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Date Posted: 09:38:46 07/22/01 Sun
Author: Naturally
Subject: Thou protest too much!

I’m watching all these idiot protesters in Genoa and I have but one question.. What the hell are they protesting? It’s not very apparent to me, and if they are asked, they go into an hysterical tirade about, uhhhh, globalization? Hey, if they don’t like globalization, whatever that is, why don’t they stay the hell home in their own country? Apparently global protests are another story.

But really, it seems just an excuse for a bunch of aimless witless Gen X’ers to go to some other country with their hats on backwards and commit mayhem. What? Aren’t there any soccer games to go to anymore? Wasn’t that the appropriate venue to dodge water cannons and narrowly miss getting a rubber bullet in your ass?

I see U-2’s Bono is involved with this. He’s against third world debt. Yeah, okay, I’m waiting to feel the adrenaline. I’m not feeling any.. Hey, tell those countries to pay their bills and they won’t be in debt. Simple solution, next case.

Nothing has so completely rocked my sensibilities to the point where I felt compelled to protest. Maybe I’m simply an indifferent sloth with no convictions. If anything, I sometimes have to resist the urge to protest the protesters. When PETA did that billboard depicting NYC Mayor Raymond Giuliani with a milk mustache and the caption,”Got Cancer?”, I was tempted to send them a couple packages of veal cutlets. I fantasized about cajoling my Internet buddies to do the same. I had gleeful daydreams of these imbeciles receiving boxes and boxes of veal. Now that would have been grand.

In the 60’s, protesting was a way of life. Smoke a little dope, get in the VW bus, listen to Dylan and march on the Pentagon. Of course, the most effective protest of all was the civil rights protest. But these were focused, defined and the goals clearly set out. And the protesters weren’t the ones responsible for the violence by and large. It was the protsetees!

Now, we spoiled Americans will protest anything,. I laugh uncontrollably when these well-heeled Newtonites, with their Neeman-Marcus tote bags get all in a froth over the MCAS. “I encouraged my child to walk-out of the exam!” and they say it with the righteous indignation that only a snotty Wellesley College alumnus can muster. In their minds, you know they put themselves on the same plane as Rosa Parks. (Or was that a bus?) Please! Tell your little brat to take the test and wait for something important before you send them out into the streets.

Like maybe, Globalization. Yeah, right!

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