While everyone has been obsessing over Schiavo, anti-war protests

happened all over the world. Any comments?

booga booga!

before throwing stones at the media.

There's something like a 10:1 ratio of Schiavo threads to protest ones at DU.

What protests?

What's got them furriners worked up this week? Don't they know about Terri?

had local coverage, but this blackout for the corporate media is a downer to my otherwise good vibes. I can't believe that this isn't being covered. I quit watching corporate tv quite some time ago.

'em going.

Everything is fine and dandy in BushLand. He's King George and all his people love him and his decisions. :eyes:

That Joe Sixpack and Nancy Nascar don't mind paying $2.00 a gallon for gasoline to get to work, assuming they have work to go to, and don't mind sending their sons and daughters to die in Iraq so that Haliburton can make a killing, and don't mind suffering in silence with an illness because they have no health insurance, because Republican Politicians can shout "Praise the Lord" and "God Bless America", and that means that everythang is gonna be o.k.

all I see are threads about Schiavo. I wasn't interested in the case to begin with, people deal with this kind of thing all the time. I became even less interested when the politicos got ahold of it and used it as an attention diverter. Franky I was surprised to see so many threads on it. I stopped in for a minute last night and saw someone had made a Schiavo thread just because Will Pitt posted a thread asking people to stop making Schiavo threads. Then I clicked on another thread with an incongruous title and it was another Shiavio thread by the same guy That was it for me, I went and hung out at Crooks and Liars...

Anti-war protests are great, commendable. That does not take away from the importance of the Schiavo case.

The Schiavo case is important - it is about states rights versus federalism. To pass the resolution is to violate the 10th Amendment.



Does it not bother you that congress is sticking its nose into a personal matter that has already been resolved by the state courts pursuant to constitutionally valid state laws?

Does it not bother you that a resolution on this one issue is just another erosion of our constitutional rights?

:shrug:

And only ONE issue - no more!

I am capable of thinking about more than one thing in a 24 hour period, can't I try and do both, I promise, I will be effective!

we'd be out of Iraq by Monday!

There is an Activism Thread to post images of the protests. GD is for general discussions and I, for one, generally feel that this issue matters a hell of lot!

I wouldn't want Tom DeLay or Bill Frist or anybody, whether republican or democrat, deciding my fate. Even when the Supreme Court took this case they sided with the husband. Go figure!

of DU bandwith.

to say it is about one lady and not as important as other things that have occurred this weekend.

Maybe it is because people are overlooking the importance of the issue and the fact that the matter is being debated in congress as I type.

Maybe losing constitutional rights at home scares the hell out of me and I wonder if this constitutional battle is lost, will the next time congress interfere will it be to say that the right to demonstrate and march like the protests of this weekend are illegal.

Gosh, I am a donor too. If the threads were not important to people they would drop like stones and no one would bother to comment in them. The activism forum is a good place to discuss the protests with little interference from the posters that are concerned with this liberty issue.

but when more than 2/3rds of the threads being posted are about the same subject, I wouldn't call that multitasking, I call it wasting my time sifting through 17 threads all on the same subject.. But thats just MHO

Also you seem to know your films (the Lynch thread from earlier today.)

Doesn't hurt for us all to be reminded that citizen objections to immoral wars take precedence over far-right grandstanding over Terri Schiavo.

Thanks.

The anniversary protests are fine, but they will not acheive a SINGLE THING.

Meanwhile the republican congress is dismantling your civil rights over a weekend - but you think waving a sign on an anniversary is MORE important.

My support for peace demonstrators goes back a ways.

Don't fault me for falling for the anti-Viet Nam War talk I heard at the feet of George McGovern and Martin Luther King and many others.

They were very important influences to me.

I haven't made any statement in favor of anybody dismantling my civil rights or the civil rights of others. If you can find that statement on DU or elsewhere, post it.

If not, I request that I be left to my leftist preference for peace over the Bush administration's propaganda.

"Doesn't hurt for us all to be reminded that citizen objections to immoral wars take precedence over far-right grandstanding over Terri Schiavo."

There you go - your protest which won't change a thing "takes precedence" over addressing a very serious threat to civil rights.

We have a couple of fronts going here, at least.

-- nation was flagrantly illegal. Opposition worldwide was persuasively significant and called / calls into question the role of nations as international citizens.

Those demonstrating to mark the anniversary of that assault are doubtless conscionable people and their cause is a just one. I support their effort; indeed I took part in it.

It wasn't the first time. It won't be the last.

My objection, as stated in reasonably clear prose, was to the grandstanding over the Schiavo case, and in previous posts on DU and elsewhere I have named names: Tom DeLay, Dubya, and the generic right-wing ministers whipping their flocks into a "Save Terri" media circus.

I posted in this thread in support of Kathy in Cambridge, as she has consistently made sense on the progressive agenda and I feel that she could easily follow the path of my post.

Sorry you missed the turn.

But if your ego is served by focusing on your protest to the exclusion of this, have at it.

The Bush administration's assault on democracy is of course real, but that was not the point of Kathy of Cambridge's point, at least as far as I felt, and the grandstanding I referenced is the blame I lay at the feet of Tom DeLay.

I accuse him of grandstanding on the Schiavo case. That is, butting in where he does not belong, long after several doctors and almost as many courts have spoken and resolved the matter.

Someone in favor of anti-war protests is not by definition unaware or unconcerned about the Bush administration's record on democratic principles or constitutional issues.

Many of the posters in this thread have done a great job on DU in various threads over a long period of time to challenge Dubya and his people.

I'm one of them. And your shot at my ego was cheap.

protest to the exclusion of all other news.

-- and your conclusions about the original post and mine as well are unearned.

You seem very intelligent to me in your DU posts, but you don't seem very respectful this evening.

I stand by my comments.

Karl Rove's hoping for plenty of hungry sharks off the Jersey shore this summer...

Gotta have something to distract us with after Terri's gone.

I DID hear, though, that 5 were arrested in Chicago. Either nobody showed up, people were feeling compliant, or the Cops pulled their heads out of their asses since 2 years ago when they busted hundreds...

Never happened. If we don't see it...it didn't happen.

If I hear no protest's, see no protest's there is no protest's. Lalalalala. Everything is so perfect. :eyes:

One Big distraction after another for team Bushco. ANYTHING to avoid his failure in office.

Maybe I'll contact Danny Schecter.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

I must be out of the loop. I was watching the protests!

In San Diego taken yesterday .... bye me :hi:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3309148

I live in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is part of China. We have a government owned radio station. So it's owned and controlled by the Chinese govt.

On Sunday, the first item of news was the peace demonstrations. But in the one-minute news item, for the first 20 seconds they announced the marches around the world, and then gave a big BUT followed by 40 seconds of Bush's speech about freedom and democracy spreading in the ME.

Even here, the propaganda is used to crowd out any opposition to the war.

There is no hope.

..when the few idiots can worry about saving the life of the one person who's been almost dead for 15 years anyways.

worked pretty good, too.

Watch, as soon as the protests end, this story will slide to page 15.