Disrupt the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade? Good Thing? Bad Thing?

[NanceGreggs]

67. There are actually situations where ...

... "thinking of the children" should be an obvious consideration.

Do you have any idea how many children are in the crowd that attend the parade? Do you honestly think that any disruption of the parade will end peacefully? All it takes is one epithet yelled, one fist raised in anger, one push, one shove - and your "peaceful protest" gets ugly. And it doesn't matter who started it; we all know how it ends.

What is the point of disrupting an event that is meant for the enjoyment of little kids in the crowd, and those watching at home? What message do you think you'd be sending, and to whom? Do you think that ruining the event would serve any positive purpose - and, of so, what would that purpose be?

"No child is going to be hurt by a peaceful protest." Famous last words. And peaceful or not, there is nothing to be gained by ANY protest in these circumstances, and so much to potentially be lost.

Leave the kids out of it - and leave their cherished events out of it, as well. There are far more advantageous fields on which to do battle.