I respectfully disagree. If the war is unjust, at least in the mind of the individual, they have a right to protest. In fact, it is one of the safeguards of our democracy. Protest, questioning, requiring and demanding answers, is at the very heart of our democracy.
I do not believe that going outside of the US, especially to the foreign nation that we are at war with, is the same. Peter Arnett and Jane Fonda were just plain wrong. They should have kept their protest within our borders.
A fine line? Maybe. But, not only is the additional safeguard against tyranny worth it, but it also shows that we walk the walk and not just talk the talk. We believe in free speech, even if that means that we sometimes appear to others as a divided nation. If we stifled that freedom to protest, we would just be another wanna-be 'democracy', in word only. |
