Protesting War  

Me thinks we doth date ourselves whence respondeth so to like topics!!

Yeah, "H*LL NO WE WON'T GO" Sounds familiar eh? I too was a non-violent type, had bags packed for Canada on the last round of the draft in '73. Missed me by 50 numbers!

In today's culture of "I" , I wonder if the social conscience has been lost. I think that now that King George is gone, the need to supply his oil buddies need not be served further. I pray we can bring them home soon.

God Bless

I think those generals who want to wage war should just get out there in a muddy field and do hand to hand combat, naked, with their enemies and leave the rest of us out of it. Then whoever "wins" should be heavily medicated.

I feel it is better to fight the enemy on their turf than to have them come here and we fight them here. Yeah, I'm protesting. I'm sending a tea bag to the white house. It'll just get thrown away, but at least I will have made my point.

I spent a few years of my childhood with war raging around us. I saw the devastation in my home town from Hitlers bombing of it. I was taken by my Grandfather to look at the town center and I smelled the smoke of the bombed out buildings - some that still had people in them. For those of you who protest against war - I would suggest you live with it first. Our troops go over seas to fight to keep our country free. Saddam Hussein wanted to rule the world, he wanted to be and pretty much was a modern day Hitler. Who stopped this arrogant Dictator - US troops. If it takes war elsewhere to keep America free - then so be it. Support our troops - they don't want to be in a war but they are doing it for our well being. Fly the flag for them don't burn it against them.

Living close to Washington, D.C. I had many opportunities to attend protest marches in opposition to the war in Vietnam...all of which were peaceful.

I was arrested once, though, for participating in a sit-in at my school on the first anniversary of the killing of the students at Kent State University. A group of seniors had planned an assembly...had arranged for speakers to come in...had jumped through every hoop the school's administration put in front of them including the distribution of tickets based on signed parental permission slips. Late in the day prior to the event the school called the speakers and told them it had been cancelled. So, that morning the seniors arrived at school with signs in their cars and when the announcement was made that the assembly had been cancelled, a lot of students walked out of the buildings...including me. Someone lowered the flag to half mast, the signs were distributed and we sat peacefully in front of the building...until the Superintendent of Schools showed up and tried to raise the flag. That's when there was an altercation and the police were called. Someone had called the Baltimore Sun and the Washington Post so reporters were there snapping pictures when 20+ of us were hauled off to jail. The following day my 80 year old grandmother, with poor eyesight, was able to pick me out of a photo that appeared on the frong page of the Sun. Since she recognized the name of my school she just knew I was involved!

I have never protested war. I've had both grandfathers fight in WWII, one friend got deployed to Iraq, and another is over there right now. I have friends that are more than willing to fight for our country and I support them. War is unfortunately a part of human nature and it's highly unlikely that this fact will change anytime soon. However, I'd rather have the war fought overseas than on our own turf.

My way of protesting is by non participation, I refuse to take part in anything as stupid as war, and through my lack of ation my voice will be seen rather than heard.

I use to be part of several civial rights while I was in high school. I have been to the marches. I bought disney when disney was being banned for giving equal rights to the homosexuals. Disney will also hire someone with a dishonorable discharge. The one thing that I learned in that time is that there is always another cause. I am planning on getting behind a few myself as I finish college. What cause has set you to protest? There are alot of people that do not believe in this war. I was hoping that our troops would be coming back as soon as Obama had his way. Well any way hope to see you at a march one day.

Hi raydene! I do agree with you that it is time that your people shouldn't be sent to war. Here in our country we are protesting a different war and that is war against graft and corruption. There are a lot of protests in our country at present since our present administration is full of graft and corruption.
Take care and blessings to you.
lovelots..faith

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