Anti-war protests: the truth is beginning to come out

I don’t wish to denigrate the honest patriotism of Americans who exercise their Constitutional right to freely assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances. However, I think that a lot of participants in the recent marches might be surprised to know where some of the money to fund them came from. Try reading this article, then ask yourself: are you comfortable with the organization and funding behind this particular movement? Does the end justify the means?
Switching to a related topic: the San Francisco Chronicle released a story on Friday that reports that the San Fran anti-war rally only had about 65,000 attendees, not the 200,000+ originally reported. They asked the rally organizers to estimate the time when the crowd was at its peak size, then used aerial photos overlaid with grids to estimate the number of protestors. So, big surprise: there probably weren’t quite as many people at the worldwide protests as their organizers claim. This was true of the Million-{Man, Mom, Gun, Youth} March, and it’s probably been true at most large-scale crowd events. At least the Chronicle was trying to come up with an accurate estimate– that’s the kind of fact-finding that I wish more news outlets would engage in.