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Terror Enablers Making Pests of Themselves

Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 4:35:29 pm PDT

Quranblog has photos of the anti-Caterpillar protest in Peoria, at which Rachel Corrie’s parents, relatives, and fellow terror-enablers made a royal pain of themselves, demanding that Caterpillar stop selling bulldozers to Israel: Cat Protest 04-23-2004.

Here we see the well-known dexterity with arts and crafts for which the ~~pro-terror~~ anti-war movement is justly famous. The boxy bulldozer-like thing has a sign that reads “Caterkiller.”

And here we see a gentleman wearing a mask, a cultural custom commonly seen in the Gaza Strip, with a poorly-planned anti-capitalist sign.

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Beagle Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:38:10pm

"Destroy the rich"

So we can all be poor!

Those implied premises and conclusions should be watched over by rational folk.

Connecticut Yankee Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:38:15pm

What, no pink cardboard tanks and men wearing tutus?

vtrtl Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:38:48pm

kill kill kill kill kill the poor tonight!

/DKs (paleo LLLs)

Jheka Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:39:00pm

Yeah, this is winning a lot of converts to their cause ...

Connecticut Yankee Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:39:19pm

"Destroy the rich"-- if I were Teresa Heinz Kerry, I'd be very, very afraid.

Hank Scorpio Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:39:20pm

I see the patchoulli gang really knows how to draw a crowd...

Who did they manage to pull, some old fat hippies trying to relive their glory days of stickin' it to da man and a bunch of dreadlocked white boys?

Oh, and of course there's the guy in the ski-mask, an ever popular fashion accessory for the discerning burglar, bank robber, and illiterate Palestinian thug.

zulubaby Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:41:02pm

It doesn't look like there were very many people there.

Destroy the rich not poor Palestinians

So we should destroy rich Palestinians?

SleepyInSeattle Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:41:52pm

Bomb belts are good - no protest.

Tractors bad - must protest.

vtrtl Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:42:19pm

and I know it would require a higher level of reasoning than any of these nitwits are capable of...

but man ever heard of proximate cause?

it's caterpiller's fault corrie died?

then the blame for 11 SEP falls squarely on the shoulders of wilber and orville wright and i wont listen to anyone who tries to tell me any different...

Model4 Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:42:50pm

Isn't there a law that says you're free to shoot anyone wearing a ski-mask, as long as the temperature's above freezing?

Mr Pol Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:43:53pm

#7 zulubaby

So we should destroy rich Palestinians?

Let's start with Arafat.

Hank Scorpio Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:44:34pm

#9 "then the blame for 11 SEP falls squarely on the shoulders of wilber and orville wright and i wont listen to anyone who tries to tell me any different..."

Hmm... I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

vtrtl Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:45:10pm

Kofi has done pretty well for himself too come to think of it... him and his oil cronies from the UN...

oh wait that Cheney and Haliburton.. nevermind.

zulubaby Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:45:17pm

Mr Pol, you know I love that idea.

vtrtl Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:45:48pm

my newsletter is a poorly laid out cardboard sign...

vtrtl Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:48:08pm

lesson 1: "Thinking Ahead"

the word, "palestinians" has lots of letters in it...

save room or get a big piece of murdered tree on which to write.

also use your red sharpie in a well ventilated room or you may find your iq increasing...

vtrtl Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:50:19pm

lesson 2: Big green cardboard box is not very evocative of a tractor. Adding another green cardboard box to the top does not make it any more evocative of a tractor.

vtrtl Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:52:04pm

on further review the green boxes appear to have a vicous looking tractor blade on the front.

i still think these nit wits ought to stick to what they know.. large paper mache heads.

dan rudy Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:52:25pm

PRETTY PATHETIC PROTEST...no one cares!!!

vtrtl Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:55:20pm

it seems to me that the whole protest scene has become pretty lame.

i mean seriously lame.

and i live in a college town...

lets just say that on a typical afternoon the young republicans booth is staffed by hotties, and the international answer booth is staffed by people who appear to bathe infrequently. (keeping it real with their french homies).

