From: John Cuccia 

On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 08:15:39 +0200, "Phil Payne"
 wrote:

>> >Does it require the entire UK population to walk past Parliament before
>it
>> >responds?  What is the purpose and function of the great democratic
>benefit
>> >of free demonstration when one of such magnitude can be so completely
>> >ignored?
>>
>> IIRC, the anti-war protestors of the Vietnam era didn't show up for a
>> single march and then spend the next few years bragging about how many
>> of marched and whining that they weren't listened to.
>
>The trouble is that going any further would be labelled
"terrorism" and our
>governments have enacted special laws about that.

It was labelled terrorism back when people were blowing up government
buildings in the US.

In the end, I don't believe the anti-war protests, violent or not, had much
effect on the outcome of the war, although the enmity that developed in
those days still echoes throughout US society and politics.

I think majority public opinion turned against the war because people got
tired of burying their children.

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