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Originally posted by ironweed
If you don't understand my posts, they can't be slogans. One position, please.
And as Sebby has made clear in terms that even you can understand, anyone I can't see assumes the risk of getting run over. It's their damn fault for being between my bulldozer and their house. Idiots.
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Dude, come on. You know I have a fairly dim view of protesters and little tolerance for the stupid (the latter I recognize often painting me as a hypocrite due to the quality/coherence of my posts). I'm not saying she deserved what she got, and you know me better than to twist me words that way. I'm just saying, as icily as I think is deserved for a person who does something as dumb as that girl did, and is as naive as that girl was, caveat emptor. And she wasn't protecting her house. She was on a moral crusade to save the world. As laudable as that may be, it doesn't exempt you from the pitfalls of stupidity, one of which is getting run over by a bulldozer you lay in front of.
ETA: I also admit a distaste for white suburban kids on crusades like hers. I don't think anyone at her age has the full understanding of issues to be doing what she did. You could say her foray into world saving was as ill advised and poorly executed as Bush's foray into nation building overseas. Two people doing something they don't know a hell of a lot about. I guess I'd have to give her more credit, for putting her money where her mouth was, instead of havin others pay with their blood. But I'm not going to accept some revisionist view of her as a felled victim. She wanted high risk; she got it. There are other, smarter ways to protest. Being a zealot'll kill ya.
