Rediculous - Protest in Town

[Moskitto]

ok get this, we had a protest in town yesterday. There was 1 problem with it.

No one there was actually protesting.

Most of them had the idea to turn a noble action into a truency session. Get this straight, an anti-war, anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist protest, decides to crack the window of an Oxfam store?!?!?! When I questioned one of the protesters about this they said "we didn't care, it was an excuse to bunk off school."

My opinion is, suspend them all, most of them are annoying idiotic year 9s who pick fights with 6th formers and wonder why we make them leave the room crying. They spelt Irak Blaire. and they didn't care cos it was just an excuse to bunk off school.

and before anyone gives me any crap about these being "radical kids being the future of the peace movement." They were boasting about having an excuse to skip school and they don't care that the war's started.

[Tkinter1]

Awwww. Thats sick! THATS SICK!

[Smoking Frog II]

I wanna kill year 9's. heh heh. bastards.

[honest intellectual]

Irak is an acceptable varient spelling

[hawarameen]

it is sad but i find it regretably amusing. the idea of a few kids protesting against way and the killing of innocent people by cracking an oxfam window.

i expect nothing less than the kids from cardiff

[Moskitto]

they weren't even protesting, they were using a protest as an excuse to bunk off school, i heard that some people were in an anti-war march with banners saying "bomb Iraq" and no one cared. And when i pointed this out to one of them he just said no one cared about it.

[Invader Zim]

Yes they were pathetic.

[GuErRrIlLa]

Maybe we all need to educate those nine year olds right now!

[antieverything]

It's no secret that most anti-war protesters are idiots. The same is true for almost all pro-war protesters, however.

On the anti-war side there is a predominating opinion that war is always bad and that the Iraqi people are perfectly happy with Saddam. They fail to realize that the UN should have captured and tried Saddam for crimes against humanity years ago.

On the pro-war side there is the predominating opinion that this war is automatically just simply because America can do no wrong. They ignore the fact that there is no evidence of Iraqi ties to terrorism...they sort of forgot about that as soon as Bush started shifting the focus to liberating the Iraqi people.

The serious anti-war protesters feel that war should be saved for the very last resort and the time for war hasn't come yet. They feel that there is a better way to dispose of Saddam and bring democracy to the region.

The serious pro-war protesters feel that the UN has failed and America has the right to step in and police the world. They feel that Saddam is so evil that no further justification for war is needed--the humanitarian impulse surpasses the need for the word of law.

Nobody in their right mind supports the maintenence of the status quo in the middle east.

[synthesis]

Nobody in their right mind supports the maintenence of the status quo in the middle east.What if you don't support it, but you don't think that the U.S. should meddle in other countries' affairs with regards to their leadership... at all?


On the anti-war side there is a predominating opinion that war is always bad and that the Iraqi people are perfectly happy with Saddam. What the hell are you talking about? I've been to three peace rallies here in Portland and I've never seen or met ANYONE who thinks that the Iraqi people are happy with Saddam. As for thinking that war is bad - what's wrong with that?




GuErRiLLa, I think they're talking about freshmen.

(Edited by DyerMaker at 8:47 pm on Mar. 22, 2003)

[antieverything]

I've heard hundreds of times people say, "people in Iraq would be doing just fine if it weren't for the sanctions" or "Saddam isn't as bad as they make him out to be" or "why is that we can have weapons but Iraq can't?"

I didn't say that the US should meddle with the leadership of other countries. I said the UN should.