now days you have to get a permit to protest and you stand there in a controlled area....what happened to getting mad and turning cars over,...is seems that the only way they change is with violence...what do you think?
2007-02-02 13:50:29 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I dont mean to sound like i like violence i just think that bush sits there and doesnt give a flying crap....modern day protesting is a waist of time
2007-02-02 13:57:20 · update #1
Modern day protesting isn't any different from the old style except that they wouldn't get a permit or they would get out of their areas, sit down and get arrested. They were called sit-ins. The hippies never got any results. LBJ was not affected. People were more sympathic to the protests done by Martin Luther King. He never let anyone get violent.
2007-02-02 14:17:12 · answer #1 · answered by JudiBug 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't like too many restrictions on people's rights to free speech and assembly, but I also feel that protesting solves nothing. It is a way to "rally the base", but it does not necessarily demonstrate political leverage.
A million people may demonstrate against, say the Iraq war, but if those million people are from electoral districts scattered around the country, and there's no way to know if they're registered to vote, why should any politician care about it?
Write a check, and enclose a letter explaining your position; ask others who agree with your views to do the same. Overall, a million dollars will probably speak louder than a million voices.
2007-02-02 14:02:21 · answer #2 · answered by pao 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The protesters have diminished in huge style significantly. they're very unorganized. And maximum of those dudes were given quite a number of misunderstood information on Scientology and did not understand what they were extremely protesting. in any case, so that you ought to respond to this question, nameless continues to be round, yet they have got here and lengthy previous.
2016-12-03 09:25:02 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well people like Martin Luther King jr spoke against that.
A protest is not a riot. Riots are the the almost exclusive domain of soccer fans anymore.
2007-02-02 13:54:38 · answer #4 · answered by sociald 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Anyone that gets violent during a protest should be put in jail. They are destroying people's property that they have worked so hard for. Is that the liberals only way of solving things? I would hope not.
2007-02-02 14:04:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many demonstrations are still peaceful, but I think they're more ruined by street theater antics performed by self-absorbed college kids and grumpy hippies in need of baths. Oh, and super-fat guys with bullhorns standing outside abortion clinics. I hate'em all, right and left.
2007-02-02 13:54:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well,maybe you'd feel differently if it was your car they turned over. BTW,you are going to use violence because you believe violence and war is wrong? What's wrong with this picture?
2007-02-02 13:55:47 · answer #7 · answered by bebe 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well the hippies who protested became ancient liberals, and morphed into the yuppies making all the laws now. Thank them and this golden age of Aquarius they created.
2007-02-02 13:54:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Turning cars over? That's not protesting, it's vandalism.
2007-02-02 13:56:32 · answer #9 · answered by MoltarRocks 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think people in this country call people like you criminals. I hope you don't live near me........ Get a life and find something more constructive to do with your time.
2007-02-02 13:55:41 · answer #10 · answered by polly j 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