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ORIGINAL: erieangel

The corporate goons are going to be shaking in their boots before too long (with any luck).  Next move--a general strike.

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The corporate goons are going to be shaking in their boots before too long (with any luck).

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


A bunch of rude hungover slobs screaming at the office girls as they walk to work will make a lasting impression about leftists generally, I am sure

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Why? Do you think a bunch of people sitting outside the offices they rarely go to is going to bother them in the least?

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ORIGINAL: SternSkipper

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Why? Do you think a bunch of people sitting outside the offices they rarely go to is going to bother them in the least?

What WillBe's saying is protest never solves anything... Course, he was busy as a medic over in Nam while protest ended it. He did his part of course. But the protesters definitely did their part too.

Erie Willbe no longer has neurons that will process this but I will say it to you
When I was 5, I saw my first Viet Nam protesters in the newly Named Kennedy Plaza in Providence RI. I knew my Dad ran the VFW for the state and was working at the time with the Johnson Administration to found a new type of "Veteran's Home" (first one like it was a 10 minute ride from my house in Portsmouth). There was a cop there and he was a guy I know served with my Dad in the Marines (cause he and his wife had been sunday dinner guests many times.. you couldn't get 'a cool war story' out of these guys if your life depended on it). Dad went over and talked to his officer friend and all of a sudden the Cop was kneeling down talking to a protester and I realized all of a sudden that the guy was missing a leg. They all kind of laughed about something and my Dad came back over to me while the cop stood there still talking to the man with one leg. I was actually kinda scared about the whole thing and I asked "Daddy, how come you guys didn't arrest him" and he said "Skip, that man is a veteran who just came back from Viet Nam and he doesn't believe it's a war we should be in. john Kennedy, who this place is named for didn't think so either. And that man paid a big price to be able to speak his mind. And if we're lucky, your brother Artie won't have to go because of guys like him"
   By 1968 the Biggest Right Winger in Presidential History, Richard M. Nixon, campaigned on a platform promising a "secret plan" to get America out of Viet Nam. And it's agreed that Nixon did so on the basis of Americans protesting (largely just like the occupations... they were just treated ROUGHER) the war.
   My Brother never went to Viet Nam (he completely lost his mind and became a DC cop circa 1970 8-) and later looked after Presidents). But the point is he didn't go. Not because of dodging the draft, but because the protests resulted in a lottery that were a result of protesting the war and that the draft was unfair.
  Given my Dad was generally right about stuff, I'll go with his opinion whether protest works or not.
Like I said, Willbe musta been busy.

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If you dont think theres a difference between a war protest where politicians have to worry about re-election and a protest against corporations, who dont report to anybody but their shareholders, then the mercury must have gotten to you.

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Cool.

I wonder if the cons in DC are watching or ignoring the real tea-party?

These are the types that vote.

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so all the slobs are leftys and the wallstreeters are repubs?
SNORTS what utter bollocks

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A bunch of rude hungover slobs screaming at the office girls as they walk to work will make a lasting impression about leftists generally, I am sure

Thats daily life in Boston, Stern was talking about something new I think.