast.

UPDATE: Another account at the blog of the almighty Allah, from a reader named Babs.

At one point things got really pretty dicey as one of my fellow protest warriors was being choked right there in the middle of the street and the NYPD came in and rescued us! They corralled us into a bull pen sort of place and protected us from the peace marchers… Then, they assigned a scooter brigade to guard us while we expressed our right of free speech. My poor sainted husband, who I talked into coming with me was being shoved and screamed at by the ANSWER security squad (brown shirts) and he remarked that we have free speech in the U.S. to which the goon screamed in return “there is no fuckin free speech”. I think this would come as a surprise to the thousands of police officers that were assigned to this march in order for people to exercise their right to assembly and free speech. But then, maybe we are just confused.

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