[mburbank]

While I would of coourse be disturbed to find that pro-wahhtever folks had financed an event I'd attended, if their agenda is so secret that even I attending don't know about it, I don't feel in particularly used.

Here's my agenda. ncrease by one the number of people in media coverage saying they don't like our foreign policy. Period. In my opinion, the pro whatver group is the one who has been used. My participation cost me zero. There's cost more I assume. The message of any large scale protest like the ones I went to is very simple, not honed or nuanced.

I think you are swayed by a propoganda initiative to get you to believe that the protests are meaningless. Concider this. What if, say 98% of the attendees had no idea that their permit and the speakers platform were paid for by pro-wahteverists. Sort of like the innocent frat bpys that stormed the vote counts in florida who's busses were paid for by the Reubican national comittee. It didn't make me doubt the frat boys sincerity for an instant.