http://www.resonant.org/20050128-protest-techniques Comments for "Good protest techniques and bad protest techniques" en http://www.resonant.org/20050128-protest-techniques <p>There was an anti-abortion display set up at the parade grounds of <a href="http://www.lsu.edu/">Louisiana State University</a> last weekend to commemorate Roe vs Wade. Predictably, this made a lot of people unhappy, and some of them were stupid about it. Over the weekend, 3,000 out of the 4,000 painted crosses that had been planted there <a href="http://www.lsureveille.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/01/25/41f5eb5a8887d">were stolen or destroyed</a>. Predictably, this made the people who set up this display (the "Students for Life" group and the St. Mary and St. Joseph Family Memorial Foundation) very upset, and now they're trying to call this a "hate crime" (which <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/archives/001333.htm">some bloggers</a> are repeating and emphasizing) and threatening to sue the police for not "taking it seriously enough", presumably because they failed to immediately arrest and throw the book at five people a police officer saw removing crosses. (The officer in question did note who they were and directed them to leave immediately, and a full investigation is still ongoing.)</p> <p><a href="http://www.resonant.org/20050128-protest-techniques">read more</a></p> http://www.resonant.org/20050128-protest-techniques#comments Annoyed Civil Rights Religion Women&#039;s Rights Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:33:49 -0500 Zed 415 at http://www.resonant.org