Just like Louis Farrakhan's "Million" Man March, Sunday May 14, 2000's
"Million" Mom March against guns is doomed to considerable
inflation of its attendance by its promoters. The sole difference
is that almost all of its participants were European-American and
female.
There is every reason to believe that not only did no
"million" attend - but even that the event fell far short of the
150,000 promoter Donna Dees-Thomases said the week before that she hoped for. At starting
time, 10,000 was a charitable estimate;
even down by the soundstage, there was a lot more vacant grass than
people (see photos below).
The key indicator of this was decidedly sympathetic syndicated
columnist Ellen Goodman's May 5 column - in which Goodman said
"There are now 400 busloads destined to hit D.C. and 50 other
satellite rallies." Even if all 400 of those buses went to
Washington, there is no way that a million women would fit on 400
buses. 20,000 would be a realistic possible limit.
While "mainstream" press articles the week before varied on
the number of buses going to Washington, the 400 that Goodman
claimed was the highest number.
Even if organizers' claim the day of the march of 550 buses was true, it still meant a possible
upper limit of 27,500 - hardly the 750,000 marchers they later claimed.
(The organizers' claim of 750,000 attending would have required over 1,360 women per bus
they said came!)
Traffic was light in Washington in the morning up until
starting time for the "march." Meter parking a block away was
readily-available at 8:15 A.M. - in a city notorious for a dire
shortage of parking. Both traffic and parking were easier than
during Apr. 30's gay-pride rally - which brought no more than
20,000 to the same area of the Mall.
Making the organizers' claim of 750,000 attending even more preposterous is that the largest
D.C. rally ever - the Nov. 1969 rally against the Vietnam War - totally clogged D.C. streets
with only 500,000. D.C. is a tiny town of under a million population - and is easily clogged
by any huge number of outsiders there for any rally.
Just how did the "mainstream" media push the 750,000-mom hoax? With such basic
photojournalism techniques as using only low-camera-angle front views that left viewers no
way to tell if the crowd was two rows - or 20,000 rows - deep.
Under five months later, even the "mainstream" media started to admit the truth - when the
Denver Post on Sept. 16, 2000, covering a "Million" Mom March convention then in Denver
- stated that it had been 10,000 at the so-called "Million" Mom March in Washington.
And who were the women who attended? To get there by starting
time, a woman would have to leave Burlington by 3:15 A.M. - and no
buses headed north on either of the main interstates Southerners
would take (I-85 or I-95) were seen at that time. Obviously, what
the promoters call a national grassroots movement didn't take root
in the South.
There are a variety of reasons that guaranteed that the
"Million" Mom March would never be a nationwide movement - let
alone one of typical women nationwide. Even from here in central
North Carolina, it's a five-hour ride each way to Washington,
leaving at 3:15 in the morning to get there on time - and you come
back exhausted; how many working women can be back at the office
wearing pumps Monday if they were just back from an all-day
political rally ending whose last events started at 4:00 P.M. in
Washington? For working women, participation in the march would be limited to women from
very close to Washington - which alone
guarantees they weren't typical American women.
Was it a "march" anyway? It had a soundstage and huge-screen
television worthy of a rock concert - and at least one other
soundstage (photo below).
And it had a Hollywood-like floodlit set (photo below) for
filming videos and advertisements right in the middle of the Mall
to assist in the Leni Riefenstahling of America - funded by ultraleft zillionaire George Soros,
run by Handgun Control Inc., with some nondescript hausfrau as its nominal chief.
Within nine days of the event, its web site announced that Dees-Thomases, the nondescript
hausfrau who the "mainstream" media believed actually ran the event, was quitting as leader -
to be replaced by Mary Leigh Blek, a California fulltime antigun activist who has not held any
other job in years. It also announced that Blek's group, the Bell Campaign, was essentially
taking over what the "mainstream" media had sold as a grassroots movement some New Jersey
woman ran out of her home - and that the mailing address for Million Mom March was now
moving to the West Coast at the highly politicized San Francisco General Hospital, long active
in antigun and other leftist causes. One might reasonably wonder just how much of a
leadership role Donna Dees-Thomases ever played - since she was gone so fast.
But whatever you call it, be accurate - and call it the
"10,000 female march."
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