Alright i just want to say right now that I am all for the dis-armament of Iraq and the Removal of Saddam...

But I am also for the United States...so I believe in our peoples right to protest against this war.
So can someone please explain to me why these people who are so opposed to war and want to protest their views "peacefully" are being thrown in jail by the hundreds for what is pretty much close to rioting. If they want peace why cause un-rest in the streets of our own country?
The country that our soilders are fighting and have fought and died for to protect their rights to protest.

It just seems kind of hypocritcal to me.

“It is the Soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag.”
Father Dennis Ed O'Brien, USMC

I just wanted to rant and get that out. Thank you.

 

You're not the only one frustrated by such events. I hear ya', and I feel your pain, too.

 

I saw people holding "peace" signs slugging others on tv today. Granted, they're not to good at fighting , but it's pretty sad if you ask me.

 

I say send the protesters to Iraq. See how many freedoms they will get.

 

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I say send the protesters to Iraq. See how many freedoms they will get.
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ain't that the truth

 

They have every right to protest.. jsut as i have the right to be disgusted by them. Thats why i love this country, we have the choice

 

A lot of the people you see in those protests couldn't care less about the purpose of the protest. They just use the mobs as a convenient excuse to cause problems. I used to see it all the time when I worked in downtown Portland. Whenever there was a protest march about anything, you'd always see several of the same dreadlock-wearing, pot-smoking, liberal-college career students marching along just so they could block traffic and hopefully get on TV. Loosers.

 

As an oldie, let me tell you about the peace symbol that most of these people were wearing. It a left over from the dope smoking hippies and most people don't know what it means.

First off, it does not mean peace.

It was called the footprint of the American Chicken and I like that description.

It is actually two Navy semaphores superimposed on top of each other.

The round circle with a straight vertical line stands for the letter '
N'

And the circle with both arms pointing down at a 45 degree angle stands for the letter 'D'

Together the peace symbol stands for ND or as Hubert Humphry called it, Nuclear Disarmament'

Since the Russians wouldn't disarm, HH (then Vice President) wanted a non proliferation agreement that would have the USA destroy all of it’s weapons as a show of good faith to the Russians, and they were supposed to do the same after we did.

History shows how honest they were and what would have happened.

I was there.

http://www3.sympatico.ca/lar.richardson/semaload.htm

Had you listened to these tiedyed dope smokers, Russia would have taken over the world. France would have surrendered and called us, Canada and Mexico would have been staging areas for the main assult.

You think about it, what do you think would have happened, and I don't mean breaking into song with John Lennon's 'Imagine'

 

Protesting os one thing, keeping people from using the streets and sidewalks in front of their own stores is something else. Don't they have rights too? How about stone throwing? Freedom of speach? How about destroying a McDonalds or two? Flipping cars over? Looting? Burning the flag?

When do the vicims of these free speachers get some free speach?

 

Our nation does give us freedoms, but it is up to us to utilize those freedoms in a responsible way, otherwise, we jeopardize getting them taken away. Personally, I would never protest any war we had soldiers in. I think it has been proven that protesting a war cost the lives of those fighting it because it then becomes a political issue on the home front, much like it did in Vietnam. It became politics, the decision makers were indecisive. It cost lives. If any of the people I ever knew protested a war, I would ask them if they felt comfortable knowing that they are responsible for the death of an American soldier, who probably had a wife, was definitly someones child, and maybe even left kids behind. In a war, our soldiers need our support, 100%. To give them any less would be disrespectful to those who put their lives on the line trying to protect us who are not in a hostile environment fighting the war.

 

This is what my friend had to say on the matter

"...tell me the worthwhile things you were doing before you realised that you could jam up the streets by jumping on the protest bandwagon?

Smoking weed perhaps?...maybe camping in a tree somewhere, cultivating your beard?

Realise that your actions are PART OF WAR. You´re taking part in making war crap. You´re fighting for what you believe in which is exactly what every damn person you´re against is trying to do. We have a common goal. YOU are making it more difficult to get there.

Now let the doctors and nurses and ambulances and all the other healthcare workers get to and from work please - they´re trying to save lives and generally help matters while you **** about. Some of us are trying to do the good that we were doing before you came along with your anti-everything opinions that you sit developing every damn second of your moronic lives.

**** off."

 

Good point, notice who the protesters are and why they are able to sit in a street during a work day. I can't figure out how they survive without going to work?

Welfare?
Students on daddy's payroll?
No job at all?

If you don't contribute to society then don't sit in my street and get in the way. If I came upon this I'd promptly turn my truck around and park the tailpipe in the face of the nearest protester and gun it till he puked.

They are entitled to their opinion, but show some respect for the folks that are trying to go about their every day life.

 

We got a name for those hippies in Colorado: Trustafarians.
Little daisy chain, pigtailed, flower sniffing, patchouli sweating Land Cruiser driving, shower skipping, micro-brew drinking, rich-kid panhandlers are swarming all over Boulder, sucking down their trust funds like a Strawberry Daquiri and squatting around the college trying to convince me to take a stand against the killing of Giant Tortoises in Venezuela. I can't stand them.
I am about to start egging Trustafarian demonstrators with my giant slingshot, just for fun....
BDV

 

BDV I think the Venezualan Tortoise needs somebody to look out for him Don't you?
After all there are only 5 left and there hiding in a hotel in North Korea and they look just like Saddam Hussein!
Franklin