Comments on: Protests: Sigh. http://sf.metblogs.com/2008/05/01/protests-sigh/ Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:30:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: sf_anna http://sf.metblogs.com/2008/05/01/protests-sigh/comment-page-1/#comment-7115 sf_anna Mon, 05 May 2008 21:56:36 +0000 http://sf.metblogs.com/2008/05/01/protests-sigh/#comment-7115 Hear hear. Hear hear.

]]> By: Kaili Oteri http://sf.metblogs.com/2008/05/01/protests-sigh/comment-page-1/#comment-7113 Kaili Oteri Mon, 05 May 2008 19:55:02 +0000 http://sf.metblogs.com/2008/05/01/protests-sigh/#comment-7113 I'm going to go ahead and sound jaded right now. When I first moved here, I thought it was great for all these people to be protesting. I still think large-scale, occasional, organized protests are good. Let San Franciscans know what roads to avoid. It's a pretty safe bet these folks are against whatever you are. Educate people who don't know your message. But, as much as I didn't want to believe it, I have real-life experience of something entirely different going on. Some of these people, especially in the small groups, who really want to block roads or march in unexpected places with no objective and no plan, just... want... to ... be on TELEVISION. It broke my little idealistic heart when I got to know some of these folks personally. But it turned out to be the case with a few folk, small-time charity to help their fellow man is not in the interest of these kids--- it's only when the media is around. And while they get their "look how much I care" moment in the paper or local news-spot; hard-working people who are driving their hybrids and care about the war just as much; are burning that precious oil we are all fighting about. Just while waiting for "Jane Rebel Protest" to get the attention they lacked from their parents. It's so sad... Jaded post ended now. I’m going to go ahead and sound jaded right now. When I first moved here, I thought it was great for all these people to be protesting. I still think large-scale, occasional, organized protests are good. Let San Franciscans know what roads to avoid. It’s a pretty safe bet these folks are against whatever you are. Educate people who don’t know your message.

But, as much as I didn’t want to believe it, I have real-life experience of something entirely different going on. Some of these people, especially in the small groups, who really want to block roads or march in unexpected places with no objective and no plan, just… want… to … be on TELEVISION.

It broke my little idealistic heart when I got to know some of these folks personally. But it turned out to be the case with a few folk, small-time charity to help their fellow man is not in the interest of these kids— it’s only when the media is around. And while they get their "look how much I care" moment in the paper or local news-spot; hard-working people who are driving their hybrids and care about the war just as much; are burning that precious oil we are all fighting about. Just while waiting for "Jane Rebel Protest" to get the attention they lacked from their parents.

It’s so sad… Jaded post ended now.

]]> By: troymccluresf http://sf.metblogs.com/2008/05/01/protests-sigh/comment-page-1/#comment-7101 troymccluresf Thu, 01 May 2008 19:30:37 +0000 http://sf.metblogs.com/2008/05/01/protests-sigh/#comment-7101 I think it's the "preaching to the choir" aspect that bothers me the most. A planned protest at City Hall? Rock on. Disrupting downtown in the middle of the day? "Oh yeah, gotta make sure all these right-wing warmongering San Franciscans hear about how bad the war is going." I think it’s the "preaching to the choir" aspect that bothers me the most. A planned protest at City Hall? Rock on. Disrupting downtown in the middle of the day? "Oh yeah, gotta make sure all these right-wing warmongering San Franciscans hear about how bad the war is going."

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