Thought Mesh: Time to put the cards on the table

Time to put the cards on the table

Posted by aogFriday, 21 March 2003 at 15:43 TrackBack Ping URL

There are numerous statements coming out of the anti-war movement about various forms of sabotage and disruption of the economy. I say, “bring it on”. It's protests like the one that paralyzed downtown San Francisco that will do more to discredit the peaceniks than anything a responsible person could say. Clear and unamibiguous sabotage will do even more to demonstrate what a loony fringe these people are.

The psychology is interesting. Putatively, these people are concerned for the safety and well being of the Iraqis and others around the world. Yet their local attitude is captured by this quote

It's called the first amendment . Look into it.
“Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. ”
Turn on the people *you* don't have the courage to be. Nice. NOTE: Not that I'm sying the protestors are couragous, but they are saying something that needs to be said. Should they do it in a nice, pretty and controlled way so it doesn't offend *your* sensibilities? ROTFLMAO. No, is the correct answer
As long as it's nonviolent, this is what war brings, dipshits. It's a WAR not a video game. W-A-R. W...A...R

Note that the only concern is sensibility. The disruption of people's lives and businesses, the potential deaths of our best over in Iraq from interference with military operations, is all reduced to sensibilities. The total lack of concern for other people is clear. One of the other commentors pointed out that if the goal is to actually accomplish anything then one might want to have protests that don't piss off the vast majority of the citizenry. I think it is clear that actually changing anything is not the goal of this movement. It's not about war, or peace, or Iraq, or even President Bush – it's all about what makes the protestors feel good about themselves.

So bring it on – put your cards on the table and show America what you're really about. Fire your scuds.

UPDATE: We get results. The police have found molotov cocktails in a backpack left by the anti-war protestors in San Francisco.

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Andrea Harris Friday, 21 March 2003 at 22:23

Ah — sensibilit�, a concept brought into being by the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the 18th century, ostensibly a reaction to the exaggerated self-discipline of the previous Age of Reason, when public displays of emotion were frowned upon. Simon Schama mentions in in Citizens. It goes something like that: it values “heart over head, emotion over reason.” Copious weeping was the hallmark of this movement. The most popular painting at that time was something called — I kid you not — “Girl Weeping Over Her Dead Canary.” It sounds ludicrous now, or it does until you turn on the Lifetime Network — or watch today’s practitioners of sensibilit�, who have turned to vomiting rather than weeping.

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