We should please excuse the 19 year old French student who may not understand that the United States has certain civic systems set into place to deal with such disagreements and objections. We can write our elected legislators. We can appeal to alumni, voters, the community. We can get the media involved.
Only when things can no longer be pushed through the civil channels is a demonstration called for. That's why protests are usually left for the more important matters...like human rights abuses, war, corruption. So they're taken as seriously.
But why should Mr. "Auguste Blanqui" care?
Afterall, he's chosen to name himself after a violent communist leader who believed change should happen through violence and not through peaceful means.
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Ex-student
Nov 20, 2009
3:54 p.m.
We should please excuse the 19 year old French student who may not understand that the United States has certain civic systems set into place to deal with such disagreements and objections. We can write our elected legislators. We can appeal to alumni, voters, the community. We can get the media involved.
Only when things can no longer be pushed through the civil channels is a demonstration called for. That's why protests are usually left for the more important matters...like human rights abuses, war, corruption. So they're taken as seriously.
But why should Mr. "Auguste Blanqui" care?
Afterall, he's chosen to name himself after a violent communist leader who believed change should happen through violence and not through peaceful means.