by Frank James
The Iraq War protesters were out in force today in Washington, the fifth anniversary of the “shock and awe” start of the war.
They took on the Internal Revenue Service Building and lost when the police rounded them up en masse. But they made the point that there are still people willing to be arrested to protest a war they view as unjust.
Near Arlington National Cemetery, some protesters held what they called a “march of the dead” which made for some riveting visuals.
(photo: Win McNamee, Getty Images)
The Arlington protest allowed photographer McNamee to give us his version of the famous Beatles Abbey Road album cover.
There were scenes of federal police offices lifting protesters in order to transport them to jail, images reminiscent of the Vietnam War protests.
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(photo: Mandel Ngan, AFP/Getty Images.)Some scenes truly reminded those of us old enough to remember of what we saw on TV when we growing up in the 1960s, young people with long hair flashing peace signs, looking for all the world like hippies of that bygone era.
(Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
A lot of Baby Boomers, many who came of age during the Vietnam War, added their voices to the twentysomethings. They wound up sitting on the hard, cold pavement with their hands behind in plastic cuffs waiting to be hauled away by the police.
(Photo: Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo.)