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Do you feel the same about all those tea partiers who take their kids to protests?
Of course not, it's different, they are tea partiers.
Actually I'm not in favor of kids being included in any protests. Unlike yourself I'm not so partisan as to believe anyone's political ideology should make them immune to criticism.
Well protests are one thing, but trying to block people from getting to work is quite another. These people didn't pay for the streets, they don't own them. They have no right preventing others from using them.
People have the right to do WHATEVER THE F THEY WANT ON PUBLIC PROPERTY. What an idiotic idea. First, you only want to allow right wing protests based on your other posts. Second, the city is large enough for people to find alternative routes to work. If they're late, they should have checked the traffic report. But, nooooo, you have to blame the protesters because you disagree with them for what must truly be unsupportable reasons.
I am left nearly speechless how right wingers claim that THEY are peaceful and that protests must meet their approval. THAT is something I'd protest all day long.
When you think about, how would anarchy be any worse than the crap that passes for reality now?
Are you proposing the 13yr old went to the protest on her own? Get real.
Is that so unbelievable? I would have done so at my age. Sorry you can't imagine a social consciousness in a teenager.
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Originally Posted by outbacknv
Actually I'm not in favor of kids being included in any protests. Unlike yourself I'm not so partisan as to believe anyone's political ideology should make them immune to criticism.
In wartime, children are often included to make the attackers/police think twice. In this instance, the presence of children in a protest should accomplish the same thing. If they do harm to a child, such as arresting a 13-year old (or in other situations where they have handcuffed a 5-year old and placed them in a separate car from their parents) it should make national headlines. It is the wrong thing to do. The danger is by posed not by the parents, but by the police who are there to keep the peace, not to abuse their authority.
When I heard that it's mostly communists, socialists, and the like at the protests, I figured it was just an astroturf rally. Then I heard Michael Moore was there, and then when I thought, yep this is becoming like the tea party of the left, co-opted by George Soros and friends.
So in other words, these are the people who got their guy into the White House, who have their NAFTA and cheap labor, and the whole liberal agenda but they're protesting? What are they protesting?
You are assuming you know the whereabouts of her parents...
You're grasping at straws. In the unlikely event the parents are not in attendance they either allowed or failed to provide adequate parental supervision that enabled the 13yr old to be there. It's a failure in parenting now matter how you look at it.
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