Walk Out on Rumsfeld at CPAC!?!

[Matt Collins]

 

[MelissaWV]

To me this is not immature, this is noble.

This is not childish, this is principled.

This is not a joke, this is a statement.


Rumsfeld is a criminal, a liar and a thief of liberty.

Sitting through a ceremony for his recognition is an abomination.

I say go Josh and all prepared to make a stand!

Why would Ghandi or Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. be sitting at the awards ceremony to begin with?

Is there absolutely nothing going on at CPAC at that time, and no desire to meet with fellow CPAC-goers? Is it so utterly a vacuum that you're forced to sit in on the first part of Rummy's speech?

It's a general fascination with this sort of "protest," I guess. It seems more effective to simply not be there for the ceremony. Just as people will be coming in after Rand finishes to sit down for the ceremony, there will be people leaving to go to do other things. It's not a statement. It's just how things go at conferences and the like where multiple things are going on at the same time.

Of course people are individually going to do whatever they want. The idea that the alternative, though, is to "sit through" the ceremony is ridiculous. The ceremony is not mandatory. As the point is often made here about an ideal society, you've got all the freedom in the world to go do something more entertaining.

It might be a really good time to use the bathroom, for instance.

 

[sailingaway]

It might be a really good time to use the bathroom, for instance.

Definitely better than watching Rumfield being called a defender of the Constitution.