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To: Lane3 who wrote (19766)	5/28/2006 10:49:02 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542783

place yourself on one side or the other not necessarily the right side.. i assume you mean in their opinion.

To: Lane3 who wrote (19766)	5/28/2006 10:49:40 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542783

Nope you aren't hearing me. If you stay involved you press for change from the government. You vote green. You try to get the government interested in actively looking for solutions. Those marches about the war weren't just about feeling good- they were about trying to get the government to notice that a lot of people were not happy with the direction Bush was headed. Maybe for some people it was "just a statement"- but I didn't meet any of those people. The people I met thought that with enough people out in the streets, the government might listen. It's worked before, and it will work again.

To: Lane3 who wrote (19766)	5/28/2006 6:28:39 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542783

Or protesting the Iraq war. The war's on. You can't change that. So you march and carry a sign. Why? Because you want to make a statement to yourself and others about where you stand. It feels good to place yourself firmly on the "right" side. Bush does not read the newspapers. He does not watch TV. For the most part he surrounds himself with people who understands what he want to hear. This is more or less true for anybody who becomes president. The power of the office just gets to them. Getting together to protest is a very powerful message that is being sent. Otherwise, people like Bush or Lyndon B Johnson wouldn't have a clue that what they are doing is unpopular. Protesting sends a powerful message. Bush still has more than two years left on his presidency. If it were not for protests in the street, nobody would ever tell him things are not going well. They could always spin away poll results by presenting polls of their own. But, they can't spin away what he see out of the window of the oval office when hundreds of thousands of people are protesting against the war. Will that change Bush's mind? Most likely not. However, it encourages others that were sitting on the fence to start speaking up. It kind of snowballs from there. Some protests of course would never catch on, but if there is substance behind the protests - it catches on. Why do you think that dictators do not allow protestors to get started?