Whitehouse Hippy Protest

I believe I have mentioned in past posts that protesters often gather in Lafayette Park behind the Whitehouse.

Sometimes people camp out, sometimes they just walk around with sandwich boards and a megaphone. Code Pink likes to get creative - shoe throwing, animal outfits...

A couple weeks ago, Chris and I were walking through Lafayette on our way somewhere and ran into these two (pretty awful) musicians who were giving a concert straight out of 1969.

They had all of about four people grooving to the music and another twenty or so tourists taking snaps and moving on. The sign says "Wanted Wisdom & Honesty Peace Park." Peace Park is a 24 hour a day vigil that has been going on in Lafayette Park since 1981. Not sure how camping in the park is supposed to bring peace, but I guess it can't hurt.

Now if they started a little Lafayette Park agriculture project, that might spread some peace.

Scientology Protests in Washington, DC

We live right next to two Scientology buildings. One seems to be a guest house. The other is an old mansion that looks like someplace where people have secret meetings.

The old mansion is on a busy stretch in Dupont and very often has protesters outside. Some are in masks. Sometimes they wear hilarious outfits. (One woman was wearing a foil box last week.)

They usually stand silently with signs like this one. Sometimes they say that Scientology is a cult. Sometimes the signs say something about children of Scientology.

When the protesters are not there, the Scientologists will often have some creepy guy outside offering stress tests. He offered to give Chris one once and Chris said "Dude, do I look stressed to you?"