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Nancy Gets testy with the Peasants | 74 comments (74 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Nancy Gets testy with the Peasants (3.25 / 4)

The point is that her neighbors have nothing to do with it - their homes, their privacy, their well-being are considered nothing more than collateral damage in the greater war on terrible representation, from the squatters' perspective.

Man, that sounds familiar...

I'm finally getting married...

by Oscar In Louisville on Wed Oct 10th, 2007 at 06:37:44 PM EST
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Re: Nancy Gets testy with the Peasants (4.00 / 7)

you are equating the situation that Pelosi's neighbors are facing with the people in Iraq? wow.

Latino Político | "We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit." - Octavio Paz

by Man Eegee (man.eegee at gmail dot com) on Wed Oct 10th, 2007 at 07:03:07 PM EST
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Re: Nancy Gets testy with the Peasants (3.00 / 3)

A callous disregard for others with an eye toward accomplishing a mission that can not possibly be accomplished? I'd say there's a bit of correlation there.

I'm finally getting married...

by Oscar In Louisville on Wed Oct 10th, 2007 at 09:57:11 PM EST
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Wow! What a non-sequitor (2.75 / 4)

This kind of moronic SHIT is just stupid. Nancy isn't there. She's in Washington, but the protestors are TOO STUPID to realize it.

There is a public space and there is a private space. Just because you are on the public payroll does not allow people to camp in your front yard.

And the neighbors have rights, too.

by dataguy on Wed Oct 10th, 2007 at 10:40:14 PM EST
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Re: Nancy Gets testy with the Peasants (3.33 / 3)

If they were really harming those people, they would be arrested. You just don't believe in protest. I guess, MLK had a callous disregard for Montgomery business people and their costumers.

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by StrayRoots (dameocrat@STUFFTOREMOVEpeacemail.com) on Wed Oct 10th, 2007 at 10:37:50 PM EST
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Re: Nancy Gets testy with the Peasants (none / 0)

I guess, MLK had a callous disregard for Montgomery business people and their costumers.

I suppose if you consider the refusal to ride the bus to be a callous disregard for the Montgomery bus company and its customers then you might have a point...

I'm finally getting married...

by Oscar In Louisville on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 06:58:01 AM EST
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MLK (none / 0)

The civil rights movement NEVER protested private homes. Bull Connor never had protestors at his house. People protested at the courthouse, they marched, but private homes were ALWAYS respected.

Only white protesters have that sense of entitlement that allows them to pull this sort of stunt. No one is being persuaded, only irritated. No one will be recruited to the movement because of this.

If the point of this is to end the war, then it is counter-productive. If the point of this is just to Act Out, then they are doing very well.

Enough is enough. We should be protesting congressional offices. We should be protesting in front of the American Enterprise Institute and Brookings. We should be protesting the offices of Exxon, Shell, and their trade association. We should be protesting the offices of Patton Boggs and the Rendon Group. But private homes are off limits.

by AliceDem on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 09:37:02 AM EST
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Correct (none / 0)

There is a public zone where the politicians must be confronted. There is a private zone where they deserve, as any human being, a moment of privacy.

If you saw Newt Gingrich sitting at a table next to yours eating lunch, would you

pour a glass of water on him
scream at him
wave in a friendly manner
ignore him and eat your lunch.

Only a moron and a very rude and poorly behaved person would do ANY of 1, 2, or 3. The ONLY reasonable behavior is 4)

by dataguy on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 09:51:15 AM EST
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Re: Correct (none / 0)

picket in front of the resturant!

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by StrayRoots (dameocrat@STUFFTOREMOVEpeacemail.com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 10:28:46 AM EST
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Re: MLK (none / 0)

The constitution doesn't say they are off limits, and there were more than a few protests at the mansions of Southern Governors. Protesting at there little shacks didn't stop them from protesting other venues. Your peevishness is silly and is nothing but faux populism, like the kind Nancy tries to represent when she brings up homeless people she fails to protect.

