Mme Sheehan a eu mieux pour faire attention. L’opinion publique peut s’allumer son très rapidement. Une mère greieving de sourire ne regarde pas très bonne.

La protestation de fourmi-guerre m’a donné l’espoir. Le défilé d’amour a donné me l’espoir, et au festival de fétiche, wel qu’il m’a donné……… quelques nouveaux tours et quelques nouveaux jouets :)

(I don’t know what would have happened if everyone had sat down at the same time, but here’s a recent story from France where people stand up at the same time. There was a Camerounian student who was studying for his bac in Paris (without proper papers or visa). When he turned 18, the police came to take him. His professors and classmates all protested so that he could take his final exam and receive his degree. Alas, he failed. When he came back to school the police came back and deported him. Professors and students followed and made a ruckus in the airport. Consequently, all passengers on the flight stood up and refused for the plane to take off. The pilot and flight staff concurred. The police renounced deporting the boy and the professors managed to secure him a student visa. That was a week or two ago, in Paris.)

I agree with you on the fact that Clinton bashing was no less ridiculous despite the fact that in both cases (Bush and Clinton) there were (are) some relevant griefs amidst the complaints (they both lied for example, even though the monicagate didn’t claim as many lives ans billions of dollars).

I am wondering too what would have happened if every protestors had sat.

I’m glad to read your comment in that it shows that you have solid and serious arguments.
I do agree with you that the importance of these protests should not be underestimated but my point was to temper the Bush Bashing resulting from this post beacuse in its very essence the arrest of Ms Sheehan has nothing to do with who’s running the white house, it’s just the law.

I think a fair post would have stressed the fact that this is definitely a photo op and maybe wouldn’t have led to such irrelevant comments on how bush is stupid, evil, incomptent, the devil (and all the usual adjectives and name calling)

I am also sad to see that while some bush opponents have some good points, they are lost in the middle of 7th grader’s insults and assertions (Once again “bush is evil”, “bush is a liar”, “bush is an idiot”, etc.), which in my opinion, even if they often have serious ground to support them, do not help at all to show an educated face of the opposition.

It is just plain forbidden to stand still for hours or to sit in as a protest around the white house.

Would I go and wave a “Bush, way to go!” sign (which I would not do) I would get arrested too.

Just a year ago I was asked to move after barely 5 minutes of taking pictures and trying to see something through the white house windows from 200 yards.

Y’all need to stop these epidermic reactions any time you see the word Bush in a paper, it’s getting ridiculous and doesn’t help taking arguments seriously.

(In my humble opinion)