> Tracy Mark Johnson wrote:

> do not find the left-wing anti-war protests against a war
on Iraq unusual...
>> They were a cross-section of communities, right and left
>> wing, old and young, singles, couples, families, blue-collar
>> workers standing next to office workers; ...
>I think the claim that the right-wing are active
participants in an anti-war march a bit of a stretch of the imagination.

Why? Don't right wing people oppose war too? Perhaps there were 10 million "rugged individualists" marching on Saturday. Did you think of that?

>As for others, they may have been some bored
individuals dragged along by their more activist spouses.

No blanket generalisations there then. I'm never that bored that marching for 5 hours in temperatures approaching zero would seem appealing.



Richard Ali






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