Bo Selecta Conservative Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:55:59pm

What a bunch of absolute fucking wankers

militarybrat Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:56:43pm

I agree with zulu - I don't see many people there.

I've always wondered - "Free Palestine" could mean many things. I, too, want a "Free Palestine," one free of religious and ethnic hatred. One free of the abuse of women and children, one free of guns and violence...

I feel a tremendous urge to go and place daisies in the muzzle of Palestinian rifles

Wait, I am not ready to die. The urge passed.

I feel the same way when I see "Pray for Peace" signs. Of COURSE I pray for peace! Every day! But that doesn't mean I let people push me around.

NY Nana Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:56:48pm

#11 Mr. Pol

Let's start with Arafat

Uh, there is only one small problem with that: he thinks like an Egyptian because he is one.

~~'palestinians'~~ citizens of Brigadoon are not due to return any time soon. Like Elvis, they have left the building.

Geepers Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:57:07pm

But even after a hard day protesting they all went home happy, knowing that they had made a difference.

zulubaby Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:58:00pm

With their Palestinian flags and kaffiyas. What a bunch of losers.

vtrtl Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:58:47pm

i don't pray for peace.

i'm too busy teaching my chidren to visualize peace and imagining a world in which our schools have all the money they need, but the air force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.

Joshua Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:59:10pm

OT: I've been checking Meetup.com to see if any cities will be able to hold an LGF Meetup next week (Saturday, May 1, at 4 p.m. local time). It looks like Toronto will have one, and Santa Monica, CA is still a possibility. (There are minimum numbers of participants required before a city can have a Meetup for a given topic.) There may be other cities which I haven't checked which may be able to meet as well.

Please visit [Link: lgf.meetup.com...] if you want to participate in an LGF Meetup.

Meatsss Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:00:33pm

Apparently they missed the news of Caterpillar's triple digit percentage increase in earnings and huge increase in revenues. Looks like thier parade is for naught. Must be all those tractors they are selling in the Middle East.

vtrtl Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:01:07pm

yeah whats with the kaffiyas?

and every time i see a CCCP t-shirt i'm tempted to ask the guy wearing it if he has a swastika one too...

the CCCP was so incredibly cool... fricking chuckleheads.

militarybrat Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:02:25pm

I HATE the bake sale bumper sticker! HATE it!!!

The more money public schools get, the more they waste. They don't need more money - they need common sense. And about three less vice-principals per school. And some actual STANDARDS.

I'll stop now.

It'll be a great day, when the Air Force has all the money they need, and Palestinians have to hold a bake sale to buy a rock.

Meatsss Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:02:34pm

vtrtl, I believe in Peace through Superior Firepower. Imagining something has never made it happen. You have to actually work for it.

vtrtl Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:06:24pm

i also dream of a world in which people actually care about the finish on their cars...

man it seems like a LLL thing...

you see lots of cars with a single american flag tastefully displayed... or a Bush Cheney sticker...

but if its got a Dean sticker on it you can bet that there are fricking 20 stickers.. two rainbow flags, a love your mother, at least one NO WAR FOR OIL...

it pains me to see all that nonsense cluttering up the clean lines of a 1974 Datsun pickup...

Mr Pol Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:07:47pm

I dream of a world without assholes...

vtrtl Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:09:00pm

Meatsss

apparently they missed the part where caterpillar is one of the many great companies that hav made the world a better place for all humanity by actually building things rather than throwing rocks at things that other people build...

Thom™ Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:11:35pm

Mr Pol -

Now that the US has clarified for Israel that Arafart is not to be touched, I think you're entitled to an "I told you so" re our discussion of Bush's remarks after his meeting with Sharon last (?) week.

It's hard to accept, but it appears that no amount of cynicism is enough when it comes to listening to politicians.

Nell Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:12:09pm

Hmmm, must of been hundreds of tens bused in and at the protest. Yeah, like say 50. ;-D

Connecticut Yankee Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:13:13pm

Meanwhile, some L3s in NYC had another type of Earth Day protest that would gladden Arafat's heart:

Gay Lovers Create Central Park Stir

(1010 WINS) (NEW YORK) Two gay lovers — a man in a black dress and a boy in only a pair of shorts — protested their families' lack of understanding for their relationship by climbing a Central Park tree on Thursday, stripping, performing lewd acts in front of onlookers and refusing to come down for hours.

