Protesters are a fact of life boys and girls and right now Iraq is flavour of the month to the granola brigade.
Give it time and they‘ll discover some obscure tree sloth in the Amazon endangered by a multi national corportaion and they‘ll all leave us alone for a couple of months.
Hey I‘m not going to bore you with how much fun it was wearing a uniforn in the late 1970‘s early 1980‘s and getting called a "baby burning warmongering facist" on a regular basis (thanks sis BTW).
What I do find almost funny is the naivety of the present generation of profesional protesters. It‘s almost like they discovered an old photo of their baby boomer parents in the 1960s and decided to try it.
Kind of like the "meet you for a latte at Starbucks and then we‘ll go and protest the WTO."
Yeah they p!ss me off with both their self rightousness and their ignornance, but it‘s not worth the effort getting worked up over them. The twits who held a protest outside the 3 PPCLI Bronze Star Medal ceremony are one example. Those idiots who habitually show up here in Toronto demanding the Mayor turn Moss Park and Fort York into homeless shelters (mind the homeless, excuse me address challenged, would love FYA with all its bars) are another.
They just don‘t get it. Try arguing with them and using such concepts as logic, and examples from the real world and they get all defensive and start quoting their holy writ. Trust me I‘ve done it, and those that know my background just stare at me as if I have two heads. One actually called me the most dangerous thing she‘d ever met " a redneck with a genius IQ." I took it as a compliment.
I do make an exception for some groups. The Vietnam Vets who chose to protest after doing their service in country and groups such as veterans against nuclear weapons etc., rate some respect from me. I may not agree with their point of view but they earned the right to express it.
By that criteria I even respect our forum token semi socialist Che. Hey I‘ll even buy you a beer Che when I‘m in Halifax at the end of the month or if you prefer a latte (The coffee shops at Pizza corner still a going concern?) and talk politics. I may not agree with everything you say here companero but unlike the sandal wearers you in my opinion erasned the right to say it.