Pentagon's Freedom Walk? Really tight constraints & hardly freedom

[IChing]

Tight Constraints on Pentagon's Freedom Walk
Event Remembering 9/11, Troops to Be Kept 'Sterile,' Limited to Preregistered
By Petula Dvorak
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 9, 2005; Page A01

Organizers of the Pentagon's 9/11 memorial Freedom Walk on Sunday are taking extraordinary measures to control participation in the march and concert, with the route fenced off and lined with police and the event closed to anyone who does not register online by 4:30 p.m. today.

The march, sponsored by the Department of Defense, will wend its way from the Pentagon to the Mall along a route that has not been specified but will be lined with four-foot-high snow fencing to keep it closed and "sterile," said Allison Barber, deputy assistant secretary of defense.


The U.S. Park Police will have its entire Washington force of several hundred on duty and along the route, on foot, horseback and motorcycles and monitoring from above by helicopter. Officers are prepared to arrest anyone who joins the march or concert without a credential and refuses to leave, said Park Police Chief Dwight E. Pettiford.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090802140.html?nav=rss_print/asection

That's what I call an Orwellian Freedom March

[Drum]

1. Then Bushville it is!

[IChing]

3. It sounds like they don't want these people to run

the gauntlet, like the Department of Defense did to the prisoners at Abu Ghraib

The irony is that this is Rumsfield's little thing.

[IChing]

5. Just read about Bushville

And that sounds great

the "freedom march" is something else.

This could be a media disaster for the Administration, especially if the gauntlet is televised in a way that explains this hypocrisy in a visual manner.

Freedom for some, who the hell is gonna buy this shit
I march for freedom, because, I'm handpicked, screened, and cordon off from the less equal showing the world the "two americas"

noun
1 a line or circle of police, soldiers, or guards preventing access to or from an area or building : troops threw a cordon around the headquarters.

2 an ornamental cord or braid.

3 Architecture another term for stringcourse .

[recycledindi]

48. how much you want to bet

that over 90% of the crowd there will be government employees and their families who were threated with being fired if they didn't show up?

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

2. All To See A Concert By Some Country Hick n/t

[cliss]

4. Isn't that funny?

I believe the Old Man himself Donald RumsFailed will be leading the march. It's for Solidarity, you see.

We'll all join in, if not physically then spiritually. We'll all be marching "together". NOT

RumsFool will probably not DARE walk in his own Freedom Walk.

[neweurope]

6. "One restricted group will be the media,

One restricted group will be the media, whose members will not be allowed to walk along the march route. Reporters and cameras are restricted to three enclosed areas along the route but are not permitted to walk alongside participants walking from the Pentagon, across the Memorial Bridge to the Mall.

The Washington Post and other corporate entities initially signed on as co-sponsors. But critics from within the newspaper and from the antiwar movement said partnering with the Pentagon raised questions about objectivity, and three weeks ago The Post pulled its co-sponsorship.
Other media co-sponsors -- WTOP radio, WJLA-TV and NewsChannel 8 -- support the effort with advertising."

The media openly restricted - why the HELL won't they just boycot this crap! Boycot the Bushistas just for three weeks, tell the public why, and you'll see how fast there won't be any restrictions anymore...

*sigh* Yes, I know *dreams on*

---------------

Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[Sacajawea]

7. But SURELY there will be some "temporary Republicans" who have...

registered. And what's to keep these "temps" from having little digital cameras or small videocams in their pockets?

And if I've thought of this, I'm certain some reporter has. :evilgrin:

But what a phenomenal waste of manpower to police this charade (probably at time-and-a-half for working on a Sunday, too)!!!

[PA Democrat]

8. I wonder what the bill will be for all those cops used to restrict

free speech at the "freedom walk". Christ almighty, they are also restricting the media. This is disgusting. And we are footing the bill for these goddamn fascists.

[Theres-a]

9. Will they be hearing this crap?

"I RAQ AND ROLL"

Words and Music by Clint Black and Hayden Nicholas

YOU CAN WAVE YOUR SIGNS IN PROTEST
AGAINST AMERICA TAKING STANDS
THE STANDS AMERICA'S TAKEN
ARE THE REASON THAT YOU CAN

IF EVERYONE WOULD GO FOR PEACE
THERE'D BE NO NEED FOR WAR
BUT WE CAN'T IGNORE THE DEVIL
HE'LL KEEP COMING BACK FOR MORE

SOME SEE THIS IN BLACK AND WHITE
OTHERS ONLY GRAY
WE'RE NOT BEGGING FOR A FIGHT
NO MATTER WHAT THEY SAY

WE HAVE THE RESOLUTION
THAT SHOULD PUT'EM ALL TO SHAME
BUT IT'S A DIFFERENT KIND OF DEADLINE
WHEN I'M CALLED IN THE GAME

CHORUS
I RAQ, I RACK'EM UP AND I ROLL
I'M BACK AND I'M A HIGH TECH GI JOE
I PRAY FOR PEACE, PREPARE FOR WAR
AND I NEVER WILL FORGET
THERE'S NO PRICE TOO HIGH FOR FREEDOM
SO BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU TREAD

