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2016 Postmortem

1StrongBlackMan

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8. LOL ...

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #6)

Wed Nov 26, 2014, 04:52 PM

Nov 2014

protests are inconvenient.

Not if done properly! But if they were smart ... they would have typed a strongly worded OP/OpEd piece. That where they wouldn't risk alienating the people that don't give a damn about their grievance!

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(RI) Local Ferguson protesters and police clash on I-95 [View all] EEO Nov 2014 OP

What a bunch of idiots. TheCowsCameHome Nov 2014 #1

How so? Bringing attention to the injustice by inconvienencing motorists for 20 minutes? Heroes. Fred Sanders Nov 2014 #2

Lay down in the middle of a heavily traveled interstate. TheCowsCameHome Nov 2014 #5

But that was to stop the traffic..anyone hurt? You are missing the point, protests are inconvenient. Fred Sanders Nov 2014 #6

Stop the traffic for... TheCowsCameHome Nov 2014 #7

"their cause" TBF Nov 2014 #14

..but at least smart enough not to sit in the middle of an interstate. TheCowsCameHome Nov 2014 #15

LOL ... 1StrongBlackMan Nov 2014 #8

This picture hollowdweller Nov 2014 #10

Protesters who block highways are idiots. Just like... JC4145 Nov 2014 #16

Gandhi also "inconvenienced" the British...it is the nature of civil disobedience, you seem unaware Fred Sanders Nov 2014 #17

Should people consider it an "inconvenience"... JC4145 Nov 2014 #18

When I watched the video and saw the trooper talking to that small girl, who had been dragged... EEO Nov 2014 #4

Disruption is not a message of peace liberal N proud Nov 2014 #3

The Mahatma would disagree. Fred Sanders Nov 2014 #9

I agree with The Mahatma nt LiberalElite Nov 2014 #11

Peace without justice is a hollow and meaningless value. Nazi Germany had peace from 1933-39 and KingCharlemagne Nov 2014 #13

Message auto-removed Name removed Nov 2014 #12