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Little has changed? Yeah right, when people marched in the streets burning effigies of George Bush in protest against the Iraq War, literally nothing happened to them. You can go out and protest any war you want, often stomping on other people's civil rights to do it, and the judges will be super lenient of your civil rights violations because they were done in the name of political speech.

And calling modern volunteer soldiers poor is an insult. Underpaid would be fair.

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That's objectively false. To say nothing happened to them ignores those that were arrested even during peaceful protests and I would like to see some citations on that claim of people violating other people's civil rights.

"Peacefully" disrupting some event or people's lives? That's like saying they were arrested for peacefully infringing on other people's civil rights. And no need for a citation, I'm talking about protestors who go to events to disrupt them and then are arrested. People have a first amendment right to speak, and that includes not having loud disruptive hecklers veto that right.

I hope you realize your logic sounds all too similar to the arguments made against black men and women during the civil rights era being 'disruptive'.

And yes, I want citations. I want you to cite these disruptive events. I want you to actually prove your point.

How many events held to hear someone speak were disrupted last year? You're either pedantic or so uniformed you shouldn't be part of the conversation.

And your specious and slanderous statement that my arguments are similar to those made against the civil rights movement can go to hell. There's a world of difference between walking into a restaurant and waiting to be served versus walking into a speech and coordinating to shout and heckle the speaker so that they can't be heard. And if you can't grasp the difference, what could possibly be the point of discussing this further with you?

And yet thousands of soldiers were still sent to their deaths

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