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Old 09-01-2004, 04:14 PM   #2
Yorick
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Join Date: January 7, 2001
Location: Breukelen (over the river from New Amsterdam)
Age: 53
Posts: 9,246
full on....

It's pretty quite businesswise here. I know countless people in my industry who've gone away, or stayed home.

2000 arrests would be pretty wild.

I just don't see the effectiveness of protesting.

I mean, register to vote. Vote. Hand out pamphlets. what is the point of simply hounding a government? Everyone can and does do that. Get a policy and run if you want to. Get out there and get people to vote for a candidate you support?

It just seems to be an epidemic of powerlessness prevalent in America, despite this being a democracy.

Dollars and the vote make all the difference. Not protests.

And certainly not beating up a police officer doing his job, and beating him senseless. I spit on that kind of violence.
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