NYC/RNC Protests

The convention hasn\'t even started yet. I can almost bet it will get worse.

Well, today was the main day of organized protest, so anything after, I don\'t know.

Heh... the people who were protesting in the news footage were exactly as I imagined them - people on the fringe of society... one could even go so far as to label some of them outcasts.  One thing is for certain most needed to learn how to use a bar of soap.  

I know I could not take a week off to protest. How do these freaks do it?

They don\'t have jobs.  They aren\'t contributing to society.  The best part of all is that they don\'t realize how out of touch they are with most American voters - whether they are Republican, Democrat or Independent.

[clips]

Originally posted by GigaShadow
They don\'t have jobs.

uhm..maybe that\'s why they\'re protesting?  seriosly tho..that\'s one of the major problems in this country,.. jobs..bush says they have created what? so many jobs over how many months? :rolleyes: and the jobs that are bein created are not real jobs. somebody bulids a mcdonalds here or a wendy\'s there...trust those are not real jobs...you and i would not take those jobs even if we were unemployed..

now on to the matter of protesters...i think it\'s cool for these people to express they\'re views,..but some of them just take it too far..i seen on the news there was this one group that stood naked on the street somewhere..:rolleyes: yo,..get a f**kin life! and to be honest..at the end of the day what have you accomplished,..other than making yourself look like a complete idiot...we all know the politicians are gonna do what they want regardless of how you protest..even if you vote them out of office most of these cats have enough money to employ you to work for them after you voted them out meh..whatever

i\'m all for protesting... just keep it cool and civil,..because trust, nobody takes you seriously when you go to extremes like that...

Originally posted by clips
uhm..maybe that\'s why they\'re protesting?  seriosly tho..that\'s one of the major problems in this country,.. jobs..bush says they have created what? so many jobs over how many months? :rolleyes: and the jobs that are bein created are not real jobs.

Look at those people - would you hire them?  I believe good hygeine goes far when interviewing for a job.  :rolleyes:  There is no reason for someone in this country who is legalized and doesn\'t have any strange personality disorders to not to be able to find work other than being lazy.

Anyway, those protestors were protesting a wide variety of things - I don\'t think jobs was the most popular reason.  It was Iraq.

[Titan]

This is why I\'m glad I\'m moderate right. I\'m not a left wing nutjob or a right wing wacko. I think radicals on both sides are full of crap. I was listening to a New York rock station that I usually listen to and they had this DJ on it shoveling a whole bunch of bullshit about how Bush screwed people out of jobs and he\'s the reason that our economy is failing. Last I heard, didn\'t the president really have nothing to do with the economy? It pissed me off because I never heard this station to actually have a DJ that spoke their views politically like this guy. This station always seemed quite neutral in a political sense. Never heard any pro or anti Bush DJ pushing their views.

It is a common misbelief that Presidents dictate the performance of the economy.  If that was true - blame Clinton because the economy was on a downhill slide before the elections.

In any case, it is simply not true, the economy goes through cycles, growth and recession - which has nothing to do with who is in office at the time.

I never heard a rock station that wasn\'t liberal or a gospel station that wasn\'t conservative.

[Titan]

Originally posted by Black Samurai
I never heard a rock station that wasn\'t liberal or a gospel station that wasn\'t conservative.

I\'m not saying rock stations aren\'t, I\'m just saying I\'ve never heard this particular station (with the exception of Howard Stern) saying anything about either side like this moron did. I\'ve heard DJs say they support either but didnn\'t throw out BS like this guy did. He basically said "we need to get this moron out of the whitehouse. He is the reason there is poverty in the country and why there are 33 million unemployed people." What a douche.

Originally posted by GigaShadow
They don\'t have jobs.  They aren\'t contributing to society.  The best part of all is that they don\'t realize how out of touch they are with most American voters - whether they are Republican, Democrat or Independent.

Most people protested only on Sunday, and most people don\'t work on Sunday.  The vast majority of them weren\'t gonna be there for the whole week.

And Titan, as for the radio, I guess you\'ll have to get used to it.  It seems like more and more these days every radio DJ seems to have some political opinion he wants to talk about.  In my area they are mostly conservative.  And Black Sammy, trust me, we have one VERY conservative rock station here.

Are you sure he didn\'t say 33 million below the poverty level?  We don\'t have an unemployment rate of 12 percent - which he is claiming.

[Titan]

Originally posted by shockwaves
And Titan, as for the radio, I guess you\'ll have to get used to it.  It seems like more and more these days every radio DJ seems to have some political opinion he wants to talk about.  In my area they are mostly conservative.  And Black Sammy, trust me, we have one VERY conservative rock station here.

I\'m sure you\'re right and I\'m not doubting that. I just wish these idiots would actually do some research instead of pushing forth his liberal bullshit with nothing to back it up or even makes sense.

Originally posted by GigaShadow
Are you sure he didn\'t say 33 million below the poverty level?  We don\'t have an unemployment rate of 12 percent - which he is claiming.

He might have said poverty level but he said something really high for unemployment which I didn\'t by for a second. But the poverty level still has nothing to do with the president. Its not like he personally lowered those people\'s poverty level. Its the companies these people are working for that cut pay and hours, not the president.

More harassment from the radicial left:

Posting of Delegate Data Investigated

1 hour, 9 minutes ago  

By CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The Secret Service (news - web sites) is investigating the posting on the Internet of names and personal information about thousands of delegates to the Republication National Convention in New York, officials said Monday.


The probe focuses on anonymous postings on a Web site operated by the Independent Media Center, which describes itself as "a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate and passionate tellings of the truth."


The American Civil Liberties Union (news - web sites), whose lawyers are representing the Web site\'s administrators, gave the Secret Service the e-mail addresses of the administrators in a letter Monday. But the ACLU pointed out that they are not responsible for postings of lists of GOP delegates because the site guarantees anonymity to anyone who wants it.


"This type of investigation is really a form of intimidation and a message to activists that they will pay a price for speaking out," said Ann Beeson, the ACLU\'s associate legal counsel. "The posting of publicly available information about people who are in the news should not trigger an investigation."


Secret Service officials would not comment beyond confirming that the investigation was continuing. But federal law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because the probe is active, said there were concerns that posting of the delegate lists could subject the delegates to harassment, acts of violence or identity theft.


There are several lists of Republican National Convention delegates posted on the Indymedia site, including one listing more than 2,000 of them. Included are names, home addresses, e-mail addresses and the New York-area hotels where many are staying.


"The delegates should know not only what people think of the platform they will ratify, but that they are not welcome in New York City," said one posting, first reported Monday by The New York Times.


A federal grand jury in New York has subpoenaed a Web hosting service, Calyx Internet Access, for Indymedia contact information. Calyx President Nicholas Merrill said he refused initially to voluntarily give the information to the Secret Service, asking instead for the subpoena to protect clients\' privacy. Calyx is also being representing legally by the ACLU.



It doesn\'t surprise me that the ACLU is defending them.  

:rolleyes: