100,000 Protestors... Angry mobs of students...

innerSpaceman · 03-27-2006, 06:05 PM

Um, that Republican who escapes your mind is John McCain, the likely next president of the U.S.

Reliable estimates of protesters just in L.A. were at over 1 million. There were also huge protests in Phoenix, Detroit, Atlanta, New York and D.C., among other locations.

The protests are not resulting in a backlash, but are resulting in exactly what they are designed to ... influencing the legislators in a direction clearly desired by the populace (whether or not that populace consists of likely voters).

And contrary to any societal backlash, the American public is not yet so cruel that it will condone criminalizing aid by priests, nuns, doctors and social workers to society's most underprivileged class.

Kevy Baby · 03-27-2006, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

The protests are not resulting in a backlash, but are resulting in exactly what they are designed to ... influencing the legislators in a direction clearly desired by the populace (whether or not that populace consists of likely voters).

If there is going to be backlash, you wouldn't see it same day.

Alex · 03-27-2006, 09:29 PM

And it may not provoke a backlash in California but there are 46 non-border states where people may be a bit more bothered by images of hundreds of thousands of protestors marching through American cities, waving an awful lot of foreign flags (though debates rage on as to an accurate breakdown) saying "we may be here illegally but that's not reason for you to treat us like it."

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innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Um, that Republican who escapes your mind is John McCain, the likely next president of the U.S. Reliable estimates of protesters just in L.A. were at over 1 million. There were also huge protests in Phoenix, Detroit, Atlanta, New York and D.C., among other locations. The protests are not resulting in a backlash, but are resulting in exactly what they are designed to ... influencing the legislators in a direction clearly desired by the populace (whether or not that populace consists of likely voters). And contrary to any societal backlash, the American public is not yet so cruel that it will condone criminalizing aid by priests, nuns, doctors and social workers to society's most underprivileged class.
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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	And it may not provoke a backlash in California but there are 46 non-border states where people may be a bit more bothered by images of hundreds of thousands of protestors marching through American cities, waving an awful lot of foreign flags (though debates rage on as to an accurate breakdown) saying "we may be here illegally but that's not reason for you to treat us like it."
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