Partisan Protesters
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A slick, young, conservative group prepares for an ideological rumble
at the Republican convention
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Michael Hastings
Newsweek
Updated: 8:19 p.m. ET Aug. 13, 2004
Aug. 13 - Among the 250,000 expected to head to New York City to
demonstrate at the Republican National Convention, a small army of
about 200 people plans to march alongside them—but on the other side
of political spectrum. Calling themselves Protest Warriors, they are
an ardently conservative group made up of recent college graduates,
high-school students and right-wing ideologues who hope to
"counterprogram" the message of the largely left-wing crowd. According
to its Web site, the organization's goal is to "help arm the
liberty-loving Silent Majority with ammo--ammo that strikes at the
intellectual solar plexus of the Left." The protests scheduled for the
weekend before the RNC begins on Aug. 30 provides one opportunity--a
"mission" the group is calling Operation Liberty Rising. "We're going
to be out there in the trenches," says Kfir Alfia, 30, cofounder of
the organization ProtestWarrior.com.
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