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By ColdFusion04
11/02/2005 10:12:38 AM EST

"The local Veterans For Peace chapter has found itself in conflict with organizers of the Milwaukee Veterans Day Parade over the peace group's exclusion from the event this Saturday.

Parade organizers have banned Veterans For Peace members from marching with their banner, saying the group's political activism violates the spirit of the event, which is to honor veterans."

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HEY!  Whatever happened to the "veterans fought and died for their right to protest" meme?  Is that passe already?  Have we skipped right from that to 1930's Germany-style fascism?


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HEY!  Whatever happened to the "veterans fought and died for their right to protest" meme?  Is that passe already?  Have we skipped right from that to 1930's Germany-style fascism?

"Be realistic. Demand the impossible!" --Wall poster from the 1968 Paris Uprising

by Paul Rosenberg on 11/02/2005 11:36:57 AM EST

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