The Young Left is having a protest against the U.S. war in Iraq today in a square in downtown Falun. This will be about as effective as protesting in front of the post office in Ann Arbor (something I did on a regular basis about a decade ago) which is to say, not at all. Still, I’d like to show my support for these well-intentioned youths and take some pictures for y’all, but I’ve already biked downtown and back once today, so I think I’m just too lazy. Sigh.
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20 March 2008 at 6:01 pm
W. Shedd
I’m guessing that they won’t be arrested the way anti-war protesters were in the US the last few days. 150 or so arrested in San Francisco, 10 arrested at UC Regents building in L.A., 5 arrested in Boston near a recruiter station, over 60 arrested in Washington D.C. at IRS and congressional offices.
Of course, if these protests had happened in Russia or China, they would have been reported differently. Here, they were law enforcement officials keeping the peace in the face of angry, unreasonable, disruptive protestors. There, they are a government crack-down on civilians.