I cant get it all straight in my head
Ok.
So here's the deal.
I'm a liberal, and so are my parents, and so is my sister. None of which are hippies in any way. And both my parents have jobs. And what is a hippie in this day and age anyways? Hippies used to be defined by their 'flower child' persona because they were always trippin out on acid and drugs like that. so they had this whole...ness...that was different. so somehow, along the lines, the act of protesting became something associated with hippies. Misconception much? Martin Luther King Jr. protested more than anyone in the US. I dont think i have ever heard him called a hippie. He wore a suit, didnt do drugs, and fought strongly for a cause. I think that is what protesting is all about. Fighting for a cause and getting your views across. I dont think just because u protest your a hippie and that makes absolutely NO sense to me. And yes, some protests can take extreme measures and, yes, some do become violent. Its a consequence and yea it sucks, but protesting still makes a difference. People complain about protesters wasting tax payers money. I dont think its a waste at all. Fighting for rights and causes that people believe in through a given constitutional right is not a waste. Its something our founding fathers wanted us to do and it fights for things that i think are right. Equality mainly. And then people get pissed cuz people protesting the war in Iraq are wasting their money. Ummm...so the $78.4 billion dollars going into rebuilding Iraq isnt a waste at all? What about the lives lost there? O i forgot. When we waste money it is a big thing, but not when we waste lives. I am not a hippie. Neither are the people protesting the inequalities in America and war in Iraq. They are people fighting for what they believe in and i couldnt support them anymore for that.
Then i have another complaint, like usual. So we captured Saddam. I give our military and intelligence major props for that. But hold the phone. Osama Bin Laden just came out with another audio tape tellin his people to keep at the killin of us. Wasnt Saddam supposed to be the one running some sort of terrorist show? ohhh we all remember now that Bin Laden was responsible for 9-11, not saddam. and we all remember that Bin Laden is the one that killed our American people on our own soil. Dont forget that we still dont have Bin Laden, the leader of the Al Qaida terrorist group. When did we all get fooled into thinking Saddam was the cause of all our problems and forget about the one who we cant catch? I'm still not happy and the killer of the people of 9-11 has still not been brought to justice. Saddam was a distraction and we lost more american lives pointlessly with a pointless war.
America needs to be saved cuz this is friggen ridiculous.
In the words of Chris Matthews:
Why can't we catch Bin Laden? He is 6'8", on dialysis, and riding a camel.
five by five
So here's the deal.
I'm a liberal, and so are my parents, and so is my sister. None of which are hippies in any way. And both my parents have jobs. And what is a hippie in this day and age anyways? Hippies used to be defined by their 'flower child' persona because they were always trippin out on acid and drugs like that. so they had this whole...ness...that was different. so somehow, along the lines, the act of protesting became something associated with hippies. Misconception much? Martin Luther King Jr. protested more than anyone in the US. I dont think i have ever heard him called a hippie. He wore a suit, didnt do drugs, and fought strongly for a cause. I think that is what protesting is all about. Fighting for a cause and getting your views across. I dont think just because u protest your a hippie and that makes absolutely NO sense to me. And yes, some protests can take extreme measures and, yes, some do become violent. Its a consequence and yea it sucks, but protesting still makes a difference. People complain about protesters wasting tax payers money. I dont think its a waste at all. Fighting for rights and causes that people believe in through a given constitutional right is not a waste. Its something our founding fathers wanted us to do and it fights for things that i think are right. Equality mainly. And then people get pissed cuz people protesting the war in Iraq are wasting their money. Ummm...so the $78.4 billion dollars going into rebuilding Iraq isnt a waste at all? What about the lives lost there? O i forgot. When we waste money it is a big thing, but not when we waste lives. I am not a hippie. Neither are the people protesting the inequalities in America and war in Iraq. They are people fighting for what they believe in and i couldnt support them anymore for that.
Then i have another complaint, like usual. So we captured Saddam. I give our military and intelligence major props for that. But hold the phone. Osama Bin Laden just came out with another audio tape tellin his people to keep at the killin of us. Wasnt Saddam supposed to be the one running some sort of terrorist show? ohhh we all remember now that Bin Laden was responsible for 9-11, not saddam. and we all remember that Bin Laden is the one that killed our American people on our own soil. Dont forget that we still dont have Bin Laden, the leader of the Al Qaida terrorist group. When did we all get fooled into thinking Saddam was the cause of all our problems and forget about the one who we cant catch? I'm still not happy and the killer of the people of 9-11 has still not been brought to justice. Saddam was a distraction and we lost more american lives pointlessly with a pointless war.
America needs to be saved cuz this is friggen ridiculous.
In the words of Chris Matthews:
Why can't we catch Bin Laden? He is 6'8", on dialysis, and riding a camel.
five by five