Bush Protest - East Grand Rapids, MI

[bapyou]

Note the heavy police presence throughout this video. What does it say about America in the 2000s that our leaders can only appear in public under heavy police guard?

I attended an anti-war demonstration when Obama came through southern California a few months back where cops in full riot gear stood guard over a group of Latino kids sitting on the ground behind yellow tape who had been protesting in favor of the Dream Act. A situation which made me think "cops are nothing but pathetic cowards."

[MrJas1991]

Fuck East Grand Rapids and their racist cops, and fuck Bush.

[RICH08XX]

In hindsight i think the war was the right thing but good to see a strong amount of people standing up for what they believe!

[TitaniumByFire]

LOL, Now all of these libbots have somebody who is talking about increasing the troops.

[areageek]

This makes me very proud to come from GR.

[msoviet409]

After more careful observation, dude! They are the legendary Michigan State Police, the most prestigious in the nation. Wow! Awesome, I never a chance to see them yet.

[msoviet409]

Grand Rapids police folks look cool. Like their uniforms.

[JonSloss]

I think I'm in this video.

[RockyBalboa211]

God bless Bush!! Our last great president!!

[WRESTLERmi]

i hate liberal faggggots like everyone that protested here you cna all go fuck your couchs becasue your anti american fucks and we dont need or want you in this country

[AirThief]

too bad we out number you huh? Obama will be the next president, what ya gonna do then biggot?

[MasterMark123]

seeing this made me proud of my little home town ;-) I move away from GR 44 years ago. Have not been back since.

[qwandiddy]

Ha, You aint missed anything except Downtown GR gotten way better, but I been moved outta there 2004 to a big city where I can stay busy, I couldn't stand GR since 1995 and somewhat I still cannot stand it, I know I will not move back but Its a great place to visit, the ecomony there is even worse.

[sharpshooter45102]

no kidding i live here currently

[x1xlOVEbUGx1x]

Read the Constitution. Congress has to declare war, don't blame it all on the president

[AirThief]

and congress never declared war on iraq.

[cruisers5313]

Actually congress gave Bush the authority to declare war on Iraq. A little thing called checks and balances...nice try though!

[rumpelstillskin65]

VOTE NADER

[qwandiddy]

Well Bush had killed couple of my old classmate friends in Iraq 2 years ago who I went to Northview High School with, Shit Im glad I didnt go to Iraq.

[qwandiddy]

Bush really did screwed up Michigan especially Grand Rapids, he got rid of Elextrolux Corp in Greenville, laying off 1000s of Steelcase workers, closed Rogers Dept Store and Steketees. Made me move to Chicago cause I cannot find a jod through my Associates Degree anymore, not I hate Chicago because its too expensive and ripoff I want to move back to GR.

[grandmastergooch]

to protest something, shouldn't you be near where the person or thing is?

MLK-was in the south

Ghandi-was in India near the government

Vietnam protests-near military bases

so why don't you guys go to Washington?

so its not our tax dollars keeping the peace...

[Idolhands7007]

oh boo hoo. those cops would've been jackin off in their cars in a speed trap anyways. so people shouldn't hold a protest in their hometown because it uses up municipal funds? you're an ass. besides...as far as im concerned, any place in this country is an appropriate place to protest our gov. it's all america right?

[CoolCharmedGirl]

Ha, i noe ppl in Michigan, cause i live there. They would so do that too. Ha

[45FLWS]

HA HA HA The Sweat on my left nut has more courage than these fuckers, From The Rue, to Little Beruit, my fam knows whats up, fuck this youtube shit, Im out.

[45FLWS]

thats the defect in the europeon brain, you cant see that you and your kind are the main problem in this world, your disposable lifestyle, parasitic mentality, take, comsume, feed pig feed, your the reason there are a record 80 billion people in this world who are starving, and at the same time a record 8 billion are morbidly obese, take a guess where they live. Truth will liberate myself and my people,

[X9SamFisher]

I was there that day, and one of the protesters hit me on the head with his sign. I've never respected them and after that, well that just made their augmentation even worse

[WinkyMcGee]

and for everyone bashing EGR on here i'd just like to point out that, yes, it is a wealthy area. yes, there are some real jerkoffs who live there. but NO, it is not republican. East Grand Rapids is the only city in the GR Metro area that voted for Clinton, Clinton, Gore, Kerry. so get off it.

