Where Did All the Anti-War Protestors Go?

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Where Did All the Anti-War Protestors Go?


The anti-war movement was all over the news before President Obama was elected. But apparently they weren’t really anti-war ... they were just anti-President Bush. Two college professors just released a study of national protests between 2007 and 2009. What did they find?

… After January 2007, the attendance at antiwar rallies [measured in] roughly the tens of thousands, or thousands, through the end of 2008.

… After the election of Barack Obama as president, the order of magnitude of antiwar protests dropped [...] Organizers were hard pressed to stage a rally with participation in the thousands, or even in the hundreds. For example, we counted exactly 107 participants at a Chicago rally on October 7, 2009.

Amazing. Especially because the war in Afghanistan ramped up after Obama was elected. American fatalities shot up in 2009 and 2010.

The protesters have remained silent over Libya.

And I’m struck by the hypocrisy of the supposedly “anti-war” politicians who voted against Iraq, like Nancy Pelosi. Since Obama was elected, she has voted to continue the war in Afghanistan … and supported the attack on Libya.



Read more: http://stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.co...all-the-anti-war-protestors-go/#ixzz1KZkW6W5D
 
Yurt said:
Where Did All the Anti-War Protestors Go?


The anti-war movement was all over the news before President Obama was elected. But apparently they weren’t really anti-war ... they were just anti-President Bush. Two college professors just released a study of national protests between 2007 and 2009. What did they find?

… After January 2007, the attendance at antiwar rallies [measured in] roughly the tens of thousands, or thousands, through the end of 2008.

… After the election of Barack Obama as president, the order of magnitude of antiwar protests dropped [...] Organizers were hard pressed to stage a rally with participation in the thousands, or even in the hundreds. For example, we counted exactly 107 participants at a Chicago rally on October 7, 2009.

Amazing. Especially because the war in Afghanistan ramped up after Obama was elected. American fatalities shot up in 2009 and 2010.

The protesters have remained silent over Libya.

And I’m struck by the hypocrisy of the supposedly “anti-war” politicians who voted against Iraq, like Nancy Pelosi. Since Obama was elected, she has voted to continue the war in Afghanistan … and supported the attack on Libya.



Read more: http://stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.co...all-the-anti-war-protestors-go/#ixzz1KZkW6W5D
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Their insipid hypocrisy knows no bounds~
 
These aholes only like being world Sherrif when their party has the badge. Yurtsie you ghestapo freak.
 
Topspin said:
These aholes only like being world Sherrif when their party has the badge. Yurtsie you ghestapo freak.
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I can't speak for yanks, nor would I wish to, but it could simply be a strong reaction against Monkeybush in the same way that the loony right blame Obama for bad weather and their grandmother's chilblains.
Of course the other thing concerns legality, but the yank right has never been much concerned with that.
 
You don't speak much against your empire building, wait did England get a message board yestarday?
 
Topspin said:
You don't speak much against your empire building, wait did England get a message board yestarday?
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If they did it certainly was not yestarday.
We have many buildings, but you have beaten me on that one. I give up. Where is the empire building? We don't have one here either.
 
I see the left can not reflect on its hypocrite protestors. But remember kids, all republicans are bible thumping, Quran burning tea partiers who want to force your daughters to have babies because they hate women.
 
Damocles said:
Yes. I also remember that many of the protesters we saw on the news were protesting that war, do you remember that?
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Not many; some. By about a million miles, the biggest outcry on the left, as well as around the world, was about Iraq.

But, I know you also saw "bad Bush" every day during the Exxon Valdez, so....
 
Onceler said:
Not many; some. By about a million miles, the biggest outcry on the left, as well as around the world, was about Iraq.

But, I know you also saw "bad Bush" every day during the Exxon Valdez, so....
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Now, another question. What happened to those protesters? Soldiers are still in Iraq, as well as more than before in Afghanistan. Brown people are still being "indiscriminately" bombed by remote control airplanes in Pakistan, and now in Libya too. Basically nothing has really changed, except there are now more brown people being "indiscriminately" bombed and the protesters appear to be gone.
 
Damocles said:
Now, another question. What happened to those protesters? Soldiers are still in Iraq, as well as more than before in Afghanistan. Brown people are still being "indiscriminately" bombed by remote control airplanes in Pakistan, and now in Libya too. Basically nothing has really changed, except the protesters appear to be gone.
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They appear to be gone? Really?

There are 3 gathering spots around my general area, where protesters have been getting together for many years on both Saturday & Sunday. Every weekend when I drive by those areas, they're still out there - and their #'s are the same.

I have seen more widescale protests, as well - especially since Libya started in. But even before that. Anti-war people are, in general, anti-war. If you have paid attention on an editorial level, many on the left are extremely disillusioned w/ Obama on that front.

What you're not seeing is intense media coverage; that's probably what you meant. But I would also never argue that any of the protests we're seeing now, just like the ones that were strictly Afghanistan prior to Iraq, approach even a fraction of the scale & intensity that characterized the protests about Iraq. You guys want to put a cookie-cutter to every conflict we have, but the fact is, they are all very different. Just personally, I supported Afghanistan (way back when), but I was vehemently against Iraq.

But no - it must be Bush. Poor Bush....
 
Onceler said:
They appear to be gone? Really?

There are 3 gathering spots around my general area, where protesters have been getting together for many years on both Saturday & Sunday. Every weekend when I drive by those areas, they're still out there - and their #'s are the same.

I have seen more widescale protests, as well - especially since Libya started in. But even before that. Anti-war people are, in general, anti-war. If you have paid attention on an editorial level, many on the left are extremely disillusioned w/ Obama on that front.

What you're not seeing is intense media coverage; that's probably what you meant. But I would also never argue that any of the protests we're seeing now, just like the ones that were strictly Afghanistan prior to Iraq, approach even a fraction of the scale & intensity that characterized the protests about Iraq. You guys want to put a cookie-cutter to every conflict we have, but the fact is, they are all very different. Just personally, I supported Afghanistan (way back when), but I was vehemently against Iraq.

But no - it must be Bush. Poor Bush....
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Anecdotal. Take some pictures, show us.

We can compare to some of the pictures and the numbers of protesters that we can find from... say 2007. Then we'll start talking about why the press decided to stop reporting the hundreds of thousands showing up in DC to protest like they used to... Even with Press that is supposedly entirely against Obama we don't see these protesters hatin' on him... Interesting.

And we're not talking about Bush, we're talking about the current hypocrisy of those who are not-Bush. In the conversation between you and I, previous to this post you are the only person to even mention Bush.

Does anybody remember how somebody hated "brown" people because we bombed them indiscriminately with remote controlled airplanes and how that was causing more terrorism. I wonder why it doesn't cause that now? Those planes fly ever more frequently.
 
Damocles said:
Anecdotal. Take some pictures, show us.

We can compare to some of the pictures and the numbers of protesters that we can find from... say 2007. Then we'll start talking about why the press decided to stop reporting the hundreds of thousands showing up in DC to protest like they used to... Even with Press that is supposedly entirely against Obama we don't see these protesters hatin' on him... Interesting.

And we're not talking about Bush, we're talking about the current hypocrisy of those who are not-Bush.
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2007...you mean when we were still in Iraq w/ no real timeline for exiting? Thanks for making my point.

You only see hypocrisy because of your devotion to Bush.
 
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