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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTo anyone who was mildly inconvenienced by civil disobedience at the airports:
It HAD to be done. There was no other way at all. Lives were and are in the balance.
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To anyone who was mildly inconvenienced by civil disobedience at the airports: (Original Post)
Ken Burch
Jan 2017
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appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)1. If people can't understand the what and why of it, shame on them.
They would be more inconvenienced if they became the target of a madman, something that has become a reality.
Gothmog
(145,129 posts)3. Tom Perez was on the news last night at IAH
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)6. Nice that he did that.
n/t.
phylny
(8,379 posts)4. I came through Dulles.
The crowd was loud but peaceful and polite.
My issue was Miami - it looked and felt like a police state. Having said that, the TSA and other officers were respectful to passengers as far as I could see.
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)5. My husband had to explain this to his mom.
"My family - we would never do this protesting stuff," as if there was something wrong with it.
My husband reminded her that her father told them that they were Democrats and anyone voting R could leave. He also told her that sometimes this is the only way to make things right. And it did, as a good start.