When I was in the field during a training op at Ft Carson, our commo sergeant (was a specialist) protested being in the field by "going on strike". He sat outside the command post on an MRE box with a cardboard sign saying he was on strike. I don't remember seeing him again after the first sergeant was done with him.

One of my favorite protesters of all time- when Pope Benedict visited the UK.



(although I do support the filioque)

I protested the "drag show for kids" in Dallas and my footage of Alex Stein getting punched in the face got on Fox News.

Several years ago, long story as short as possible, the head band director of a local school got himself into a bit of trouble. He himself didn't do anything wrong but by a technical violation of the rules/law he may not have reported what he should have reported. I don't think he was charged, but he was "encouraged" to resign.

When everything hit the fan, he found out he had more support than he realized, including from the band students, parents, and a large part of the community. Unfortunately, only the school board itself could rescind a resignation and while a friend of mine on the board did the right thing and made a motion to rescind the resignation, no one seconded it, and the motion died. The resignation stood and to this day, the director has been out of education.

This all happened at the end of the school year. A good friend's daughter was to be the incoming band President and they wondered what could be done. I was asked my opinion and so we met. I asked the girl, "how far are you willing to take this?" Her idea was a petition or something like that. I told her she was wasting her time. They'd wad that up and throw it in the trash wondering why they ever taught students to write.

I told her the only way anything would POSSIBLY be accomplished was to get everyone in band together and quit. Including, if possible, the incoming band students from junior high. It would have to be a joint effort with the students and parents. They'd have to make their demands to the administration. There was no way the high school could risk going to football games or UIL marching contest without a band, or with a 10-piece band, so if they all stuck together, MAYBE something could be done. They were, of course, under no obligation to sign up and be in band and the school had no way to get 150+ people trained to play instruments in 3 months time.

I cautioned her that the administration could and probably would dig there heels in, thinking the students would value band over the protest and think the students would eventually give in. I said there's no guarantee and you have to be prepared to miss your senior year of band and not be band President. In the end, they decided not to go that route.

The bottom line: if you take a stand it WILL cost you something -- maybe something you value highly. You have to be prepared for that. Most protestors either don't know that, think its just, or are unprepared for it.

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The Porkchop Express said:

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My dad said his class went to General Rudder's house when he was the president at A&M to protest how bad the food was on campus. Rudder came out with a megaphone and told them if they were still there in an hour he was going to bring his shotgun out and start shooting them. Then they left.

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I was reading through this thread to see if anyone else remembers marching on Rudder's house. I recall doing it, but I don't remember why. I recall, 1) a bunch of drunk Aggies, 2) a lot of yelling and 3) falling out of trees (see 1).

I definitely would remember if Rudder made an appearance, but I was likely in the back of the crowd if I didn't even know what we were protesting!

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I've heard of students doing it to protest something or other. I think that it also happened at least once to sing Christmas carols.

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1974 there was a "Streak In" on campus. Two of the streakers got arrested by campus police. About 100 of us went to the campus jail and vice chancellor's house and protested. Vice Chancellor's wife yelled at us and called us animals. About an hour later they releases the streakers and we all went back to our dorms.

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If I remember correctly, there was a picture of someone trying to rope a couple of streakers who were on a motorcycle at the streak-in that made it to the Aggiieland.

Dan Scott said:

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I've never done it. What kind of mindset does it take to go protest. There has to be tea party protesters here. Share the story

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I've protested bad calls by umps and getting kicked out of the pub.

I have never marched in protest. It's a collosal waste of time in most cases.

If you are going to protest something, at LEAST protest the entity that can actually do something about what it is you are protesting.

But even then, you had better have some leverage. Most of these idiots protest the wrong organization, and they have absolutely ZERO leverage over the entity that could stop doing whatever it is they are protesting. Hence the aforementioned colossal waste of time.

My wife and the lack of the seggs.....