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The Ever Vanishing Anti-War Crowd(s)
The Ever Vanishing Anti-War Crowd(s)
Sunday, June 03, 2007 3:48 PM
That shrill sound you’re hearing isn’t coming from the cicadas. It’s the cackle of conservatives reveling in war protester Cindy Sheehan’s abrupt decision to leave the anti-war movement and return home to California.
Typical liberal, they’re saying. Cut and run.
Yessir…that’s what it IS, alright. The motto of the Leftinistra: When the going gets tough, run away.
Apparently, Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, was withering from the heat of public activism and grew disillusioned with the apathy of her fellow modern-day peaceniks. She embarked on her crusade two years ago and willingly became the face of the anti-war movement — a movement that now appears to lack a face and guts.
Perhaps withering, perhaps not. Perhaps she came to the conclusion that her Hero Son’s grave has yet to have the headstone installed. Perhaps she realized that her son knows (knew) better than she and that she was one horrible Gold Star Mom. Perhaps she realized that she dishonored his service and his ultimate sacrifice…all for his mother so she could act the fool and be the fool-tool of the “reids”.
Despite a rising tide of public discontentment with the war, turnouts at protest rallies nationwide have shrunk precipitously. The Democratic Congress, swept into office on a wave of anti-war sentiment, showed the timidity of a neurotic deer mouse as it handed President Bush the war funding he requested without any stipulation for troop withdrawal.
One would expect at least a smidge of public outrage.
Correction. The implied message is wrong. The public discontentment is with the politicians. Even your beloved polls demonstrate that FACT. The American People want to WIN the friggin’ war and we won’t do that until the ROE is adjusted accordingly. THAT is the outrage!
“I think what’s extraordinary right now is how there hasn’t been a major street presence at any point during the war,” said Jeremi Suri, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and author of the book “Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente.”
“If anything, that presence has declined in the past months, even as the public outcry against the war has been increasing.”
Sheehan’s departure and the flaccidity of America’s anti-war movement raise deep questions about this country’s moral fortitude. Unlike the protesting icons of the 1960s and ’70s, members of today’s “anti” crowd struggle to maintain momentum.
LOL!! The reason is that the “intelligentsia” have the American MAJORITY all wrong. Hello? They WISH their was an ANTI-WAR outcry and movement among the American People but there isn’t one. Wishful thinking and whining about it won’t make it so. Where do these morons come from?
During the first major Iraq war protest in Chicago in 2003, 10,000 people turned out. This year, on the fourth anniversary of the war, hot on the heels of President Bush’s controversial troop surge, only 3,500 Chicagoans took to the streets.
And this lack of follow-through isn’t unique to war protesters.
Chicago’s first immigration rally last May drew 400,000 people, but the second rally this May brought in only 150,000. In the immediate wake of the Virginia Tech shootings in April, there was considerable hue and cry over gun control — what happened to that?
Today’s activists seem easily bored and distracted, content to simply blog away their angst and then move on to the next issue that flares up. One has to imagine Abbie Hoffman — Vietnam War protester and proud member of the Chicago Seven — writhing in his grave.
Again, get the hint. The MAJORITY of Americans DO NOT want a loss…they want a VICTORY. Nor do the MAJORITY desire passage of the retarded non-amnesty amnesty travesty being thrust upon us by the folks hired to do OUR bidding and not accept THERE empty rhetoric. Hello?
So what’s keeping people from raising hell? Where is the fervor and esprit de corps of the American protester? Why were the rabble-rousers of the ’60s and ’70s so potent, while those of today are so, to put it politely, “non-potent”?
Easy. The MAJORITY are NOT with YOU!! Knock! Knock! Anyone home?
There are likely several reasons.
For one, there’s no military draft. That means fewer opponents are frontline stakeholders in the war. Nothing incites passion quite like fear, and as long as we have a volunteer military, the butts on the line won’t be those of the anti-war contingent.
And YET, we STILL served to ensure the safety of those decrying the footprint of the American chicken…LOSER!
Outlook is another factor. The youthful idealism of generations past has largely given way to a cynical view of politics and life in general. It’s harder to get into a good college. It’s harder to get a good job. Politicians seem increasingly disingenuous.
That all depends on the definition of “good” “IS’. Yes? Top notch colleges? GET GREAT grades and they will drool all over you to get YOU to attend. “Good” job? EXCELL in ALL things and job marketeers will seek YOU out. Slouches need not apply. Lazy people seeking a Golden Parachute hand-out job need not apply.
