Do they even put locks on nursing home doors these days?
Someone sent me this video of a protest at one of General Petraeus’ speeches. Apparently the only people they can get to go to these protests anymore are nursing home refugees. Most don’t even look like they know where they are, but that lends itself to type of protest – they merely stand and turn their backs on the speaker. No real skill involved.
I expected one of them to start shaking their fist at Petraeus and shout “You young whipper-snapper! Get out of my flower bed!”
Category: Antiwar crowd, Liberals suck, Usual Suspects
If people like this really cared about the lives of Service Men and Women, and the lives of those in the countries we fight in, they would be pulling this silly crap. They do these kinds of things to just make themselves feel good and pretend they are getting something done.
Does anyone wonder what these a-holes were doing in the Sixties. Someone tell them it’s no longer all about them and to go play with their grandkids.
I wonder of 6 million dead Jews would agree that war wasn’t an answer…
More importantly Claymore, the Jews that were liberated from the camps likely can make a god case for war. There is also the fact that these foolish child-like people would not even have a place to protest if not for war.
I don’t know what I can really say to this. I have been nose to nose with them, before, when Clinton was President and they would protest at Alliant Tech Systems a block away from where I lived. Every Wednesday morning (during the Summer of course) they would be out there across the street from the entrance in one of the parking lots owned by by the company they were protesting. Kind of ironic, huh? I finally stopped one morning on my way to work (they didn’t work, imagine that) and had a good discussion where I was outnumbered 15-1 and still won the argument.
My involvement was requested at this event, but I had to decline. My quarrel (and theirs as well) is with the policy level decisions being made by elected representatives. Doing stuff like this, theatrics aimed at strategy level military personnel, is completely pointless. I suppose an argument can be made that the intended audience of the protest are the kids in the auditorium, but people willing to sit through a freaking death-by-powerpoint presentation from a four star aren’t the type to be swayed by a silent protest.
Well – if war ain’t the answer, they’re asking the wrong question.
Then again, maybe the Christmas Day airline bomber wannabe, the Notorious Crotch Bomber, gave them the nifty T-shirts.
If their “quarrel” is with the policy level decisions, let them take their lame-ass protest to the policy level deciders. Either at a town hall meeting, or at the ballot box.
But, I do agree, this isn’t really political protest, it’s theatrics. Poorly conceived, poorly led, poorly acted, but theatrics nonetheless.
And, I would venture that the South Koreans, looking northward, can make a good case that war might really be an answer, also. Or the Phillippines, or______________. (insert any country liberated lately here)
Bah, of course war isn’t the answer. It’s the means of applying the answer. What is the answer, then? Explosions, of course, as described in the universal law, “As the magnitude of an explosion increases, the number of problems it is incapable of solving approaches zero.” Sadly, human kind has yet to devise the means of producing an explosion large enough to fully solve stupidity of the level demonstrated by these sorts, but, even now, brilliant minds toil away, inexorably moving science towards that glorious peak…