THIS TERROR ISN'T MAN TO MAN
THEY CAN BE NO MORE THAN COWARDS
IF THEY WON'T SHOW US THEIR WEAPONS
WE MIGHT HAVE TO SHOW THEM OURS

IT MIGHT BE A SMART BOMB
THEY FIND STUPID PEOPLE TOO
AND IF YOU STAND WITH THE LIKES OF SADDAM
ONE JUST MIIGHT FIND YOU

CHORUS II
I ROCK, I RACK'EM UP AND I ROLL
I'M BACK AND I'M A HIGH TECH GI JOE
I'VE GOT INFRARED, I'VE GOT GPS AND I'VE GOT THAT GOOD OLD FASHIONED LEAD
THERE'S NO PRICE TOO HIGH FOR FREEDOM
SO BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU TREAD

BRIDGE
NOW YOU CAN COME ALONG
OR YOU CAN STAY BEHIND
OR YOU CAN GET OUT OF THE WAY
BUT OUR TROOPS TAKE OUT THE GARBAGE
FOR THE GOOD OLD U.S.A.


I ROCK, I RACK'EM UP AND I ROLL
IN THE USA
I ROCK, I RACK'EM UP AND I ROLL
I'M TALKIN' ABOUT THE USA

[mantis49]

44. What a piece of drivel those "lyrics" are! n/t

[nookiemonster]

63. Jeebus!

Once again, my views are validated for those that "indulge" in this form of "country" music.

:puke:

[jmc777]

10. This isn't freedom, it's "New Improved Freedom™" n/t

[spuddonna]

49. Sponsored by McDonalds! Home of the "Reichstag Burger"! n/t

[cybildisobedience]

11. new bumper sticker:

Freedom March isn't Free

[0007]

12. The crime family and the Pentagon are

Lacking imagination, creativity, and vitality. They lack the power to function. They are not productive or effective in any shape way or form. And so it goes when the people are no longer the government and the leaders are in a state of paranoia

[Mountainman]

13. Where do you register and what are the qualifications for participation?

Do you have to pledge a loyalty oath to Bush or something? Maybe the freepers will have a large contingency with mobile porta potties and all. I can just see the DC Chapter of freeperville working today to decorate their potties on wheels.

Will there be any DUers in the parade?

[Mari333]

14. here u go..notice that Subway is one of the sponsors....

http://www.asyfreedomwalk.com/

[arikara]

38. Really not too many "supporters"

Subway surprises me though. I don't know why...

AOL
Lockheed Martin
McDonalds
Pentagon Federal Credit Union
Subway
ABC WJLA-TV Channel 7and News Channel 8
630 WMAL
WTOP Radio Network
Washington Convention & Tourism Corporation

[teknomanzer]

60. Registration requirements are...

You must have the name of the beast stamped on your forehead or on your right hand.

[maxsolomon]

15. Sgt. Scott FEAR?

a more appropriate name is impossible.

[Stuckinthebush]

16. These people have no irony center in their brain

do they?

What boneheads.

[me b zola]

58. Would this be an example of said missing irony

"A free nation is a peaceful nation" as rational for waging an aggressive, pre-emptive war?

[hang a left]

17. What a sham!

Isn't there a Katrina protest and march scheduled for the same day?

[Javaman]

18. Fun? or modern bataan death march????

Welcome to the rightwings concept of fun! They control the horizontal, they control the vertical, they control the air you breath, the water you drink, the shoes you wear, the way you are supposed to clap, how you are to walk, talk, think and work.

Unless you follow they predetermined route correctly you will be kicked out beaten or humiliated.

So suppose one of these robot supporters have to take a leak and suddenly sprints for the nearest porta-poti? do they get shot?

Are they all going to wear the same clothes?

Are they all going to be white? I think we know the answer to that one.

Personally, I would like to show up at what ever finish line this thing has and hand out recruitment forms. By the way, I bet there will be a sprint to the finish just to get the fuck away from that mind control bullshit.

Personally, they should just pass out nazi arm bands and complete the picture.

[dooner]

19. "Freedom March" Will Be Fenced In, Require Prereg (Washington Post)

Tight Constraints on Pentagon's Freedom Walk
Event Remembering 9/11, Troops to Be Kept 'Sterile,' Limited to Preregistered

By Petula Dvorak
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 9, 2005; A01

Organizers of the Pentagon's 9/11 memorial Freedom Walk on Sunday are taking extraordinary measures to control participation in the march and concert, with the route fenced off and lined with police and the event closed to anyone who does not register online by 4:30 p.m. today.

