I've helped organize them. I'm just now helping get a "We support our troops" display case installed.
Or outdoor political speeches?
I've delivered a few of them myself.
Regarding that other nonsense . . .
I'm teaching them precisely to do battle with extremists (left or right-wing) in the arena of ideas! without resorting to name calling, ad hominem, and insults. . . . give it a try sometime. It's exhilirating!)
The Arena of Ideas?
Liberals never enter the arena of ideas anymore, they're too busy hogging the news cameras and staging events to sway the public with meaningless rhetoric.
You are grooming your students for a fight they never encounter, the one on one open debate with an actual liberal.
Meanwhile those here willing to counter protest are making a difference, because unlike your students they are forcing the issue to the forefront and winning against the liberals.
Those that protest win by preventing Code Pink from making the news. Every time the media can't display Code Pink's protests because of those Freepers counter protesting, it's a clean win. And because this win touches more soldiers then any display case in a hallway somewhere only a fool would attempt to shame those that do so.
And only a cretin would call it dirty politics.