The lovers, ages 32 and 17, scaled the 55-foot larch tree next to the Chess and Checkers House around 4 p.m., said Detective John Sweeney, a police department spokesman.The couple had told the boy's parents about their relationship and been rebuked, police said.

The man played on branches near the top of the tree and waved at onlookers while the boy sat quietly a few feet below him. Police said the man later performed oral sex on the boy and stripped down to a thong to taunt them.

Police were alerted to the mischief when an onlooker flagged down a bicycle officer. When Emergency Services Unit officers responded, "the two individuals began to shout obscenities to the approaching officers, threatening to push the officers down and throw branches at them in an effort to ward the officers off," police Inspector William Callahan said.

The two were in danger of falling because the tree's largest branches were only 4 inches thick and couldn't support their weight for long, said police, who set up an inflatable safety mat on the ground. Police negotiators who went up the tree to talk the couple down gave them soft drinks and water. A crowd of about 100 onlookers stood nearby.

After about five hours, police put harnesses on the lovers and began to lure them down. The names of the lovers were not immediately released. The couple were taken to a hospital for evaluation, and Callahan said arrests and criminal charges depended on the outcomes of those evaluations.

No one was injured in the bizarre Earth Day stunt, Callahan said. "When I heard they were in a tree," he said, "I figured it was very fitting."

Hope the kid's family isn't into honor killings.

Paladin Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:13:45pm

Gnats buzzing past your ears.

Annoying, but that's about it.

Caterpillar's stockholders could kick their asses.

T. Jefferson Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:13:54pm

Caterkiller? No doubt this was inspired by that all time SF great - Killdozer. This of course stars a renegade D-9 that goes around killing people after it runs into an immovable blue glowing meteor.

Mr Pol Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:15:30pm

#35 Thom™

Would a 'I told you so' teach you cynicism?

Mississauga Matt Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:19:31pm

#39 T. Jefferson

Killdozer! Yes!

I used to love that movie when I was a kid.

By the way, is it true that the Corries stopped off at an IHOP on the way home?

Thom™ Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:22:01pm

#40 Mr Pol

LOL. Well, in the same way that a nun rapping my knuckles with a ruler taught me to behave (more or less) ...

{sigh}

Paladin Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:22:34pm

#33 Mr. Pol

Dream on, brother.

Mar Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:25:17pm

Imagine if they had a protest and nobody came.

mustrum Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:26:24pm

Is it me, or are the protester types running out of ideas? It seems that even their visual arts and craftwork abilities are slipping...

Hmm, conicidentally:
If we are going to sue Caterpillar over Pancake's death, then should we not find the bastard caveman who invented the wheel? I mean without the wheel the bulldozer would never have been invented.

Beagle Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:27:53pm

Why don't they hold up "exit strategy" signs instead?

Even though I hate that term, at least there would be a shred of sense. My exit strategy is always victory, freedom, and stability. Having said that, I absolve myself of the term "warmonger." I don't want war, but I do want to win the wars that are started by others.

I prefer gardening, working out, hiking, reading, and surfing the net myself. When someone comes along and tells me that I am a Crusader infidel, I take that personally (once I figure out what the hell they are talking about).

Others have expressed my concerns about other issues better than I could have, so I'll just leave it at that.

zombie Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:28:49pm

Glad to see my zombie minions with their Zionist cameras doing a good job in Peoria! Now, if only there was a zombie in every town in America, not a single idiotic protest would go unexposed and unridiculed. This Quranblog gets the zombie seal of approval (a small "z" inside a circle).

Ms. Andi Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:28:51pm

I don't want to be shallow, but a lot LLL's have been hit with the ugly stick. The kaffiyas and pali flags don't help either.

I'll be shopping for a car in the near future. Maybe I'll start here.

Meanwhile, that's all get a hat.

