Last Weekend in DC - Sunday - Protest at Quantico

 I agree with this banner completely.  I think both Bush and Obama need to be impeached or arrested.  They have both committed war crimes.

 Scenes of the rally.
  One of the best speakers was David House, friend of Bradley Manning.  Zach Choate was also good - he ripped off his ribbons from his shirt.  He was quite emotional.  More on both these guys in the video below.

 Veterans for Peace were the organizers for this rally and protest.

 The start of the short march to the road to Quantico military base.

 And what is a non-violent protest without the SWAT team?  There were quite a lot of them for 400 protesters, the majority of whom were not going to risk arrest.  These guys were carrying machine guns.  They had funny things on their legs too, as you can see in the picture below.

 

Zach Choate recording what was happening on the ground.  I was not close enough to see (or photograph) what was happening, but STOP THESE WARS gives this report, which I believe is accurrate:

The demonstrators, including many U.S. military veterans, wanted to put flowers on a replica of the Iwo Jima memorial that sits outside the entrance to the base, but the base authorities closed access to the statue, which is normally open to the public. A deal had been negotiated to allow six of the demonstrators, accompanied by a videographer and a photographer, to lay flowers on the memorial, but they weren’t even allowed to go up to the statue, instead having to throw the flowers over a barrier about 10 feet away. The rest of the demonstrators were enclosed in a pen across the road from the site. After the flowers were left, three of the six–Dan Ellsberg, Elaine Brower, and Ret. Col. Ann Wright–sat in the middle of Route 1 and were soon joined by other demonstrators, who broke out of the barricades.

The Virginia State Police handled some of the protesters quite roughly, including pulling people to their feet by their heads and necks and pushing standing protesters on top of those sitting next to them.

Some nine different police agencies were on hand to deal with the nonviolent protest, including military police, Prince County Mounted Police, Quantico town police, and Washington, D.C., Metropolitan police.

There were over 30 arrested.  Here is a video of the protest, march and civil disobedience, and the shameful behavior of the police: