FUUO's Pentagon Protesters of the Week Compendium

NOTE:  For those who don't know,  every Monday morning the Pentagon allows only the biggest idiots best and brightest dissenters to post up on the grassy area by the Metro entrance escalators and display their signs. 


I have three POTW entries to add however as my lovely wife and I (and our two pups) are about to begin our cross-country drive out to Monterey this week I am not sure I will have time.  And in the interest of "closing the loop" on my time in the Pentagon I wanted to include  a link to the wackjobs protesters who gave me a chuckle each Monday morning.


NOTE:  For those who don't know,  every Monday morning the Pentagon allows only the biggest idiots best and brightest dissenters to post up on the grassy area by the Metro entrance escalators and display their signs.  The tales of these cantankerous kvetches are below:

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2011/07/protesters-and-sorcerers.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2011/06/new-protester-of-week-singer-actress.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2011/05/pentagon-protesters-of-week-day-after.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-protester-of-week.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2011/03/protester-of-weak.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2011/01/protester-of-week-update.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/11/protesters-i-implore-you-step-up-your.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/10/protester-of-week-in-absentia.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/09/protester-of-week-practice-non-violence.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/09/protester-of-week-fyi-drones-are-always.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/09/protester-of-week-christians-dump-jews.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/09/protester-of-week-thank-you-pfc-bradley.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/08/protester-of-week-disarm-now.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/08/protester-of-week-best-part-of-waking.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/08/best-part-of-waking-up-smell-of-napalm.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/08/best-part-of-waking-uploving-your.html

FUUO's Pentagonisms:

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/11/pgon-ism-of-week-circle-wagons.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/12/pentagon-ism-of-week-bandwidth.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/10/pgon-ism-of-week-missionary-work.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/09/pgonism-of-week-bluf.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/08/pgon-ism-of-week-across-river.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/07/pentagon-ism-of-week-reaching-out.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/07/pentagon-ism-of-week.html

http://famousdc.com/2010/09/03/for-unofficial-use-only/

NEW! Pentagon Protester of the week!

NOTE:  For those who don't know,  every Monday morning the Pentagon allows only the biggest idiots best and brightest dissenters to post up on the grassy area by the Metro entrance escalators and display their signs. 

Protester of the week is back!

As I had said previously, there wouldn’t be any new POTW columns until they brought something new to the table.  And  today they did.  This beautiful spring morning I spied 7 protesters ‘manning the rails’ at the Metro entrance to the Pentagon. 

My primary motivation to write this column today was the presence of a new loon guy out there today.   He had a pair of binoculars (perhaps he’s an ornithologist) hanging from his neck and a powder blue construction helmet to which he had used his 3^rd grade arts and crafts skills to affix the letters: U N.   He was in fact bird-like in his manner and he craned forward, squinting his eyes, peering at each PGON passerby.  Obviously, he is going to be a real asset to the Monday protesting team! Oh, and he held the sign: “Arms dealers make a killing”

There was also a new sign that contained an excerpt from Dr. King’s Sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on April 30, 1967 (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16183.htm)

“…It seems that I can hear God say to America, you are too arrogant. If you do not change your ways I will rise up and break the backbone of your power…”

DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

I know I have said this many times before, but I really think these protesters are missing their audience.  I make fun of applaud their efforts at the Pentagon each Monday, but that’s just for selfish reasons: I sincerely enjoy my Monday peeks into the realm of the ridiculous/insane.   Perhaps a more appropriate audience could be found by taking some of these signs to the White House or Congress…the LTs through CAPTs using the Metro entrance aren’t influencing anyone beyond how much cream or coffee a Flag officer should have in his/her coffee that morning.  Truly, I am just trying to help these hippies protesters play to the best audience. 

FUUO’s greatest hits:

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2011/03/protester-of-weak.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2011/01/protester-of-week-update.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/11/protesters-i-implore-you-step-up-your.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/10/protester-of-week-in-absentia.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/09/protester-of-week-practice-non-violence.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/09/protester-of-week-fyi-drones-are-always.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/09/protester-of-week-christians-dump-jews.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/09/protester-of-week-thank-you-pfc-bradley.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/08/protester-of-week-disarm-now.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/08/protester-of-week-best-part-of-waking.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/08/best-part-of-waking-up-smell-of-napalm.html

http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/08/best-part-of-waking-uploving-your.html

Pentagon Protester of the Week: Thank You PFC Bradley Manning

NOTE:  For those who don't know,  every Monday morning the Pentagon allows only the biggest idiots best and brightest dissenters to post up on the grassy area by the Metro entrance escalators and display their signs. 


So this week, there was a racially diverse crowd of about 7 people I think.  Personally I am always a little afraid to stare too long.  First because I don't want them to talk to me.  Second, I am afraid I'll follow in Lot's wife's shoes and turn to salt (never a good start to a Monday).

Just to set the stage a bit, these are never loud unruly protesters.  They usually just stand there with their signs.

So this week, I saw a sign that said simply: THANK YOU PFC BRADLEY MANNING.

I thought this a weird sign since I had no clue who he was.  Turns out he is being charged with leaking classified documents while in Iraq. 
He's also been classified as a 'person of interest' in the Wikileaks drama. 

Michael Moore has praised him saying he "did a courageous thing and a patriotic thing."

Well sorry PFC Manning, any hope for sympathy or empathy just went out the window after hearing that. 

Let me be clear, it is FUUO's official unofficial position that Michael Moore is an idiot. 

Evidently, Michael Moore believes so fervently that PFC Manning 'must be set free' that he has donated $5000 to his legal defense.

NEWSFLASH: FUUO would like to change its position on Michael Moore:

Michael Moore is a cheap idiot.

5000 bucks Michael?  Are you serious?  Lawyers charge clients 5 grand just to shake their hands. 

The heart of the matter comes down to this:  when PFC Manning joined the military and was granted access to classified material he signed non-disclosure agreements.  He gave his word.  He knew the consequences of his actions and he did them anyways.  I have little no sympathy for him. 

The argument whether or not it was morally right for him to leak the information is irrelevant (but it was wrong).  On a humanist, philosophical scale, sure it was his 'right' to break his word.  But it's also the 'right' of government to punish him.  Anytime you break a rule, you must be prepared for the punishment. 



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