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Home Front: Culture Wars
Seattle: Students rally downtown for peace
2007-04-19
The hundreds of high-school and college students who walked out of classes and gathered at Westlake Plaza on Wednesday afternoon had a message for adults, especially Iraq war supporters: Quit messing up the world for younger generations.

"They need to look at who this war is really affecting," said Mari Anderson, an Ingraham sophomore. "It's our future, and we're going to be the ones who have to deal with the consequences."
You wanna spend the rest of your life wearing a bhurka and taking orders from nuclear-armed mullahs? No? Then shut up, you sophomoric little... sophomore.
Toting homemade drums, wearing anti-war buttons and carrying banners with slogans such as "Books not Bombs," Anderson and about 300 students rallied to protest the war and military recruitment in schools.
more soft-brained, infantile liberal crap at link...
Posted by:Dave D.

#19  You wouldn't have to if it was packaged right.If it were, the left side of the political spectrum would be falling all over themselves.
Posted by: Pappy   2007-04-19 21:02  

#18  too hell with funding the peace corps. what godd has it really done too make the us LOOK ANY BETTER THAN A BUNCH OF HIPPIES CHEWING KHAT
Posted by: sinse   2007-04-19 20:55  

#17  Drafting these idiots into the peace core (Or something like it) is a great idea with one big flaw.

How are you going to keep them in long enough to learn? With a rifleman behind each and every one?
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2007-04-19 18:57  

#16  I'm against the draft as it deprives citizens of rights and screws up the military. However, drafting some folks into the Peace Corps so they could see the third world is not all wine and roses being kept down by the man wouldn't be such a bad thing. I'd support tripling the funding for the Peace Corps because it would help a lot of these types grow up.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2007-04-19 17:38  

#15  Looks like mostly guys at that "rally".

And most of them probably just wanted to skip school.
Posted by: gorb   2007-04-19 16:02  

#14  We'll compromise. How about "Books not Bongs"?
Posted by: tu3031   2007-04-19 12:49  

#13  anonymous, proving TW right. Got to remember to send that one. Thanks!
Posted by: Icerigger   2007-04-19 11:57  

#12  There's only one book that's not talibanned you fools.

bombs secure books.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan   2007-04-19 10:10  

#11  
Posted by: anonymous5089   2007-04-19 09:58  

#10  Darth,remember - no draft. If they don't want to go to war, they don't have to. When I was a kid, you could be opposed to the Viet Nam war and still end up there.
Posted by: Rambler   2007-04-19 09:45  

#9  The current crop of peaceniks are definitely not as large as they were in the 60s-70s. I guess there is something positive to be said for no marriage and abortion. Culls the gene pool.
Posted by: DarthVader   2007-04-19 09:21  

#8  Even with those Impactful Drums of Peace, being clothed clearly diluted their message. I mean, don't they know you have to be naked to prove how much you mean it? I for one would have found naked drumming much more persuasive. Naked, drumming, and hanging from trees would have been seriously impactful. But, apparently peace isn't that important to them, so I'll just have to keep mindlessly cheering for dead terrorists.
Posted by: exJAG   2007-04-19 08:28  

#7  "They need to look at who this war is really affecting," said Mari Anderson, an Ingraham sophomoreic little twit. "It's our future, and we're going to be the ones who have to deal with the consequences."

Forget the people actually fighting and dying, it's all about you.
Posted by: Jackal   2007-04-19 08:19  

#6  Twice? I think you significantly underestimate, Icerigger.

How utterly unaware of the world around them to think they would be more impactful toting homemade drums -- although perhaps it's the reporter who lacks awareness. My first thought, and second too, was of the oatmeal carton drums made by the trailing daughters in preschool. The ones with the plastic Cool Whip lids were the best, because they could be hung around the neck with a bit of coloured yarn, and they really took a beating from the pencil drumsticks. They weren't nearly as loud as the singing voices of the three- and four-year old girls marching round the house with them.
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-04-19 06:33  

#5  Shit you could get twice that number by yelling, "keg"!
Posted by: Icerigger   2007-04-19 02:49  

#4  I'm all for an airfare paid overseas trip for anyone until they grow the hell up.
Posted by: ed   2007-04-19 01:19  

#3  Only 300? LOL! The Seattle news last night was predicting tens of thousands....
Posted by: CrazyFool   2007-04-19 01:11  

#2  The clueless, unintelligent, narcissistic, self-centered idiots on the way to replace the current crop of same. Nauseating.
Posted by: Verlaine   2007-04-19 00:57  

#1  Yeah? Well pull your damn pants up, ya snotty little bastards...
Posted by: mojo   2007-04-19 00:42  

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