Real Anarchists Don’t Run

March 19, 2007 | By Sniper One |

An excellent article on the Gathering Of Eagles can be found here… Some of what the author is talking about I didn’t see. In particular…

We arrived at the Pentagon parking lot, where a DJ was again playing “War.” I couldn’t take the song anymore, so I wandered off in search of the anarchists. I found them at the end of a bridge leading to the Pentagon itself. They were facing a line of police officers in full riot gear, replete with gas masks. “Whose streets? Our streets!” rang out again, but it was pretty clear whose streets these were, since the anarchists weren’t allowed to keep marching forward on them.

The police announced through a bullhorn that they’d use teargas if the protestors didn’t return to the parking lot. In response, a female-looking anarchist in dreadlocks yelled out to me and some other reporters nearby, asking if we’d help get the word out that the police, without cause, had gassed peaceful protestors. “No!” I instinctively yelled back, eliciting some shocked stares from the anarchists. Another anarchist approached us and asked if we’d stand between them and the police to prevent the cops from “attacking” them. He pointed to one elderly female reporter: “You ma’am, if you get in the middle, there’s no way the police will knock you over.” The request caught me off guard — I was unaware that old women are used as human shields anywhere outside of the Middle East.

The group sat down in front of the police to decide what to do. Some people passed out food, at which point most of the anarchists removed their masks and bandanas to eat, then put them back on when they had finished. My respect for this bunch was rapidly declining.

They took a series of votes, decided to leave the bridge to the police, and backed off about 20 yards. Then, in one final act of “resistance” before vacating the bridge, one of them burned an American flag, to the cheers of all the rest. This incident went unreported in all of the mainstream media, despite the presence on the bridge of numerous journalists and photographers.

What kind of an Anarchist takes a vote? What kind of an Anarchist asks an old woman to protect them from the cops? What a bunch of degenerates wannabe’s posing as Anarchists.

Real Anarchists wouldn’t of surrendered their upside down flag and run. Real Anarchists wouldn’t of feared a tussle with cops.

The only real Anarchists to be found at the Gathering of Eagles were the very men and women who had been to Vietnam and proved that they were “all that”. If might makes right, like under Anarchy, then our leather clad vets held the day. These candy ass kids wouldn’t know Anarchy if it walked up and broke their jaw.

Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin

Photo Courtesy of SeeJaneMom

Best Damn Gathering Of Eagles Post… anywhere…. H/T Blackfive

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