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One Sunday in Denver
2008 Democrat National Convention
Anti-War Protesters, Counter-protesters and the Cops
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Turn left??............Ironic

Our man, RidesAPaleHorse, files several more batches of photos from Denver. We apologize: these came in last night, but because of an all-nighter we pulled on another story (the curious refunds of the Edwards campaign), we're only now getting them posted.

We'll have more tomorrow, but for now, pictures of Fun and Games in Denver.

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Patriot Corner




Cool cop




Bike reinforcements for the Anti-War March




Beginning of the Moonbat march in background




Moonbats gather outside the park




Counter-protesters have to get ready, too




Green Hats are "legal observers"




Controlling the access




Falun Gong contingent
(Falun Gong?)




Probably not worried about the Falun Gong




More "legal observers"




One of the many paddy wagons available





Caution: Moonbat Crossing




Dr. King must be rolling over in his grave




A gathering of loons




"What time's my shift over?"




Counter-protesters for the Military




Just another Sunday in Denver




Almost ready




Media's here




Start of the "March of the Moonbats"





"Hey! Look who's coming!"




Mounted patrol moving into position




Moonbat observers. "Son........this is NOT what you want to be".....




Mounted Patrol (again)...This time, a better shot




'Nuff said




Might be a hooker?



by RidesAPaleHorse
images: RAPH

Democrat Is a Moonbat Magnet




The Democrat Convention in Denver, CO, has attracted all the usual suspects--as well as a few suspects readers may not have expected.

DBKP's roving convention correspondent, RidesAPaleHorse, sends in his latest batch of pix from outside the Pepsi Center. Moonbat Central has attracted everyone from "Amnistia" to "Stop the War on Iran"; from "Shut Down Guantanamo" to "Let Ralph (Nader) Debate!" to the "Al Qaeda Fan Club" (sign posted by a few counter-demonstrators, it seems).

They say a picture is worth 1000 a words--and RAPH sent in 14,000 of them.














[ALSO at DBKP: Denver, Dem Nat’l. Convention: Photos Two Days Before the Convention]


















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Carrying the Stars and Stripes makes this lady seem a bit out-of-place among the regular constituencies of the Democrat Party.


by RidesAPaleHorse
images: RAPH

The Supreme Court's Boumediene v. Bush used the U.S. Constitution to find extraordinary rights for the very same people trying to destroy that Constitution.

In doing so, the five liberal members of the U.S. Supreme Court taped a "KICK ME!" signs to their own backs. But unlike other Kick Me Liberals, in the Supreme Court's case, they've also taped that sign onto the backs of 300 million of their countrymen.

A few examples of Kick Me Liberals.

United States Supreme Court

Incredibly, these five Justices [the Court's liberal bloc of Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, joined by Anthony Kennedy] have now defied the considered judgment of the president and Congress for a third time, all to grant captured al Qaeda terrorists the exact same rights as American citizens to a day in civilian court.

Judicial modesty, respect for the executive and legislative branches, and pure common sense weren't concerns here either. The Court refused to wait and see how Congress's 2006 procedures for the review of enemy combatant cases work. Congress gave Guantanamo Bay prisoners more rights than any prisoners of war, in any war, ever. The justices violated the classic rule of self-restraint by deciding an issue not yet before them.

The author of the above piece for the The Wall Street Journal, Law Professor John Yoo, went on to say, "Because of the advancing age of several justices (Justice Stevens is 88, and several others are above 70), the next president will be in a position to appoint a new Court that can reverse the damage done to the nation's security."

The Supremes join other famous liberals who've taped a "KICK ME!" sign to their own backs--and in the case of Congress and the Supreme Court, their country's.

Robert Fisk

After the U.S. launched its attack on Afghanistan shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Fisk was for a time transferred to Pakistan to provide coverage of that conflict.

While reporting from there, he was attacked and beaten by a group of Afghan refugees but was also saved from this attack by another Afghan refugee. In his graphic account of his own beating, published in The Independent of December 10, 2001, Fisk excused the attackers of responsibility ("I couldn't blame them for what they were doing,") and said that, in his view, their "brutality was entirely the product of others, of us — of we who had armed their struggle against the Russians and ignored their pain and laughed at their civil war and then armed and paid them again for the 'War for Civilisation' just a few miles away and then bombed their homes and ripped up their families and called them 'collateral damage.'"