Mr Pol Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:29:54pm

#42 Thom™

Let's not waste our time...

zulubaby Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:31:33pm

vtrtl (#29)

yeah whats with the kaffiyas?

It's the latest fashion accessory for the stinky people.

Thom™ Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:36:32pm

#49 Mr Pol

Check.

November will be fun. Vote for someone who will fuck things up relatively quickly, versus someone who will fuck things up comparatively slowly...

Robert Crawford Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:37:51pm

Ladies and gentlemen -- PEORIA ON A FRIDAY!!!

That's why so many Bradley grads go on to work anywhere else.

Barking Pumpkin Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:54:28pm

Looks like this act didn't play in Peoria.

What a bunch of nit-wits.

logger phd Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:55:16pm

Shouldn't the "caterkiller" be pink?

j-damn Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:56:05pm

#39

Killdozer. Heh.
"Knuckles the dog who helps people." Double heh.

Rayra[deleted] Sat, Apr 24, 2004 3:56:58pm

Mr Pol Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:07:35pm

#51 Thom™

Yup, that's why I voted Likud last time. I thought Sharon would fuck things up comparatively slowly. He's been faster than I expected, though.

madmark Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:11:13pm

Thanks for picking my favorite shot, Charles!

The "Destroy the poor" guy recognized me when I took the picture and told me to "take that back to your rasist, zionist pigs you fat bastard".

Needless to say, I hotfooted it back to the friendly confines of the anti-protestors...

mustrum Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:22:18pm

#58
Shoulda' narded him with some excellent Caterpillar brand boots. I swear, they're the best footwear I have ever purchased.

Really.

Manfred the Wonder Dog Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:22:26pm

gotta ask...the left coasties inflicted themselves on a (very tolerant) Caterpillar dealership for their protest, did this midwestern lot make it to Cat HQ with their list of demands or just prance down the center of the road with bad homecoming parade floats?

Manfred the Wonder Dog Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:26:13pm

and...what is that yellow and black striped thing supposed to be? I'm just askin'...

Rayra[deleted] Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:29:38pm

Ger Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:33:02pm

Given Rachel Corrie's politics, wouldn't it make more sense to call her "St. Crepe"?

I'm just sayin...

mustrum Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:34:16pm

#62
Looks more like the Misshapen Banana of Idiocy

Korora: Oh look! A white-breasted nuthatch! Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:34:48pm

and...what is that yellow and black striped thing supposed to be? I'm just askin'...

A caterpillar, I guess. But the significance of the stripes eludes me.

Ger Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:34:50pm

Is it just me, or did this protest seem sorta... I don't know - flat?

Craig Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:36:33pm

Rayra,
Yes, that is right. At first I thought it was a restuarant canopy. Wow, Peoria is now in the big time- nothing says serious social discourse like an LLL giant puppet!

Congrats to our anti-idiotarians for turning our to counter this pathetic display.

R. Crawford, please take it easy on Peoria. I spent quite some time there over 20 years ago. Cat had a really generous college coop program for techies like me in metallurgical engrg. Not quite as exciting as Broadway, but a big step for me from a town of 3,000. As John Denver once sang "I spent a week there one day".

mustrum Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:37:08pm

Was it ever recorded on film that it was a CATERPILLAR bulldoser which compacted Pancakewoman? Could it have been a Komatsu, or perhaps a Liebherr? Perhaps tis' the wrong tree these dogs are barking at.

/Groan

Rayra[deleted] Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:37:36pm

Mar Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:37:58pm

Id that big striped thing a caterpillar?

Rayra[deleted] Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:39:24pm

Ger Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:39:50pm

Man, I bet the protest organizers were just crushed about the low turnout.

mustrum Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:40:37pm

#69 Papaya of Pulchritude?

The Cerrated Caterpillar of Cluelessness

madmark Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:41:11pm

#36 Nell

Actually, I would say that they had about 200 to 250. They were mostly bused in from Chicago, we watched them set up.

#39 T. Jefferson

We noted that "CaterKiller" was a villain in "Sonic the Hedgehog". They also used this to "run over" a woman in front of the CAT building and then they all jumped up and down on it, smashing it to pieces.

