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Title: Photos of Huge Police presence at Pittsburgh Peace Parade.
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Daily Kos
URL Source: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/3/18/223848/425
Published: Mar 18, 2006
Author: 'yellow canary'
Post Date: 2006-03-18 22:52:06 by Zipporah
Keywords: Pittsburgh, presence, Parade.
Views: 186
Comments: 31
Unfortunately, I had to work and missed most of the parade. I heard from some who were in or watched it go by that there were about 1,000 people, all ages, all types, many signs for peace, for IMPEACHING BUSH, for ENDING THE FALSE WAR. What everyone noticed was the huge police presence. I caught up with the march at the end, in Oakland, the densely populated urban neighborhood that the University of Pittsburgh calls home. Photos and some comments after the flip. (A lot of medium size photos.) Hope Sat. night isn't the worst time to submit this. What did you see in your homeland? The march wasn't hard to find. I just drove towards the helicopter. No march is complete without some eye in the sky. I had to park 10 blocks away. The police had closed all the streets for blocks in every direction. These are the mounted police who were on a little break. They had six mounted policemen at each end of the march -- these guys were the floaters. Likewise, some of foot patrol were taking it easy. By the time I got there many of the marchers had gone home. These are the the cops who weren't actively keeping watch. Things got quickly more ... police-state-ish. Here's the motor pool. Almost all the cops had plastic wrist-cuffs. A few had whole bunches, just in case. They probably had a paddy wagon nearby with boxes and boxes. I kept heading up Forbes Avenue (that's General Forbes, war hero). Hmm. Riot cops. Perhaps I'm getting closer. Ah, the working mounties. I see the throng of marchers ahead. All well-behaved, by the way. I was told there had been one arrest, but that was before the Marchers got to Oakland. I don't know what the arrest was for. Not to be outdone, the other mounted police. Not as good as putting the fear of a stomping into a crowd, but real good at running down those who flee. And let's remember ... psyops ... not that we really need it in sleepy Pittsburgh. But who knows? They each have their own K-car. I think I saw four dogs total. Not so bad. Then I got the crowd itself. A nice drumbeat was being tattoo'd by an active group in the center, but mostly people were just milling around. Not the police. They had formed an impenetrable cordon. And I'm not kidding. The crowd was dressed in jeans, sweaters, jackets. It was a cold, sunny day. These police were in FULL RIOT GEAR. That's a block-long line of police in full riot gear. High-tech stuff: shields, shin, knee, elbow, shoulder protectors, pads everywhere. About every eighth officer had an earset with a microphone. Notice that the crowd is not particularly menacing. That's Pitt's Cathedral of Learning in the background. Did you notice the arms? This was a significant show of force for the police state. He wasn't unfriendly. Told me the gun fired "non-lethal crowd control rounds". That leaves, well, most everything. I didn't get any pictures of the "greens". They were a team of riot police staying out of the way half a block to the north. They ALL had those nice canister launchers, and one guy -- luck of draw, he was the munitions mule -- was wearing a long vest covered front, back, and sides with five inch by two inch aluminum canisters. That's a lot of cops, probably on overtime. Pittsburgh, by the way, is in receivership (it can't pay it's bills). But it sure can pull out all stops to keep an anti-war rally from turning ugly. The city of Pittsburgh has contributed more than $950,000,000 in federal taxes for Bush's illegal war of aggression in Iraq. We sure could use that money to pay for the schools (property taxes are forcing people out of the city). Or invest in the local economy. Paying Bush to kill Iraqis when you can't afford to pay your bills seems a misguided. But then we pay extra to show peace marchers the newest in police equipment. Here's the crowd: Not exactly ... menacing. The crowd, I mean. The police presence was extreme. I made it all the way through. Ah, the rest of the hay-eaters. Out the other end, more roads blocked, more police presence. I didn't find the paddy wagons. A cameraman for a local news station told me that they could have every marcher immobilized and cuffed within ten minutes if they wanted to. I want to have the Bush administration immobilized and cuffed in the next ten minutes. I wonder how many have screamed, how many are being tortured, how many have been killed in the four hours that the march lasted. ITMFA!
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#1. To: Zipporah (#0)
GEEEEZ- The enemy of the state seems to be the citizens. Maybe the state should change???
I also missed our local anti-war demonstration. Previously, I had been to all of them, but I have been thinking of a more effective non-violent means of protest. I don't know if we have enough momentum to stop the next war which will probably be against Iran. We have not done enough to tell people the truth about 9-11 which is that they the WTC was taken down by controlled demolitions. I agree that it was an excessive show of force in Pittsburgh. ANd thos automatic weapons were probably a gift from Bush. You might investigate and find out how much they cost. Romanian AK-47s sell for $400 on the web. DHS likely paid $2,000 each.
I am surely not disputing you Horse, but I would guess a decent 47 could be had, in bulk for around 200 or so USD. I seem to think Flintlock has some knowledge of this so I'll ping him. Reason is I am interested on what the wholesale price of these formidiable weapons are. No doub't the Homeland security scam paid 2000, tho.
OH I know.. or less..!! I betcha they paid more than that.. I posted a thread on 9/11 that I found on Daily Kos.. it was really interesting as always there were replies to it saying .. "not this shit again".. they're working hard to discredit anyone who questions the official conspiracy theory.. The police presence in Pittsburgh sure reveals that we are seen as the enemy.. how history repeats itself..
Ex-cop ping..
Naw, guns are for sissys
Dare I ask.. what do manly men go for?
Don't you know by now?
