Oh ferchrissakes: we got righty protesters near where I live

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I live a short distance from St. Paul's Macalester College, where Kofi Annan went to skool. Every so often (I think weekly or biweekly) there are two men who walk circles in the intersection outside the campus where my bus stops, carrying around "LIBERATE IRAQ" and "LIBERATE AMERICA" signs, the American Flag, signs with the international red circle-slash "NO" symbol around the UN flag, and huge "SAY NO TO SOCIALISM" placards. This seems to be a recent development, recent enough that the first time I saw them I was all "whoa hey uh the Saddam statue fell over, y'all can go home now and drink Thunderbird and yell 'FUCK YEAH' while watching the O'Reilly Factor". I am trying to figure out if/how to needle these guys, albeit in a non-confrontational way that steers clear of typical strident lefty "FIGHT THE POWAR" stuff - like baffling enough that they wouldn't know how to retort. I flashed them the peace sign from the bus but I felt kind of toolish since I am not much of a hippie and they might've thought I meant "victory" anyways. Any ideas? I was thinking yelling "BOMB EVERYBODY" and flashing the devil horns or yelling choruses to Ludacris songs* or "ZOG OWNS YOU" or something. Or is this futile and childish?

*well not "What's Your Fantasy" obv.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 23:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Or: "Liberate America? You mean bomb us or something?"

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

You have no choice. Go for the crude and sick.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Put this on oversized posterboard.

http://hipsterdetritus.blogspot.com/n8andjd.JPG

The beauty part is it'll accomadate any slogan!

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"IT'S BUSH'S FAULT MY TEETH LOOK LIKE THIS"

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

"NO STATE DENTAL CARE NO PEACE"

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"FIGHT PLAQUE! FLOSS YOUR TEETH AND CROSS YOUR FINGERS"

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)

get a posse together & join them , wearing klan robes or nazi armbands & carrying placards with vile racist invective on them.

― duane, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 01:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Nate, I think you know as well as I do that you gotta show up with the biggest signs your & two friends can carry, and the signs say:

ALL RIGHT ALL RIGHT

LIFTER PULLER

SMOKIN' WEED AND MAKIN' MONEY

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Bring them hash brownies.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 03:25 (twenty-two years ago)

do that AND do the klan/nazi thing

― duane (doorag), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 03:29 (twenty-two years ago)

throw faeces at them

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 03:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Print up some of these

http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/.Pictures/iquit.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/.Pictures/bombs.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/.Pictures/tokyo.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/.Pictures/watching.jpg

from Micah Ian Wright's excellent "Back the Attack, We'll bomb who we want".

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 06:10 (twenty-two years ago)

yell stuff at them outta your car window

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 06:24 (twenty-two years ago)

er, bus window

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 06:24 (twenty-two years ago)

yell 'bench rivas'! and 'derrick alexander's a punk!' attem

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 06:27 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe join the protest with a 'bring back musselman!' sign

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 06:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Get six of your mates to wear the campest possible lycra outfits, paint your van bright pink, drive it right into the middle of them and blast out "It's Raining Men" really loud.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 07:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Disclaimer - this may not be in the slightest bit possible in the timespan you have available.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 07:03 (twenty-two years ago)

'socialism' is the least of America's problems if at all anymore. If the US had any intelligence they would phone up Castro today and say "look man, sorry for all that shit OK?" Won't prevent or maybe even delay the inevitable but it's the least they could do

― dave q, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 07:37 (twenty-two years ago)

haha!

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 07:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Get six of your mates to wear the campest possible lycra outfits, paint your van bright pink, drive it right into the middle of them and blast out "It's Raining Men" really loud.

And include line dancing and pirate hats! It would be brilliant.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Print up a poster or hand them flyers reading "SUPPORT PRESIDENT BUSH! IT'S EASIER THAN THINKING!"

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Seriously - what exactly are they protesting about? Surely rabid right-wing people in the US are getting exactly what they want right now?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Buy a thong.
2. Make extreme right-wing posters ("IMMIGRANTS OUT!", "AMERICA FOR AMERICANS!", etc).
3. Parade with them while wearing nothing but thong and glittery body paint.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Electric kool-aid. Midgets in turbans. Muzak version of the Benny Hill theme. That oughta do it.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

hey Nate have you ever seen that pickup with all the anti-abortion/europe/catholic/jewish/homo/etc stuff painted ALL over it? Was in my nabe a couple days ago.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

He made the drive all the way out from Boston???

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

haha we have our own branch office for that shit here I guess. There was one in my hometown too.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Dan's suggestions RULE. Is the semester over or something? I expect the Mac art students to have done what Dan suggests already.

Also DESTROY: Pro-life man in hunting clothes with bad foetus sign who stands on the traffic island on Excelsior Blvd. just along from Methodist Hospital on Hopkins/St Louis Park border. He's gotta still be there. We used to throw water balloons and spitballed anti-ab leaflets at him out the school bus windows.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

There is a Planned Parenthood on Ford Pkwy right next to a Burger King. Pro-lifers would picket at the PP with huge graphic photos of aborted fetuses. To reiterate: RIGHT. NEXT. TO. A. BURGER. KING.

― Nate (elsewhere), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

that's actually appropriate considering Burger King's food will make you wish you'd never been born

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

You should get the BK workers to throw uncooked meat patties at the protesters.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember a couple years ago UC Berkeley students were protesting one thing or another (Palestine?) and most memorable were the anti-protestors:

HULKAMANIA STILL RULES
YANKEES SUCK
I <3 BARRY ZITO

Nate, you have your answer(s).

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Oooh! Make a sign that says "USSR OUT OF EDINA" and picket with them!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

favorite anti-protestors evah: pro-life rally in Des Moines, several miles of people up and down a busy street with signs, and there were two or three punkass kids on one corner with their own signs, the funniest of which was:

ABORTION: IT'S SO COOL.

classic.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Fetus in the BK lounge
All they do is beg and they scrounge

The picket honkies were not at the intersection today. I in fact have no idea what days they specifically show up, which means that the thong/glitter contraption concept is probably not a good idea. Another thing that means that the thong/glitter contraption concept is probably not a good idea: IT INVOLVES ME WEARING A THONG AND OTHER PEOPLE SEEING ME WEARING A THONG.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Geoff -

I've often thought that the whole abortion debate might be a bit more constructive if pro-life and pro-choice lobbies rechristened themselves 'anti-choice' and 'anti-life' respectively, rather than hiding behind lame 'WE ARE THE POSITIVE ONES!' sloganeering. Y'know, like "Yes we admit we are anti choice in this case because we believe there are greater moral considerations than a woman's wellbeing and freedom" and "Yes, we admit we are anti-life in some contexts, life is a slippery concept let's deal with it". I recognise that these wouldn't make very effective placards.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm going to run around with a placard that says "Yes, we admit we are anti-life in some contexts, life is a slippery concept let's deal with it" all next week.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

OK, if they show up again I am going to counter with THIS.

http://hipsterdetritus.blogspot.com/iroc.jpg

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Thursday, 3 July 2003 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 3 July 2003 01:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Any Jock Sturges photo will do. There were righty protesters outside the bookstore my wife worked at a couple years ago demanding they get rid of his books.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Thursday, 3 July 2003 02:58 (twenty-two years ago)

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