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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
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Call me culturally insensitive if you wish, but I found it pretty damn odd and kind of funny when I saw pictures of the "protests" in Spain last week and over the weekend.
The marches featured hundreds of thousands of people, all holding their hands over their head as a gesture to say "STOP!" to violence. Of course, over here, that looks like the sign for surrender.
Actually, I find the whole idea of a"protest march" against an atrocity rather odd -- I guess we do memorial services instead.
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I shared this reaction at first. Then I thought about it this way: Our first reaction on 9/11 was to shut down our places of work and all head home. We hid. For days, even weeks and months afterwards we were frightened, and lived in heightened security listening to fighter planes circling in the night.
The Spanish went out in the street, and basically said, look, bomb away you assholes, we remain opposed to violence. You will not take our streets and cities from us.
They then went to the polls and told their government they also remained opposed to stupidity, their view of the Spanish government's foreign policy, and lying, something just coming to light during the day of the vote.
