Yeah of course, the Anti War movement was peaceful (rolleyes),that's the myth. In reality the peaceniks just sat in the parks on their well padded White arses, rolling joints while skinny Black kids did all the street fighting in Detroit and Chicago and L.A., it was those riots and the impact of uprisings abroad which shook Washington to it's core
1968 was all about war, violence and terrorism which escalated into the '70's and which didn't really end until the mid 1980's.

People who claim that peaceful protesting achieving
anything is a myth - show their ignorance of
history and their apparent lack of the ability to do research
on the subject. All one has to do is Google this subject.
There's plenty on the web that give facts that prove
and affirm the opposite to be true.

@Foxy, Saturday, 31 May 2014 7:33:33 PM,

After five pages are you seem to backflip from your apparent stance in your first post. You now assert that peaceful protests are useless and claim unspecified supporting evidence from Google.

Was your opening post a 'false flag' and in fact you do support the disruption of Q&A organised by 'Socialist Alternative', but you would have preferred it somehow went better? The 'Socialist Alternative' scored an own goal. Is that all that blights it for you?

As can be seen from the report I linked to earlier, Tony Jones and the ABC were highly critical of the immature rabble-rousing and said so.

Maybe you and Paul1405 could address Tony Jones' and the ABC's criticisms?

BTW, peaceful protest was effective in putting out the rubbish in Canberra recently.

Dear Foxy,

In the final episode of "The Prisoner" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner), once the hero, "Number Six", wins and his inherent freedom is finally recognised, the judge describes three types of rebels:

1. ”uncoordinated youth, rebelling against nothing it can define.”
2. “established member[s] of the establishment that bite the hand that feeds them.”
3. ”a revolutionary of different calibre, one who never falters in their aims, one who is magnificently equipped to lead us.”

Now our hero was recognised as the third type; his opponent, "Number Two", was classified as the second type; and that young lad who disrupted the assembly singing "dry bones" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVHqTzyZ-oM) was classified as the first type.

Now did someone mention Gandhi? Yes, Gandhi should also be recognised as the third type. The students in question, however, should not.

yep Ghandi was a true hero of history revisionist.

'Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised—the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals. '

charming man.

I RECALL A TIME/WHEN MANY PEOPLE WERE SINGING THIS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FotCW5OIFZc
BUT THAT TIME PASSED

i recall john lennin and joko..the bag-in
the bed in..the sit in and the stand in..that changed heaps
then we got 'do they know its xmass'..and 'feed the world' and hunger dissappeared majicly over night

i recall dillon and bob marly/they got the right idea
so much for protest..songs..pro-test..is a particular word
and walking together across bridges healed the sorry histery..instantly

why i recall we burned the draft card/but still attended the draft
imet people who gave away their aussie id to yanki draft dogers/how far are we going to go/to 'win'..whats worth dying for/whats worth fighting for..who knows im not university edumacated like many of you/but loved the decade i went pro-testing..didnt change much but haD A BALL..i lived bush for moths at a time

so what we going to do paint the sydney opra home/or rip the boxing kangeroo off the deep keel/thing is uni students protyesting is a rite of passage/its where life long peers meeet..no on e is really there to learn/its all about who you know/not what yopu know/the old school tie dye.