Is Dissent Unamerican?

HBNayr

<div class="IPBDescription">It's no Strong Bad, but enjoy.</div> <a href='http://www.truemajorityaction.org/unamerican' target='_blank'>Didn't Know I Was Un-American</a>.

I especially like the quotes employed.

Opinions on the points raised?

-Ryan!


Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.
-- Unknown, Marin County newspaper's TV listing for "The Wizard of Oz"

What good fortune for those in power that people do not think!
-- Adolf Hitler

Cronos

Care to point out specifically the thing that we are supposed to discuss or are we to simply look at that site staring blankly into space wondering what it is thats so controversial here.

Either that or I'm not seeing that which is controversial.

Snidely

Stick to making ice-cream, Ben. You're good at that.

My opinion on protest is that everyone should have the right to protest peacefully. I don't know enough about those arrests quoted to comment (I'm not watching ten minutes into it again to find out the name of the incident). My opinion on war/peace is that despite whether the invasion of Iraq was a good or bad thing, the west is in there there now, and there's no point in pulling out.

SkulkBait

It seems to me that the point of this discussion is that People in favor of the war in Iraq seem to believe that those who protest the war are on the terrorist's side ("either with us or against us" right mr. president?). I know that similar statements have been made about me whenever I get into a discussion about it. It is not unique to the Iraq issue either, I've seen this argument used against many "liberal" arguments. The point is that since 9/11 dissent is seen as unpatriotic in the eyes of many, but why?