So far the protestors are being very civil, totally different than what you’d have if the situation was reversed (e.g., George Bush or Dick Cheney getting an honorary degree from Columbia University).
They’re telegraphing how they will protest, arranging for police to be there to arrest them, or they are boycotting the event so that nothing bad happens to disrupt it. (Yeah, the right is pretty stupid when it comes to protesting.)
But I wonder if hundreds of protestors with balls actually attended their graduation and then, at various times during the president’s speech, took off their shoes and winged it up towards the podium. They’d definitely get arrested — which some were planning to do anyway in a more "civilized" manner — but they’d be actually protesting in a way that would make headlines.
You can be da** sure if it was Bush getting a degree from Columbia that there would have been shoes flying up there in the thousands!
I guess people on the right are just too civil.
But I think it would be funny to see the media double-standard in action, because suddenly such an act — which they praised in the case of the Iraqi press guy — would be deemed unacceptable and rude. Anyway, I think it would be funny to see.
Not that I’m encouraging that! (I’m not.)
And I also doubt it would happen anyway. Like I said, the right doesn’t know how to protest like the left does. They’re way too "civilized" to do something like that, and when it comes down to it, they DO have respect for the office of the president, no matter who occupies it.
My question is more about the media reaction, IF something like that was to happen.
Do you think the media would have the totally predictable response?
They would cry for their immediate deportation……………especially if they are American citizens……
P.S. they are Already arresting Protesters there who oppose his being there……….
you wont see any gay , or professional protesters being arrested…….
That’s the New standard….its called a hate crimes legislation….
Every thing that is termed Christian …are deemed haters…
while as true haters (gays ,abortion activists , professional activists hired by the ACLU etc etc ) will be allowed to do whatever they wish and the authorities will look the other way !!!