The stupid that is a GSU student....
So if you know or didn't Bush stopped by to say vote for Max Burns. Here's an article we had in our campus paper in full
The day before the president’s visit, I was feeling down because I feared that the inevitable protest he would inspire would be nothing more than a travesty. Well, my fears turned out to be correct. The so-called “protest” began at the rotunda outside the Russell Union, a designated “free speech zone.”
The right to free speech is arguably the most important right given to people in this country. Yet during the president’s visit to Statesboro last week, the protesters were confined to designated “free speech zones.” Isn’t the whole country supposed to be a “free speech zone?” If the powers that be can decide that certain places are “free speech zones,” and others aren’t, well, do I even need to say anything else? The protesters didn’t challenge the unjust ordinance; they just stood in their space and waved their signs.
When two protesters got a megaphone and encouraged the crowd to march down to Hanner Fieldhouse, the other protesters quickly dragged them down and dismissed them as zealots. When the crowd did finally get the balls to march down to Hanner, they did little there. They managed to have a nice yelling match with some Bush supporters, then they were ushered across Fair Road so that they would be too far away from Hanner to cause any sort of disturbance.
Nobody bravely marched across the street into the parking lot. Nobody tested the limits. I’m not saying they should have done anything to get themselves a collective face full of pepper spray, but they all just stood there like a bunch of self-righteous wusses, chanting blandly and waving their damn signs.
Among all the “Bush Lies” and “No War for Oil” signs, there were a bunch of people waving John Barrow campaign signs. Real nice. You’re supposed to be protesting a corrupt and somewhat oligarchical administration, not promoting a Democrat. I find it despicable that John Barrow supporters would actually think that a protest was the right setting to promote their candidate.
All this made me wonder if the protesters were even taking themselves seriously. A friend of mine who participated in the protest said it was “a lot of fun.” Was that all it was? A big fake anti-establishment party?
While standing in the group of protestors, I heard one guy say “I drove all the way from Tennessee for this.” He was holding a sign with a “W” in the middle with a red circle around it with a line through the middle, thus effectively communicating his displeasure with the current administration’s handling of the issues at hand. He didn’t even get to see the president. He wasn’t being heard, and he wasn’t really accomplishing anything. Sounds like a waste of gas.
This isn’t the 1960s. We can’t expect protesters to be activists, too. This is a very apathetic generation, and it’s not because we don’t have access to information. Apathy is cool. It’s cool not to care about anything. The smart kids care as little about world issues as the dumb kids do. Maybe I should commend the protesters for giving it their all, even though their all seemed pretty pathetic.
I'm not even going to dignify it with a response.
The day before the president’s visit, I was feeling down because I feared that the inevitable protest he would inspire would be nothing more than a travesty. Well, my fears turned out to be correct. The so-called “protest” began at the rotunda outside the Russell Union, a designated “free speech zone.”
The right to free speech is arguably the most important right given to people in this country. Yet during the president’s visit to Statesboro last week, the protesters were confined to designated “free speech zones.” Isn’t the whole country supposed to be a “free speech zone?” If the powers that be can decide that certain places are “free speech zones,” and others aren’t, well, do I even need to say anything else? The protesters didn’t challenge the unjust ordinance; they just stood in their space and waved their signs.
When two protesters got a megaphone and encouraged the crowd to march down to Hanner Fieldhouse, the other protesters quickly dragged them down and dismissed them as zealots. When the crowd did finally get the balls to march down to Hanner, they did little there. They managed to have a nice yelling match with some Bush supporters, then they were ushered across Fair Road so that they would be too far away from Hanner to cause any sort of disturbance.
Nobody bravely marched across the street into the parking lot. Nobody tested the limits. I’m not saying they should have done anything to get themselves a collective face full of pepper spray, but they all just stood there like a bunch of self-righteous wusses, chanting blandly and waving their damn signs.
Among all the “Bush Lies” and “No War for Oil” signs, there were a bunch of people waving John Barrow campaign signs. Real nice. You’re supposed to be protesting a corrupt and somewhat oligarchical administration, not promoting a Democrat. I find it despicable that John Barrow supporters would actually think that a protest was the right setting to promote their candidate.
All this made me wonder if the protesters were even taking themselves seriously. A friend of mine who participated in the protest said it was “a lot of fun.” Was that all it was? A big fake anti-establishment party?
While standing in the group of protestors, I heard one guy say “I drove all the way from Tennessee for this.” He was holding a sign with a “W” in the middle with a red circle around it with a line through the middle, thus effectively communicating his displeasure with the current administration’s handling of the issues at hand. He didn’t even get to see the president. He wasn’t being heard, and he wasn’t really accomplishing anything. Sounds like a waste of gas.
This isn’t the 1960s. We can’t expect protesters to be activists, too. This is a very apathetic generation, and it’s not because we don’t have access to information. Apathy is cool. It’s cool not to care about anything. The smart kids care as little about world issues as the dumb kids do. Maybe I should commend the protesters for giving it their all, even though their all seemed pretty pathetic.
I'm not even going to dignify it with a response.