NBC 5 Dallas Reporting Growing Protests at Dallas City Hall

[Dr. Jones]

News says "within the last hour," more high school students from Dallas AND Fort Worth are walking out on classes and boarding trains to Dallas City Hall to protest.

"Hundreds of students are here"

Live shot shows CROWDS of students waving Mexican flags, etc.

[Clark2008]

1. When is anyone going to protest the slipping away of our civil

rights?

Or, better yet, when is the media going to COVER the thousands who have protested the slipping away of our civil rights?

[Dr. Jones]

8. Indeed!

I thought about this too. Why aren't American's outraged and taking to the streets because Bush is taking away our civil rights? Why no protests at his continued chipping away at our Constitution?

[Xeric]

13. Because most Americans don't mind

losing their rights. Apparently they are too stupid to know they are losing them. Here's an example: a LTTE in today's local paper.

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Nothing to hide? No Patriot Act worries

I am a bit bemused by the constant chatter about restriction of civil liberties supposedly associated with some of the elements of the Patriot Act, and the surveillance procedures which have also drawn much attention.

My confusion is in trying to figure out how my doing anything legal, legitimate, moral, or appropriate is in any way curtailed by someone happening to listen in to my conversation.

If I’m planning a bank robbery and am overheard, well, I don’t think bank robbery falls under the civil liberties umbrella, by the most charitable definitions.

I have not felt an iota of limitation in my civil liberties since the initial passage of the Patriot Act (nor since its re-enactment) and, if it stops one act of terrorism, well and good. If someone in government wants to check on my phone conversations with one of my grandkids, knock yourself out!

But if an individual is planning harm to the U.S. in any way, I fervently hope they are overheard and dealt with accordingly.

William M. Slater
Mundelein
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[Ravenseye]

14. Because it happens slowly

Sure there are moderate jolts here and there, but overall those jolts are moderated by counter spin. It's made not as cut and dry as the immigration issue to people. You can't spin the counter argument as liberal quackery or lies. People already KNOW about the problem, and what they're protesting about is HOW it's talking about being resolved.

People unfortunately don't KNOW about the problem of our civil rights, or have been brainwashed by right wing blowhards into thinking that it's really not a problem. There isn't enough of a consensus about it. A good example of this is Global Warming. Only in the U.S. do people actually think that it's in question. Everywhere else people are in agreement. Yet here in the U.S. (for some reason...hmm) many people think it's not agreed upon in the scientific community.

People are kept ignorant on purpose in this country by the ruling elite EXPLICITLY because they don't want the type of social disturbance that this immigration issue is causing. They want people to happily take their 3 dollars an hour while living in a shack without health care and think that it's a good life. It's not literally what happens in Orwell's 1984, but it's the scarier more real world version of those events. They don't want people to question anything. THey want them to be happy that the choco rations have been "increased".

[elehhhhna]

2. Same here in Houston

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x773403

[elehhhhna]

3. Quick-someone hand them some American flags.

[Dr. Jones]

9. After all, this IS America!!

:rofl:

[elehhhhna]

11. Seriously-- I think the Mex Flags are okay BUT hello? Big oops, imo.

[kenny blankenship]

4. Mexican flags waved angrily in Texas

Oh yeah, that should stir things up a bit.

[cantstandbush]

5. I really think this is making matters worse for illegal alien than better

It's going to drive the opposition to illegals underground and things are going to get real nasty in the future. A lot of this could have been avoided had the Republicans and Dem corporate whores enforced laws against the corporations doing the hiring of illegals. This could have and should have been don a decade ago. Now everyone is in deep doo doo.

[xultar]

6. I find it strange that I'm we haven't had swells and swells of anti-war

protests.
I'm ashamed of myself for not participating helping to bail people out of jail and such.

Mexicans and Mexican Americans make me look and feel like shit. We have a WAR, thousands of soldiers have died. Hundred of Thousands of Iraqis have died yet I sit here on my ass @ work.

I feel like SHIT.

[crispini]

7. Dr. Jesse Jones? Is that you?

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[Dr. Jones]

10. Thanks.

Actually it's Dr. Jones the famous Archaeologist. Now where the heck did I put that ark...

[crispini]

12. Here ya go...

Sorry for the mistaken identity... but if you're gonna be Dr. Jones the Democrat from Dallas, there might be some confusion. ;)

Come visit us in the Texas forum, we have a lot of fun.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=180

[Neil Lisst]

15. I expected there to such copycat walk-outs.

Once kids see it on TV at one school, it follows there will be others. After all, there is nothing cooler than being on TV when you're in high school.

[400Years]

16. I think it would be good if it just turned into a massive general strike

led by school kids sick of being treated like prisoners.

I don't care what the spark is but there is a disatisfaction festering under the surface of our society that may just come boiling to the surface.

[Neil Lisst]

17. I agree that there is an underlying societal need for massive protests.

I can feel it. People pissed and wanting to do something dramatic.

As I watch the scene in France, I'm reminded of the days in America when such protests took place. I'm glad the riot police are maintaining some degree of restraint.