We asked the cops why they didn't get tickets for littering and one said, we told them to "leave it there" hoping that they would get out of town FAST.

#41 Mississauga Matt

Didn't see the "parents" (sneer quotes intended) after the rally, but we mentioned to the exiting protesters that there was a Starbucks right around the corner, in case they wanted to debrief.

#47 zombie

Thanks for the approval! Those "Religion of Peace" people are scary! (See previous post and below)

#52 Robert Crawford

Some of our group came from Bradley, some from U. of I. and at least one "old dude" (me)

#53 Barking Pumpkin

Met some of the locals, and you are right, it didn't play well. Also met some CAT employees that were downright mad about feeling threatened while at work. Many wandered over to our side to thank us.

Just some thoughts...

We were in the path of the Corries as they came to the rally point. We were civil (hiding some of our signs) and they were also civil. I was prepared to "give 'em some what-for" about being rotten parents, but then I really felt sorry for them. They have had their memory of their daughter stolen from them by this foolish cause. As a parent, I wept for them... Until I saw the news coverage... The early news was very balanced, but there was a new edit for the 10:00pm news that really went too far in the protester's side. The Corries showed that my first thoughts about them were correct... Too bad for them...

On my way back to the car I happened to be behind an older couple (about 75-80) walking back to their car as well. The woman got tired and set up a camp style stool to sit and rest. As I walked past, se smiled at me and said “Great march riii”, at that point she saw my sign (Pro-democracy in the middle east) and called me (for the 1000’th time) a racist Zionist pig and literally spat at me. I said, “and you kiss your grandchildren with those lips” and hurried away. Nice old lady…

If you look at the pics on the site, some were of a guy that decided to yell at us about Israel being a “Nazi state”. I found this hilarious, even more so when he started pointing at us, stabbing with each word making it look like the Nazi salute. I asked the local TV cameraman if he could send me the video so I could dub a Hitler speech into the background. If he does, I will make it available.

Rayra[deleted] Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:42:29pm

mustrum Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:42:30pm

Don't laugh guys, I bet these people feel truly oppressed, crushed into the ground, so to speak.

madmark Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:43:21pm

#60 Manfred the Wonder

Nope, the police in riot gear stopped them at the door.

The entire block was blocked off for their use, but the police kept them off CAT property.

Rayra[deleted] Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:43:39pm

madmark Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:46:09pm

#61 Manfred the Wonder

The giant puppet was a Caterpiller. It had a "baby" hanging out of its mouth... I guess St. Rachel was an infant...

mustrum Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:46:25pm

The Dilapidated Distended Dingdong of Dhimmitude

mustrum Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:48:17pm

Guys do you remember the scene in the Blues Brothers during the march of the Nazis?

Floor it boys.

Craig Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:49:20pm

The earlier protest seemed to have more zing. The LLLs shutdown a dealership or satellite factory for a while. Here they just marched to the front of the corporate HQ and milled about for a bit.

Farking idiots- just across the Illinois river is East Peoria with the huge mfg. buildings and the dreaded final assembly of the terrible yellow beasties. If they had nards they should have tried to bust into one of those shops. BTW, I would not recommend such a course of action unless one was in full body armor! Cat takes it's security quite seriously.

mustrum, I hope that the offending equipment was genuine Cat. We need the skilled tradesmen employment here in the US Midwest!

Ger Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:50:08pm

#81-

I hate Illinois Nazis.

Rayra[deleted] Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:50:09pm

Rayra[deleted] Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:51:49pm

madmark Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:53:50pm

#84 Rayra

Thanks! I said a number of times yesterday that I wish I would have done some of this 20 years ago. It was a blast and very educational, well worth the amazing amount of pain in my feet, hips and knees that I feel today (I can barely walk).

It's a drag etting old...

I hope you are right about organizing the "counter protesters"

Rayra[deleted] Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:54:36pm

Evan Sat, Apr 24, 2004 4:58:37pm

Kaffiyas: the red armband of the 21st Century.

Craig Sat, Apr 24, 2004 5:03:04pm

Rayra,
what a photo! Thanks for sharing it. Do I see leaning utility poles both sides and well away from the hole? If so, holy shiite, do you know what kind of a blast wave it takes to make phone poles lean over?

