"What to do... What to do... What to do..."
Posted on 08/11/2004 7:29:10 AM PDT by Area Freeper
Friends of mine called the other day to say that they will be cutting their summer vacation short and returning to New York a week early. Their daughter has announced that she intends to get arrested at the Republican National Convention, and my friends want to be sure they are around to bail her out of jail.
Like so many of us who came of age in the '60s, my friends feel they are in no position to advise political caution. They were activists throughout their 20s and 30s, and they feel it is hypocritical-to say nothing of middle-aged-to tell their daughter that she should not risk jail to protest the president's conduct of the war in Iraq.
My friends are right to let their daughter make her own decision and to support her in whatever she does. But I hope they will not think it contradicts their own values to urge caution. All demonstrations are not created equal. Some, when leaderless and badly run, even help their opponents. The peril in New York City is that a violent demonstration could be used by the president to smear his opposition with a broad brush and elicit support from voters otherwise inclined to vote against him.
The '60s that my friends and I grew up in launched a golden age of demonstrations: the Freedom Rides of 1961, the March on Washington of 1963, the Selma March of 1965, the United Farm Workers Delano to Sacramento march of 1966, the Pentagon demonstrations of 1967, the Columbia University sit-ins and demonstrations of 1968, the Kent State anti-war protest of 1970, the Vietnam Veterans Against the War protest of 1971. They allowed groups that did not have the economic and political muscle of their opponents to be heard and changed public opinion.
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the thing that pisses these liberals off is that the war in Iraq did not last long enough for them to continue to protest, so theyre going to protest the war long after it's over. that's not to say there isn't still violence going on over there, but we're in (and have been in for a while) the reconstruction phase. i guarandamntee we are putting up far more buildings than are being destroyed, we are fixing more Iraqi lives than are being lost, and righting more wrongs than the people of Iraq would have imagined. what these liberal protestors lack is patience and conviction. they only wish the situation was worse than it is so they would have a credible protest platform.
"What to do... What to do... What to do..."
"Their daughter has announced that she intends to get arrested at the Republican National Convention, and my friends want to be sure they are around to bail her out of jail. "
I'd leave her in the cooler.
It's a lovely thought that protestors might create some sympathy for Bush but I just can't buy it. This didn't happen in the long, long wait while we debated and re-debated Iraq. During this so-called "rush to war", the media covered every protest in every part of the world and did its best to portray the US and Bush as "unilateral". They specifically went out of their way not to televise the loony left instead showing us "average, everyday" people compelled to "speak out". I expect the media will again gives us coverage that implies that there is a universal rejection of all that is Republican.
I hope she has a record and once arrested is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
I want to see families bankrupted because their little Amy decided that getting arrested and thrown into a NYC jail in the name of hatred and vitriol was a smart thing to do.
I want to see cute little Amy abused, made fun of and treated like a criminal. Make her do the perp walk. Make the attorney come to bail her out. Waste everyones time and energy because little Amy's liberal arts professor said that this was a noble cause.
I ask the question:
Who is the greater fool, the fool or the fools that spawned it?
Where's the Vomit Alert?
"Like so many of us who came of age in the '60s, my friends feel they are in no position to advise political caution. They were activists throughout their 20s and 30s, and they feel it is hypocritical-to say nothing of middle-aged-to tell their daughter that she should not risk jail to protest the president's conduct of the war in Iraq."
the larvae of hippie scum. LOL
I also rememeber the US getting sick of the protesters.
This bimbo WANTS to get arrested. What a idiot.
Sadly she is able to vote.
The Chicago violence in '68 didn't help the Dems.
The Chicago violence in '68 didn't help the Dems.
You're right, but it probably did help the more conservative (i.e. more likely to come down hard) of the two main candidates in that race (Nixon and Humphrey - Wallace was the "wild card"). If the rioters (and yes, there likely will be riots) are perceived as allied with Kerry and the DNC I don't think their activities are going to do much for the dems this time around either.
I had forgotton about Deeply Saddened..he's been awfully quiet of late..trying to mend fences at home?..I think he's in big trouble..
Good, the "Independent modeerates" who haven't yet decided who they will support will see these thugs and determine that they don't want to be associated with a candiate with radical non-moderate followers.
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