That picture of Conyers handing the petitions through bars...

[caraher]

makes me think we should start referring to the White House and everything within its security perimeter as "The Green Zone."

Just like in Iraq, there's one reality inside the Green Zone and another out in the country, where the real people live their reality-based lives.

[Pooka Fey]

1. I like it.

Welcome to DU Caraher! :toast:

[NorCalDem]

2. I've been to DC many times

when I lived on the East Coast, but haven't been back since W took office. When I heard about the perimeter that is now in place, how a person cannot even approach the wrought iron gates outside the house of HIS or HER president, it disgusted me. Isn't he paid by OUR tax dollars, and doesn't he have to answer to US.

God damn I hate him, so very much!!!!

[Amonester]

11. Nope. I heard * only has to answer to ***.

Maybe it's just another Rovian trick. (It work_ED...) :freak:

[Gabi Hayes]

3. great idea! how about Greenback Zone, with some sort of

dollar-ish replacement for the black bars separating the thugs from the hoi polloi?

[acmejack]

5. That is great!

I'll go with that, we need to be able to differentiate from the zone in Iraq.

[dweller]

4. please, where's the photo?

just checking in after several days away from the net/DU.

thanks
dp

edit: my manners...

[caraher]

7. Sorry!

It's at the beginning of this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1860935

[dweller]

13. thanks much

to you and CottonBear!

great photos there... emailing them out.
dp

[CottonBear]

8. See this thread from the greatest page:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1860935
:)

[blm]

6. That photo is a really great signal to the rest of the world who Bush

likes to lecture about "democracy" and its freedoms.

[JDPriestly]

9. I'm just sorry I didn't get a chance to visit the White House

when it was a welcoming place. Imagine, Andrew Jackson opened it to all of the American people. Today, it is surrounded by a huge fence, secret service people swarming everywhere. Somehow, that is symbolic of what has happened to our democracy. The White House, which used to be the peoples' house, now belongs only to the elite few. The rest of us don't really count. And what is the value of the average citizen? A breeding ground for children to be sacrificed in the wars of the very rich and a bank account to pay for munitions manufacture and the costs of war. Last I heard, Laura Bush was planning to use crowns in the new decor of the Lincoln Bedroom. What a travesty.

[realFedUp]

10. ya wonder who's the jailed and who's the jailer....

Ground zero of Bush Gulag.

[DoYouEverWonder]

12. Funny, how Gannon had no problem getting into the WH

but members of the US House of Representatives are barred.

[fooj]

14. No shit! Good point, Wonder!

:think:

peace.