Me Thinks Thou Doth Protest Too Much

Like everyone else, I have watched with great interest the activity concerning the Occupy Atlanta and other Wall Street protests over the past few weeks. It wasn't the protest camps that intrigued me, but it was the protestors themselves. I am not unfamiliar with the whole protest mantra. I am a child of the sixties and seventies and have lived through what some might say was some of the most volatile times in our history from a social perspective. <br /> <br /> With issues such as the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War, I grew up watching protest activities that were of a very serious nature. I was a little too young to see them in person, but I have very clear memories of watching the events unfold on our family television. Even as a child watching the protest in Montgomery or as a teenager watching the protests on college campuses across the nation, I certainly understood the seriousness of the issues at hand. The people that were involved in those issues were willing to, and many actually did, die for the cause that they were involved with. Whether or not someone may or may not have agreed with the protest of that time period, it would be difficult to doubt their commitment to the cause.<br /> <br /> I don't believe that I can say that for the protestors that I have seen at the recent "Occupy" protest. I'm not sure that some of them even know why they are there. Several random interviews garnered some interesting responses about the "cause" that brought the protestors to these camps. Anything from the economy, to corporate greed, to the plight of the Native American, to the right to have a free college education and, my favorite of all, the right to hold non- government controlled rap concerts. One of the early protestors in the Atlanta camp stated on an evening news show that they would get together later and make a statement about exactly what it was that they were protesting about

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