Rise above YOUR own short-comings and YOU SHALL be noticed.
“People really feel like they lack efficacy today,” said Rachel Einwohner, a Purdue University sociologist who studies protests and social movements. “Despite what lots of people around the world think, despite opposition, this administration just proceeds with a particular agenda. Maybe activists look at that and say, ‘What could we possibly do?’ They’re forced to wonder how they can stop it.”
That is what personal and professional character is and does. It bewilders the type that feel that just because THEY feel a certain way, EVERYONE should also. Welcome to the real world and I don’t even have a Sociology degree. I don’t need one. Common sense WILL prevail if one gives it a shot.
I do NOT agree with the theoretical immigration bill but GWB does and he stands by it through thick and thicker. I disagree vehemently with GWB on this issue but at the same time admire his willingness to hand tough on it although I pray it is squashed like the cockroach the bill is. He took the SAME stance on the GWOT and his weak and lame adversaries, in the face of adversity, ran away. THAT is what character does.
Character is virtually impossible to “stop”.
In 1962, a group of college students meeting in Michigan created a manifesto called the Port Huron Statement, which laid out a path for a near-Utopian democracy. Those young men and women truly believed they could change the world, and their fervor carried on through the sweeping civil rights and Vietnam War protests of that generation.
Now when Suri, the Wisconsin professor, shows a copy of the Port Huron Statement to his students, they laugh out loud, mystified that anyone could ever have been so naive.
“It’s not that they don’t care; it’s that they don’t believe they can make a difference,” he said. “Students have become very risk-averse. They care, but they’re afraid that if they go out and get involved in something they might not get into law school or get the job they want.”
No. Silly one. They recognize that piece of crap “statement” and recognize it as a failed piece of crap the world over because EVERY such form of government has what? Failed? moron. Our young haven’t had their brains TOTALLY turned to socialistic mush. Moron.
Indeed, since camera phones and YouTube, would-be rebels engage in sit-ins and other forms of civil disobedience at their own peril, knowing that images some might deem incriminating could easily come back to haunt them.
As counterintuitive as it may seem, better communication technology may actually be taking a bit of oomph out of political activism. People once had to come together in smoke-filled coffeehouses to plan demonstrations. Now they just stay home and hammer out mass e-mails, expanding their reach but eliminating the close personal bonds that were the glue of past protest movements.
Can you believe this shiite? This shiite for brains is WHINING about the anti-war movement doesn’t have the MAJORITY! The REASON IS, moron, is this. WE in the New Media have outsquashed YOU and your brain-dead and moronic ilk. What a putz. Go ahead and WASTE your vote on hillary, oblammy and breck-boy. Better yet. Just stay home and whine. Moron.
“People can have these virtual online communities and have all these conversations online without ever coming together,” Einwohner said. “That might explain why we have this massive disapproval of the war, but we don’t see the visible public mass protest. Maybe all those folks who in another era might have been out on the streets, maybe they’re home sharing their ideas and opinions with their best blogging buddies.”
The massive disapproval, shiite-for-brains, IS the ROE. Just listen to the troops and not your LSD-induced hallucinational delusion. Moron.
And maybe that, in part, is what drove Cindy Sheehan away. It’s unlikely there has ever been a mother of a soldier killed in war who has been so publicly pilloried. And by the end of her two-year run, as she aimed her criticism at Democrats as well as Republicans, Sheehan was getting it from the right and the left.
Because she was/is/still an ignorant putz with severe mental issues. And YOUR kind fed her and strung her along and when she was all used up, YOU cast her aside because she was no longer of any use to YOU and YOUR kind. Moron.
Of course, she put herself out there. She allowed this to happen. But in the end, this Gold Star Mother, who came of age in the ’60s and ’70s, simply didn’t fit in the modern-day world of protest.
She was blogged down by a society that seems incapable of clinging to any cause for too long. And like many of us, she was probably disheartened to learn that what’s blowing in the wind these days isn’t the answer.
It’s just a lot of hot air. ———- rhuppke@tribune.com
And that which is blowing in the wind these days is what is left of your unamerican activities. The other item blowing in the wind(s) is the Coming of An Era where the MAJORITY of the world is coming to grips with that which we face. A GLOBAL jihad as preached and demanded of by the Religion of Peace, Islam. It is no more a religion of peace than Hitler was the nice boy next door.
End of rant…for now.
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