Don't you know by now? OMG!!! UH ~ that sort of came out wrong .. LOL!!!!!!!
RPG, Stingers, bioweapons, these are the manly deals of our time.
Personally, I prefer to carry a life size replica of Thor's hammer: Mjööllnir! The photos look like they were straight out of Germany, Russia, China, Romania. Out of all the anti war protests, how many have had real trouble? I can`t recall any. They all have been peaceful. The police state overtures are to remind the citizens who is in charge.
exactly.
In all reality, that's an average Friday night on 6th street in Austin. "Debunking 'Caveman' conspiracy theories since 2002" Doesnt it?? It's frightening really.. and the people still dont get it..
Seriously? Hey I didnt know you were in Austin.. christine lives in Austin... When I was there last month we went downtown to dinner on weekend but didnt go near 6th street though..
The Romanian AK-47's we can get are semi-auto. I'm sure the ones the government owns are full-auto. BTW, I didn't see the images, all I see is a "bandwidth exceeded" banner.
the pics are in photobucket.. they're probably being passed all over the place.. too bad they're not on a server.. I still 'see' them probably cause theyre in my cache.
Hmmm. If you knew of a server you could put them on, you could just copy them out of your cache and upload them to the server.
right.. possibly imageshack.. I can do that and repost them.
Attempted intimidation, pure and simple.
Cool. That would be a very nice of you Zipporah.
No problem..
I think this is all of them..
Thanks for taking the time to upload those and post them. There isn't that much unusual in the images though. I was expecting to see cops sporting AK-47's, but the only weapon I see appears to be some sort of tear gas grenade rifle.
Hmm I may have missed one then.. let me go back and look..
I did ..here it is:
The text of the article captions the image as follows; If you look at the weapon closely, it certainly isn't a AK-47. This is what a AK-47 looks like; The weapon is certainly not any sort of assault weapon, as there is no magazine protruding from the bottom. Instead, it has some sort of side feeding device that more than likely contains tear gas canisters. Here's what a real assault weapon looks like. It's a picture of the M4A1 assault rifle. Notice the differences between it and the weapon seen in the picture?
Oops, messed up the image link. Let's try it again...
For some reason or another the image for the M4 isn't visible on my end once I post the image. Let's try a different one..
Otherwise known as a CAR-14. I own one. Semi auto of course. Why would I want to give the government an extra 200 bucks. They steal enough as it is.
#2. To: Zipporah (#0)
#3. To: Horse, flintlock (#2)
You might investigate and find out how much they cost. Romanian AK-47s sell for $400 on the web. DHS likely paid $2,000 each.
#4. To: Horse, tom0-7 (#2)
I also missed our local anti-war demonstration. Previously, I had been to all of them, but I have been thinking of a more effective non-violent means of protest. I don't know if we have enough momentum to stop the next war which will probably be against Iran. We have not done enough to tell people the truth about 9-11 which is that they the WTC was taken down by controlled demolitions. I agree that it was an excessive show of force in Pittsburgh. ANd thos automatic weapons were probably a gift from Bush. You might investigate and find out how much they cost. Romanian AK-47s sell for $400 on the web. DHS likely paid $2,000 each.
#5. To: Jethro Tull, IndieTX (#0)
#6. To: tom007 (#3)
I seem to think Flintlock has some knowledge of this so I'll ping him.
Hey, Meester,wanna meet my seester?
#7. To: Flintlock (#6)
Naw, guns are for sissys
#8. To: Zipporah (#7)
Dare I ask.. what do manly men go for?
#9. To: tom007 (#8)
Dare I ask.. what do manly men go for?
#10. To: All (#8)
#11. To: Zipporah (#7)
what do manly men go for?
(meaning the crusher or destroyer)
Hey, Meester,wanna meet my seester?
#12. To: Zipporah, all (#4)
#13. To: Kamala (#12)
The police state overtures are to remind the citizens who is in charge
#14. To: Zipporah (#0)
If people really think that that's a big police presence, we've got much bigger problems than I thought.
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#15. To: Kamala (#12)
The photos look like they were straight out of Germany, Russia, China, Romania. Out of all the anti war protests, how many have had real trouble? I can`t recall any. They all have been peaceful. The police state overtures are to remind the citizens who is in charge.
#16. To: valis (#14)
In all reality, that's an average Friday night on 6th street in Austin. If people really think that that's a big police presence, we've got much bigger problems than I thought.
#17. To: Horse (#2)
Romanian AK-47s sell for $400 on the web. DHS likely paid $2,000 each.
#18. To: FormerLurker (#17)
all I see is a "bandwidth exceeded" banner
#19. To: Zipporah (#18)
I still 'see' them probably cause theyre in my cache.
#20. To: FormerLurker (#19)
#21. To: Zipporah (#5)
#22. To: Zipporah (#20)
right.. possibly imageshack.. I can do that and repost them.
#23. To: FormerLurker (#22)
#24. To: FormerLurker (#22)
v 
#25. To: Zipporah (#24)
#26. To: FormerLurker (#25)
#27. To: FormerLurker (#25)
#28. To: Zipporah (#27)
Hmm I may have missed one then.. let me go back and look..
He wasn't unfriendly. Told me the gun fired "non-lethal crowd control rounds". That leaves, well, most everything.
#29. To: Zipporah, All (#28)
Here's what a real assault weapon looks like. It's a picture of the M4A1 assault rifle. Notice the differences between it and the weapon seen in the picture?
#30. To: Zipporah, All (#29)
#31. To: FormerLurker (#30)
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