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Originally posted by DZHBrown
Stating how one feels is always acceptable, but screaming and being disruptive is not. That's the "shoved in my face" reference. And the ones who are disrupting people's days by taking up the streets and such are the ones I'm referring to when I say they disrupt lives.
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See, but sometimes, that is the only way to get one's point across. Think about the Women's Rights movement. Do you think women got the right to vote because they were calmly voicing their opinion? No. And I am not trying to equate the two, either. What I am saying is that these massive demonstrations have made international news, which does acheive their purpose: showing the president and thw world their collective dissent. Quietly posting to a mesage board, or discussing their opinions with friends over coffee or something doesn't really have the same effect.
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I would think that intelligent people around the world already know that not all of America agrees with the war. That's a given. And the President has to do what's right, not what's popular. If he wanted to do something with a political agenda, he wouldn't have ever gone to war.
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Okay, would you say that members of Al Quaeda are unintelligent men? If so, you would be discrediting many American institutions of higher learning, because that is where most of them get their education. Being INTELLIGENT has nothing to do with it. It is about PERCEPTION. The members of Al Quaeda are highly intelligent...but they perceive ALL Americans as being evil because of the way that we are portrayed in their culture. The world is seeing America AS A WHOLE right now in a pretty negative light. By protesting in massive numbers across the country, people are showing that not ALL Americans feel the way Bush feels. To me, it is not an attempt to ruin your day. It is an attempt to change the world's perception.
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