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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sat Jul 5 10:34:07 2008 Antiwar Demonstrators Interrupt Annual Naturalization Ceremony at Monticello- President Bush kicked off the Fourth of July at the hilltop estate of one of the nation's Founding Fathers, where he welcomed dozens of new American citizens from 30 countries. Bush's address Friday at the annual Independence Day naturalization ceremony at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello was immediately interrupted by a handful of antiwar demonstrators, one of whom repeatedly shouted, "Impeach Bush!" Bush, apparently unfazed, offered a holiday-appropriate response. "To my fellow citizens-to-be, we believe in free speech in the United States of America," Bush said to hearty applause. Six protesters, including one in a cartoonish Uncle Sam hat, were "voluntarily escorted" away from the crowd of 3,000, and no arrests were made, said Lee Catlin, a spokeswoman for Albemarle County. The citizenship ceremony has been held annually since 1963 outside Jefferson's colonnaded plantation home in the verdant Piedmont hills. Bush, the fourth U.S. president to address the event, lauded the "guiding principles" Jefferson laid out in the Declaration of Independence, saying they had long inspired immigrants like those gathered before him. "They've made America a melting pot of cultures from all across the world. They've made diversity one of the great strengths of our democracy," he said. "And all of us here today are here to honor and pay tribute to that great notion of America." The 74 new citizens (72 adults and two children) filed one by one across a sun-drenched stage, and they shook hands with their new president. There was Ali Hussain Al Asady, an Iraqi man with a small U.S. flag sticking out of one buttonhole of his striped shirt. There was Sawsan Mohamed El Fatih Zeyada, a Sudanese woman wearing a vibrant floral head scarf. And there was Julia White Freeman, a petite girl born eight years ago in China, who got more than a handshake: Bush lifted her off the ground and propped her on his hip. ------ Aside from the usual reporting where if you have 74 people, you can only tell me the Iraqi or Sudenese people and no one elses stories exist, the protesters were foiled again, "if it weren't for those meddling kids"! |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sat Jul 5 11:07:03 2008, in response to Peaceniks interrupt July 4th, got no sympathy, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sat Jul 5 10:34:07 2008. I bet these are the same losers that think Iran or the Taleban are good. And they want to live in Venezula. People actually yelled at them to shut up and sit down in this one!!! |
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Re: Peaceniks interrupt July 4th, got no sympathy |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jul 5 17:14:37 2008, in response to Peaceniks interrupt July 4th, got no sympathy, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sat Jul 5 10:34:07 2008. Problem is, "melting pot" and "diversity" have divergent meanings.Theodore Roosevelt's insistence on "100 percent American" needs to make a big comeback. |
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Re: Peaceniks interrupt July 4th, got no sympathy |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sat Jul 5 17:54:09 2008, in response to Re: Peaceniks interrupt July 4th, got no sympathy, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jul 5 17:14:37 2008. Which person in the vids were Fred though? |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jul 5 18:22:47 2008, in response to Re: Peaceniks interrupt July 4th, got no sympathy, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sat Jul 5 17:54:09 2008. None of 'em. He's not a peacenik anyhow. (Is there such thing as a warnik?) |
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Re: Peaceniks interrupt July 4th, got no sympathy |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Jul 6 12:38:42 2008, in response to Re: Peaceniks interrupt July 4th, got no sympathy, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jul 5 17:14:37 2008. Fuck diversity. Perhaps the most insidious word in the English language today. |
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Re: Peaceniks interrupt July 4th, got no sympathy |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sun Jul 6 13:18:40 2008, in response to Re: Peaceniks interrupt July 4th, got no sympathy, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Jul 6 12:38:42 2008. That and "multiculturalism". Both are Iacobvs Corvvs terms. |
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