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Thanks. I do understand what you're saying and I appreciate what you're doing and, especially why you're doing it.

The Pro life movement provides a great distinction: I'm a member myself, and I think an annual March on Washington, or one's capital, or occasional activism is right, good and salutary.

It's the act of weekly street activism that I think becomes addictive and can potentially turn one into a radical. And ending abortion is a whole lot more grave a matter than being motivated by wanting to embarrass some other group. That's all I'm trying to get FReepers to consider.

But I understand that many street activists are positively motivated, that they just want to stand and be heard or make a simple statement and make sure the troops feel supported and that embarrassing the opposition is just a nice consequence of their action.

Anyway, thanks, Wayne for not jumping in my sh*t . . .

The conservative temperament is not given to intimidation, extremism, mean-spiritedness and reaction against things. It is concerned with motivation, it is acts for positive change, is concerned with both means and ends, values reasoned debate over activism, is good-humored and maintains balance in all things (especially one's personal life). In short, a conservative is NOT a radical.

If you can stand on a street corner with your sign, week after week, and not get addicted to the "happening" and become a seeker of headlines, who lives for the Friday night protest . . . more power to ya! Just watch your motives, that's all I ask.

. . . time for church. . . (I promise to never post this sort of challenge to street FReepers again.)

Your propensity to assign negative motivations to the activism of others, while assigning noble intentions to your own speaks volumes. The stench of intellectual elitism hangs heavy on your posts. I realize, from experience, it's an occupational hazard.

Handle your business in the ivory tower however you see fit. And keep your agenda to yourself, regardless of what it is. But by the same token, keep your condescending lecturing to yourself or save it for the pinkos. If you actually have been reading the WR threads and comprehending them, you'll see clearly why we are there and what motivates us: supporting and protecting our troops. Shaming pinkos is just the cherry on the sundae.