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Originally posted by FreeYourself
I would just like to say that i know some smart, well educated, wealthy (you, for some reason, think this matters) people that decide to 'scrawl' on buildings. I also know some very poor people that do as well.
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And you know what they all have in common? They're all morons. You don't deface property that is not yours. That's just not cool.
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Don't blame the protesters because these are the people that WILL change our economy for the better.
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Will Rogers said it best--"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Quite frankly, I don't believe there is anything wrong with our economy. Is it a system of haves and have-nots? Sure. I'm on the end of the have-nots. Is it the best of all other alternatives? Most likely. Socialism is nice, but we have too many people here in the US that equate that with a welfare state...or communism...or find it to be an invasion of their personal rights. I feel bad about 3rd world countries...as well we should. I'm going to stop it there b/c Jag will begin to rant about that...and we've already covered that topic.
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The reason Gandi was so succesful was because he had soo many people with him. In this day and age we don't have the numbers. Nobody cares becasue hey guess what? they are the ones having everything handed to them on a silver platter. Why in the right mind would someone complain about being given the advantage? They would just preffer to turn there back on the silenced parts of the world and instread complain about those dam protesters.
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Gandhi and MLK led nonviolent protests. If there were "unruly" folks during the days of their protests, they were either a) under the radar of the simpler-minded media or b) kept in line by their own. Not to mention, there was more of a common goal--a free India for Gandhi and equal rights for MLK. Where is the common thread among these WTO/IMF/World Bank/G8/target-group-of-the-week protesters? There are a few, but nothing that I would write home to my mom about.
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Unrelated Quote: "We kill eachother we call it murder, we kill animals we call it industry. Is this Justice?"
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Nope...it's called "Survival of the Fittest." Who knows? Maybe one day, a more advanced species will want to eat us.