Does it warm your heart to see anti-war protestors put in there place?

Question

Why or Why not?

I believe in freedom of speech. However, I find humor in the fact that protesters would try to block supplies RETURNING from Iraq in order to prevent the war.

Not to mention I get a warm fuzzy knowing they resisted arrest and got pepper sprayed in the face.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/11/olympia.protest.ap/index.html

Sorry, I was laughing so hard that I made one typo (Their)

Happy now?

BTW I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH PROTESTING! I FIND IT FUNNY THAT THEY BLOCK CRATES (RETURNING) FROM IRAQ! DON'T THEY WANT TO BRING HOME THE TROOPS?? WILL THEY PROTEST THE TROOPS WHEN THEY COME HOME TOO??

Answer 1

Not enough baton using in my opinion...

Answer 2

Invading Iraq was a stupid idea doomed to failure. Every non-partisan Middle East expert in the world predicted that the most likely outcome of invading Iraq would be a civil war and regional destabilization. Actually, anyone with the slightest real knowledge of the region knew this to be true.

The President’s own father knew it and said so in his 1998 book, ‘A World Transformed’. Colin Powell (then Secretary of State) told Dubya, “If you break it [Iraq], then you own it”.
The first Gulf War commander "Stormin" Norman Schwarzkopf knew it, saying that if America invaded Iraq it would be a, “dinosaur in a tar pit”. Hell, even evil Dick Cheney had said it would become a quagmire.

Conservatives rag on Democrats for not having a plan (which is true, they don’t) to hide the fact that they also do not have – and never have had – a plan either. The fact is that there is no ‘plan’ that produces a single positive for America. We are going to leave; the only question is when. Politically, and in terms of Iraq’s future, leaving tomorrow or next year is no different that if we had left yesterday or last year.

Well, there is the difference of the numbers of wounded and dead; the families destroyed; and the further loss of America’s standing in the world by staying. At least that is the conclusion reached in recent reports by the US Department of State and a consensus of America’s 16 Intelligence Agencies. But what do they know, huh? Maybe the Bush strategy of endlessly screwing ourselves will ultimately bring the terrorists to their knees – in laughter, anyway.

Answer 3

The protesters are blocking RETURNING equipment because they don't want to delay or interfere with any equipment going to troops who ARE IN HARM'S WAY.

I don't understand anyone who gets vicarious pleasure seeing people tear gassed or beaten with batons. I think only a virulent pro war and anti free speech person would feel this way.

I also think the protesters should not be jumping in front of trucks or blocking access to an interstate. It puts the police in an awkward position to be shoving and pushing citizens who they know usually abide by the law. Worse yet, it desensitizes the police and can easily lead to situations where they arrest citizens for simply gathering on a street corner, and whether they beat anyone carrying an anti establishment sign..

Further, the protesters are endangering themselves AND the people who may accidentally run over them. Think of the trauma of having killed someones child, or someones father or mother in this situation.

Nonetheless, I fully support the right of anyone to protest the war in Iraq. The protesters do need, however, to do it safely, and to avoid direct challenges to the authority of the police.

Answer 4

That's like this sign outside a mall in Raliegh. Going into the mall's parking lot (crab tree), there's a horizontal bar with a sign saying max height: 11 feet (somewhere around there). Leaving out the parking lot is the same sign.

Same here. Blocking supplies returning home is silly.

Answer 5

In age of the media, nobody knows what they are doing.

A person is smart, people are dumb.

Also, 6 years in the middle east vs 6 years in ww2, ww2 has a higher death toll, but there was lest protest

THE POINT OF WAR IS TO KILL EACH OTHER

Answer 6

I guess they were protesting unloading? Did they want the ship to turn around and head back to Iraq?

I'm all for protests, but please have some kind of point. It's the frivolous protests that make them look irrational, instead of something dignified and embracing their constitutional right to express their opinion.

Answer 7

I enjoyed that one protester back in the 80s who tried to stop a train and got his legs cut off. That was hilarious. Too bad it wasn't his head.

Answer 8

If they just want to organize and protest, that's fine. But like you stated, if they were disruptive and thought by preventing supplies from reaching Iraq they'd stop the war, then they need a little reality check.

Answer 9

Neal - you are a dic khead (your fake crown is a dead give away). You like freedom of speech so long as people say and do what you approve of.

Well don't worry my friend - the people who are running the show are trying very hard to ensure that only people who say and do the right things are allowed to say and do things at all.

Anybody who disagrees with them will increasingly be pepper sprayed in the face whilst imbeciles like you get a warm and fuzzy feeling about it and play with your miniscule penises at the thrill of it all.

You like being on the side with all the power don't you? Just hope that you never get on the wrong side of these people, because they will slap you around until you squeal like a girl, and other idiots just like you will get a warm fuzzy feeling at your subjugation.

You make me sick.

Answer 10

I agree with freedom of speech and having the courage of one's convictions but the part that they forget is that they also have to face the consequences of their actions. I agree with the first poster who noted that in SOME cases, the free speech seems to boil over into treasonous activity while others are just so ignorant of reality it isn't funny.

Answer 11

I find them great examples of how great this country is. Because if it was a country where people 'lost rights' and have no freedom of speech, as many like to say ever since Bush came into office, they would not have the right or freedom of speech to speak out against the government as they do. So they are just showing how great this country is in terms of freedom and societal rights.

You don't see that in the 'great' countries with dictators such as Chavez, Castro or Ahmadinejad.

"Masked gunmen opened fire on students returning from a march in which tens of thousands of Venezuelans denounced President Hugo Chavez's attempts to expand his power through constitutional changes. . ."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071108/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/venezuela_protest

"Iran's authorities have arrested more than 32 women activists protesting outside a courthouse in Tehran.

The protesters were showing solidarity with five women on trial for organising a protest last June against laws they say discriminate against women.

The five have been charged with endangering national security, propaganda against the state and taking part in an illegal gathering. . ."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6416789.stm

I don't see anyone getting arrested or shot at because of protesting, unless they start attacking and signs of a riot are coming up, but that is common logic to prevent that.

Maybe we should send some of these liberal democrats over to these countries, bring them back a year or so later, and then maybe they will respect this country again. Let them see what a country with no freedom of speech, especially in protesting form, is really like.