a teenager, just because I was a teenager. Then I got a motorcycle, and they hassled me because I rode a bike. Then I got a sportscar, and they used to LOVE to stop my sportscar. Then I grew long hair and a beard AND drove a sportscar and I saw cops actually come when they stopped me. Then I marched in Peace marches, and they chased me with clubs but never caught me.
But then I got old. I still have long hair, but the cops pretty much leave me alone these days. Which is really great, because I'm stoned out of my mind.
going all gunsil. And I'm a photographer myself, a nature photographer, but I'll fight for the right of anyone to take a picture. I'm just saying that ABC news doesn't do investigative reporting, they do hit pieces. They weren't there for the people's right to know, they're there to get McCain elected. They have the right to stand on a sidewalk, but just don't mistake them for heroes. Just my 2 cents.
It's sort of like being say, six feet tall, and you're swimming in 3000 feet of shit. Then Captain Crunch floats by in a houseboat and tells me next year I'm going to be swimming in 20,000 feet of shit. I can't imagine that, because I'll be dead before then.
the problem is Bush never gives you this kind of opportunity. Ordinarily, a protestor can't get within three miles of W. Maybe it wasn't the ideal place, and maybe it upset some people, but it made a lot of people happy, too. I think it was a success because the image I have about the event, and I'll have it for years, is watching CNN and hearing Bush say "We believe in free speech in the U.S." as the camera showed a protestor being dragged away.
except I don't agree with some of your conclusions. A few people protest and, you're right, they're called crazies. But when it happens all the time, and the protests get bigger, people start to give it credence. That's exactly what happened with the Viet Nam war.
I would love to skip the protesting part and go straight to the debate at some major forum that you spoke of. Where is that forum? What is that forum? The problem is, we don't have a forum. Congress scrapped Kucinich's impeachment bill, partly I believe because the people who represent us don't understands how pissed off we are and how many of us there are. When people DON'T protest, that means the government hasn't fucked them enough. Protest forces people and government to realize there is a problem. It forces debate. That's how we get a forum to present our correct and moral views. If there is no protest, there is no problem (in government's mind), and therefore there will be no debate or solution.
Viet Nam. Peace protesters brought down a president. It works all right, and that's why the MSM won't cover protests now like they did back during Nam.
