i stopped going to these rallies/marches couple of years ago. and you know what, it has been the best desision of my life.
i went shopping at woodfield mall on march 19th with my family - and I realized that while all of you were protesting, most ppl in the mall didn't know what was going on and didn't really care.

the more i see the protests in chicago, the more i realize how they have been completely declawed by the police as well as the "safety leadership".
i agree that while all those radical communist, socialist whatevers hawk their newspapers and talk about bloody revolutions, they hide behind the masses and can barely stand up to the chicago police much less to the most technologically advanced army in the world.

so the next time you hear yet another speech about how united states is evil (and it is) think about what are you doing to fix that.

and maybe marching around the gold coast is not as important as you think.
what a city of millions managed to only attract 3000 to protest the war? do you really think its because you are so much more consious and better?
or because you are not in touch with the rest of the people?

oh by the way, i am doing something useful with my time and it will actually help all kinds of people as oppose to sticking newspapers in to the homeless ppl hands and hoping someone else is going to do the fighting for you.