Many thanks to madmark and our other central Illinois anti-idiotarians for standing up to these LLLs.

Rayra[deleted] Sat, Apr 24, 2004 5:04:36pm

Mar Sat, Apr 24, 2004 5:10:19pm

MadMark

Were there any confrontations between the protestors and counter-protestors?

BTW Thanks for the photos.

Craig Sat, Apr 24, 2004 5:11:47pm

More comments on the Nork blast hole photo. Both ends of the white building behind the hole have been blown away. The only reason I can imagine that the structure still stands is that it is heavy concrete.

My brother was in Russia a few years ago, he described the typical communist built apartment hovel to be heavy cast concrete walls, cheap, depressing on the human soul (just right for keeping the commoners down), and nearly indestructible. I'm sure that Great Leader copied the frugality of his Soviet tutors.

I see no possible way the death toll was only 150 to 200.

Rayra[deleted] Sat, Apr 24, 2004 5:12:32pm

Mar Sat, Apr 24, 2004 5:15:45pm

Craig

I don't think we'll ever discover the truth about the explosion.

mustrum Sat, Apr 24, 2004 5:19:43pm

Guys OT, and apologies, but read this piece by Mark Steyn and puke.

Death to the UN.

Rayra[deleted] Sat, Apr 24, 2004 5:28:47pm

Craig Sat, Apr 24, 2004 5:31:40pm

We need our local munitions experts to help analyze that blast photo, Rayra. Where is Iron Fist?

I agree, that deep hole raises some questions, to say the least!

Robert Crawford Sat, Apr 24, 2004 5:54:04pm

R. Crawford, please take it easy on Peoria. I spent quite some time there over 20 years ago. Cat had a really generous college coop program for techies like me in metallurgical engrg. Not quite as exciting as Broadway, but a big step for me from a town of 3,000. As John Denver once sang "I spent a week there one day".

Hey, I spent nearly five years there in college -- 4-1/2 school years and one summer working on campus. I nearly married a local girl, and might have ended up working at Cat if that had gone through. Heck, I got a scholarship from Cat.

And I certainly didn't come from the big city -- my home town had a population of less than 900.

But Peoria's not exactly an exciting place to be on a Friday night. If it were, there wouldn't be so many empty Everclear bottles scattered around Bradley on Saturday morning.

J.D. Sat, Apr 24, 2004 6:00:44pm

Steyn #95 mustrum

As Claudia Rosett put it, "We are left to contemplate a UN system that has engendered a Secretary-General either so dishonest that he should be dismissed or so incompetent that he is truly dangerous and should be dismissed."
He should be, but he almost certainly won't be. After all, it is hardly his fault. When he set up the show, who would have thought that one day there would be US auditors in Baghdad? Why, it was, as Polly Toynbee would say, "unthinkable".

Unthinkable indeed.

100

its jake Sat, Apr 24, 2004 6:07:32pm

Destroy the Rich! I hate my parents! White suburbia spoiled my fragile little mind!!!

EEEGAZZZTTZZZ!!!

101

madmark Sat, Apr 24, 2004 6:08:29pm

#90 Rayra

what's that nonsense in pic203 about '10,000 homes destroyed' source? time period? locations?

Being a LLL means you never have to back up a claim...

#91 Mar

Were there any confrontations between the protestors and counter-protestors?

BTW Thanks for the photos.

Only verbal confrontations. My co-conspirators really had their facts down and easily handled some of the nutjobs that came over to make trouble. One of the first rules we laid out for ourselves was to not get involved with anything that would make the News and reflect poorly on our group.

I am all too happy to provide the pics, I wish I were a better photographer... maybe I will improve with practice!

102

Kine Sat, Apr 24, 2004 6:43:07pm

How can your head be so far up your ass that you need to call a proctologist to pull it back out?

I can't even believe that people believe this is a worthy cause...

