From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Mar 31 2003 - 21:26:33 MST
--- Amara Graps <amara@amara.com> wrote:
> Spudboy:
> > My response is that yes, a lot of these other countries are
> > interested in lining their pockets.
>
> Damien Sullivan:
> >Mass protests across the world based on lining their pockets?
>
> Maybe to the government in Minnesota....
> http://www.startribune.com/stories/468/3787953.html
> Pawlenty wants protesters to pay law enforcement costs
>
> ST. PAUL - As anti-war protesters begin adopting more
> confrontational tactics, Gov. Tim Pawlenty wants them to reimburse
> law enforcement for the expense of their own arrests.
> "We're not saying people don't have a right to free speech," the
> governor said. "We're just saying people don't have a right to a
> free arrest."
ROTFLMAO. He is right of course. Even in cases where charges are
mitigated by circumstances, court costs can be levied. Considering that
the protest movement makes getting arrested an integral part of their
political action, they are externalizing the costs of their theater
onto the public by doing so. This is forcing the taxpayer to pay for
political expression they may not agree with.
But back to the subject of this thread. Current polls show that 85% of
Americans feel the war is going well, and 78% support the war. 53%
accept the necessity of civilian casualties with 12% additional saying
so only if it saves US soldier's lives (i.e. dealing with human
shields) for a total 65% support even with significant civilian
casualties. These figures presented by Democratic pollster Dick Morris
(Clinton's top pollster/political consultant). Morris says Dems need to
get over it and get behind the war or they will remain behind next year
when it counts. Anti-war candidates may be getting news right now, but
come next fall, people will remember the likes of Howard Dean like they
now remember the names of GOP presidential candidates from the 1944
election.
For once, I agree entirely with a Democrat... Of course, if I were a
cynical libertarian, I'd want to see as weak a DNC candidate as
possible, to encourage more people to vote libertarian as a protest
vote against a GOP landslide.
=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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