NATO Summit protest MEGATHREAD

[garbon]

Aren't those the same helmets they wore when they had to crack some hippie heads in '68?

That might sound original if it hadn't already been said by Seedster.

[11B4V]

Aren't those the same helmets they wore when they had to crack some hippie heads in '68?

That might sound original if it hadn't already been said by Seedster.

Garbon, it's not polite to pick on the slow people.

[jimmy olsen]

Soldiers do not have the right to give medals back. They represent recognition by the government on behalf of the people they represent. To hand that medal back is to spit in the eye of every American man, woman, and child.

Hmm...depends on the circumstance.

I'd say that Hugh Thompson throwing away his Distinguished Flying Cross was justified.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

I mean, look at that photo Citizen K posted;  WTF is a rainbow cocksucker flag doing there, and what's it got to do with NATO?

because that rainbowflag is also (originally?) a flag from the peace-movement (or rather the "capitulate to the enemies of civilization"-movement)

[Syt]

I feel reassured that the left wing has as many batshit loonatics as the right wing.

[Sheilbh]

My guess would be that in part the summit provides visibility for their protests, even though NATO has little or nothing to do directly with their issues/causes.

Basically this.  Also you'll always get protests where political leaders are, half of it's about making the media hear you while the other half is making your presence known to the politician.  Generally I think that's a good thing.  If they hear the odd shout or what have you it disrupts their otherwise seamless and air conditioned drives from x summit to y airport, which is good.

NATO basically gives the opportunity to protest the world as it is, there'l be domestic countries and all sorts of obscure groups who are protesting, I don't know, the Maltese PM.  So you'll have unions, gaylords, general discontents and the odd Armenian protesting Erdogan.  That's the joy of a global city I suppose.  The ones you've got to worry about are the people who'll travel to some God-forsaken Baltic coast golf resort to try and protest the G8.

because that rainbowflag is also (originally?) a flag from the peace-movement (or rather the "capitulate to the enemies of civilization"-movement)

In my experience that's a very, very European thing.  Here it only means the gays, in Italy it means the peace movement.

Edit: It was very disappointing actually.  I thought Europe was incredibly, demonstratively gay when I first went.  Then I slowly realised and it dawned on me that my bellicose fag self probably wasn't that welcome after all

[Jaron]

Soldiers do not have the right to give medals back. They represent recognition by the government on behalf of the people they represent. To hand that medal back is to spit in the eye of every American man, woman, and child.

Hmm...depends on the circumstance.

I'd say that Hugh Thompson throwing away his Distinguished Flying Cross was justified.

Nope, not even with him.

[Viking]

I mean, look at that photo Citizen K posted;  WTF is a rainbow cocksucker flag doing there, and what's it got to do with NATO?

because that rainbowflag is also (originally?) a flag from the peace-movement (or rather the "capitulate to the enemies of civilization"-movement)

when the hippies co-opted this



to mean peace I got pissed off. It means victory and it means killing lots and lots of germans.

[Jaron]

It originally meant V for vikings.

[Viking]

It originally meant V for vikings.

Da! Da! Da! Daaaaahhhhhh!!!!!!11111ononeoenoen

[derspiess]

Hang on a second, guys.  Aren't those Chicago cops in riot gear wearing the same light blue helmets they wore in 1968??

Also, is China still blocking internet searches for "Egypt"?

[Valmy]

That sad part is the anybody with a good reason to protest NATO will be drowned out by the crazy clowns.

[Camerus]

Soldiers do not have the right to give medals back. They represent recognition by the government on behalf of the people they represent. To hand that medal back is to spit in the eye of every American man, woman, and child.

Hmm...depends on the circumstance.

I'd say that Hugh Thompson throwing away his Distinguished Flying Cross was justified.

Nope, not even with him.

  Jaron's back

[Razgovory]

That sad part is the anybody with a good reason to protest NATO will be drowned out by the crazy clowns.

What are the good reasons to protest NATO?

[Berkut]

I'm still trying to figure out why there are so many protesters there bitching about climate change, starvation and all other sorts of bullshit that has absolutely nothing to do with a multinational military alliance based on collective security and mutual defense.   

You were singing a different tune when these clowns were camping out in lower Manhattan. 

That's different.  NATO > Wall Street.

My revolutionary brothers and sisters are barking up the wrong tree this weekend.

What you just don't get is that the motivation for both is exactly the same.

The people who engage in most of this crap do not differentiate between NATO and Wall Street. Or the E8, or the UN, or the Marines. Is it all one and the same, because 99% of them are not motivated by any rational ideology.

Just like you are not motivated by any rational ideology. You say NATO > Wall Street, some other random radinutbar says the G8 > Nato > Wall Street, or Wall Street > G8> Nato >UN. You can just roll the dice - none of it is driven by anything rational.