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• Sunday, August 31, 2008 08:06 AM

  There is all kinds of activism, RMP

  If the intersection was blocking access to a bridge, then maybe an ambulance could be blocked. I don't think someone has to cross the river between Minneapolis and St. Paul to find a hospital. What have totally benign demonstrations accomplished in putting a stop to the criminal acts by our government? The M$M needs something sensational to pay attention to those noisy lefties and unimportant citizens.

  I have heard people on this thread say that we need something dramatic as happened in the Nam protests to actually make a difference. I am not advocating dangerous violence. The only war protest in Chicago that got significant media attention was when traffic was snarled on a major lake shore drive by marchers insisting on walking down it.

  -- Retired Military Patriot

  Most of this stuff is completely counter-productive. It only gives the existing power structures another excuse to crack down. Take Code Pink, for instance. Any benefit derived in publicizing the war is counteracted, in my view, by alienating some, if not most, in the military community. I've watched videos of interactions at the recruiting office in Berkeley. Really stupid waste of time, in my opinion. Code Pink didn't come off looking good and neither did the counter-protesters.

  The recruiting office came off looking best because they stayed out of it. And there are plenty of abuses recruiters engage in that one could draw attention to and protest but they wouldn't get the media attention as that stupid stunt in Berkeley. There are some people here who would prefer we have no military at all. What fools they be, eh?

  —L.W.M. Read L.W.M.'s other letters
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