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Foreign Policy Research
Institute |
This guy was not a hippy. " Others are trying
to recapture what they mistakenly think of as their heroic youth
during the Vietnam War era (no, they didn’t help shorten
the war; to the contrary). Some are younger self-propelled rebels
who can’t stand it that they were too young (or not born)
to be heroes in the Sixties... Still others just hate George
Bush and Republicans, and some are Arabs or Muslims convinced
that U.S. policies in the Middle East are imperialist and that
they are its blameless victims. Some are anti-capitalist, anti-economic
growth radical environmentalists who believe that the American
materialist lifestyle has created a fossil fuel addiction that
has led to horrible foreign policy consequences. Some are principled
pacifists whose sentiments are based in explicit religious conviction.
And, as always, some show up because, while they are clueless
about what is being protested, they know where to look for free
sex, drugs and loud if not very good rock and roll." Adam
Garfinkle, FPRI, February 24, 2003 |
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Religion |
Street protest an eerie folk religion. " In post-Christian
Europe in the Internet Age, the infusion of religious energies
into politics — even, in some cases, the subsumption of
political energies by an unrecognized and still unnamed“secular”
religion-goes hand in hand with the building of a new polity:
a federated European Union. The popular, folk religion of that
new political civilization was manifest on the streets of major
European cities this month, complete with elements of spectacle
and ritual common to all religions. The protestors were, in
essence, praying for peace in the idiom of the new faith, which
is normatively multiculturalist, anti-nationalist, anti-globalizationist,
anti-Zionist and sometimes anti-Semitic, and, above all, anti-American.
Almost entirely unattached to traditional faith, moreover, it
is an amalgam of emotion and new superstition with eerie overtones."
Adam
Garfinkle, FPRI, February 24, 2003 |
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war on terror |
Oregon says Hello McCarthy. "A bill that would
define violent protesters as terrorists and subject them to
possible life imprisonment came under attack Monday at a packed
and sometimes tense legislative hearing." The
Oregonian, March 25, 2003 |
protest