103

Dar ul Harb Sat, Apr 24, 2004 6:47:30pm

Re: the NK blast photos from Xinhua

Near as I've been able to figure from my exhaustive reading of the news reports, this explosion was as the result of a collision between railcars carrying liquified natural gas and ammonium nitrate (possibly sensitized as a blasting agent), detonated with an electric spark from a fallen powerline caused by the collision.

Really the "perfect storm" of a catastrophic train accident, apparently. Two school buildings were within the blast area, and over 70 youngsters were killed. Reports from the U.K. ambassador to North Korea hint that the Norks have taken away bodies from the scene, so the death toll may be significantly higher than the official North Korean sources will admit. I also read a report from a German medical aid worker that (graphic details follow!) the North Korean medical system is in such dire shape that doctors are donating their own skin (without anaesthesia - yikes!) to treat burn patients. Considering that over a thousand are estimated wounded in this disaster, the official death toll will no doubt go higher, given almost nonexistent medical treatment.

It's got the potential to be the Chernobyl of North Korea, some observers say, and from the looks of the damage, it will take quite some time to get the rail line back in operation. Unfortunately for the Norks, this is a very important link in their economy, since it is on a route that aid from China takes into the country.

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nextcube Sat, Apr 24, 2004 7:09:04pm

#35 (Thom)

Now that the US has clarified for Israel that Arafat is not to be touched

Does that rule out giving him a code red?

(Sorry, bad "A Few Good Men" reference...)

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realwest Sat, Apr 24, 2004 7:36:04pm

#87 Rayra - where the hell did you come up with that photo? (just curious!).

I know, ahem, a little bit about these matters and there's no fricking way a hole THAT big was caused by what the NK's says happened. Nuh huh.
No way.

and that it was THATCLOSE to the border with China raises all sorts of questions.

But folks, I'm telling ya, that much (deep and wide) destruction DOESN'T come from the train "collision" they're claiming.

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Chris Allen Sat, Apr 24, 2004 7:50:47pm

If I didn't know any better, I'd swear that that guy with the Paleostinian flag in this pic was Spike Dudley from the WWE...

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Chris Allen Sat, Apr 24, 2004 7:58:51pm

Re #106: Sorry, I didn't know the link was going to screw up like that. You'll need to right-click on the link, select "Copy Shortcut," then paste the URL in the appropriate place in your browser. (God, I hate sites that don't allow hotlinking...)

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T.L .James Sat, Apr 24, 2004 8:09:13pm

#103: "It's got the potential to be the Chernobyl of North Korea, some observers say, and from the looks of the damage, it will take quite some time to get the rail line back in operation. Unfortunately for the Norks, this is a very important link in their economy, since it is on a route that aid from China takes into the country. "

Not to bring up the Cult of Personality That Must Not Be Named, but it seems eerily like one of the disasters during the final collapse in Atlas Shrugged...everything is going bad enough, but then one of the last threads holding the economy together snaps.

And it involves a train disaster, too.

Eerie.

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illeisist Sat, Apr 24, 2004 8:11:56pm

Whats an LLL??

someone e-mail me this?

illeisist@hotmail.com

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Sparkmechanic Sat, Apr 24, 2004 8:34:56pm

How can your head be so far up your ass that you need to call a proctologist to pull it back out?

I have four teenagers in the house and for the certain moments of cranial rectal inversion, I keep a 2 inch circle of lexan on a string. This string is long enough to allow them to place this over the navel and thus they can SEE with their head up their butt, alas though they still have to walk on their elbows while in this situation.

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Rayra[deleted] Sat, Apr 24, 2004 8:45:59pm

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Dar ul Harb Sun, Apr 25, 2004 2:20:16am

#111, Rayra:

...this was almost exactly the same cargo mix that was being transported in Iran andthenBLAMMO! ;)

Naturally, I Googled it, and wow... you're right. I don't think we need a tinfoil hat to explain this, however. ;)
It just demonstrates that human stupidity is what scientists call "reproducible." Particularly in societies where people are conditioned not to question the authorities.

February 2004: "Should I mention to Ali that we've got a rolling bomb here? Nah. I'd look like I knew too much about infidel physics and chemistry."

