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Remember? It seemed that, in the phlegmatic, latter days of the Bush presidency, the sagging national economy seemed to allow every two-bit fanatic to whip out the bullhorn and start making some noise. Of course, everyone recalls different events from the time. If you're on one side of the spectrum, that period was when the NRA nutballs and prayer-in-school peons started gathering steam. On the other side of the political fence, you recall the rebirth of radical feminism, culminating in the so-called "Year of the Woman" in Washington. Any way you slice it, the early...
Sounding the Bullhorn...
Today, in a world in which democracy and the free market have come to take widespread hold, indignant would-be activists lash out at apathetics, who have always been and always will be apathetic, instead of picking up a bullhorn and a picket. In times of desperate turbulence like the '30s and '60s, the apathetics were never the enemy because there were more pernicious adversaries; the enemy was and always should be those fighting on the other side, and not those simply doing nothing...
Marchers proceeded down Mass. Ave. to the Harvard subway stop. Responding to cries from a bullhorn, they chanted "No more war," as police squadcars followed with their lights flashing. The entire event lasted about 15 minutes...
...Smith entered the store, protesters continued to bark into a bullhorn. Several flagged down passing motorists to hand out flyers...