NYT: Where Have All the Protesters Gone?

August 31, 2006
Editorial Observer

There Is Silence in the Streets;
Where Have All the Protesters Gone?
By ANDREW ROSENTHAL

Student protesters helped drive Lyndon Johnson — in so many ways a powerful, progressive president — out of office because of his war. In 2004, George W. Bush — in so many ways a weak, regressive president — was re-elected despite his war. And the campuses were silent.

[Full story: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/31/opinion/31observer.html]

Consider seeing the documentary "The War at Home" for a good depiction of the protests over the Vietnam war, focusing on the anti-war movement in Madison, WI. As I watched it, I couldn't help but wonder why there is so little outrage today, when we are at war not only in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in a proxy war in Lebanon, but battling for our civil liberties here at home.