What the heck am I supposed to do about it?

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A few weeks ago we went to the Phoenix Chinese Cultural Center for Chinese New Year. As we pulled up to the center we saw a group of about 15 protesters. What could they possibly be protesting? Chinese people? Chinese food? The year of the dog?

I scrambled to get my camera out to take a pic. As I pulled up next to them I saw that their signs had a picture of a dead and mutilated dog and a cat being skinned. These pictures were very graphic to say the least. The caption said something about cats and dogs being used for fur in China.

A couple of thoughts about this. First, the guy closest to my car should be thanking his lucky charms that my two year old was asleep. Because had he seen that I probably would have tried to make a coat out of protesters. (And there's nothing like teaching violent revenge from an early age, right? )

Secondly, I understand the right to peaceful protest and I fully support it, but do I not have a right not to have my kids exposed to such brutal images without my consent? Those things could never go on a billboard, for example, so why can they flash them around while we are driving in to a parking structure? I should probably add that traffic was very slow, so we were near this guy for almost a full minute. There would have been no escaping Indi seeing this had he been awake.

Third, what's their freaking point? The chinese cultural center basically has some cool asian structures, some restaurants, a garden, some gift type stores, and a grocery store. We were there for a good portion of the day and I saw neither cats nor dogs nor furs. On the off chance I'm ever in China I will be sure not to buy a fur coat. Not that I would have anyways. What do they want from me? Should I have been rude to the Chinese people I saw that day to get back at their culture of origin? What the heck am I supposed to do about it?!

Farking idiots.