Scary, Scary Monday

[kyburg]

Welcome back to the Nixon Years.

Check This Out. A peaceful protest of Bush speaking at a high school commencement in Ohio sparks a repressive response from everybody from the school police to the Secret Service. Shoot. All these folks are doing is "turning their backs" when asked to stand up for the President.

Gee weeds, it's just like Governor Reagan again. Not President. Oh, no. We had the jerk right where Gray Davis is now when the Vietnam protests heated up in the late 60's. Can't have that - he then closed the college campuses. Period. Protest that!

Not a thing was thrown, not a gun or weapon was found...and not a word was spoken. Give me a break.

Looking for more of a middle ground report...but this is just scary enough to begin with. Sheesh.

Comments

Re: My message to Senator Feinstein.

[solidkz.livejournal.com]

Note - This reply was e-mailed to the tybob people as well.

Some people protest just because they can, and as such create their own reasons for doing so, oft-times really reaching in order to do so. Although yes, indeed, George Bush did say 'A Dictatorship would be easier', he also said (and has repeated many times) that he won't take the easy path, he won't compromise on American principles and etc etc etc. That's got to be one of the worst amateur attempts at selective quoting I've ever seen. The entire page looks rather Amateurish, which really doesn't surprise me. While I don't doubt that the silent protest did happen, and I can see them turning their backs and being threatened with academic expulsion and the whole nine, Has anybody actually been expelled? Was anybody's graduation denied? Was anybody actually arrested? Do they have any accounts of the event that aren't from Hardline Anti-Bush types? Personally I don't take sides with this issue. If the Secret Service and/or State Police are arresting people for non-violent protest, then there's a problem. If people are being kicked out of state sponsored events on state owned land for protesting the state, that's perfectly within the state's rights. If people are being ARRESTED, then the state oversteps it's bounds by a long shot and these tybob people have a case.

Remember, you have the right to say or print anything you want, but if you come into my house and insult me, don't think the first amendment is going to keep me from kicking your behind right back out into the street.

Also, just from my own personal experience as a photographer and all, I tend to disbelieve everybody until I see the evidence for myself. If they can show photographs or unbroken/unedited videotape of the event and people being arrested, then I'll buy it, until then, it's just the deluded rantings of a bunch of admittedly anti-Bush types.

Very true

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

The one thing that keeps hammering at me is that there is only one eyewittness account - and getting corroboration from any other source hasn't been possible.

Also, another point to bring up that I was made aware of was that since this was a State University function, then it was a State issue - not a Federal one and that the juridsiction is with the Ohio State Legislature and no one else.

Hmm.

Do I want to wait until someone is actually arrested for such a thing? Do I believe any part of that report was untrue or exaggerated?

The evidence is thin on the ground...but in my heart of hearts, I want it to go no further than this. And that is what I told my representatives, I think. I didn't like what I heard and I didn't want it to happen in my backyard.

If it was a knee-jerk reaction...well, I do remember Vietnam.