I don't know which is worse, the fricking protest itself, or the patheticness (pathos is just too nice of a word to waste on these losers, besides having the wrong conotations) of the way they're conducting it.
Come on. You're clustered all over the place, not even a false solid wall of people for the camera. Do it right and you can make a dozen people look like a crowd of fifty. None of your signs match, wtf is that israel apartheid crap? You need to at least have a bunch with the same theme.
Some music would help too, even if it was only a couple of stoners with bongo drums on straps. And one lousy soldier and flag? Dude. Alright, you put him in BDUs instead of ACUs. Which are either on backwards or are the pregnancy ones. Hello? You can get a complete set of BDUs at an army surplus store for five/six bucks. Cheap, non flame retardant flags sell at Walmart for about five bucks. Did they blow the entire wad on that stupid megaphone?
You could have got something much better without spending more than maybe 300 dollars plus downtown parking. My five year old nephew can make better paper mache than that skull. And he would have the good dramatic sense to put a beret on it, which would make it look not only cooler, but more threatening and realistic as well. (of course, he'd probably draw a dinosaur stencil on it, but that's beside the point......)
S--t. Call the media first, Line up in a wall of maybe ten, fifteen people wide, then hold up two or three of those things wrapped up in an American flags and burning held up over a dogpile of flaming effigy soldiers. Soak them in gasoline or lighter fluid first so it actually makes a good flame. Have a couple of people banging the bangos and chanting in unison to get the crowd going, and get a picket line circling directly behind them waving signs, the same signs, so that you have a nice dramatic photo for the front page of the paper.
Jeez. Bad enough to have these dingleberries and asshats protesting me, but at least they could go to the trouble to do it right. Frickin' morons.