I am protesting the protesters

[Drake Tungsten]

[Willem]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

Meaning only rich people will be allowed to have a voice.

This shouldn't hurt the anti-war movement. Most protestors are spoiled college students...

His proposals don't only apply to the anti-war movement. He wants to have them in place for all forms of protest in the future as well, and include it in the criminal code with a minumum one year jail time for offenders. He doesn't stand a chance with it though, that's a blatant violation of our free speech rights.

[Drake Tungsten]

His proposals don't only apply to the anti-war movement. He wants to have them in place for all forms of protest in the future as well, and include it in the criminal code with a minumum one year jail time for offenders. He doesn't stand a chance with it though, that's a blatant violation of our free speech rights.

I agree, it is bull****. You might have to move to the States if you want to keep your free speech rights...

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Agathon


I don't know what the police are like there, but the Toronto police seem to have learned lessons from past debacles. We had an unannounced protest in which we blocked traffic, held a "die in" at the busiest intersection in town, and marched down the main streets. Not only did the police not attack the protestors, they directed traffic to minimize disruption, helped people in need, defused conflict and made it clear to the protestors where the line was drawn. It was not crossed. All in all an excellent piece of crowd management done on the fly.

I'm not saying that the TO police are always great, but they deserved a gold star yesterday.

I've talked to a few cops at past demos here and all the ones I have talked to are anti war as well.

I was there for the last half hour of it. From Dundas square [if i remember the name correctly] to where they dispersed the march... and a little bit beyond that. It went very well, but I didn't interpret the honking from the cars as supportive. That is a good way of looking at it, though.


Do you know when the next Toronto protest is? I was told it was tommorow at 1:00 infront of the US embassy. I'm not sure if I'll be able to make it to that one, though.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

I agree, it is bull****. You might have to move to the States if you want to keep your free speech rights...

Now that's funny.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

no dont move here until bush and ashcroft are gone. they are taking away the rights here as well.

[Willem]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

His proposals don't only apply to the anti-war movement. He wants to have them in place for all forms of protest in the future as well, and include it in the criminal code with a minumum one year jail time for offenders. He doesn't stand a chance with it though, that's a blatant violation of our free speech rights.

I agree, it is bull****. You might have to move to the States if you want to keep your free speech rights...

Like I said, he doesn't stand a chance. It's just another stupid idea that he has a knack of spouting off. He used to be the police chief here in my city and he'd always come up with some ridiculous proposal or comment. I think he's a borderline fascist myself.

[Drake Tungsten]

They're covering the protestors on ABC right now. What a bunch of morons...

[sprucemoose3311]

The official site for protesting the protesters:

https://www.brain-terminal.com

its very well done

[DarthVeda]

[Imran Siddiqui]

the anarchists in the crowd (they covered their faces and moved in crowds) ripped the sign from the guys hands and ripped it up on the street

What ever happened to freedom of speech for all sides?

it was my first protest and it was really fun.

Sums it up, doesn't it?

[Kramerman]

Originally posted by Lord Merciless
Some people would riot, regardless of the cause.

Depite me being a fervent war supporter, I do think that the greatest majority of protesters are good people.

many people protest anything, just for the sake of protesting. Its funny when you see the counter-culture types (teens or 20 somethns with green mohawks, multiple piercings, etc) shouting "1 2 3 4 we dont want your oil war" and holding up War is evil signs *sigh* the ignorance...

[Dis]

I have come to some conclusions. I am sure to offend people.

I believe anti-war protestors are selfish *******s who only care about themselves and their own circle of friends and family. They have no regards whatsoever for other people.

These same people should have been protesting the conditions in Iraq for the past 15 years. Why haven't they? Do they not care that we are helping Iraqis? And that by going to war with Iraq we are actually saving civilian lives. Do they not care about the Iraqis cheering in the towns we have taken. No, they only care about them and getting media attention.

I have come to the conclusion that war protestors are attention whores. They can care less about other people throughout the world. They only want attention. What's even worse is they are not emotional and mentally mature. When they were cuffed in San Francisco they were thrashing their bodies about like little toddlers. They were essentually throwing a temper tantrum. They made complete asses of themselvs. I used to respect anti-war protestors, but no more. I realize them for the idiots they are. They are nothing more than petty anarchists and attention whores.

I also think that a fair number them are equivalent to forum trolls. I have determined this by the stupid statements they have made. They seem to hate america no matter what good we do. They say that america deserved the 9/11 attacks and that our attacks on hirsoshima and nagasaki are the reason the WTC was attacked. To them every nation in the world is always right, and the U.S. is always wrong. And then this stupid broad said why don't we invade Tibet then? She doesn't realize that would start the third world war, and we'd get our asses kicked. We also don't invade North Korea because we'd get our asses kicked. We would have got our asses kicked in Africa as well, because we do have not support bases out there. We can only help were we are able unfortunately. We are not strong enough as a nation to be able to help every country in the world. We only help were we can, and Iraq is one of those.

And then the blood for oil argument. We didn't know for sure if we'd get that oil. If we wanted it we could have taken it in 1991. And we still faced the possibility he would blow up all the oil fields. There was a good chance we would get no oil. So you cannot say this is blood for oil. We have been lucky so far most of the wells are undamaged or lightly damaged. And lastly, it is not our oil. The oil belongs to the Iraqi people.

I know I have said in the past that liberals are trolls (that thread was deleted). I am wrong about that. I realize that many liberals are for this war. So I apoligize for that. Phil Hendrie said he was a liberal tonight, but he supports the war. So I am wrong about liberals. But I do realize that war protestors are trolls.

So what's the best thing to do to trolls? Ignore them.

So I am now ignoring all protestors. I wish the media would do so also. I can gurantee you that if there were no media coverage, there would be no protestors. You ever notice how the protests have escalated with the advent of television/movie cameras and such?

So I am no longer protesting the protesters. I am ignoring them as the trolls they are.

[Drake Tungsten]

Unfortunately, it doesn't matter if you ignore them. The media are the ones who need to ignore them, but they still take the protestors seriously for some reason...

[Kramerman]

again, i think the protests are just fine, only if they ever get out of hand, call in the phalanx of riot police.... see if some of them will ever insight anarchy again... and by 'insight anarchy' i mean walk ...