The weather was supposed to be awful. We got
terrible-sounding predictions the night before. Things turned out
fine. Weather was cold, a number of people were jumping up and
down and stamping their feet before the march started to keep warm, but
snow didn’t start falling until the next day.
The march ended up at the Liberty Bell. It started around 12:30
and made the Bell about 2:00, a total of about an hour and a
half. Folks went to the Arch Street Meeting
House afterward, where we had coffee and light snacks with chairs and
tables and of course literature tables with posters and t-shirts and
books for sale.
A small anti-anti-war sub-protest. About 15-20 people were
holding up signs calling Saddam Hussein all sorts of terrible things, a
mass murderer, a war criminal, a ruthless dictator, etc. There
was
nothing there that anbody in our demonstration could have disagreed
with. We simply disagree over what price the Iraqi people should
pay, in terms of lives lost and destruction caused, to be rid of him.
Even then, it wouldn’t be a hard choice to make if Hussein were the
only
dictator in the world, but unfortunately, he’s far from alone. I
think I speak for our whole demonstration when I repeat the quote from
John Adams, “America should not go abroad in search of monsters to
slay”.
