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The following Press Release came across our desk this afternoon:
\n
\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
\nPRO-WAR, PRO-TORTURE RALLY – Feb 9th, 2007
\nby Malcolm Bosman, Patriots for Corporate Rights
\n
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The temperature was around ten degrees fahrenheit at four o’clock in the afternoon as three members of Patriots for Corporate Rights gathered in front of the Walker Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library at 2880 Hennepin Avenue on the corner of Lagoon Street in Uptown, grabbed their signs, and waved American flags to passing traffic. As we became increasingly comfortable, we began speaking aloud about the importance of building the economy using our best tools: torture and war.<\/p>\n

Immediately one person skeptical of our position approached and criticized our advocacy of these things. The gentleman was soon persuaded to join us when it became clear how sincere we were in our advocacy of this radical yet important agenda.<\/p>\n

WCCO-TV Channel 4 News was there to capture us on film almost immediately, but unfortunately, things didn’t really get going until after they left. More people showed up with signs in a short time, and things started to get very entertaining as everyone started to shout slogans such as “Support all war, always!”\u009d, “Spend more, think less!”, “Cut funding for mass transit and use it to fund the war!”\u009d, “Get a job!”\u009d, “Shopping is patriotic!”\u009d, “Corporate rights are human rights!”\u009d, “There is no country so small that it doesn’t have some resource we can use!”\u009d, “Dissent is unpatriotic!”\u009d and “Abolish the Supreme Court, abolish Congress, the Unitary Executive is all we need! Trust Bush!, Trust Bush!, Trust Bush!”\u009d Many more slogans and chants were shouted as well. A bullhorn allowed us to get our message to people down the street. There was energy and excitement in the air.<\/p>\n

All told, maybe twenty people joined us over the course of the next two hours, with perhaps eight to twelve people hanging around holding signs at any given time. Watching the reaction of passersby and cars was extremely interesting. Many people honked and gave enthusiastic thumbs up; others (undoubtedly people who did not understand the subtlety of our position) frowned and flipped us off. A couple of tin foil hat-wearing, hippy, moon bat, Commie pinkos even showed the Peace Sign!<\/p>\n

Many people reacted with apparent bafflement, although this confusion sometimes melted away as they read more of our signs. It was unclear to us why many people seemed to find our rally amusing. One gentleman, however, was extremely upset that we were out in force; he approached and criticized us sharply and somewhat angrily. Two young women approached and asked us to explain our position on black people. Another person rolled down his window and, in an incredulous voice asked, “What are you doing<\/em>!?” In a passing Taxi, for reasons we never understood, a naked woman was lying in the back seat.<\/p>\n

The rally was peppered with many interesting experiences such as these.<\/p>\n

For some reason, numerous people approached to ask whether PCR was being satirical, to which members merely explained that we were for all war and all torture that aids corporate profits, and against public protesting of any kind. This seemed to convince them that PCR intends to be taken seriously.<\/p>\n

The temperature kept dropping and it was downright freezing by the time we packed it up around six o’ clock, but we were thoroughly satisfied that we had gotten our message out while having an extremely good time.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Patriots for Corporate Rights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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