The march, sponsored by the Department of Defense, will wend its way from the Pentagon to the Mall along a route that has not been specified but will be lined with four-foot-high snow fencing to keep it closed and "sterile," said Allison Barber, deputy assistant secretary of defense.

The U.S. Park Police will have its entire Washington force of several hundred on duty and along the route, on foot, horseback and motorcycles and monitoring from above by helicopter. Officers are prepared to arrest anyone who joins the march or concert without a credential and refuses to leave, said Park Police Chief Dwight E. Pettiford.

<snip>
Barber said that organizers would rather not have such stringent measures on their event but that police had requested them. Pettiford said officers would patrol to keep interlopers out because the Pentagon restricted the event in its permit application. "That is what their permit called for, so we have those fences to keep the public out."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090802140_pf.html

[Arugula Latte]

20. BWA-Ha-ha!

:rofl:

Welcome to Bush's Amerika.

[shadowknows69]

21. guess what?

he doesn't trust or care about any of you either. Wake up.

[rocktivity]

24. But will the September 24 marchers get the same treatment?

:shrug:
rocknation

[marbuc]

22. Again, blaming the locals. n/t

[tridim]

23. Literally a display representing that the terrorists have won

and America is no longer a free country.

I hope some of our DC friends get lots of nice pictures of this tax payer funded, private propaganda parade.

[Gregorian]

25. Freedom's just another word-

free·dom (frē'dəm) pronunciation
n.

1. The condition of being free of restraints.
2. Liberty of the person from slavery, detention, or oppression.
3.
1. Political independence.
2. Exemption from the arbitrary exercise of authority in the performance of a specific action; civil liberty: freedom of assembly.
4. Exemption from an unpleasant or onerous condition: freedom from want.
5. The capacity to exercise choice; free will: We have the freedom to do as we please all afternoon.
6. Ease or facility of movement: loose sports clothing, giving the wearer freedom.
7. Frankness or boldness; lack of modesty or reserve: the new freedom in movies and novels.
8.
1. The right to unrestricted use; full access: was given the freedom of their research facilities.
2. The right of enjoying all of the privileges of membership or citizenship: the freedom of the city.
9. A right or the power to engage in certain actions without control or interference: “the seductive freedoms and excesses of the picaresque form” (John W. Aldridge).

[dooner]

26. Press to be restricted to 3 "pens"

Now THIS is like throwing gas on an already flammable group. What is wrong with these fascists? Stupid, in denial, insane?


"One restricted group will be the media, whose members will not be allowed to walk along the march route. Reporters and cameras are restricted to three enclosed areas along the route but are not permitted to walk alongside participants walking from the Pentagon, across the Memorial Bridge to the Mall."

[tsuki]

30. If it were me (the press that is,) I wouldn't cover it. I'd leave it to

the Rupert/Saudi News Corp.

[elehhhhna]

27. LOL! They gonna march 'em at gunpoint, too?

[LynzM]

28. Irony, anyone?

Fucking absurd.

[dooner]

29. Register by 4:30pm TODAY (EST)

Barber said the government now asks for a full name, age group, T-shirt size and e-mail address (each registered walker will get a T-shirt). Walkers have until 4:30 p.m. today to register, which must be done online ( http://www.asyfreedomwalk.com/ ).

[nookiemonster]

35. LOL. They'll be in the DOD database.

Rally on, Christian soldiers!

:rofl:

[mantis49]

40. Are we (taxpayers) paying for the T-shirts? n/t

[dooner]

42. Good question...

Probably paid for by one of the "corporate sponsors" like Lockheed.

[Karla Marx]

31. "...we have those fences to keep the public out"

"To keep the public out." That says it all about the assministration's opinion of freedom and the public.

[Janice325]

32. Please refresh my memory.

Is this the one "the Administration" organized that seemed like a county western hoedown or something??
I apologize if this is a ditsy question, but my mind is kinda fuzzy over watching coverage about Katrina. I lived in New Orleans most of my life, and am really heartbroken....and furious at the same time..
Thanks in advance for clarification.
Jeez, I hadn't realized it's almost September 11 already.

[dooner]

41. yes, clint black C&W singer to entertain

[Connie_Corleone]

33. Oxymoron?

[Just Me]

34. All I ask is that the press compare the neoCON march to our march 9/24!!!

That's all I ask! That's not much to ask, is it? :shrug:

[Fovea]

36. It appears now that they hate us

for our fascism.

[MisterP]

37. "Soyuz nerushimy..."

