Peace Protesters or Death Eaters
Over lunch, I took a few minutes to walk outside and look at the anti-war demonstrations going on around my office. Sadly, there were no conservatives near me to join in my mockery.
These people are supposedly protesting the deaths in Iraq. Personally, I think they look more like followers of the Dark Lord Who Can Not Be Named.
These guys seem to have the utopian progressive platform down to three lines.
More power to the protesters for assembling and expressing their misguided and naive opinions but don’t disrespect my flag. The upside down flags really bothered me.
A few tourists on their Segways stopped by the hullabaloo.
I also may or may not have passed Cindy Sheehan. I’m rather grossed out if I did.
My whole problem with peace protesters is that they’re disruptive, inefficient and disjointed. From a strategic perspective, I get your point, but it isn’t effective. Why have five or six small protests around the city? Focus on one thing and make a lot of noise. Furthermore, you don’t win any fans by disrupting traffic and morning commutes. If you want us to pull out of Iraq, present reasonable arguments to win people over to your side. Don’t piss us off by causing traffic jams.
Knitting Grandmas outside the Veterans Administration? WHAT DOES THAT ACCOMPLISH?
At this point, President Bush has about 10 months left in his administration. It’s time to drop the Impeachment line! Think back to the 90s. It took years to bring Articles of Impeachment against Clinton. If you insist on rallying around one message, make it a worthwhile one. Take a few minutes and lean how a President of the United States is impeached.
Stop being whiny and focus on articulate and accurate points. But then, perhaps that’s why I’m a conservative. Aging Hippies and spoiled college kids aren’t known for their reasoned viewpoints.
What an excellent post, I couldn’t agree with you more. What really bothers me more than the upside down flag is when the anarchists burn the flag. It really pisses me off………..
Most of these demonstrators make a mockery of themselves and end up pissing everyone else off than getting their message across the right way.
March 19th, 2008 • 2:31 pm
I randomly found you and this post and WOW. Perhaps the statement that the aging hippies and spoiled college kids should stop being whiny and focus on articulate and accurate points defeats the idea of your “reasoned viewpoint.” Generalizing in such a way in not exactly the best example of a “reasoned viewpoint.” I wouldn’t be such a fan of conservatives being generalized such a way. Like calling conservatives a bunch of 55 year old white men with lots of money.
March 19th, 2008 • 3:54 pm
I wouldn’t be generalizing, but that’s who was there. It was a collection of college students and aging hippies. Why else would they have a protest of grandmas knitting for peace?
Did you stop by the protest to see the make-up of the crowd?
March 19th, 2008 • 4:11 pm
First, I agree about the Death Eaters thing. Second, I think we all see the value in three simple messages (even if we disagree with the messages). Third, I wonder if the people hanging the flags upside down realize what it means. It is a sign of distress, a need for help from others. It is typically used as a means to signal the military of a coup or something. I understand how they need help, but as anti-war protesters, shouldn’t they be demonstrating their strength and that their voices represent America (and not some wounded version of it)?
I’m not sure how I feel about the idea of protests in general, but agree that they need to be better organized - which is different than planned - to be effective.
March 19th, 2008 • 4:59 pm
Most of the anti-war demonstrators of today are the hippies from the Vietnam era and college students of today.
Also throw in a few anarchist to vandalize property - which is a really stupid way to get your message out there.
Yes an upside down flag does mean distress. My thing is even if you don’t agree with the war - you should still support the troops - they don’t need to see this B.S back home.
March 20th, 2008 • 9:48 am