kennedy also once said "ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country"

for the nouveau generation of "i want it all i want it now and i dont give a crap how"

my my how things change

You know I've been reading some of these posts and I've got to say that some of them including the OP's is very narrow minded. Since when are protests only for the well educated?

I'm sure a lot of you didn't live through the Vietnam protests. If you did, you would be saying the same things you're saying now about these protestors. Most of the Vietnam protestors were high school and college students. A lot of them were so called "hippies."

Some of you probably wouldn't even have been able to write a post if those "drug taking, flower power" protestors didn't put pressure on the political system to end that war. Who knows, your father could have been drafted and killed in that war, and you wouldn't even be here to complain about this protest.

Many of them didn't try to run for office or even write letters to their congressman. They did however burn their draft cards, were violently arrested and even shot dead during their peaceful protests. They were revolting against the same political system that were sending them to a war that had nothing to do with America's freedom or security.

If your political system is corrupt and that same political system ignores the outrage by it citizens, why would you even try to change things through a system that has already been corrupted by corporate interests? Just look at how they ignore Ron Paul when he talks out against the corruption of our government.

The media back in the day reported on large protests. In fact the Vietnam protests were practically reported on a nightly basis! So the question to everyone here is what happened to our media since the days of the Vietnam War?

I'll give you my answer because I've lived long enough to notice the difference. Our political elite has realized that too much information to the public can change military and government policies. There's a reason the media can't have free movement on the battle field. Our government wants to control what we see to avoid any kind of criminal activity or the reality caused by these wars. Why do you think they didn't want the media to film flag draped coffins coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan?

You people who are defending the corporate elite are accepting the right for corporations to control our political system, our military policy and the economy of this country. The regulations that have been removed from corporations has made them a kid running the candy store! Regulations regarding monopolies have been lax to say the least. More and more corporations are reducing the competitive market system. There is no competitive market system anymore. If you believe that, than why has the market for competitive products been reduced so drastically?

American corporation always demanded loyalty by their workers. Yet they're ready to throw their workers on the street so they can produce their products cheaper over seas to increase profits for their investors. Who's keeping our government from raising tariffs? Corporations know exactly how to manipulate the market by donating large sums of money to political parties and organizations.

Anyone who has been in upper management like myself, know that donations from large corporations have an agenda behind them. Anyone that says otherwise is just plain lying to you.