[45FLWS]

Obama is the future, by the way protests dont change governments bullets do. Stay in east GRrr,

[WinkyMcGee]

Obama is the future! But violent protest only gives government an excuse to crack down on legitimate decent. Ghandi and Martin Luther King both recognized that by using violence one only relinquishes the moral high ground. Look at Bush, he storms in with Shock and Awe and in doing so destroys all the international goodwill the United States had after 9/11 and got us into a complete quagmire.

it's like Assimov says: "violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

[45FLWS]

Stay in your redneck side of town, with your SUV,s Starbucks, you think your progressive because you write a few things on youtube, and quote a few philosophers, a true revolutionary changes history, these people are a joke,

[45FLWS]

You build your schools from the hungry stolen souls of my people, you play golf on our graveyards, you fucking fat east GR, fake tofu eating hipster, you are a slave,

[45FLWS]

You heard about the ELF burning down the street of dreams north of sea tec? They built 50, 10,000sq ft homes on protected wetlands, you will never see anyone from east GR stand up and fight like that, I am NYM here, till I die I will resist, show me one for real warrior in all of Gun Rue, I know what these people are, fake, the Pacific Northwest is where it is at.

[WinkyMcGee]

you're a moron. and a hypocrite.

[45FLWS]

Yo homie get your faggot ass back to yesterdog, talk with you friends, they will tell you what you want to hear, you will feel like you are a important person in your circle, but in reality you are garbage, a European decent rapist. consume pig, eat, rape the poor, with our flesh and bones you build your home

[WinkyMcGee]

while you praise arsonists and radicals, i'll be out lobbying my government and working with NGOs to affect change. skyrocketing food prices, dumping, Darfur, America's myopic views on foreign policy all need to be changed. crimes wont do that, action will.

or you could just be a homophobe, spout tired anti-consumerist pablum, and misspell the airport (SeaTac, as in SEAttle-TAComa).

oh and one last thing, i'm not down at Yesterdog, i've been spending my summer working at the UN. jackass.

[45FLWS]

You fool, I was just up there a week ago, sea-tac is the airport, idiot, thats the problem with you Americans, you speak on subjects with you have no experience with in this life, you know there is a reason this gov keeps the education system ranked 34th in the world, you really think you can make a difference, your a bigger fool than these people protesting,

[shitalker65]

Typical East Grand Rapids...Forest Hills is a far better area to live in...

[goldeneagles2011]

I just want to see Hillary or Obama get into office so they can make the Republican party look good. I also want to see what happens in when they pull us out of Iraq. This should be fun...

[imaggie1245]

hey... i liv in egr... o.. btw just abt everyone in egr h8s bush and anyone who supports him

[45FLWS]

Id get the fuck out, nothings gonna change there, at least 40yrs behind the west.

[RedDawn616]

U Know, its all of these fucking people who are supporting this war by driving their Suvs, Hummers, etc, WAKE UP East Grrr your the problem with your parasitic mentality,  more is better, bigger is better, And East GR is Garbage, fake, republican, snakes.

[bob0fishkins]

wow u must feel real special now...... where do you live ill make fun of where you live allot easier than Grand Rapids

[45FLWS]

You talking to me hipster? Bob0fishkins, sorry I left the trash back in east GR, born and raised in GR, after 24yrs got tired of being around those fake ass wannabe protesters, you should go back to starbucks homie, try elf, alf, black block, abcf, NYM, Raza, acab, bgf, these are my people,

[StrawberriesHK]

Ok, those are mostly all EGR HS students and there 32 year old boyfriends.... No wonder why EGR families send there kids to boarding school--there too embarrased because these kids actually speak there mind....So kids, go after your racist parents who hung a noose in an AAfrican American EGR residents' yard and maybe you can make a big difference!

[styledcven]

Ur wasting Gas sell EGR suvs WOW i feel disrespectful every one i bet has a gas gusling suv in that town WOW

[DuffmanThrust]

I'm sorry but it's hard for me to take any of these protesters seriously when they have a Dunkaroos Kangaroo mascot in the mix. bunch of R - Tards

[JonnyRello]

East GR is full of scum anyway

[DevilDogGR]

East GR is the saving grace of otherwise a totally stagnant town full of reformed Christian asswipes.

[externalpower]

worst president ever.

[Junior4554]

Don't liberals have anything better to do? oh wait, I forgot they dont have a job and want to suck off the federal government because there a bunch of losers!

[Abrfitch1892]

out of all the neighborhoods he had to come to the richest....that's bush for you

[DevilDogGR]

Actually overall, Grandville is probably the richest.

[gozhn]

haha, absolutely not

[StrawberriesHK]

grandville is one of the poorest devil.....

[qwandiddy]

Shoot, I dont even like Rivertown anymore, i'll rather stick with Woodland/ Eastbrook.