The most famous Kick Me Liberal in the Senate the last few years has been Harry Reid. (D-NV).

Harry Reid

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Marine Gen. Peter Pace, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “incompetent” during an interview Tuesday with a group of liberal bloggers, a comment that was never reported.

Reid made similar disparaging remarks about Army Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said several sources familiar with the interview.

This is but the latest example of how Reid, under pressure from liberal activists to do more to stop the war, is going on the attack against President Bush and his military leaders in anticipation of a September showdown to end U.S. involvement in Iraq, according to Democratic senators and aides.

We have no problem with liberals plastering their own backs with "Kick Me!" signs. It's an amusing habit of theirs.

But, when they are in office and have the power to tape a sign on every U.S. citizen's back, as well--without their approval--then they are not just buffoonish liberals.

They are dangerous.

by Mondoreb
Sources/images:
* The Supreme Court Goes to War
* Robert Fisk
* exceller8ion
* abc
* Red Planet Cartoons
* Reid labels military leader 'incompetent'

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

--2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution


[Click on images to enlarge them.]

Before the original 13 states would agree to ratify the U.S. Constitution, they wanted assurances that they were not trading in one set of intolerable masters--who had limited their rights and sought to take away their livelihoods via taxation (The British king)--for another (the proposed U.S. federal government).

The representatives of the people in the 13 states WOULD NOT pass the U.S. Constitution as written: they were afraid of the power the new federal government wanted. It was then proposed that a "Bill of Rights" be added to the Constitution.

THEN and ONLY then, was the new United States federal government born.

The Bill of Rights are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution GUARANTEEING U.S. citizens the freedom of speech, press, assembly, right to bear arms and the rest.

17 years ago, Congress tried to take away--infringe upon--one of those freedoms with the passage of the Gun Free Zone Act.

The Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 was enacted as section 1702 of the Crime Control Act of 1990 (Pub.L. 101-647, 18 U.S.C. § 922(q)) on November 29, 1990.

The Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional.

Congress tried again.

And succeeded.

In general, it shall be unlawful for any individual knowingly to possess a firearm at a place that the individual knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, is a school zone. This does not include possession of a firearm on private property that is not part of school grounds.

We all know how well the Gun Free Zone Act has worked. The death toll of unarmed victims in Gun Free Zones is in the hundreds.

Those who passed voted for the Gun Free Zone Act, and those who continue to mindlessly support it, have done nothing to ensure anyone's safety.

Except that of the killers.



There is also a law against murder.

Murder is illegal.

Law-abiding citizens don't murder. But criminals do.

Just like erecting "Gun Free Zone" signs hasn't worked, erecting a "Do Not Murder" sign would not work.

Criminals do not pay attention to signs.

That's why we call them criminals.



The law abiding can't protect themselves in Gun Free Zones. The authorities promise to do it for us.

But the only thing the authorities can do, is to make life harder on the law-abiding.

And clean up the bodies.

If erecting a sign solved a problem, why not erect signs reading:

"Do not lie."

"Do not over-eat."

"Do not steal."

Wouldn't those signs make the world a better place, too?



If legislators want to infringe upon a basic right of U.S. Citizens, they need to be held accountable--as do any government agency that joins in.

Gun Free Zone Liability Act


"If you create a gun-free zone, you're liable for any harm it causes."

Read more at gunlaws.

This will not stop the pointlessness of Gun Free Zones.

This will not make anyone safer.

BUT, it will allow the victims' families to collect damages from those foolish and irresponsible enough to trust their safety to a sign.




--Benjamin Franklin

When it counts the most, Gun Free Zones never are.

Except for the victims.

by Mondoreb
images:
* libertyrocks
* worshippingchristian

* gunrights
* a human right
* snubnose
* jeffersonian
* rmgo
Sources:
* Gun Free Zone Death Toll since 1996
* Gun Free Zone Act



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