Anna risked life and her sense of the surreal and returned with photos from the Pro-Sadam demonstrations mounted this weekend. Go check them out and then tell me if you think that they keep this protest paraphenalia in mothballs in Berkeley or somewhere and have been rolling out the same stuff since the 60's. I mean for heaven's sake, poor Anna would never have found the protest if it wasn't for the red flags. Red flags? Who has red flags anymore? I thought those things were all burned in 1989. Must have been a boxful of them left in that Marin County warehouse.
And that dude on stilts - "...and stilt walkers. You can't convey a carefully thought-out anti-war message unless someone is willing to climb the poles" - is that right out of the game plan for a 60's anti-draft protest or what?
The doubty Anna reports that the "Dictatorship Preservation Society" amused themselves with clever slogans like:
Who do we love?
Saddam!
Who do we love even more?
Osama!
and she was there and its in print, so it must be true.
Check out the last two photos in order to regain your sense of proportions.
Update:
My offhand snide observation about the fossification of the
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