“Freedom Walk” anything but
Amazingly, the Pentagon is going to continue with its propaganda charade in an attempt to (further) turn a national tragedy into a fig leaf for the unjustified, illegal invasion of Iraq.
It is quite telling who is “allowed” to participate in this “Freedom Walk”
Organizers of the Pentagon’s 9/11 memorial Freedom Walk on Sunday are taking extraordinary measures to control participation in the march and concert, with the route fenced off and lined with police and the event closed to anyone who does not register online by 4:30 p.m. today.
The march, sponsored by the Department of Defense, will wend its way from the Pentagon to the Mall along a route that has not been specified but will be lined with four-foot-high snow fencing to keep it closed and “sterile,” said Allison Barber, deputy assistant secretary of defense.
The U.S. Park Police will have its entire Washington force of several hundred on duty and along the route, on foot, horseback and motorcycles and monitoring from above by helicopter. Officers are prepared to arrest anyone who joins the march or concert without a credential and refuses to leave, said Park Police Chief Dwight E. Pettiford.
Just to be clear here, for a walk march on public grounds using public thoroughfares sponsored by a public entity (with support from various media outlets (including the WaPo) whose role in this travesty shall not be forgotten)… you have to register to participate and the entire route is going to be cordoned off and protected by cops. Protected from what?
I know I’ve mentioned this before, but this event is just as much of an offensive militaristic propaganda exhibition as it was when it was first announced.
Here’s my alternative blurb and photo of the event
Come celebrate the Bush regime’s most spectacular failure with a super-patriotic jamboree! It’s an Arab hatin hoedown with two kinds of music – Country and Western! Performances by Clint Black, Toby Keith, and James Dobson!
Come for the jingoism, stay for the creepy pseudo-religious overtones and the book burning afterparty and torture barbeque!