No, bill o'Rights, you're the one that appears to be missing the issue. Allow me to pick out a few quotes from the posters.
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I won't call what they did protesting. When you break laws you are no longer protesting. You now become a lowlife criminal.
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Hm, what would Jesus do? Lets set them on fire and send them to hell instead of 6 years in prison.
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Civil disobedience doesn't include causing damage to property.
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It's good for them I'm not standing in their way with a gun.
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Frankly if a protester against or for anything gets in my way......that is the day the brakes on the car fail and I remember to wear the steel toes.
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When you break into a nuclear storage or launch area that is a restricted area you are lucky if you are not killed justifiably.
That is not civil disobedieance, this is a felony and a breach of national security.
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The issue is greater than the nuclear weapons issue. The people above, for the most part, appear to:
- believe that civil disobedience, which this country was created from, is only ok if you don't break any laws. (discovering why this position is ridiculous is left to the reader as an exercise.)
- apparently, the proper response to nuns armed with paint and signs is to joyously gun them down in cold blood, or set them on fire and "send them to hell."
The arrogance and stupidity of the conservative side astounds me sometimes. I have *never* called for the death of Rush Limbaugh, for example, nor would I ever attempt to silence his right to free speech or protest. I wouldn't even joke about that. Totalitarianism and fascism isn't funny, especially today in the era of John Ashcroft.
I don't see the difference between this act and the Boston Tea party. I don't see the difference between this act and Rosa Parks walking onto the white section of a bus, breaking the law and risking lynching.
If Rosa Parks did what she did today, I guess the group posting here would shoot her, set her on fire, throw her in jail, and then bill her for the damage caused by any subsequent rioting that she caused.
Frankly, the conservatives on this thread disgust me. Shooting and killing 60-year old nuns armed with buckets of paint is apparently good humor material for the Right.