If anti-war protesters were protesters for peace instead would it make a difference in how cons view us?

Question

All of the name calling and hate. Is it really anyway to push an agenda of peace? Example instead of saying bad things about conservatives and the war we could extole the virtues of peace. I mean most conservatives don't want our souldiers to die and saying that they do only enrages people and then they don't hear that what is really being said is that wouldn't it be nice if we weren't sending our young able bodied soldiers into harms way and they were here with the families that they love??

Answer 1

Well that's a good idea it makes sense. That is the problem government and anything that makes sense doesn't go together.
And plus your not really saying any thing new that is the basics of influencing speech. And all though it will work on most people it doesn't work in government. Government listens to one thing and one thing only POWER! if you have it they will listen if you don't they don't care how you say help me! Please do not let me discourage
you. Your heart and mind are in the right place. You are thinking, that is a beautiful thing in a world of ignorance.

Answer 2

Shakespare wrote:

We must not make a scarecrow of the law, leaving it up to hold one shape and fear the birds of prey till custom make it their pearch and not their terror!

Fredrick Douglas said :

Power conceeds only upon demand!

The collective point is that change comes about only by making people realize that there are consequences to their acts and deeds. People have no problem doing something evil if they think they can get away with it.

Take the Civil Rights movement. Whites didn't just wake up one morning and decide they were in love with Martin Luther King, they saw the esculation of riots, women saw that they couldn't argue equal rights if men didn't have equal rights, gays saw that they couldn't argue discrimination if the courts had no problem with discriminating,Hawks saw that they couldn't argue the cold war notion of freedom if segregation compromised that claim of human rights, and the war machine could argue Democratic Rights for Viet Nam if democratic rights were a fraud at home!

That's an ugly painful picture and only when the society is awakened to their own demons will they try to admonish their crimes and shame!
Such awakening are never a fun picnic!

Answer 3

Peace is a great thing, but to be honest its only able to work if the WHOLE world is on board...and belive me they are not. The world is full of messed up people and not everyone agrees with our views on life and its value.

Answer 4

A positive message is better than just being "against" something. That is why anti-abortionists prefer the term "Pro-Life."
The anti-war movement encompasses so many different casues in addition to the war in Iraq it is difficult to discern anyone message that you could say is "Pro-Peace."
Many pro-communist groups are in the "Anti-War" camp and being "anti-war" is a common charade that they have used in the past.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

The war is based on a SERIES of false pretenses...lies. The founders of PNAC are occupying the top key positions in our government, and currently enacting their PUBLICLY POSTED agenda of using America's economic and military might to create the "socio-economic Pax Americana" (American global hegemony) they called for in their white paper "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century" they published in Sepetmber of 2000. In it, they clearly state that to expedite their plans would require "some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor." Exactly one year later, the Pentagon and World Trade Center are attacked.

Iraq has no WMD's, no Saddam -Osama connection, and had no involvement in 9-11. The global hotbed of terrorists is in Pakistan, not Iraq. PNAC needs an American presence in the Middle East to help stabilize the area, secure the oil, and to protect Isreal. Step #1 in PNAC's agenda, according to the Washington Post and The Nation, is to use "Iraq as the tactical pivot, Saudi Arabia as the strategic pivot, and Egypt as the prize" in a war that would purportedly be about ridding the world of terrorism. PNAC needs not only this war, but to then establish a PERMANENT base in Iraq.

Bush has BUTCHERED our Constitution, re-wrote laws to absolve himself of what previously would have been considered "war crimes", seriously jeopardized our civil rights, liberties, and protections from unfair treatment by our own government, and further empowered the presidency in ways our forefathers very specifically warned us against.

As we spoke up, the neo-con supporters called us un-America, unpatriotic, and soft on terrorists, when our intentions have ALWAYS been the preservation of our nation, its ideals, our rights, and the PROPER use of our military. WE don't succumb to transparent use of fear tactics, nor sell out our country's ideals, our own rights, or our fellow citizens to further ANY administration's or political party's agenda.

WE are not the ones still repeating lies already proven false via the CIA and FBI. WE are not the ones PLAYING victim to events that never touched us personally, and using our false victimization as an excuse to attack others. WE are not the ones destroying our Constitution and our country while CLAIMING patriotism. WE are not the ones deluding ourselves into thinking Iraq has ANYTHING at all to do with terrorism, global or otherwise.

The so-called "war on terror" is waged against AMERICAN CITIZENS by PNAC in it's effort to take our government away from US, use it to create a global hegemony, and as taxpayers force us to finance their efforts. Bush changed laws affecting US for a reason, and the day will come when those who speak out against him (or whatever puppet PNAC replaces him with) will be declared an "enemy combatant"...and we all know by now what happens to them, thanks to the Military Commissions Act of 2006.

Through fear, biggotry, self-righteousness, self-victimization, and hate, he gathered and cemented his constituency. Hitler, Nero, and Senator Joe McCarthy used the same tactics. They work. On the positive side, it exposes half our country as being a poison to our political system, and our country's future; the mentality of McCarthyism is alive and well. Amazing how people can use their own fear as justification for denying rights, corrupting our government, and even killing.

So, you think I should have something "nice" to say about these people? You must be kidding.

Answer 7

I don't agree with your point of view but this is America and you have every right to protest!

Answer 8

It wouldn't matter.