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Patin reports: "Those arrested included Pulitzer prize-winning war correspondent, Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon papers, retired 27-year CIA analyst Ray McGovern, FBI whistleblower Colleen Rowley, as well as several members of Veterans for Peace."

Protesters are arrested by DC police during a  protest against the war in Afghanistan, 12/16/10. (photo: HeatherMG/Flickr)
Protesters are arrested by DC police during a protest against the war in Afghanistan, 12/16/10. (photo: HeatherMG/Flickr)

To watch a video of the protest recorded by David Swanson click here.

 

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+19 # maddy 2010-12-17 11:36
It certainly is something wrong when we allow a president to lie, create wars that kill millions, want a jouralist eliminated for telling the truth, prison a young man for passing the truth, arrest citizens for opposing un-necessary wars, but the one who started it all writes a book full of lies and walks free.
 
 
+7 # Activista 2010-12-17 12:07
costofwar.com
it is sick
 
 
+17 # David Peter 2010-12-17 11:48
As a veteran of 22 years and a member of Veterans for Peace, I am sorry that I am on the other side of the country and could not be present to stand in solidarity with those who oppose these wars of occupation that now owned by the current administration. Continuing these unnecessary occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq is wasting our precious young soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and our national treasury in these wars that have turned into nation building and propping up corrupt governments. I salute those to chose to exercise a basic American right to civil disobedience against illegal wars never declared by congress as required by the U.S. Constitution.

Same on President Obama, the U.S. Senate and House for continuing these wars of agression.
 
 
+12 # Activista 2010-12-17 11:53
Corporate media is a propaganda of the ruling class - we are worse than totalitarian China - party of Oligarch rules.
 
 
+6 # DeeDee Halleck 2010-12-17 12:00
There is very good documentation of this action at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOde31QYbI0
 
 
+15 # Painter 2010-12-17 12:44
Amazing. People who protest the nation's seemingly unstoppable march towards moral and fiscal self-destruction are arrested before the gates of Power. They are trying to get us to see that we are failing to heed lessons of history and the dictates of compassion. As wisdom is killed, the nation yawns. Our fate is now appears to be sealed in a bottle. This event was the cork. We are adrift at sea. Historians will read the record enclosed in the bottle and be amazed at our folly, at the suffering we were willing to bring upon ourselves and others while wise men and women went to jail. Thank you for noting the event.
 
 
+5 # Merschrod 2010-12-17 14:25
When will the full-text be released to the public?

This needs to be compared with the MacChrystal Assessment - did what McChrystal pointed out receive mention in the report?
 
 
+6 # barfulious 2010-12-17 16:28
I don't think any major news organization would have run this story even if they had all lit themselves on fire. We would have to repeal the telecom act of 1996 along with ending the war to stop this bs from ever happening again.
 
 
+7 # Merryweather 2010-12-17 20:26
Let's say its a Hundred Years War... starting with WWI (1914 --- and going through the Korean War, the Veitnam War,
the Iraq Wars, and could we please end by pulling out of Afganistan... Enough already! Support the protesters!'" o
 
 
+6 # edgar valderrama 2010-12-17 20:56
These brave people are standing in for the rest of us.
 
 
+5 # Daniel Fletcher 2010-12-17 21:06
The media's silence on this event is disgraceful, as disgraceful as our president is, our Senators and Representatives . We, as a nation, seem to have lost the capacity for shame. We have seemed to have lost a public conscience. For this, we have become a sociopathic nation incapable of remorse or of acknowledging the humanity of the people whom we destroy out of convenience.
I hope that this diseased nation is brought to its' knees, humbled, humaliated and destroyed as a threat to the world, in time. Our hubris, our supremely evil sense of exceptionalism that excuses us for any moral restraint, and our belief that we are invincible, which we are not, will be our undoing. The world is a big enough place to decide that it's had enough of us, and do something about it successfully. I no longer believe that change within our formal structures can happen. We are beyond that. The day we have our asses handed to us, and that day WILL come, only then will we be able to hope for a safer world.
 
 
+7 # inthecold 2010-12-18 04:45
An important step toward reversing propaganda is to reference things and events using accurate descriptive terms. Why do we use expressions such as "mainstream media" and "major news organizations"? Wouldn't such entities be be more accurately described as "corporate controlled media"?

Language and truth are weapons.
 
 
+8 # genierae 2010-12-18 06:12
Think what it would have been like had hundreds of thousands been there at the White House. This country will not change until the majority of Americans work to force that change.
 
 
+2 # Montana 2010-12-18 06:19
GodBless all of these demonstrators. Godbless all Veterans, especially those who are brave enough to resist the war machine. Godbless all the military personel still in war zones. Godbless the many victims of war.
 
 
+5 # Gene Fontaine 2010-12-18 11:48
As another Veteran For Peace I am in full support of those who protest war without end. Our leaders did not build the biggest US Embassy in the world without big plans for the Empire.
Folks, its time to un-elect the war mongers. Oh, and have them, not our children, etc., pay for this folly.
Lean Gene
 
 
+3 # edgar valderrama 2010-12-19 18:26
It would be more practical for all of us to DO SOMETHING rather than sit around and wait for Montana's God to drop all those blessings on our heads...though I appreciate his sentiments.
 

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