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I wonder whether someone forgot to tell them that the city is controlled by Democrats.

Idiots like this don't care who is in charge. They are against anything and everthing that is told to them by the farleft nutzoids. If college is so boring that they have nothing better to do, perhaps momma and daddy need to cut off the money and let them got to work for a living.
They think taking pictures is a bad thing? They wouldn't have lasted a minute in the 60's and 70's when it wasn't a camera aimed at you but a billyclub up side the head.
A taste from the old days would certainly test their intestinal fortitude.

When I was a college dude I attended a few political protest gatherings for no other particular reason that it gave me an excuse to get out of class and postpone my studies.

And for some reason an angry babe, all red in the face (politcally too), braless and denouncing the system and fomenting revolution thruout the land was, at least to me, really sexy.

G-d, I miss the old days.

I’m with you there Mr.Produce, the old billy club sure did get my attention! As for Mom and Dad cutting off the tuition that isn’t likely because then the brats would just come home and the parents sure don’t want that. And as for getting a job, well that’s not very likely either and even if they do get a job it won’t support them so Mom and Dad are still stuck. Better to pay the colleges to baby-sit the kids. I estimated once that a third of my students were there because Mom and Dad just needed to get them out of town, and in most cases even out of the state.

I went to a couple protests. I attended a millions for mumia (abu jamal) rally in philadelphia in 1999, tens of thousands attended.

He's still in jail.

I remember eating lunch in a deli that day with a philadelphia resident who casually assured me that thousands gathered, made up of splinter advocacy organizations each with their own prized cause, didn't really mean much to the regular people in the city who'd actually followed the case every day from the beginning.
And yes, I was an angry teenager, and yes, I do believe it was worthless. I was romantacizing.

Lesson learned.

The key is to learn how to affect change in the most effective way. I may not agree with what Doug always says, but it's hard to deny that his scope and credibility reaches people in a more effective way than say, a protest outside of a police station by a bunch of fight the power rebels.

So, I'm saying, uh, Doug Clark is a hippie.

Doug,

If you were a hippie as Mr. Fab says you were, did you ever "turn on, tune in, drop out"?

Far out, Mr. Fab.

I'm all for the college kids protesting outside the cop shop today. Police may need to answer some of the specific complaints about what happened last week. Did officers draw weapons, as alleged? Did a police car drive through the crowd, almost running over people? Was a young woman sprayed in the face with pepper spray simply for writing down an officer's badge number? Did police hurl two young women to the concrete? These are some of the allegations being made. They're very serious. Asking them in a public place can draw attention to the issues.

I'm waiting for a call-back from police now so I can ask these questions directly.

While World Can't Wait has a political agenda that I'm not impressed with, its members here or elsewhere can say or think what they like. They also can be criticized for their views.

Last week's demonstration should not have led to the trouble it did; the same mistakes should not be made at future events.

As for what kind of hippie I was, I had long hair and sometimes went to class barefoot. That was about it.

Good for you, Doug on seeking answers.

But the Rally isnt today.

It's Tomorrow.

Cheers!

Jim.

Brenda, I am amazed. You at a protest rally? Wild woman, hahhaha.

I agree with you on the money deal. It probably would not do any good and yep, the kids would move back home and mess up the peace and quite that Mom and Dad so richly deserve after putting up with the brat for 18 years. Since they won't work, send em to the military. By golly that will straighten their butts out. I was a good butt straightener outter as a DI once upon a long time ago. Humility is learned rapidly when you are laying face down in mud or standing in the hot sun for a few hours. 20 mile hikes with a 60lb ruck is not bad either for teaching purposes. Of course peer re-enforcement is the best teacher.

Thanks, Jim.

Anybody want to meet me for a rally today?

Thanks, Jim.

Anybody want to meet me for a rally today?* Doug

I was there! But nobody else show up except some dude dress up as a produce store and was using the name Cabbage Head who had a sign saying "Jesus would join the Army today and pack a M-16 in the name of peace." The meter maid wrote him a ticket for parking in unauthorize mental zone and took his picture which was forward to the NSA for review. It was my understanding that Homeland Defense match his pic with a Limo Driver in New York City who work at Club 21.

Connie Mack Jr.,

I think you are on acid or some other mind altering drug. So what else would make your comments so incomprehensible ?

Connie Mack Jr.,

I think you are on acid or some other mind altering drug. So what else would make your comments so incomprehensible ?*Timothy Leary Jr, Ph.D.

Look Doc! I know you are floating around in space as a dust bunnie now, so how come you were able to read and understand my incomprehensible comment? You keep this up and I will have your buddy Gordon G. Liddy come after you with a vacum cleaner in space and suck your repub NSA rug brain dead mind back to reality on this planet.

Yrs..Gordon D Armstrong...first man to walk on the moon in a MGM Hollywood studio