Oh course that's relevant because there's a chance those Greens you were around outside the DNC were armed. Get over yourself.
Millions in the streets of Poland, hundreds of thousands in Berlin and Riga. I WAS THERE, and so were a lot of other AMERICANS supporting their causes with money, bodies, and more. Where were you? Are you calling them all secret admirers?
No just you. Protesting's great, when there is something specific to do so. There hasn't been at the conventions in a long time, its just a huge mess of different Leftist factions ranting about things that don't matter to average Americans. I know, happened to be at the one in 2000 in LA.
It is the power to energize people to ACT for their values.
This of course is brilliantly illustrated by comparing Ashcroft to Kerry? I know the Leftists love to talk about all these rights lost because of that evil religious zealot, but I have never heard of A SINGLE VERIFIABLE right that Americans have lost because of that guy, he's just a punching for the Left, so when I read you defend that ugly woman's infantile little sign, you bet your a$$ I am going to suspect you are a secret admirer of the Leftists because you sound like them.
The GOP hasn't been able to mobilize anything since Reagan -- you may not even be old enough to remember the street rallies by YAFers and even the local GOP from 1968 through 1988. I was in street actions
I was old enough, yet never heard of it, could it be that it amounted to absolutely NOTHING?
Not today - it is run by wimps trading favors for cash and "media buys." For that matter, how many people have the Republicans actually RALLIED (that is, new voters, not just living off the Reagan legacy) in the past decade while they shovel weak-kneed drivel
That is all true, don't forget how they've sold us out to Cheap Labor interests so that we have to deal with a Mexican invasion that they will do nothing to stop.
Consider that Bush is running against Dukakis' old LTGOV and a borderline communist sympathizer (right up there with Hanoi Jane) -- and he can only generate a dead heat? PATHETIC> Reagan, even Goldwater, would be running away with this election. If the GOP (state and local levels) had any spark and organizational talent this race would be long over.
No arguements here, Bush was a bad nominee, another case of the party big wigs triangulating by running somebody who has a last name we recognize no matter how inarticulate he is. (I'm still voting for him in November to stop Kerry.) But I still don't see what walking around with signs in a cage in Boston is suppsed to do about it?
On the Boston Common I met an MIT grad from China involved in a protest of America's "free hand" given to Communist "state terrorists" in China say how much he admired Reagan, and wondered whatever happened to the GOP.
Well, its the Cold War 2, but this time we are fighting someone who uses capitalism to fund their empire. The GOP won't say anything because the are getting part of the cut. However, this has nothing to do with a circle jerk of 20 people holding vague, innarticulate signs and ranting to each other. Protests only matter when they are about specific hot button issues that matter to regular folks getting by in life, you are appealing to the activists and its going to get you nowhere and make you miserable. Just pick a single cause and market it. You are taking on the world and its going to stomp you.
Yeah, right, "amount to nothing..." There is no sense of scale in that comment. Here in MA, the difference between Celucci winning a few years back was only a few thousand votes. We had enough folks with signs to remind people to vote that it probably made all the difference in that election. Sometimes every little bit helps. Over time, it adds up. Especially at younger ages, when folks respond more (with lifetime consequences) to signs of LIFE in a party or behind an idea.
By the way, "over myself" was an insult not to me, because coming from you it doesn't amount to anything, but it was to the folks I met who DIED in protests against socialist dictatorship in Latvia, and others I knew who were put into or came out of prisons for long terms just for saying "anti-Soviet" things. Just because you live in a small world doesn't mean others live behind the remote, too. You obviously take for granted what could easily be lost the way we are headed...Kent State wasn't that long ago or in some other country. Here's the rub...In the past 15 years, the United States has allowed in more than 5 million immigrants to come here from communist or formerly communist nations and dictatorships. How can you be certain they will all "buy in," and won't support the tyrannical Left in imposing similar systems? Now that the social compact has broken down, and borders are broken, mass immigration (combined with the tyrannical segments of society already here) make anything seem possible over the next decade. Hence, the need to resist the institutionalization of policies and practices that Hillary Clinton might use in 2008. Who knows?
Better yet, it's great to see all the activity on this site for such maligned tactics connected to the GOP Convention in New York...e.g., titles...
Pre-GOP Convention report:NYC Sign Painting Event 7/31/04
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