Protesting the Protesters PART II

[ZupanGOD]

http://brain-terminal.com/video/sf-2003-03-15/quicktime-hq.html

[TeknoAXE]

Classic :D.

AXE

[TeknoAXE]

Maybe Effendi should start taking argument lessons from this guy!

http://www.brain-terminal.com/video/frank-chu/quicktime-hq.html

AXE

[Mike S]

No Scott and his anti war buddies are all about this:

http://brain-terminal.com/video/peace-love/quicktime-hq.html

Jason mailed this to me but its to good not to post

MS

[DJ Rawkus]

Funny. Have you incapable dumbasses seen Serpico or Matewan? Those were real films, not ripoffs in a Flash-induced society.

[ZupanGOD]

Originally posted by DJ Rawkus
Funny. Have you incapable dumbasses seen Serpico or Matewan? Those were real films, not ripoffs in a Flash-induced society.

Hey I might agree with you for a change. Depends on what you mean by Flash-induced society.

[Tasty]

http://sinfest.net/d/20030325.html

[Mike S]

ANTIWAR: MOVEMENT, OR CULT?

By MARK GOLDBLATT
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April 10, 2003 -- THREE weeks into the Iraqi War, the cancerous Ba'athist regime has been destroyed, and the hunt for Saddam has become a bunker-buster version of the carnival game in which the chipmunk's head pops up through a hole in the board, and you clobber him with a mallet.
So much for the "quagmire."

You'd think the fact that the liberation of 22 million oppressed people was accomplished with minimal civilian casualties (indeed, minimal military casualties) would give pause to those who've been marching against the war.

It won't, of course. For the antiwar movement consists not of thinkers but of true believers; indeed, it's more akin to a religious cult than a political cause, hoist on tenets of faith rather than points of evidence - and, thus, in the final analysis, no more responsive to counterarguments than guys who stand on street corners in sandwich boards forecasting the end of the world next weekend . . . no, next weekend . . . no, next weekend.

As the Iraqi people rise up to cheer the American troops, the true believers will claim the scenes are staged. As chemical and biological weapons are uncovered, the true believers will claim they were planted. As an interim government is established, the true believers will claim it's a puppet for American interests. As the oil wealth of Iraq is translated into prosperity for the people, the true believers will claim American companies are hogging profits.

To view this as mere idiocy would be wrong. People who believe such things are, in reality, clinging to their faith, clinging to a set of beliefs that infuses their lives with meaning, that connects them to a higher purpose, that makes them feel a part of something larger than themselves.

It's a constant, uphill struggle to maintain this particular faith in light of the manifest truth that America is the most benevolent world power in the history of the planet. The antiwar movement, thus, should be ignored, or pitied, or even ridiculed, but not condemned too harshly.

Like the rest of us, true believers are entitled to their pursuit of happiness.