qtiger's got you there

 

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I agree with that sentiment.

The worst thing I have seen is "peace" protesting and it turns to vandalism of monuments...or like in Portland, OR they stopped freeway traffic.

Counter productive to fight for peace and yet cause the exact opposite of peace.

 

So it's okay if thousands get to work late because the freeway was blocked (do you really think that the late workers would sympathize the "cause" after that?) and delaying humanitarian aid to Iraqi civilians or food to US troops? That's a little messed up, qt.

 

Who taught you how to read? I said unpeaceful protests accomplish nothing. There was not one peaceful protest throughout the entire conflict. They used this as an excuse to go crazy and act like a bunch of derranged lunatics. Ever notice how you never see normal people protest? Labor strikes, yes. But political protests are usually done by some left field radicals to begin with. No matter what it is.

 

I see you including both peaceful and unpeaceful protests within this catagory. The only uniting factor you've given is that they haven't secured a permit for the protest.

There were plenty of peaceful protests, including several on my college campus. They just didn't get any publicity because protests which cause a disturbance get media coverage. From a pragmatic and realistic point of view, they are therefore more effective.

Embassies have military personnel and hardware assigned to them. In addition, every embassy has at least one CIA attaché.

So... by your logic, our cruise missile strikes against Iraq have been terroristic in nature... after all, if our technology is so superior, we don't really give a shit if they have one less SAM site, right?

It's a guerilla group using force against military hardware, not a terrorist attack. Terrorism is almost by definition used against civilian populations.

I didn't say it was ethical. I said it was effective.

 

"Who taught you how to read? I said unpeaceful protests accomplish nothing. There was not one peaceful protest throughout the entire conflict. They used this as an excuse to go crazy and act like a bunch of derranged lunatics. Ever notice how you never see normal people protest? Labor strikes, yes. But political protests are usually done by some left field radicals to begin with. No matter what it is."





nice blanket statement there buddy. Do you have any idea how many protests took place across the country as well as the world? For you to say there was not a single peaceful protest is, IMHO, ignorant as hell. Sure, many protests create a paradox between the power of the protestors and the power which they protest against (i.e., blocking off business districts), but people marching on campus holding speaches as others chant and hold signs, is far from "unpeaceful" (not a real word).
Even when we place the good next to the bad, the bad is far from other protests. Compare an anti-war (usually anti-violence, therefore not going to do anything crazy and harmful) protest to that of a protest agaisnt the WTO (often consisting of anarchists and anti-corporates).