Protester Is Standing On Front Gate Of Buckingham Palace

[Oilwellian]

Ya gotta love the Brits. I just received this email from someone on the scene:

A woman from Hull clambered up the front gates of Buck House and
hung an American flag upside down with the message written on
it "Bush is not welcome here" and is still standing there after a
couple of hours. She managed to get past 14,000 police. The police
have allowed her to remain as it is her right to protest. They are
encouraging her to come down.

5:30 P.M. She's still up there. Fire fighters are there now
encouraging her to come down.

I'll keep you posted. Cheers!

Regards,

Anne

London

[Wickerman]

1. excellent

thanks for the update - that is great, would love to see images.

[Brotherjohn]

2. Wouldn't it be great to live in a country where free speech was allowed?

[gratuitous]

4. Well, according to Stupidhead . . .

The Brits are "lucky" to live in a country that allows some version of free speech.

Odd, isn't it, how dopes like Stupidhead think that natural, inalienable, God-given rights are "granted" to "lucky" people? News flash for the neanderthal right: My rights are my rights. They aren't "won" for me at gunpoint, they aren't guaranteed by military might. They're mine and as natural a part of me as my hair color and blood type. I'm not type O-negative because the U.S. can send a hundred thousand soldiers off to Iraq and kill thousands of people. Similarly, I don't have the right of free speech just because Lil George grants it to me.

[lapislzi]

9. It's allowed...

It's just mostly ignored by the media. At least *our* kind is.

[Kolesar]

10. there are still a few Americans facing charges for demonstrating Bush*

They did not stay in the "first amendment zone", they went to areas where Bush supporters were.

[nostamj]

3. pic and link!

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/11/17/britain.bush/index.html

[wryter2000]

6. There she is

Way to go, lady!

[Oilwellian]

7. Ahhh! Thanks!

I love it!

[Kolesar]

5. Yahoo pics and slideshow of protest preparations

Yahoo Stuff

[Tinoire]

8. What a wonderful woman!

[eissa]

11. Hang in there!

I hope our UK friends know that we're rooting for her. Don't come down lady!

To the Brits: I hope you realize how much we're counting on you to show shrub what an idiot he is in the eyes of the world. Make us proud!

[frank frankly]

12. kick

:hi: England

[Jacobin]

13. Yeeeeehaaaaaa. Let the fun begin!!!!!!!!1

Can we get some money together to send her coffee and donuts?

YOu go Brits. Do what we cannot do, are not allowed to do, in the U.S.

[nostamj]

14. she only stayed there for two hours,...

and was taken away by the police.

all very peacefully though.

lord knows in Bushzhakistan she would have been pepper sprayed and dragged away at the very least.