Sheep in America

We're too scared to protest in this country. I think we'd need to be much poorer than Mexico to have enough guts to stage protests like in Mexico City. I'm not sure what other event could set it off. Maybe if Bush bombs Iran before November (50/50 chance in my estimation) there will be some protests in Boston and Seattle, but most of the country will believe Bush that Iran is a threat to this nation (even if they do have one weapon, which they don't, we have thousands, so it'd be pretty dumb for them to use it).

Anyways, we're pretty much all sheep here.



Protest Fatigue in Mexico City, A Daily Mess of Demonstrations

By Manuel Roig-Franzia
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, July 15, 2008; A13

MEXICO CITY -- On any given day, there are six or seven or eight demonstrations taking place in the Mexican capital. The city government keeps a running list of them on its Web site.

Teachers who want more money. State-employed oil workers who want to stop privatization. Campesinos who say the government stole their land.

There are naked protesters. Protesters in Aztec costumes. Protesters dressed like vampires.

And they are almost always in the way.

Blocking roads during a demonstration is considered by some Mexicans to be a kind of inalienable right. But a few politicians have begun to say -- gently, lest they become targets of protests themselves -- that enough is enough.

"Sometimes you end up sitting half your day waiting for the roads to clear -- it's irrational, it's unjust!" Mariana Gómez del Campo, a member of Mexico City's legislative assembly, said in an interview. "I don't think there's another city like this in the world."

Gómez, who once missed a college exam because of gridlock caused by a protest, has been trying for months to pass legislation that will establish "rules of the game" for protests, which numbered 2,000 last year alone and drew more than 9 million people.
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