Need some protesting help!

[Tarkus]

Hey, I'm pro-war, think Bush is doing a decent job as president, I like the US view towards Israel, I don't think Augusta should be required to let women join, I'm all for civil rights, I'm all for abortion rights. However, I'm really feeling left out. I have nothing to protest. I'm really open to some suggestions. Any advise would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Tarkus

[Calis]

uhmm...you can always go with protesting protests.

[Fritz]

Paris thieves nabbing gnomes in protest
By John-Thor Dahlburg,
Los Angeles Times

PARIS -- Someone in France is stealing garden gnomes again, those cheery and fuzzy-cheeked symbols of smug suburban contentment. In an after-hours raid on a Paris park where 2,000 of the elfin figures had been assembled for an exhibition, members of a group calling itself the Garden Gnome Liberation Front swiped a score of the sculptures last weekend.
The unknown thieves, in a statement, demanded the "immediate closing of this odious exhibit, as well as the unconditional liberation of the garden gnomes still detained." Act now, they warned Paris authorities, or we will strike again.
Is this for real? Patrick Boumard, professor of anthropology at the University of Rennes and author of a study on the French relationship with the decorative sculptures, believes that gnome-napping, which first surfaced here in the mid-1990s, started out as a simple student prank but struck some profound chord in French life.
The garden gnome, the anthropologist says, is a totem of the times we live in and is fraught with all sorts of symbolism -- economic, cultural, emotional. "For my paper, I went out and talked to people who have gnomes in their garden or on their lawn," Boumard said. "I often found surprisingly strong affective connections. Some owners, for instance, wash their gnome every day. Many people talk to their gnome as if it were their favorite child."
To proprietors in France or other countries, the gnome is a badge of middle-class ease. Is it an accident, inquires Boumard, that the gnome in its current state, with pointed red hat and wooden clogs, first appeared in 15th-century Germany, along with the nascent European bourgeoisie?
These days, an estimated 30 million of the small figures stand guard in the yards and gardens of Western Europeans, yet another example of homogenizing European taste.
In the summer of 1996, masked commando bands operating around the city of Alencon in Normandy staged nightly raids to "liberate" gnomes by taking the terra cotta, ceramic or plastic figurines from people's yards and setting them loose in the forest, their supposed natural environment.
The opponents of gnome captivity eventually broke into two groups, the Liberation Front and the more "pacifist" Garden Gnome Emancipation Movement.
The removal of some of the figures from the show at the Bagatelle Gardens in Paris was the first action claimed on the Liberation Front's behalf in three years. City officials were unruffled and said the exhibition will run as scheduled until July 23 despite the group's demands.

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http://www.s-t.com/daily/04-00/04-16-00/a02wn013.htm

I don't know why I typed "Protest and Gnome" into google.

[Killebrew]

I would suggest you wait until something you strongly oppose is done either nationally or internationally. Protesting protesters is certainly one thing you could do, though it's more than a little ridiculous:).

[Hammer755]

Originally posted by Tarkus
Hey, I'm pro-war, think Bush is doing a decent job as president, I like the US view towards Israel, I don't think Augusta should be required to let women join, I'm all for civil rights, I'm all for abortion rights. However, I'm really feeling left out. I have nothing to protest. I'm really open to some suggestions. Any advise would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Tarkus

I think I've found a cause to protest that will find universal support.


















http://www.southalabama.edu/mitchellcenter/images/Carrot%20Top.gif

[EagleFan]

I'm with Hammer on that one. I think we've found a great cause to protest. I'm going out to get a tie dyed shirt for the march.

[tucker342]

Hammer I couldn't have said it better my self












DOWN WITH CARROT TOP

[sachmo71]

Why don't you go out and march in support of the war? It's kind of a "glass is half full" thing for folks with your mindset, I think.

[Abe Sargent]

Some lesbians were holding up protesting signs here in Ann Arbor that read:

"We shaved off our pubic hair.

No More Bush!"


God bless the Lesbian.

-Anxiety

[astralhaze]

You could protest until Ariel Sharon goes on a diet.

[CamEdwards]

I'm down with protesting Carrot Top.

"Down With Top"

"Silly Humans, Carrots are for Rabbits"

"Get that Freak off My F-ing TV"

Just a couple ideas for signs.

[EagleFan]

Originally posted by CamEdwards
"Get that Freak off My F-ing TV"



Excellent Sign!

[mrskippy]

Protest the UN!!!

[Tarkus]

Originally posted by mrskippy
Protest the UN!!!
Oooh, there's a good one. :)

Tarkus

[Logan]

"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg

[ACStrider]

You could protest Easy Mac's quote. I'm sure you could get a few supporter to protest with you.