Last week, hundreds of anti-war protesters decended on Washington. Everything from actors and anarchists to the members of Congress who marched alongside them, including: Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Reps. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Maxine Waters (D-CA), Jerry Nadler (D-NY), and House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI). Also addressing the crowd from his prison cell was convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal. Officers held back from confronting one batch of protestors was because the anarchists threatened the officers with bottles of human urine. Additional damage done to both city and personal property includes a news truck pelted with rocks and spray-painted street signs. Although the demonstrators claimed they supported the troops but not the war, The New York Times reported that some of the protestors actually spat at war veterans as they marched by. Go to www.frc.org for a video report.
2007-01-31 00:22:55 · 27 answers · asked by The Reaganite 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I ment thousands, not hundreds of protesters. Sorry.
2007-01-31 08:42:45 · update #1
Normally, I would defend their right to free speech. Unfortunately, however, the leftists in our country think that vandalism equals free speech.
Vandalism is actually a crime, and can be a felony, depending on the state and amount of property damage.
Yes it makes me sick, because these people seem to want to see us do to our soldiers today what Hanoi Jane and others did to them after Vietnam.
2007-01-31 00:56:01 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
The vast majority of protesters are peaceful. As with all things - there are always a few in every crowd who will use the occasion as an excuse to behave badly or pursue their own agenda. You can't label the entire protest or all protests as being violent based on the actions of such a small percentage ( if what you describe really happened - I haven't heard that personally.).
2016-05-23 22:30:49 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All it takes is some wackos to diminish and marginalize a protest. I saw the demonstration and it looked like some 60s time warp. There is valid reasons to protest the war but not in this fashion. It turns America off, this elitist, "I'm a radical and know what's best." And Jane Fonda should stay the hell out of these things. Her very presence there reminds Americans of Hanoi Jane in the anti-aircraft gun. A traitor for the rest of her life.
2007-01-31 00:53:17 · answer #3 · answered by iwasnotanazipolka 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Do yourself a favor, and try to get your information from multiple and more reliable sources. The Family Research Council, which you site as your source for this information (by the way, there were tens of thousands, not "hundreds").
This is what is posted on your frc.org about global warming:
Globe Warming But Oceans Cooling?
Today's Washington Post provides us a textbook case of the politicization of science and the bias of reporting. "More Frequent Heat Waves Linked to Global Warming," blares the scary headline splashed across page A3, the day after D.C. temperatures peaked at 101:. Sounds menacing. Pay no attention to those little kids pictured frolicking in the famed Trocadero Fountains in front of the Eiffel Tower. They just don't realize how grim their future is going to be. But those merry munchkins shouldn't even be alive! They were supposed to have been killed off in the worldwide famine and food riots confidently predicted by Dr. Paul Ehrlich back in the 1970s. Ehrlich wrote The Population Bomb and other scary books cleverly disguised as scientific works. Contrast the drastic warming warning with this: On page A6, in a little three column-inch squib, today's Post tells us that there may be fewer hurricanes this year. The reason? Scientists say that surface ocean temperatures are cooler in the Atlantic this year. Thus, they've reduced from nine to seven their expected number of hurricanes and from five to three their predictions for intense storms - but no mention of global climate issues. We sympathize with The Post's spooked editors. After all, it's hard to think clearly when it's 101 . But is it too much to ask that they read their own newspaper and avoid the constant drumbeat of doom-saying?
It's important to look in the pockets of those who manipulate the information you're swallowing, and see who is paying them.
PEOPLE WHO PROTEST THE WAR DO SO BECAUSE THEY LOVE OUR SOLDIERS and don't want A SINGLE ONE to be hurt or killed in this illegal war.
2007-01-31 01:04:18 · answer #4 · answered by justagirl33552 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Put it this way. Im in the Army. Ive been to Iraq twice.
No, protests dont make me sick. What would make me sick is if these people didnt have the right to protest. That would make me sick. I dont agree with everything some people say or stand for, but when America goes around the world fighting for the rights of others so that they may be allowed to speak out against their leadership we best be allowed to speak out against our government as well.
2007-01-31 00:48:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
First off your misleading people right from the start if not lying by omission, there were thousands of demonstrators in fact a couple of hundred thousand of them, as for the newspaper truck I didn't hear anything about that or the anarchist throwing urine but with a couple of hundred THOUSAND people I'm sure there may have been some bad eggs if not neo-con infiltrators posing as protesters doing this crap(it's been done before). Spitting on war bets? Again,I highly doubt it, this sounds to me like some right-wing propaganda you know , like when the draft-dodgers took over the white house and claimed all the W's had been removed from all the keyboards(turns out it was a KARL ROVE LIE). Your support of this group in office is what's sick a criminal is a criminal would you run to support a pedophile if he was a republican? oops....bad example,huh?
2007-01-31 00:41:25 · answer #6 · answered by older_fat_male 3 · 3⤊ 5⤋
If you get any large number of people together ... you'll
see the best and the worst.
No, I am not proud that people spat at veterans, but I'm
proud that Americans are speaking out as forcefully
against this stupid, amoral war.
Remember, if you put one anarchist in a crowd of a hundred
thousand, you can say "Anarchists were there". This
question is purely trying to incite riot.
2007-01-31 00:31:09 · answer #7 · answered by Elana 7 · 7⤊ 2⤋
Well I don't usually believe everything I read. Secondly it was hundreds of thousands not hundreds. And I don't think there is anything wrong with protesting the war. I mean give us a good reason to be at war then im sure people wouldn't protest it. Secondly if someone wants to throw urine at a police officer then that person is crazy and should be locked up. not all protestors come equipt with bottles of urine.
2007-01-31 00:28:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 3⤋
You make it sound like all of the protesters were out of line and threatening the police. That is absolutely not true. Some of the protesters were idiots but the majority were exercising their constitutional right to protest.
2007-01-31 00:42:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
The battle may soon be over, but the war, the struggle between good and evil, will continue. Another battlefield will arise.
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