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Originally posted by CRASH HARDDRIVE: Will someone with a SHRED of intellectual honesty tell me how blocking people AT RANDOM in traffic -people who?ve done absolutely nothing against you, who you have no idea who they are or weather or not they even oppose you or even agree with you, weather they are on their way to a hospital or any emergency (or anything else that's no one's friggen business to disrupt), in ANY way compares to anything ever done by Gandhi against an identified foe?... |
The people inconvenienced are not the target of the protest. ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN are. We (sadly) live in an age where more publicity can be gained, more quickly, than ever before. Attract a newsman, and *bing* there you are on local, and if you are lucky, national, TV. I do not condone these protesters (or any other cynical media manipulators, like politicians of all colours) but I do understand their objective, and their success is evidenced by, among other things, this thread.
It was compared to Gandhi because someone said that lying down in front of vehicles was pointless and ineffective, but Gandhi proved it isn't, even before the TV age.