> So you're saying that the UUG being affiliated with a perfectly legal and > given right by the U.S. constitution, ie free speech, can be a bad thing? Do > we need to reserve the sidewalk with scheduling or something? Do they need > to send out someone to make sure we have enough people to take up the > sidewalk? I mean, as long as we are not starting fires and overturning cars, > what's the big deal?
We can't start fires? :-) > I know, I know, BYUSA. It just seems odd to me that we are supposedly > fighting a war to help protect our country and what it stand for, and the > rights that it gives us, only to be scared to actually exercise those rights. > Go figure. Ok, I'm figuring. I figuring that most protests are for silly reasons (the French will protest *anything* because they have nothing better to do.) Many protests turn ugly -- screaming, violence, mob hysteria, etc. There is often a better/more effective way to combat something than through a protest. Do protests really work? (most of the time?) Be honest now. Given those reasons, it's not too hard to understand why BYU would shy away from protests. I don't think that this is an illustration of the baby being thrown out with the bathwater. It reminds me of the "no swimming" rule in the little white bible. Is swimming bad? (If you think that the "destroyer" riding upon the waters is Satan, you need to re-read that passage.) Why then can't missionaries swim? Probably, because statistically, more accidents would happen if missionaries went swimming. So, no swimming. Likewise, protests can produce bad results so no protests. Ok. I have more to say, but I suddenly got very tired. End of didactic diatribe. I'm going to sleep. nitey-nite. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