[cogni7ant]

grandville is full of middleclass wanna be, east gr has some nice cribs... you gotta go to the lakeshore tho to see some major real-estate

[qwandiddy]

Wyoming used to be middleclass, but not anymore, its ghetto now and i will not live there. I'll stay in Northeast side in Northview area.

[AirThief]

not all wyoming is ghetto, south of 28th st is nice. my street is nice a quiet thats for sure.

[qwandiddy]

Yeah except between Byron Center and Burlingame like on Taft off of 28th because back in 2004, when I was coming off of Taft Ave into 28th street east, then I was pulled over by Wyoming cop at old Ponderosa lot cause he thought that I was coming from a drug house on Taft and 29th street cause I parked my car in side of it. I think it was racial profiling also cause lots of G.R. blacks are complainin of Wyoming cops for years

[bigspender8]

maybe thats becuz most of the blacks in wyoming are criminals

[qwandiddy]

Mexicans too and plus I cannot stand Wyoming anymore after Rogers Store and STUDIO 28 Closed- I was so pissed.

Plus at Northeast side like at Orchard Place, Stonebrook and Cambridge is definetly projects now. And I believe Northwest side including York Creek Apts has most white criminals, I know I used to live at there.

[qwandiddy]

So is Northeast side like at Cambridge Apts on Plymouth and Orchard Place on Fuller/ Knapp. They are horrible like they came from straight out ghetto. I feel sorry for white people living around there.

[bob0fishkins]

stfu all of you

[slikk72]

Our "prospering" economy? Wow, wake up and smell the coffee beans. I am a local, I don't support the war, Bush, or the fact that right wing EGR psycho's call everone who opposes bush and the war a liberal. Support the Troops Bring'em Home RON PAUL!!!

[jzemaitis]

Wow, I'm surprised more of the locals didn't beat the protesters! The local town folk of Grand Rapids Michigan should be thankful for their prospering economy and booming job market. Thank you George Bush!!!

[Sangiath]

Damn Bush took away my off-campus lunch. =[

And why did he come on 4/20? Haha.

[crazyale11]

George W. Bush will regret the day he set foot in my hometown. He has left his imprint on the place I hold most dear.

[ominuka]

Detroit is my hometown peoples. I'm in the military now, but man I can't wait to get back home.

[biggyal22]

this, my hometown, during my senior year, is a video of my extreamly liberal hometown. Fu@* the principal of the school and all you self rightious democrats who attended this rally

[xxpentekxx]

youre all dirty pot smoking hippies.

god bless the iraq war, you think our soldiers want to fight?? they dont have a choice in this.

[Getitgirl2005]

God bless War? You don't know God very well...

[xxpentekxx]

nor do I wish to.

[ou8one2forme]

We all want peace(well unless you want power and big wealth) like our goverment and their croonies.Things are just getting worse.. This is not a Leftist comment. It is there just research, research and more research. We are becoming sheep and we need a good wake up call to stand up for ourselves. Otherwise we get what we deserve..

[elshokme]

stoooooooop bush

[uncleRory]

liberalism is brain damage

[drakveroth]

GET THE FUCK OUT OF the MIDDLE EAST bush

[saginawjuggalo]

Hell yeah, Michigan knows the deal.... FUCK BUSH!

[CassPetey]

you may not like Bush but there is no need for what you said. He is still our president so show some respect- you do a better job if you think he is so terrible.

[JeffJ1974]

I find it intresting that the right wing ripped into Clinton when he lied about sex but when no WMD's are found in Iraq and the Binladen is never spoken about any more that they say,hey do you dare say anything bad about our president or our miltary,Frankly I think I think we should worry about Binladen because the right wing says Clinton wasn't well,Bush doesn't seem that worried.

[Scene233]

To the rest of the world, excluding the U.S.: Read the comments below. These are our American Idiots. They're like children and they embarrass the rest of the country with their ignorance and lack of education. They can't stand ANY criticism of the U.S. but they love to put down everyone else. Someone should take their internet away from them because they pollute it with their misspelled words, bad grammar, and stupid comments.

[grandrapids]

Amazingly, not 1 hour of productivity was lost by a single employer.

Become productive members of society you losers.

[ErnestoDelMundo]

grandrapids...what have you produced save for a bunch of flatulence? BTW...love the way all your local companies are shutting down and moving to Mexico. Now that's patriotism!

[ou8one2forme]

This is PARTIOTISM! It is the companies themselves leaving... Patriotism is companies sticking it out in ruff times and not going where the labor is cheapest in another country!! We are showing what this country stands for.. FREEDOM OF SPEECH!

