War Protest Today Outside of White House: Protestors to Chain Themselves to White House Fence

[Joanne98]

Even as President Obama on Thursday attempts to put a good face on the war in Afghanistan, Vietnam-era whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and several dozen other anti-war protesters will be chaining themselves to the White House fence, inviting arrest in the name of peace.

"We are dedicated to exposing the true costs of war and militarism," explained Mike Ferner, the president of Veterans for Peace, the group organizing Thursday's Lafayette Square rally and civil disobedience.

"We've killed well over a million people. We've orphaned and displaced five times that number at least. And here in our own country, we've managed to throw millions of people of out work and out of their homes," Ferner told reporters at a press conference Wednesday. "There is a connection there. That connection is the true cost of war."

Citing information available for every city and state in America on the Cost of War website, the former Navy hospital corpsman noted that his hometown of Toledo alone has sent almost a billion dollars into the war effort.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/15/ellsberg-antiwar-protesters-white-house-fence_n_797410.html

[Mnemosyne]

1. My heroes. KnR! n/t

[newfie11]

2. This will probably never make the news.

:mad:

[Democracyinkind]

3. Good to see that some people still find these wars wrong even now that they have become "ours"

It was wrong then, it's wrong now. My regards for anyone out there today.

[kgnu_fan]

4. War is crime

[Blue Owl]

5. K&R for V4P

K&R

[Catherina]

6. K&R. We need more of this. n/t