April 2004: "Comrades, we must get the trains back on schedule! Dear Leader would not be happy if his special train has caused the slightest delay... (now which track was that fertilizer train on again?)"

Iran train blast kills at least 320

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Left Creeps like a Wedgie Sun, Apr 25, 2004 2:51:32am

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey is making a pest of himself in Pravda again, too.

Donna, so you stand with Israel and George Bush, do you? Well, you must have your legs spread far apart, what with a foot in each corner. How uncomfortable this must be.

Downhill from there.

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Baldy Sun, Apr 25, 2004 3:50:00am

Madmark - thank you for being their and taking pictures.

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Thom™ Sun, Apr 25, 2004 5:14:48am

#104 nextcube

LOL. I'd prefer a thermonuclear wedgie ...

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Left Creeps like a Wedgie Sun, Apr 25, 2004 6:37:39am

Thermonuclear wedgie?
Don't they start out kinda slow - a bit uncomfortable at first?
Then, without proper treatment, grow to reach critical mass and become

* LLL, L.L.C. - The Skid Mark of Society *

Then they become a movement.

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RepJ Sun, Apr 25, 2004 7:28:40am

The people in those pictures need a serious ass whoopin

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Carl in Jerusalem Sun, Apr 25, 2004 8:14:25am

But if you go to the link, there were at least some counter-demonstrators there.

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zulubaby Sun, Apr 25, 2004 8:26:41am

Carl in Jerusalem, the pictures were taken by the counter-demonstrators.

See here.

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rebmiami Sun, Apr 25, 2004 1:17:16pm

Does the sheer visceral irony of these pictures hit anybody else as strongly as it does me? The irony being the fact that in the emotion-driven dream world of burnout LLL social activism majors, a crude paper mache tractor makes a point. Meanwhile, the people whom they are protesting inside these buildings, driven by objective reality and the profit motive, ARE BUILDING REAL TRACTORS!!

Maybe it's just me but the juxtaposition is just too sweet for words.

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madmark Sun, Apr 25, 2004 1:49:09pm

#120 zulubaby

Thanks for the link... I should have been more plain in stating that I was there COUNTER to the main protest...

#121 rebmiami

The whole thing was pretty irony-tastic.

They want to stop sales of CAT, but want a "Fair contract" for the workers.

They want peace, but reacted to me and my group with such visceral hate that made my hair curl.

They decry the death of Rachael Corrie, but walk around with mock suicide bomb belts and black masks covering their faces.

They call me a racist, and also call me “fat bastard” and “stupid white boy”.

The police had to have riot gear and set up sharpshooters on rooftops (the pics of this didn’t turn out, but are still there) for a peaceful protest.

The irony of the reenactment was overshadowed by the vastly larger ironies present.

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zulubaby Sun, Apr 25, 2004 1:58:39pm

madmark, you did a phenomenal job of it! Very courageous of you.

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madmark Sun, Apr 25, 2004 2:24:14pm

[blush]

I did my best and I knew the police would protect me from chatting them up before the moonbats got there. On my way to Peoria, I never considered that I would be in any real danger. It wasn't until I came into contact with some of the "peace" protestors that I got worried. When the hooded "gent" told me to "take that back to your rasist, zionist pigs you fat bastard", I decided I had enough pictures...

My eyes were already opened, I am a regular reader of LGF, but I didn't really understand the extent that the media was biased until I saw this event in person. The coverage on TV looked like the media was at a different event...

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Cato the Elder Mon, Apr 26, 2004 6:23:06am

Did anyone see the sign that reads: "If I were a suicide bomber, you'd be dead by now"?!?

These people have no sense of right and wrong, and yet they claim moral superiority over the rest of us.

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Menachem Mon, Apr 26, 2004 7:59:27am

I don't understand why that guy would only want rich Palestinians dead. Seems like some kind of ditzy hippie concoction of RoP mixed with a little Marxism.

Imbeciles!!

That was a huge crater from the train explosion in NK!

It's a tragic, but what about the Kim Jong Il inflicted famine?