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On Saturday Sept 24th I drove up to Washington D.C. no one at the College Republicans of VCU were able to make it so I went up by myself. I met some nice people on the Metro at Franconia who were with the Million Mom March (they had on the tshirts, it was obvious), and I showed them how to get to their rally. I don’t think they realised I was a conservative until one of the folks said that Saddam’s Iraqis were free. I had on my George W Bush Jack Daniels tshirt on, so I could have been seen as a liberal or a conservative it’s a perfect double agent tshirt.

The Metro’s Blue and Yellow Lines were reduced from two lanes to one, so it took about 30 minutes for us to start towards Washington, DC. After a transfer to the yellow line I got off at L’enfant Plaza just south of the Mall and the FAA Building. From there I took some pictures of the U.S. Capitol. I went towards the Navy Memorial on Pennsylvania Avenue and met up with Concrete Bob who is the father of a guy I went to high school with. (We’re working on starting a Protest Warrior Richmond chapter!) I shot the breeze with him for a bit then moved on to the anti-war protest and the conservative counter-protesters at the FBI Building

I also saw Teresea for the third time at the rally. I met her for the first time in 2004 when Hans Blix came to VCU, she was part of the Protest Warrior and Free Republic group, then I saw here again at a Republican booth at a Charlie Daniels show. We stood outside of the FBI Headquarters building on Pennsylvania Avenue and across from the Eternal Revenue Service building. The anti-war rally was pretty big, but it was very hard to get a good guess of the people in the rally since many people were circling the same block at least three or four times in an hour, and with some people going in the opposite direction, they must be graduates of our wonderful Government-run Public Schools.

Some of the anti-war protesters were some of the most vile, disgusting and hate filled people I have ever met in my life. Many of them couldn’t help from throwing out curse words like they were going out of style. Along with the foul mouthed violent “peace activists” there was a small group of wannabe anarchists. They had the usual style going on, black everything except their pasty white skin, and bandanas over their faces to conceal their bad teenage moustaches. Nothing says tough like a scrawny white kid with shorts, combat boots and green dyed hair.

I think it’s amazing that for an anti-war rally that was supposed to number in the hundreds of thousands, the HUGE majority of people in the anti-war protest are the usual suspects of white middle class college kids. There was the black guy with the jherri curls, he did break a few anti-war stereotypes, although he might’ve been lost.

The gallery of photos is here: http://www.insanehippie.net/photos/photos2005/dcrallyjes_sept242005/

By far, this is my favorite photo, it has been cropped to show the best part. It’s originally photo #44 in “the rally” folder.