[extropy-chat] (POLITICS) Utility of Protest was :Exhibitionism (no, not THAT kind)

[Samantha Atkins]

On Aug 20, 2005, at 7:02 PM, Mike Lorrey wrote:

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> --- The Avantguardian <avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> --- Al Brooks <kerry_prez at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> 'The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test' Ken
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>>> Kesey leads a few of his friends to an antiwar
>>> protest preceding a march and then goes on a
>>> platform to the microphone in front of a large
>>> crowd: "You're playing their game by marching,
>>> people have been marching for thousands of years and
>>> still there is war", says kesey to audience, "And
>>> what are you saying when you yell out loud for
>>> peace? You are saying, Me! ME! look at ME!".
>>>
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>> I have a question to put to those extropes that were
>> alive during the Civil Rights movements of the 60's.
>> What happened to the power of protest? Why were the
>> civil rights rallies and protests so successful in
>> this country while much bigger record setting protests
>> on both coasts against the War in Iraq completely
>> ineffectual.
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> Because there isn't as much money being funnelled in from the
> non-existent eastern bloc countries, and Saddams credit ran out. The
> Iraqi insurgency is accurately being shown to the american people as a
> disaffected minority of former baathists in cahoots with islamist
> fanatics. Being as the agenda of both groups is obviously not liberal,
> only the hardcore stalinist nutters, other pathologically  
> oppositionist
> mentalities and the easily duped think that the Iraqi people are
> against us.
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This is beyond any remotely civilized or rational discourse.  Later  
dude.  Good luck finding some sanity or better meds.

- s