[TheScaryDoor]

God dammit, I hate liberals.

[glubbah]

Fuck you, hippie, I hope you die of Dick Cancer >:|

[TheScaryDoor]

Excuse me, but my mother died of dick cancer, and I'd appreciate it if you showed some morality. Or you take the easy way out and KILL YOURELF! >:(

[glubbah]

Ha, sucks to be your mother, she probably desserved it, too, because she was a prostitoot! And I ain't killin myself unless u kill urself first ROFLMAO!!!

[TheScaryDoor]

You're a bitch! Go fuck yourself.

[glubbah]

Been there, done that. I'm starting on my dog now. ;)

But thanks for your concern, douche bag >:(

[TheScaryDoor]

Have fun, and wear protection, fucking liebral asswipe JEW! >:(

[glubbah]

Okay, it's one thing to make fun of my political beliefs, but when you get involved in my religion, that's when I get UBER MAD! >:|

*eats TheScaryDoor* There, ain't gonna be no more shit comin' outta that mouth never again >:(

[TheScaryDoor]

Oh yeh? Well, shit comes out of this too! *Flashes my ass to you* Kiss it! All you liberal, kiss mah fine ass! And while we're at it, *whips out my balls* suck 'em. >:(

[deathbotv1]

Your boy Bush cares way more about Jews in Israel than you, you ignorant dipshit

[bostonbruins4]

George W Bush is the Real War Criminal, He is just another Hitler Wannabe Dictator, set on taking over the world one Oil rich country at a time....

[CassPetey]

ooh yeah- i'm really sure bush is trying to be just like hitler- go educate yourself

[jemoederisvieshoerrr]

if you dont like our country....protest!

[westongrover]

I hate Busch, But I hate Hippies even more

[SpectoSemper]

Click on my name to see my edited, longer videos of this rally.

[kozsgrl]

if you dont like our country....leave! Go to Mexico where the federalies are around every corner with AK47's.

[JWinston70]

Well aren't you a little extremist. I love my country, I disagree with its leadership. That pesky little liberal document, the US Constitution guarantees my right to disagree with the decisions of its misguided leadership. As Thomas Jefferson said, "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then."

[kozsgrl]

So you are leaving right? Part of the problem...not the solution.....that is what you are....

[airconditionor]

I like this response. High five.

[SpectoSemper]

Check my page for longer videos of this rally!

[bananajellofiend]

I was there. It was a blast.

[dashiz87]

liberalism is a mental disorder....don't you people have any respect.

[SpectoSemper]

Quoting Michael Weiner "Savage" is for unoriginal ignorant children.

[JWinston70]

The latest CBS/NY Times Poll (4/24/07) shows

"Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling the situation with Iraq?" Approve Disapprove Unsure % % %

ALL adults 24 71 5

Republicans 58 34 8

Democrats 5 93 2

Independents 19 74 7

So while you may blindly agree with Bush's policies and war-mongering, the American people... in bi-partisan agreement, disagree. By your argument... the majority of people are liberal with mental disorders.

[Payback2007]

Please see "Aaron Russo from Freedom to Fascism" also Alex Jones on Youtube.

[flipsidestory]

Dear Americans, The world hears you through your evil empires cloak of fabricated lies and deceit. We must stand united for freedom, justice and peace!

A concerned Canadian

[aspritzpop]

world hates America because of Bush--- it's Nuts--- and the truth is alot of people love Mr Moore in America!!!!!!!!!

[fishhead06]

That's quite the f'n entourage at the end!

[fishhead06]

US authorities are very effective at penning in protesters. And people go along with it. Strange.

[NoRvvood]

and this is the conservative side of Michigan

[maxwelk1]

Whoa! How many showed up for this? That looked like a healthy-sized crowd.

[artdaddio]

alright!!! We are not alone....True information is the key. Also didn't see this on my Calif. t.v. stations.

[livexlovexlost]

Thank you for letting others know that dissent to this crazed administration is everywhere, and that most Americans are opposed to this president.

[dizzyskittlez]

WHAT DOES DEMOCRACY LOOK LIKE?

THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!

LOUDER! KEEP YOUR PROTESTS LOUD AND FOCUSED! A vet from many many many many protests in DC and Florida!

BULL HORNS... That's what you need...

[kennyzar]

The Bush Administration´s agressive, imperialistic policies are rejected even by conservative European leaders like Merkel. It´s not simply left against right, geniuses! It´s sanity against insanity!!!

[kubrick8000]

Fight the left. Do it right.

[LEATSLAN]

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[nachomanco]

RamRod. it's funny in Supertroopers.

[doggysti3s]

right on!