Comments | sunrisegryph: War Protestors

sunrisegryph

War Protestors

Apr 13, 2003 12:17

When I was 19 I saw a grocery store burned to the ground. It was the only grocery store in an area that served senior citizens. I woke up one night to an explosion that rattled my windows and knocked my shelves over. A graduate student was killed when the building he was working in was bombed. I had tear gas and soldiers on campus every ( Read more... )

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Well, let me say that much... ngb2k April 13 2003, 15:05:13 UTC

... as soon protesters accept any kind of violence as a way to state their oppinion, it would be against the point they want to make.

So anti-war protest can be only truthful if it's done peacefully.

People who go to a demonstration to get in fights with the police, are only going there, to fight, for no other reason.

It's a similar phenomenon, like the hooligans at soccer-games, who do the same.

Re: Well, let me say that much... sunrisegryph April 14 2003, 05:07:44 UTC

No, it's really not the same thing. A University setting is, in the ancient Greek tradition, a place for academic discussion - regardless of the topic. Many college students are young and eager to follow the most vocal. My point was that the instigators were from the outside, sent into the campus to disrupt and recruit. I don't know the solution, only that young people, especially, learn to listen and learn before they parrot beliefs they may not actually subscribe to.