I hope "sterile" is only figurative--nobody wants to be castrated to just go to some march

[dooner]

39. "Government agencies are encouraging their employees to march"

"Government agencies are encouraging their employees to march in the Pentagon event. On August 19th, for example, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in a move reminiscent of Soviet-era May Day marches, “urged� all employees of the Veterans Administration to attend the Freedom Walk. This is much the same mechanism that assured Saddam of huge crowds to line the routes of his gross military parades. Such official pageantry is a staple of Kim Jong Il’s North Korea. We’ve seen this in Enver Hoxha’s Albania, Slobodan Milošević’s Serbia, Mussolini’s Italy, Franco’s Spain and Deng Xiaoping’s China. It’s nothing new. The Roman Empire pioneered using mass spectacle as a propaganda device to project the power of the state.

Only this time there’s a new twist. Government by corporations needs a corporate sponsor. Hence, September 11th’s Freedom Walk will be sponsored by Lockheed Martin – the defense contractor that makes all those nifty smart bombs that are vaporizing billions of our tax dollars, not to mention “liberated� Iraqi cities like Fallujah. And it’s sponsored by Subway – they’re the ones who make all those submarine sandwiches that we will no longer be eating. And it’s sponsored by various Washington DC area radio and TV stations, including the local Disney/ABC affiliate – they’re the people who will be bringing us “fair and balanced� news reports about the Freedom Walk. They’re also the same people who unquestioningly echoed the Bush administration’s false assertions of Iraq having weapons of mass destruction and being connected to the 9/11 attacks."

http://www.mediastudy.com/articles/av8-25-05.html

[Mari333]

43. and you get fake dog tags! pretend to be a fake soldier

your tax money at work...

http://liberalavenger.com/2005/09/freedom-walk-dog-tags.html

[jpak]

45. All they need now is a goose stepping contest and mass gymnastics

and maybe some cool stadium card pictures of Our Fearless Leader...

[Miss Chybil]

46. Let freedom ring! Let freedom ring! Woohoo!

:woohoo:

Who's writing this movie we're all caught in? It's turning into a deadly satire.

[IChing]

47. ******I HAVE PICTURES OF THE FENCE AND PARTICIPANTS******

I WAS USING MY ORWELL" MODEL 1984 FUTURE DIGITAL CAMERA"

[Donailin]

51. pigs at the trough

:rofl:

[IChing]

53. I thought they were sheep, Were not the pigs in-charge in

Animal Farm?

Same difference I guess,
certainly not human,
but mammal in nature:evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[NYC]

57. Yes, in Animal Farm, the pigs were in charge.

Napoleon, pig leader.
Snowball, his toady, as I recall.

All animals are equal. Some are more equal than others.

[Blaze Diem]

50. Bush's people are SO UNPOPULAR, they have to ..

organize their own parade.
Sad sad sad

And how much is THIS costing us????

[redqueen]

52. "Freedom" March my ass.

This is sickening.

How much taxpayer money is being WASTED on this crap?

[VegasWolf]

54. Ver are your papers? Give me your papers now! nt

[dooner]

55. More details on the "Freedom Walk"

"The Freedom Walk is free...."

"The first 1,000 to arrive for screening at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, will receive the official America Supports You campaign lapel pin.

After you submit your registration, you will receive a receipt with a registration number. Please print out this receipt and bring it with you to the Pentagon South Parking to check-in before the event. You MUST have your registration number to check-in!"

Q1: What is the America Supports You FREEDOM WALK?
A1: The America Supports You FREEDOM WALKis an event that allows citizens the opportunity to remember the victims of September 11, honor our American servicemen and women, past and present, and commemorate our freedom.


http://www.asyfreedomwalk.com/

[NYC]

56. Freedom! This defines freedom:

Officers are prepared to arrest anyone who joins the march or concert without a credential and refuses to leave, said Park Police Chief Dwight E. Pettiford.

Remember the first amendment? Freedom to assemble. I guess the Pentagon is throwing a private party.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

59. "the propaganda promenade" might be a better name

on another thread they were expecting a crowd between 3000 and 10,000.

stretch 3000 people along a mile and its going to look pretty meager.

i also find it hard to believe that conservatives will walk a mile for

anything.

[nookiemonster]

61. History's some scary shit, ain't it?

eom

[annabanana]

62. "Pink Elephants on Parade"

Anyone here remember that hallucinatory Disney cartoon that depicted a drunken stupor (I think Dumbo accidently fell into a vat of the clown's beer)

THAT is what this stupid parade reminds me of.

[robbedvoter]

64. I thought Katrina cancelled that abomination!

Reminds me of the May 1st and national day parades during ceausescu. Will they have tanks too?

[tanyev]

65. Keep the route closed and sterile?

That sounds like a rip-snortin good time. Not. I can't imagine why even a Bushbot would want to do this.

[tinrobot]

66. Why are they still doing this?

It's only going to blow up in their faces in the wake of Katrina.

Those troops in the parade need to be off helping people.

[Olney Blue]

67. Reminiscent of the 2004 inaugural parade...

damn, I miss my city.