If I did, I would have been able to capture a priceless picture yesterday. Every Sunday for the past year, protesters gather between 2 and 3 pm on the eastern side of Greenlake near 64th Ave N. For the first six months, they were protesting the impending Iraq war -- reasonable enough. They usually turned out thirty people, even in bad weather. After the war, they had a harder time of it, as their main issue was gone. Much harder to get people out to protest a war that already happened -- would say the average was about eight demonstrators.
But yesterday was the nadir. The announcement of Saddam's capture must have taken the fight out of them. At 2:50pm when I passed by only three protesters were there with a large "Impeach Bush" sign. They looked pretty grim, standing sullenly and not even trying to engage passing motorists.
What gave me the greatest hope was that no young people had turned out. (By young, I mean not collecting Social Security.) The future of Seattle is support for democracy for the Arab world, not a nostalia for an impossible socialist utopia.