Just to be clear, this is not a staffer from Congressman John Conyers' office heading in to work:

(Photo credit: Betty Udesen, Seattle Times)

It is, in fact, one of the protesters who marched in my former home town of Seattle yesterday in what was termed a "National Day of Mass Resistance." Watch this multimedia slide show from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer a more full experience of what the rally was like, including audio of the protesters chanting "Number One Terrorist? U.S., U.S."

The protest was organized by a group called The World Can't Wait, which lists the convicted terrorist sympathizer Lynne Stewart and America-hating icon Gore Vidal among those on its advisory board. The group's official "call to drive out the Bush regime" offers a list of grievances against the current administration before concluding:

People look at all this and think of Hitler - and they are right to do so. The Bush regime is setting out to radically remake society very quickly, in a fascist way, and for generations to come. We must act now; the future is in the balance.

These folks should think twice about uttering any phrase that contains the word "balance" in it. Just a thought.