“large group of people suddenly freeze in place” You know, I was always for the war but after seeing people freeze in place in a train station, well, I have changed my mind!
But in the end, I understood the tolerant response. The crowd on the streets of Washington D.C. on Wednesday was not part of an antiwar movement. The dancing kids and ridiculously costumed protesters are what we have today instead of an antiwar movement. A true antiwar movement, like the one from the 1960s, causes real chaos, affects public opinion, and ultimately can influence policy and our political culture. That’s not the case with United for Peace and Justice. Its members are clowns who are looking for a good street party that’s made more exciting by a whiff of protest and danger.
Arresting, manhandling, or otherwise cracking down hard on them would just feed into their martyr complex and generate a lot of sympathetic media attention. When they’re left alone to act out their fantasies, they discredit themselves. If the price for keeping this circus sideshow from metastasizing into a real political movement is that some local drivers get delayed at intersections once in a while, then that’s not much of a price at all.
For some reason, this immediately brought to mind a line from "12 Monkeys", where one of Brad Pitt's fellow activists says that Pitt's character called them all "ineffectual liberal jerk-offs".
Freezing in place for 5 minutes - how much more ineffectual can you possibly get?
What is it with the left and these weird theatrics? They sleep in tents to “help” the homeless, stage “die ins” and “freeze ins” to demonstrate one thing or another and show up dressed as clowns. What is all this supposed to prove other than their idiocy?