Thread: War protests?

I haven't seen any war protests in a while... Does anyone have a link to recent war protests?

Protesters marched from the Mall in Washington to the grounds of the Pentagon, and then to the Crystal City district of Arlington, Virginia. Protesters carried mock coffins representing the victims of U.S. conflicts and placed them in front of the office buildings.



United for Peace and Justice held a march on Wall Street on April 4, 2009 against military spending in Iraq.



There's a few starting in October. http://answer.pephost.org/site/PageS...e=ANS_homepage



I think that's about it.

[quote name='Goldwater' date='21 September 2009 - 12:52 PM' timestamp='1253555551' post='24632']

You have to figure into any demonstration a certain number of people will really be there protesting the person behind the issue. War protests during the Bush admin were way more newsworthy because the group had an enemy to focus on. Teabaggers do the same thing by focusing on Obama along with taxes.



Here is a simplification:



Taxes + Obama = Hate filled anti tax/anti Liberal demonstrations



War + Bush = Hate filled anti war/anti GOP demonstrations.



Right now it is the anti war issue all by itself. Obama didn't start the wars. There isn't enough hate involved for the media to touch it for long.

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So the anti-war protests were really anti-Bush protests. What has Obama done to end the wars? Didn't he say we would be out of Iraq in 16 months?

[quote name='Conservative15' date='21 September 2009 - 10:22 AM' timestamp='1253553766' post='24606']

I haven't seen any war protests in a while... Does anyone have a link to recent war protests?

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The day after the Democrats elected a rapist to the White House, the media stopped covering the "homeless". Voila! Problem solved.



The day after the socialists elected a messiah, the media stopped covering America's wars overseas. Voila! No longer an issue. The socialists are happy, and since they no longer want to use dead American soldiers against the sitting president, they're content to just let the soldiers die without too much celebration in their part.

Remember that day when tens of millions of people around the globe turned out in hundreds of cities simultaniously, in the human races largest and loudest ever demand for international law and justice. 1.5 million in New York, a million in LA, 1.5 million in London, protests in over 30 North American cities, concurrent protests in Tokyo, Beijing, Sydney, NZ, and over a hundred Euriopean cities. Simultanious protests in Rio, Mexico City, Venezuala, Johannasburg. All on the same day at the same time all to stop the US and UK from invading Iraq.



That was the day the human race stopped believing in protests.





You know that saying that people without hope never have revolutions. It's people with a little hope who see a better tomorrow who rise up.



As far as I'm concerned, that was the day 6 billion people lost that last bit of hope.

[quote name='Dr.Knuckles' date='21 September 2009 - 12:22 PM' timestamp='1253560921' post='24671']

Remember that day when tens of millions of people around the globe turned out in hundreds of cities simultaniously, in the human races largest and loudest ever demand for international law and justice. 1.5 million in New York, a million in LA, 1.5 million in London, protests in over 30 North American cities, concurrent protests in Tokyo, Beijing, Sydney, NZ, and over a hundred Euriopean cities. Simultanious protests in Rio, Mexico City, Venezuala, Johannasburg. All on the same day at the same time all to stop the US and UK from invading Iraq.



That was the day the human race stopped believing in protests. [/quote]



I thought it was when all those bands got together for their Live-Aid nonsense in the eighties.



Or maybe when the protesters for the First Gulf War that tried to blockade the Brooklyn Bridge during evening rush hour were run over by New Yorkers not wanting to be delayed on their way home.



Or maybe it was when that joke of a protester decided to lie across the tracks to stop the huge and long freight train from entering the military base during the Reagan Years. Naturally, the presence of a couple thighbones on the track didn't stop that train, trains that big take a mile or more to slow down and stop. That one was pretty damn funny, actually. I hear Stumpy doesn't do protests much any more.

Between January 3 and April 12, 2003, 36 million people across the globe took part in almost 3,000 protests against the Iraq war.



Beginning in 2002, and continuing after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, protests against the Iraq War were held in many cities worldwide, often coordinated to occur simultaneously around the world. After the biggest series of demonstrations, on February 15, 2003, New York Times writer Patrick Tyler claimed that they showed that there were two superpowers on the planet, the United States and worldwide public opinion.[1]



These demonstrations against the war were mainly organized by anti-war organizations, many of whom had been formed in opposition to the invasion of Afghanistan. Europe saw the biggest mobilization of protesters, including a rally of 3 million people in Rome

Yeah it might have been some issolated goofs I've never heard of. But I think it's more likely it was these ones.





Seriously.... would you protest soemthing? I wouldn't.



There's three courses of action when faced with an injustice: Boycott it, sue it, buck up and accept it, lobby a politician to legislate against it.



Standing on a street corner in the rain on a Tuesday while the President has a conganc and a blow job by the fireplace is effecting exactly zero people's world view.



Have you ever had your opinion swayed or your awareness raised by protesters? I haven't. They're either invisible or annoying.