So, I was thinking about the pictures I saw of the police in Brunswick, GA blocking protestors at the G8 summit, and I thought:
How ironic that those people we see in pictures at Woodstock, and putting flowers in the rifles of National Guard troops, and setting things on fire, and rioting while protesting the Vietnam war, all the while proclaiming the evils of big business, are the same filthy pricks that are now funding a police force that dresses in all black, equipping them with rubber bullets, batons, and setting up these 'Free Speech Zones' so they can contain dissenting opinions, all in the name of protecting economic progress.All of the ideals those hippie pukes claimed to stand and fight for have flown out the window. What a bunch of assholes. They claimed to stand for freedom and peace, and instead have delivered us into a world of more regulation, less freedom, and more strife.
Bah. You'll have to forgive me, I'm full of piss and vinegar today.
Yes, I tend to agree with your view. Notice the dynamic of those protesting: young, gullible and full of energy; they protest against racism and globalization when in fact there's a proportion of them that a doing it because they can, not because they actually want to. The extent of this hypocrisy is demonstrated by their attitude towards their own nation..they run it down yet contribute to the very regimes they are dead set against. When it comes to addressing unsustainable globalization entirely due to third world immigration (even when the debate is instigated by academics), these protesters shoot themselves in the foot time over. They do more damage than good when they choose to live in a glass house and throw rocks, screaming racism or this and that when in fact they are part of the problem and not the solution. They stifle debate unless it's on their terms yet they fail to realise the world isn't like that..