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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear In my experience it is difficult to get anywhere by protest. It does make a good cover for illegal activity. I remember well when SDS radicals raided a certain ROTC armory and "acquired" 200 M14 automatic rifles one year in the early 70s while the police were involved with a takeover of another campus building... But, THAT was a coincidence... LC [/quote] Lots of things make good cover for illegal activities; business, government, the internet. You name it, there will be illegal activites occuring in some form under guise of innocent and lawful activites. On the more recent protest scene, we've seen anti-abortion activists murder doctors in Buffalo and Florida and staff at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Massachusetts. Incidents like these and the one you quote are often cited as an example why lawful protest should be discouraged, limited or banned. Of course it is difficult to get anywhere by protest. Protest is, by nature used in difficult situations. But if you are familiar with the history of this country, you will remember that it wasn't polite discourse that won the basic human rights granted under the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It wasn't a letter writing campaign that got the vote for women. It wasn't a phone call to industry owners that got us an 8 hour workday and basic health and safety laws in the US. All these things required "loud-mouthed irrational types" going out into the streets, giving up their time, often their liberty and sometimes their lives so we might enjoy the luxury of belittling their efforts in public forums today. Democracy can't be beat but getting and keeping it isn't always pretty. Wayne
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