Yeah, right, "amount to nothing..." There is no sense of scale in that comment. Here in MA, the difference between Celucci winning a few years back was only a few thousand votes. We had enough folks with signs to remind people to vote that it probably made all the difference in that election. Sometimes every little bit helps. Over time, it adds up. Especially at younger ages, when folks respond more (with lifetime consequences) to signs of LIFE in a party or behind an idea.
By the way, "over myself" was an insult not to me, because coming from you it doesn't amount to anything, but it was to the folks I met who DIED in protests against socialist dictatorship in Latvia, and others I knew who were put into or came out of prisons for long terms just for saying "anti-Soviet" things. Just because you live in a small world doesn't mean others live behind the remote, too. You obviously take for granted what could easily be lost the way we are headed...Kent State wasn't that long ago or in some other country. Here's the rub...In the past 15 years, the United States has allowed in more than 5 million immigrants to come here from communist or formerly communist nations and dictatorships. How can you be certain they will all "buy in," and won't support the tyrannical Left in imposing similar systems? Now that the social compact has broken down, and borders are broken, mass immigration (combined with the tyrannical segments of society already here) make anything seem possible over the next decade. Hence, the need to resist the institutionalization of policies and practices that Hillary Clinton might use in 2008. Who knows?
Better yet, it's great to see all the activity on this site for such maligned tactics connected to the GOP Convention in New York...e.g., titles...
Pre-GOP Convention report:NYC Sign Painting Event 7/31/04
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That's all fine and good, it was a nice rant about how Communist Dicatorships actually shot people who opposed them. I'm sure that was news to everyone who reads the thread, but you avoided something I asked;
What does any of this have to do with your standing around outside with vague inarticulate signs? You couldn't even get most of the people on this THREAD to buy into what you were saying, one guy called you a Kook and this is a right wing website!!! Earth to Capt; what do you accomplish with your miniprotests here in the US???