Photo by Matt Herron
June 17, 1965: Mrs. Aylene Quinn, a civil rights activist from McComb, Mississippi, went with her four children to the Governor's Mansion in Jackson to protest the seating of Mississippi congressmen elected from districts where no Blacks were allowed to vote. Refused admittance, Quinn and her children sat on the steps of the mansion. They carried
small American flags. In this photograph, a Mississippi highway patrolman wrestles American flag from five-year-old Anthony Quinn.

Just cut it out already and read some Thoreau and some Gandhi!

Gandhi's followers inconvenienced train passengers by laying down in front of them, and King inconvenienced commuters with his march to Selma. Closing down a bridge for at-least a day. He also encouraged the Memphis garbage workers to strike, allowing garbage to pile up for months.

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by StrayRoots (dameocrat@STUFFTOREMOVEpeacemail.com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 10:24:37 AM EST
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Re: MLK (none / 0)

You don't know me, you don't know what I have read. Please show me where in My Experiments with Truth Ghandi wrote about protesting in front of someone's home.

The Governor's Mansion is no more a private home than the White House.

Were their civil rights demonstrations in front of John Stennis' house? Either in Mississippi or Washington, DC? Of course not. Such things were not done.

Neither did the Free South Africa movement ever indulge in such tantrums. They demonstrated in front of the SA Embassy (or 100 feet from it, as was required by law.) They had a sit down demonstrated at Deak Perrera. They demonstrated in front of IBM. But they never demonstrated at anyone's private home.

We need to draw lines. Our outrage does not justify outrageous behavior.

by AliceDem on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 11:29:52 AM EST
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Re: MLK (none / 0)

There are any number of bahaviors traditional protesters commonly engage in that can be construed as rude or outrages, but go blather on.

I suppose sitting at the Woolworths lunch counter wasn't a violation to state law? Hmm, how did they get arrested then? How did King write his letters from jail if he never violated the law?

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by StrayRoots (dameocrat@STUFFTOREMOVEpeacemail.com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 12:03:59 PM EST
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Re: MLK (none / 0)

The sit down strike was at the Woolworth counter, not the private homes of Woolworth management. It is possible to be confrontational without being personal.

by AliceDem on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 12:33:42 PM EST
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Re: MLK (none / 0)

That is your completely arbitrary rule, you could set other arbitrary rules about not breaking laws. I don't think protesting in front of the house violates her privacy. Like it or not a governers mansion is a politicians home, but set the goal post there.

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by StrayRoots (dameocrat@STUFFTOREMOVEpeacemail.com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 01:17:13 PM EST
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What a ridiculous example (none / 1)

The discrimination occurred at the lunch counter. So, having a sit-down strike at the lunch counter was perfectly sensible.

They did not have a sit-down strike in the kitchen of the home of the Woolworth's manager. That would have been wrong, stupid and counter-productive. Yet, this is what many, such as yourself, are advocating. Ridiculous.

by dataguy on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 12:37:13 PM EST
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Re: What a ridiculous example (none / 0)

They did hold up commuters on the march to Selma. So I guess the commuters were hostages. They did allow garbage to pile up in Memphis, so I guess the people of Memphis were hostages.

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by StrayRoots (dameocrat@STUFFTOREMOVEpeacemail.com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 01:24:32 PM EST
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"Tantrum" is the correct term (none / 1)

These protesters are idiots, and they are childish. They are just pissing off civilians. It's like a bunch of people taking hostages, and saying, "We will hold these hostages until you do what we want."

It's exactly the same. They are holding her neighborhood and her neighbors hostage.

by dataguy on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 12:40:52 PM EST
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Re: "Tantrum" is the correct term (none / 0)

Well King was holding the commuters on the Selma bridge hostage, and Gandhi was holding train passengers hostage.

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by StrayRoots (dameocrat@STUFFTOREMOVEpeacemail.com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 01:21:26 PM EST
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Do you piss in public? (none / 0)

If not, why not? You clearly see no difference between a public space and a private space. Pissing in public should be a RIGHT, god damn. FREE THE PISS!!!

by dataguy on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 02:15:26 PM EST
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