Unknowingly Giving Comfort To An Enemy

[HARDCORE]

What constitutes giving aid to an enemy, and when does the right to gather and protest cross that line?

Sometimes unfortunately, the rights of one group can cross a line and violate the rights of another. When this happens, the task of law enforcement becomes a difficult call indeed! ?Such was, in my opinion, the case in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania of late!??

As it is in most wars and armed interventions, dating all the way back to the Revolutionary War (and before), there will always be those who protest. Some do so through the written word, others through verbal defiance, and still more through civil disobedience and mass marches!

Pittsburgh was ground zero for just such defiance recently when some 3000 or more people gathered and marched through the snow to protest a possible war with Iraq. Carrying signs and chanting an anti Bush slogan, the march itself was a protected American right!

When, however, the throng finally reached it?s destination (Carnegie Mellon University?s Engineering Institute), there was a welcoming committee of police, bedecked in riot gear, standing fast before the entrance to the school.

?It appears that this University has received military contracts in the past, and as such, the protesters were there to make a point?? (right or wrong)

This in itself does not surprise me, and again, a peaceful demonstration is the right of all Americans. What does surprise me is that some years back, at a time when a few major institutions were fighting for a place in line to conduct hallucinogenic experimentation (MK ULTRA) upon unwitting, ill-informed, non-volunteers, many of them in uniform at the time, no such protests were forthcoming, at least to my knowledge. Hell, many people would protest the use of poor dumb animals in experimentation before they would raise any hell over screwing up the minds and bodies of the kid next door!

As far as protesting a military action against Iraq, a nation that gassed a vast segment of its own (Kurd) population, as well as using the same lethal gasses in its war with Iran, what would these people have our government do? Wait perhaps, until Hussein has the big bomb (assuming that he does not already have it?), or until he has targeted our military with chemical weapons, or maybe some would prefer a ?Wait and See Posture?, say until the day when your neighbor drops dead at your feet from a deadly, Iraqi-produced, biological attack?!

Let me remind you that had we not entered into World War II when we did, the Germans or the Japanese might have beat us to the nuclear punch, and instead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it might have been New York or Los Angeles?

Yes indeed, war is a tough call, especially in a nation that loves freedom and democracy. ?BUT SOMETIMES THERE ARE NO OTHER CHOICES!?

As Colin Powell said but a short time ago: ?There comes a time when soft power or (just) talking with evil will not work!?

?The real trick is in knowing when you have arrived at that point?? (Hardcore)

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