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March 23, 2003 [feather]
Protesters fall flat

From a Washington Post piece on campus anti-war protests:


At American University, two dozen undergraduates suddenly dropped to the floor of the bustling student center Thursday afternoon at the count of "1, 2, 3, WAR!" As they played dead -- holding signs reading "Iraqi child," "doctor," "American soldier" -- one of their organizers begged the students walking past to heed their protest.

"This is what war looks like," shouted Elizabeth Falcon, a 20-year-old sophomore from Warrenton. "Do not pass us by without thinking about our friends and family who are out there."

A tall young man standing on the fringe of the crowd took issue. "Do not forget the thousands of Iraqis who are dead because of Saddam Hussein!" he shouted back. He walked away with a sharper rejoinder that drew a smattering of applause: "This is not what war looks like -- get . . . off the ground."


In the immortal syllable of Instapundit, heh.

posted on March 23, 2003 8:32 AM