The day after 9/11

I walked down to the 9/12 project for the march on the mall.

And before you ask any questions, yes I also walked down to the anti-war, ANSWER protests of the past. (They stopped all of a sudden... is the war over? Is Cindy Sheehan's son back from the dead? Is Code Pink suddenly out of business? Hmmmm...)

I found some funny signs: "Hey Obama! If you like aliens send them to uranus". Crass, yes- but funny. A lot of "Socialist" posters, a lot of Ayn Rand (I had to text my friend and ask who John Gault was... sorry for the ignorance).

I didn't see violence, arrests or the black bloc breaking any windows.

My principle hope is that these protesters, thousands- perhaps hundreds of thousands- also turn out in election season. We need community organizing- but organizing for freedom, not government control of anything else.